So...for all of us OTTers, YouTube TV looks like it will have all of Fox, FS1, FS2, and CBS Sports. Other than possibly regional fox networks, you wouldn't miss a Big East game all year!
And with the sports focused channel listing, you can catch most NCAA BBall games period. w00t
(https://9to5google.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/youtube-tv-channels.png)
Looks like ill be ditching VUE during basketball season.
$35 for 40 channels ..
19 out of 40 channels are news / sports oriented, though. Lacking a lot of the basics, like HGTV and A&E, etc. Even CNN.
Good link:
http://www.androidcentral.com/youtube-tv-faq-all-your-questions-answered
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 01, 2017, 01:39:31 PM
19 out of 40 channels are news / sports oriented, though. Lacking a lot of the basics, like HGTV and A&E, etc. Even CNN.
Correct. I think they've wisely focused on sports fans. ;D
Ughhhh, not available outside the US. I was actually considering throwing down the money for the next couple of months...
Quote from: ChitownSpaceForRent on March 01, 2017, 02:12:46 PM
Ughhhh, not available outside the US. I was actually considering throwing down the money for the next couple of months...
Currently not even available in MKE, as of now only in:
1 New York, NY
2 Los Angeles, CA
3 Chicago, IL
4 Philadelphia, PA
5 Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
6 San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose, CA
7 Washington DC/Maryland
8 Boston MA/NH
9 Atlanta, GA
10 Houston, TX
Unless I am missing something, without TBS, TNT or TruTV, you will be missing most of the NCAA tournament with that package.
Quote from: Dr. Vinnie Boombatz on March 01, 2017, 02:17:33 PM
Unless I am missing something, without TBS, TNT or TruTV, you will be missing most of the NCAA tournament with that package.
IT isn't coming out for a few weeks/months so the lineup isn't set in stone. I expect tbs/tnt/amc to be on this since they are on every single cable over internet packages.
Quote from: #UnleashRowsey on March 01, 2017, 02:22:23 PM
IT isn't coming out for a few weeks/months so the lineup isn't set in stone. I expect tbs/tnt/amc to be on this since they are on every single cable over internet packages.
Ah OK. Thanks.
Quote from: Dr. Vinnie Boombatz on March 01, 2017, 02:17:33 PM
Unless I am missing something, without TBS, TNT or TruTV, you will be missing most of the NCAA tournament with that package.
Yes...but you can sign up for Sling or PS Vue for March. That's the great thing about all these. NO CONTRACTS!
I was really liking Vue, but annoyed that I've had to "stream" the games on CBS Sports.
Dilemma - keep Vue and go to bars to watch CBS Sports or move to YouTubeTV and stay home.
Agreed .. it was painful to stream those CBS Sports games.
We'll see what happens next season .. Vue could change, as could the CBS games.
Quote from: Dr. Vinnie Boombatz on March 01, 2017, 02:17:33 PM
Unless I am missing something, without TBS, TNT or TruTV, you will be missing most of the NCAA tournament with that package.
Why would one need TBS, TNT and TruTV to watch the tourney if they're already watching YouTube TV?
Think about it before you answer.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 02, 2017, 01:59:30 PM
Agreed .. it was painful to stream those CBS Sports games.
We'll see what happens next season .. Vue could change, as could the CBS games.
Anytime I saw cbs sports and gave out a groan. Then just traveled out to bdubs
Quote from: Benny B on March 02, 2017, 03:58:51 PM
Why would one need TBS, TNT and TruTV to watch the tourney if they're already watching YouTube TV?
Think about it before you answer.
Um, unless I'm not understanding your question, the answer is that NCAA streaming still requires authenticating through your provider. If you don't have an authenticated login, CBS limits you to 4-5 hours of NCAA streaming.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on March 02, 2017, 06:49:35 PM
Um, unless I'm not understanding your question, the answer is that NCAA streaming still requires authenticating through your provider. If you don't have an authenticated login, CBS limits you to 4-5 hours of NCAA streaming.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/1arktc/reset_your_4_hours_of_viewing_on/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/1arktc/reset_your_4_hours_of_viewing_on/)
this comes in handy too.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on March 02, 2017, 06:49:35 PM
Um, unless I'm not understanding your question, the answer is that NCAA streaming still requires authenticating through your provider. If you don't have an authenticated login, CBS limits you to 4-5 hours of NCAA streaming.
