Does anyone use YouTubeTV for their sports provider?
If this has been answered before I apologize but I was looking into YouTubeTV for football season and was curious if anyone here has any opinions on how well it works? I have been cable free for over 2 years, but I do miss watching football all season long from my house instead of having to go out to watch games. Thank you for any information.
I used it last year during the regular season for all UM games, as well as to watch many of the MLB post-season games. Streamed over Comcast Xfinity through a Google Chromecast. Reception was oustanding IMO. Getting ready to start up with them again in a few weeks for the 2019 CFB season, despite the 20% fee increase from $40 to $49.95 monthly.
25%* fee increase. 50 is 25% more than 40, 40 is 20% less than 50...
Yes. Beaver Up.
Fire Up, Chips!
Yes. There are some people who use it.
Yes - and its fantastic. Better than cable packages
I have had it for about 2 months now with 100 mbps internet and it works great. I do agree that the picture quality is probably below that of a cable service. The sports lineup is fantastic with the exception of missing NFL Network. Does anyone here know the best way to stream that channel? Especially for the Thursday Night games.
I've been using it for about two years. Prior to that we were using Hulu and switched to YouTubeTV in the middle of a game because Hulu was so awful.
Never had problems with streaming quality. Highly-recommended.
This will be my first season with YTTV. I of course have it set to record all Michigan games. My concern is what if the games run long due to slow play and/or overtime. Does it automatically extend the record time over what it is listed at on the channel or do I have to set it to record the random show that is on after the game to make sure my bases are covered?
It automatically extends...TWSS
I do. I love it for sports. The only trouble was cutting out during the World Cup semis and final last summer.
However, this spring they just added heap of shitty channels I'd never watch and raised the price. I can't see why they won't keep doing that until the price is the same as cable.
Yes, I do. It's great because after football season ends, I just pause my service (and don't pay) until football season comes back. Something cable contracts do not allow.
How much data does it use a month? Not sure about some of you, but I have a data cap on my internet (250GB/month I think) above which I have to pay extra. That would be one of my bigger fears, that it would be chewing through my data limit...
It works for me. I don't recall missing any games that I wanted to see. The only thing you won't get is the NFL Network, and for me that is no big deal.
Been using it since its inception and will never go back barring they don't eventually make it price prohibitive or start to enforce more viewing of commercials. Love the dvr function and how easy it is to schedule recordings. It is weird how some shows don't allow you to skip commercials on replays but have not yet experienced that on sporting events.
I use it as well. I prefer it to sling. Very reliable and I watch every game.
Streaming quality is not on par with cable yet. HOWEVA, after trying ps vue and yttv the past two seasons I can confirm that YouTube has the better frames per second display. Even though both listed 720p quality, YouTube had the cleaner picture due to displaying 60fps when available where ps vue is 30 fps
I signed up before last year's football season and it's awesome. Only hiccup I've encountered is when travelling internationally (doesn't work outside US), but I'm not about to complain about that. That hiccup resulted in me missing the Sweet 16 game v. Texas Tech this year, which ended up being just fine.
I may switch once my Nielsen term ends.
Your hackers are manipulating TV ratings now, too?
Is nothing sacred? Is nothing safe?
Nothing at all.
$50 (plus$60 for internet) sure beats $180 for Comcast. A few issues:
1. Basketball games sometimes froze for a few seconds. Not usually but very annoying when guests were invited for MSU game. I ended up doing an emergency add-on of CBS Access.
2. If I shared my someone's account from another region, I would get the channels from his/her area on Apple TV (though not necessarily on my phone?). This could theoretically cause a Michigan game not to be on because USC is on CBS at the same time, though it hasn't happened yet.
3. DVR is great because you can just ask for all Michigan basketball to be recorded and it will, regardless of the channel. I never watch anything but sports live.
4. Initially, the picture would often be at a low resolution, which could be adjusted manually but sometimes reverted. YTTV said it was a glitch with Apple TV, and it has been fixed. Picture is fine.
5. You have to put up with ads on most channels, seemingly except sports and news channels like MSNBC. Can't fast forward on the DVR for other shows.
6 TV guide isn't great.
YouTube TV is great. The Tigers @ Angels game was on YouTube instead of FSD last night and guess what?
The Tigers won!
they sell enough of my data
Did a one-week trial after the World Series last year......and then went running back to my cable company, begging. Picture quality was not the same as cable, the channel changing was clunky, and it did not include all of my local channels. (You cannot live in Los Angeles without KTLA. Also, no Dodgers channel on YTTV.) Also weird that they don't have NFL Network or NFL Redzone, and they have NBA TV but not NHL TV.
For what would essentially be a difference of $25 a month, just was not worth getting rid of Spectrum cable at this time.
IMO it mostly depends on your internet connection/stability.
Do you have kids/gamers in the house sucking up the throughput? Maybe not the best for you. Do you understand how your router works and can set up priority/etc. or buy enough throughput it doesn't matter then YouTubeTV may be for you
We have a solid internet connection and are much happier with YouTubeTV. Besides the standard viewing we found an economical Roku TV (Insignia). I drag it on the back porch and watch baseball games outside. Plug it in, connects to wifi ... watch whatever. Toss around a baseball or football between innings or at half-time. Love it. Even my 15 year old will come out of the basement to watch baseball and cook stuff over a campfire. Neighbors see the glow and stop by with beer.
Go to a local watering hole and they don't have the game on, stream it on your phone.
You can generally find a week or longer trial - give it a go.
If you have to go out for football games, you are likely spending more money than it would cost to just get cable.
Good take. +1
I'm in NE Ohio and started using Hulu with Live TV last fall. Outside of lagging behind cable/satellite (my mom watches the games on cable from her house in FL and will text be about a big play before I've seen it), everything else worked well. As long as YouTube TV has all the channels you need, I'm sure it would be a good option too.
I've been very pleased with YTTV, very easy to use and with the DVR feature I haven't missed games.
Sure, it's not perfect. My biggest annoyance is only being able to "easily" skip forward 15 seconds at a time on the iphone app (and good luck if you tap somewhere else on the screen, you could end up watching bulgarian wrestling instead). Way too many presses required to get through the break on something commercial-infested like Tour de France coverage.
I will say that $50/mo is about the top end of what I'm willing to pay, if they keep larding up with more useless channels and jacking the price, it'll be sayonara YTTV once football season is over.