Cutting the cord just got easier - Youtube TV

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YouTube TV is the company’s new live TV subscription service

$35 per month and it includes ~40 channels, unlimited cloud DVR functionality and Youtube Red.

Justifying a big cable TV bill just got a lot more difficult. In addition to putting a big hurt on cable and satellite TV, this is really going to slam some of the skinny bundles like Hulu and Sling.
 
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That is interesting. I cut the cord about a year ago and use Netflix, Amazon Prime, Playstation Vue, and Kodi. I have been very happy with Playstation Vue, especially for only $30 a month. If youtube TV carries AMC too, I might have to really look into it.
 
No channels from Turner, Discovery, Viacom, AMC, or A&E, as Youtube hasn't struck deals with these companies.
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I hope they offer a version without sports. Looks like more than 1/4 of this offering is sports channels.
 
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I have a 60" Mitsubishi that has been off for so long, I went to turn it on the other day to check out the firestick and it wouldn't power up. I guess the power supply is bad.

It hasn't been on since the Clemson/Ohio State game and it was only on then because I was watching the game on ESPN3 and ran an HDMI cable from the laptop to it.

In a word, I don't have cable or dish. I have the internet and Netflix.
 
Sucks it doesn't include discovery, history, A&E; those are the only channels I'd really pay for. I couldn't care less about sports but having ESPN wouldn't be bad to catch sports center every now and then.

For a big sports guy this sounds like a pretty good deal.
 
scmoose;n101350 said:
I'm liking the sports channels. That's the only thing I miss during college football season since cutting the cord.
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Yeah, although I watch football and hockey - just wondering if I can get away with the NHL package and OTA tv for less. $35x12 = $420 vs $50/year for NHL all access. Unless I really need access to multiple games beyond the local ones for football, basic TV does just fine for that.
 
fieldgrade;n101295 said:
I only need one channel for my wife. Hallmark. I pay $150 for cable so my wife can watch Hallmark. I don't watch TV.
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Sling TV has hallmark for an extra $5 a month.
 
drypowder;n101246 said:
YouTube TV is the company’s new live TV subscription service

$35 per month and it includes ~40 channels, unlimited cloud DVR functionality and Youtube Red.

Justifying a big cable TV bill just got a lot more difficult. In addition to putting a big hurt on cable and satellite TV, this is really going to slam some of the skinny bundles like Hulu and Sling.
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Are they gonna have some of those Youtube channels on tv that feature the girls with the nice big cabooses? If so, I'm in.:D
 
drypowder;n101522 said:
And when he says extra $5, that's on top of $20. fieldgrade, there is no reason to pay $150 to get the Hallmark channel, unless you enjoy pissing money away.
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Part of that is for internet. I was about to unplug about four years ago and I think they cut my price down to around $100 for internet and TV, but it goes up every year and I am back to MSRP. The last time we had this discussion on the forum (that I remember anyway) was more than a year ago and at that time, there was no where else to get hallmark. My wife is tight with a dollar and doesn't spend money on anything. I told her we were paying big bucks for Hallmark, and she just decided it was worth it to her.

My TV is a low mileage plasma that's now 10 years old. Am I going to need to get something a little smarter to stream stuff like Sling, or do they have a box?
 
fieldgrade;n101526 said:
Part of that is for internet.
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Ah, in that case, it's not fair to lay that $150 bill on your wife on a forum you access via services paid for by that $150 bill. :)

fieldgrade;n101526 said:
My TV is a low mileage plasma that's now 10 years old. Am I going to need to get something a little smarter to stream stuff like Sling, or do they have a box?
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I don't have Sling, so hopefully someone who does can chime in (or start a new thread with an appropriate title to draw in the Sling users). But I assume you need a HDMI input on your TV, though I'd guess there are adapters to retrofit old TV's that don't have HDMI inputs.
 
drypowder;n101545 said:
But I assume you need a HDMI input on your TV, though I'd guess there are adapters to retrofit old TV's that don't have HDMI inputs.
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It's got HDMI input.