I don't recall ever having to authenticate. But perhaps it's because I have cookies off or something.
Quote from: Benny B on March 02, 2017, 09:44:56 PM
I don't recall ever having to authenticate. But perhaps it's because I have cookies off or something.
Authenticating does happen occasionally. But only if you watch an absurd amount of it. IE for the first two days I have every game on, multiple tv's running with a few guys over. I hit the limit once and a while.
Quote from: #UnleashRowsey on March 03, 2017, 11:42:33 AM
Authenticating does happen occasionally. But only if you watch an absurd amount of it. IE for the first two days I have every game on, multiple tv's running with a few guys over. I hit the limit once and a while.
Hm, I've hit it all the time. Although I think all the CBS games are non-authenticated. TBS, TNT, and TruTV games require the authentication after a few hours of watching. Of course, I've always had a provider to authenticate with too - just mentioning that I actually had to do it!
Quote from: rocky_warrior on March 03, 2017, 03:28:54 PM
Hm, I've hit it all the time. Although I think all the CBS games are non-authenticated. TBS, TNT, and TruTV games require the authentication after a few hours of watching. Of course, I've always had a provider to authenticate with too - just mentioning that I actually had to do it!
If you're watching the tournament at work, like a lot of people do, most IT depts have dynamic IP addresses which would probably negate the need to authenticate. Watching from home is a different story, unless you are VPNing or doing something a little tricky like using Tor. Just a guess.
Quote from: #bansultan on March 01, 2017, 02:17:33 PM
Unless I am missing something, without TBS, TNT or TruTV, you will be missing most of the NCAA tournament with that package.
hoopalooping here...
In case folks missed it - YouTube TV has added TBS, TNT, and TruTV in the past couple months (in addition to FS1, FS2, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, CBSSN). So - it's now a decent platform for NCAA tournament. I only say "decent' because they have a 3 simultaneous stream limit. Though I can grab CBS over the air - so not really a problem.
(https://www.groundedreason.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/YouTube_Channels.jpg)
They also just added MLB, and NBA tv. For more sports nirvana.
Anyone have experience with this? I've been looking at switching for a few months when RCN jacked our bill, but was holding off until after March because of no TNT/TBS/Tru. Probably will still wait the extra two weeks, but it'd be nice to hear someone who has actually used it.
Quote from: drewm88 on March 10, 2018, 07:57:14 AM
Anyone have experience with this? I've been looking at switching for a few months when RCN jacked our bill, but was holding off until after March because of no TNT/TBS/Tru. Probably will still wait the extra two weeks, but it'd be nice to hear someone who has actually used it.
Having the exact same issue with RCN. Looking to make the switch.
Still not available in RST, but I'll probably switch as soon as it is.
I switched to YouTube TV (from Playstation Vue) last September. I'm fortunate to have locked in the $35/mo price (now increased to $40 after adding the new channels), but it's working great. They've recently added Apple TV and Roku apps - but chromecast is a good option too (and cheap) if you don't have the others. No Fire TV support (probably because of the Google Amazon spat), but I guess you have to accept that.
So last night, I had 3 games going - one on my Roku TV, one from my phone cast to a monitor with chromecast, and another on my PC. Quality is good, and they vary bit rate based on your connection speed. When I'm on the road during MU games, I'll even stream directly on my phone (over LTE) with good results.
Only downside (for my wife) is no HGTV...
edit: I suppose I should mention the DVR - which works great.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on March 10, 2018, 10:11:22 AM
I switched to YouTube TV (from Playstation Vue) last September. I'm fortunate to have locked in the $35/mo price (now increased to $40 after adding the new channels), but it's working great. They've recently added Apple TV and Roku apps - but chromecast is a good option too (and cheap) if you don't have the others. No Fire TV support (probably because of the Google Amazon spat), but I guess you have to accept that.
So last night, I had 3 games going - one on my Roku TV, one from my phone cast to a monitor with chromecast, and another on my PC. Quality is good, and they vary bit rate based on your connection speed. When I'm on the road during MU games, I'll even stream directly on my phone (over LTE) with good results.
Only downside (for my wife) is no HGTV...
edit: I suppose I should mention the DVR - which works great.
Do they have multiple "tuners" (for lack of a better word)? If I'm watching multiple games at a time, I like to pause one while I watch the other for a bit, then catch up at commercials. Can I do that on YouTube TV?
Quote from: drewm88 on March 12, 2018, 04:45:27 PM
Do they have multiple "tuners" (for lack of a better word)? If I'm watching multiple games at a time, I like to pause one while I watch the other for a bit, then catch up at commercials. Can I do that on YouTube TV?
He most likely has multiple sticks. IE 3 Amazon fires, or an amazon fire, a computer, and a laptop. He could also be split screening, not sure if youtube tvallows it. But ps vue offers 3 screens at once.
I've been using Youtube TV for some time now after trying out most of the major players (sling, vue, and hulu live). I'm very happy with youtube tv the channel selection is great (for me at least). They keep adding channels recently adding the turner networks, cnn, amc, mlb, nba. I have everything I want. All the local stations by me except wgn. Unlimited DVR and the best user interface out of the ones I've tried. Don't miss regular cable at all. And yes you can have three devices simultaneously in use at once on different programming. We use an Nvidia Shield TV as our main setup and have a chromecast on one TV and is also works on Xbox. One of the things I like most is it's a google product and learns your use patterns so often times on the home screen it is recommending programming that I would actually like to watch.
Just to clarify, I'm not asking about multiple devices. I want to be able to pause live TV and flip back and forth all on one device. Is that possible?
I have had youtubetv for about 6 months and am very happy with it.
I was leery after a friend that was laid up @ Froedert for 2 months and got it there complained about the experience he had using it.
Quote from: drewm88 on March 13, 2018, 02:17:30 PM
Just to clarify, I'm not asking about multiple devices. I want to be able to pause live TV and flip back and forth all on one device. Is that possible?
Just tried it out on the mobile app. It does not work. As soon as you start watching another live program it stops "holding" the live program you had just paused. Hope that answers your question. If you happened to be recording both live programs I think it would handle it differently but I would have to test that out.
Quote from: Waldo Jeffers on March 13, 2018, 03:10:37 PM
I was leery after a friend that was laid up @ Froedert for 2 months and got it there complained about the experience he had using it.
Really?, the mobile app (I'm assuming he was on the mobile app in the hospital) seems to me to be the most polished. However the TV app looks and works more like a traditional "cable box" experience.
Quote from: drewm88 on March 13, 2018, 02:17:30 PM
Just to clarify, I'm not asking about multiple devices. I want to be able to pause live TV and flip back and forth all on one device. Is that possible?
This is a good question - I've not tried it. As mentioned, I usually just have multiple screens going...so if there's 3 games on - I can have one going on the TV, another on my laptop, and a 3rd on my phone. No need to switch back and forth!
But I believe if you set all three to "record" (it is an unlimited DVR), and switch between them, then it will ask if you want to resume, or continue live.
On that note though, I've been a little disappointed that they don't yet have options for picture-in-picture, or split-screening multiple channels. That would be a nice feature...that I expect will happen eventually.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on March 14, 2018, 12:55:31 AM
This is a good question - I've not tried it. As mentioned, I usually just have multiple screens going...so if there's 3 games on - I can have one going on the TV, another on my laptop, and a 3rd on my phone. No need to switch back and forth!
But I believe if you set all three to "record" (it is an unlimited DVR), and switch between them, then it will ask if you want to resume, or continue live.