I'd get a new one, but this one works great, I don't watch it, and the lovely missus just figured out how to use it in the past couple of years. She threatened to pitch it off the second story deck for the first five years we had it.

Lucky for me it weighs 100lbs so it's not going anywhere unless i want it to.
 
I just checked into this tonight...
Sling has a free 7 day trial so I signed up.
Sling does not have a native Smarthub app for Samsung TV's so I went to cancel service.
They are offering a free Roku Express with 2-months pre-paid service, with free shipping.
Mulling that one over until tomorrow. Not sure I want even more gizmos than I already have.
 
For those of you with firesticks, I just downloaded Mobdro. It is a seperate app (which can also be accessed through Kodi) but it is for live tv. I haven't used it all that much but when I do it's awesome. Great quality, very simple to use and there is no choosing sources. You simply click the channel and it comes up. Plus it's free, so at the very least it gives you access to more live tv. I'll still use Kodi for live sports games I think
 
J.R.;n101570 said:
For those of you with firesticks, I just downloaded Mobdro. It is a seperate app (which can also be accessed through Kodi) but it is for live tv. I haven't used it all that much but when I do it's awesome. Great quality, very simple to use and there is no choosing sources. You simply click the channel and it comes up. Plus it's free, so at the very least it gives you access to more live tv. I'll still use Kodi for live sports games I think
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Nice, I'll check that one out. If I can figure out how to watch the race live and in decent quality I'm cutting the cord. I can use kodi to watch everything else.
 
fieldgrade;n101526 said:
Part of that is for internet. I was about to unplug about four years ago and I think they cut my price down to around $100 for internet and TV, but it goes up every year and I am back to MSRP. The last time we had this discussion on the forum (that I remember anyway) was more than a year ago and at that time, there was no where else to get hallmark. My wife is tight with a dollar and doesn't spend money on anything. I told her we were paying big bucks for Hallmark, and she just decided it was worth it to her.

My TV is a low mileage plasma that's now 10 years old. Am I going to need to get something a little smarter to stream stuff like Sling, or do they have a box?
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First off decent TVs are cheap now so you are in luck. Second off I have a few questions so I can learn more about Mrs, Fieldgrade. Is Hallmark the one where every other movie is about a mean man raping a woman? Or is that Lifetime? What is on the Hallmark channel anyway?
 
Lifetime is the man-hater victim channel. Hallmark is sappy stupid love stories. The wife eats that stuff up and just like fieldgrade it's the main reason I am still a Timewarner customer.
 
Catfish;n101680 said:
Lifetime is the man-hater victim channel. Hallmark is sappy stupid love stories. The wife eats that stuff up and just like fieldgrade it's the main reason I am still a Timewarner customer.
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Every time I walk through the den when a new Hallmark show is on my wife is sitting there with a silly grin wiping tears of joy, and says, "THIS is the best show!"

She says that to me ev-er-y-time it is on. :p

There was a time when Hallmark sponsored really excellent specials that were usually infrequently scheduled Sunday night movies as recently as maybe 20 years ago. They don'y reach that level of quality anymore, but they haven't changed their "wholesome values" in the themes of their shows for the most part.

My wife lives in the '50's in her mind, and Hallmark suits her perfectly.
 
Catfish said:
I just checked into this tonight...
Sling has a free 7 day trial so I signed up.
Sling does not have a native Smarthub app for Samsung TV's so I went to cancel service.
They are offering a free Roku Express with 2-months pre-paid service, with free shipping.
Mulling that one over until tomorrow. Not sure I want even more gizmos than I already have.
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Roku has a ton of free channels, literally thousands.

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Turns out Sling TV is a whole lot like regular TV - they are clearly catering to cable customers with their format. I don't get why anyone wants real-time-broadcast TV anymore but if it makes her happy all is well.