On that note though, I've been a little disappointed that they don't yet have options for picture-in-picture, or split-screening multiple channels. That would be a nice feature...that I expect will happen eventually.
Great to know. Thanks to you and eron. Now to see if I can get my wife to give up Food Network and HGTV.
Old thread, but here we are.
YoutubeTV announces price increase. Going from $600/year to $780.
With the prospect of no college sports .. and close to no pro sports .. hard to believe a 30% price increase.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on June 30, 2020, 02:14:40 PM
Old thread, but here we are.
YoutubeTV announces price increase. Going from $600/year to $780.
With the prospect of no college sports .. and close to no pro sports .. hard to believe a 30% price increase.
Might push me to cancel.
Seems to be that they added $15 for Viacom. That would be cool if we could have packages like the old psvue.
Added a bunch of channels I do not want. No sports currently and potentially for the foreseeable future. $15 per month price increase? I can go back to Spectrum on an internet bundle and probably beat the price. Crap. Really liked YouTube TV as well.
.
This is so obtuse and greedy.
I just dropped Showtime since Billions was finished after 7 episodes and Homeland wrapped up. I was going to do that anyway.
They will lose some subscribers over this.
And here I finally thought I could keep a provider a while without having to constantly re-assess monthly.
It's still better than the alternatives out there for me right now.
They still don't even have Pac 12 Network, NFL Network etc...
30% increase at this time seems tone deaf. Bad move GOOG.
Quote from: SERocks on June 30, 2020, 03:53:30 PM
Added a bunch of channels I do not want. No sports currently and potentially for the foreseeable future. $15 per month price increase? I can go back to Spectrum on an internet bundle and probably beat the price. Crap. Really liked YouTube TV as well.
My thoughts exactly. I was telling friends how great it is during the season. Fs1 fs2 fsN.....easy call to drop for me.
Wow. Really liked YTTV, but it isn't worth $65/month.
Looks like I'll head back to Sling and pick one of the packages for $30/month.
Quote from: GooooMarquette on June 30, 2020, 05:32:36 PM
Wow. Really liked YTTV, but it isn't worth $65/month.
Looks like I'll head back to Sling and pick one of the packages for $30/month.
Unbundling saved me close to $1,000/year, so it is still "worth" it to me from that perspective, but I don't appreciate being asked to pay more for channels I don't want. Hope they get some blowback and reconsider.
From $35 to $65 a month in less than 3 years.
Just talked DirecTV (with att fiber internet) down from 135/month to 50/month.
Winning
Quote from: jesmu84 on June 30, 2020, 06:21:08 PM
Just talked DirecTV (with att fiber internet) down from 135/month to 50/month.
Winning
Approx location? About to enter the renegotiation cycle myself
Quote from: mu03eng on June 30, 2020, 07:02:32 PM
Approx location? About to enter the renegotiation cycle myself
Indy
Quote from: TSmith34 on June 30, 2020, 05:48:06 PM
Unbundling saved me close to $1,000/year, so it is still "worth" it to me from that perspective, but I don't appreciate being asked to pay more for channels I don't want. Hope they get some blowback and reconsider.
I was okay with going up to 50 because I thought the selection was still great even though I didn't gain any channels. But going to 65 is to much.
Works great for me, dropping Philo so it's wash.
Already dropped and moved to Hulu. At least you get original content with that.
BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, TV Land, and VH1. With BET Her, MTV2, MTV Classic, Nick Jr., NickToons, and TeenNick are also set to come to YouTube TV at a later date.
I got YouTube TV after dropping Spectrum Cable. With no sports for me it's been rough justifying the cost. It was a blow at first to see a $15 increase. Yet, looking at the weird plan and lack of networks on Sling or Hulu missing MLB Network and NBA TV and other major networks at $55 per month. YTTV is still the best at $65 per month. Most networks. Unlimited DVD space. Big one for my household, up to 3 streams at once.
For me it is still the best value, but for me all those additional channels are just bloat and certainly not worth the $180/year. YouTube TV was pretty streamlined, are they intended to go to 500 channels that no one watches like cable? Meh.