One big downside though... no DVR means no way to skip commercials.
 
fieldgrade said:
Every time I walk through the den when a new Hallmark show is on my wife is sitting there with a silly grin wiping tears of joy, and says, "THIS is the best show!"

She says that to me ev-er-y-time it is on. :p

There was a time when Hallmark sponsored really excellent specials that were usually infrequently scheduled Sunday night movies as recently as maybe 20 years ago. They don'y reach that level of quality anymore, but they haven't changed their "wholesome values" in the themes of their shows for the most part.

My wife lives in the '50's in her mind, and Hallmark suits her perfectly.
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If she is living in the 50's can you yell at her to bring you a sammich and get away with it?
 
CZfool68 said:
If she is living in the 50's can you yell at her to bring you a sammich and get away with it?
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Negative ghostrider.

She'll make one occasionally and bring it to me, but lately her old mom and our two college kids are higher in the pecking order.

Way higher.
 
fieldgrade said:
Negative ghostrider.

She'll make one occasionally and bring it to me, but lately her old mom and our two college kids are higher in the pecking order.

Way higher.
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And they always shall be, Little Grasshopper.
 
MostWanted said:
I cut the cable three years ago, but I still send Time Warner Cable $50 every month for Internet. That's not going away.
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If you have Time Warner for internet what would happen if you ran a cable from your internet to the back of your TV??? I have a cable box on my living room TV, but my bedroom TV just has a cable that is tapped into the main cable into the house and it gets most of the first 64 channels. The cable company wired the place up so I'm not tapping into wires I'm not supposed to. Once that cable comes into my house, is it mine??? I know with the cable box they can control what I can watch, but is it legal to just plug my TV in and use it???
 
phideux said:
If you have Time Warner for internet what would happen if you ran a cable from your internet to the back of your TV??? I have a cable box on my living room TV, but my bedroom TV just has a cable that is tapped into the main cable into the house and it gets most of the first 64 channels. The cable company wired the place up so I'm not tapping into wires I'm not supposed to. Once that cable comes into my house, is it mine??? I know with the cable box they can control what I can watch, but is it legal to just plug my TV in and use it???
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1st question- no, not really yours. 2nd question-they don't really monitor how many outlets you have connected, until you complain about it having poor quality or in your case, being out. Legal? IDK, read the contract you signed when service was connected.
 
DirtySCREW said:
I still feel Sling is the better value.....But welcome competition! (Sling has AMC!!!!)

DS
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I got Sling after about 7 months after I cut the cable. Wife and kids 'needed' SyFy and Food Nework ...
With the taxes it's $26 and change. I may do Kodi one day but, for now, they are mollified.
 
@fieldgrade

Ever looked into DirecTV Now? Online only viewing starting at $35, and I just checked the channel lineup. All four offerings have Hallmark. Strange enough, the cheapest option is the only one that also has the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel.

You can load the app onto devices like an Amazon Firestick or Apple TV. Might save you some money...
 
J.R. said:
For those of you with firesticks, I just downloaded Mobdro. It is a seperate app (which can also be accessed through Kodi) but it is for live tv. I haven't used it all that much but when I do it's awesome. Great quality, very simple to use and there is no choosing sources. You simply click the channel and it comes up. Plus it's free, so at the very least it gives you access to more live tv. I'll still use Kodi for live sports games I think
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Do tell where I d/l this Mobdro.......And how do I install it to Kodi? Or is it a separate interface?

DS
 
DirtySCREW said:
Do tell where I d/l this Mobdro.......And how do I install it to Kodi? Or is it a separate interface?

DS
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I would suggest downloading it separately, it will be an app all on its own like Netflix or Kodi (fortunately, you can still access it in kodi through "android apps" )



That is who I used, he made it the most straight forward and there is some FAQ's as well
 
fieldgrade said:
I only need one channel for my wife. Hallmark. I pay $150 for cable so my wife can watch Hallmark. I don't watch TV.
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Look on the bright side Ash, at least she isn't watching Lifetime
 
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