I get Youtube TV starting in November and keep it active through NBA playoffs (this year I kept it active until they shut the season down). They make it really easy to suspend a membership. I use Youtube TV exclusively for sports, have no need for any of the other offerings. I'll probably still keep doing this even with the hiked up price. Trying to decide if I want to unsuspend for TBT and the rest of the NBA season.
Quote from: Mr. Nielsen on July 01, 2020, 09:03:12 AM
BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, TV Land, and VH1. BET Her, MTV2, MTV Classic, Nick Jr., NickToons, and TeenNick are also set to come to YouTube TV at a later date.
I got YouTube TV after dropping Spectrum Cable. With no sports for me it's been rough justifying the cost. It was a blow at first to see a $15 increase. Yet, looking at the weird plan and lack of networks on Sling or Hulu missing MLB Network and NBA TV and other major networks at $55 per month. YTTV is still the best at $65 per month. Most networks. Unlimited DVD space. Big one for my household, up to 3 streams at once.
A bunch were there last night already.
Some of those other channels were already available with free access. For example, I already had the Comedy Central app on my tv, free. While it doesn't air shows live, they are available for free after airing.
If you have Comcast in your area, and have Roku enabled TVs, looking into streaming Comcast through the Roku app. No boxes, no nothing. Live TV, DVR...easy to use interface, and can easily bundle with internet. I get all the channels I need for sports, news, and the kids, plus 100 mbps internet. First year was $85/month for the bundle, 2nd year $95/month.
I was doing just fine without those channels. $15/month may not be enough to make me switch, but it's enough to annoy me and get me thinking about it.
My wife and I discussed this last night. Given that we have no current live sports, nor really any new television shows at the moment, we decided to cancel YouTube TV and see how we do. I never watched Boston Legal when it was on and the app for IMBD TV provides that show. That is five seasons of content. I am sure there are a lot of other things we can watch as well without "live" tv. We are going to attempt to get along without it. We'll see... I did try to determine if we could get Spectrum or TDS but by the time you add in the equipment fees and other charges I should have just stuck with YouTube TV (although the difference now is negligible really).
Quote from: Retire0 on July 01, 2020, 09:46:42 AM
A bunch were there last night already.
Yep. BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, TV Land, and VH1.
Quote from: drewm88 on July 01, 2020, 11:48:52 AM
I was doing just fine without those channels. $15/month may not be enough to make me switch, but it's enough to annoy me and get me thinking about it.
I agree on those new channels. Yet, as a sports fan YouTube TV looks to still be the best. Fubo TV is something to keep an eye on. Tons of sports. Weird thing is they are missing the ESPN family of networks. I hear it will be coming. I'm sure Fubo TV will see a price hike.
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on July 01, 2020, 09:21:26 AM
I get Youtube TV starting in November and keep it active through NBA playoffs (this year I kept it active until they shut the season down). They make it really easy to suspend a membership. I use Youtube TV exclusively for sports, have no need for any of the other offerings. I'll probably still keep doing this even with the hiked up price. Trying to decide if I want to unsuspend for TBT and the rest of the NBA season.
I like the idea of YouTube TV for the season. I may switch to one of the $30 Sling packages for TV news NatGeo/Discovery-type stuff until the season starts, the restart YTTV in November.
That's one cool thing about these streaming TV packages - the ability to suspend and restart without a fee.
The hard thing about these streaming services is how many is in the household. Three streams is a must for me. DVR service is huge for my wife, while it doesn't matter to me. Sling TV is odd. One plan is only one stream, while the other plan is three.
Sucks that each stream service keeps adding these bloat channels and increasing the prices....
Wish one would go the ps vue way of pricing plans
Quote from: #UnleashJayce on July 02, 2020, 02:38:56 PM
Sucks that each stream service keeps adding these bloat channels and increasing the prices....
Wish one would go the ps vue way of pricing plans
Right, it seems like they're all destined to become the thing they were trying to replace.
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Does YTTV offer FS Wisconsin and other regional sports networks for out of towners? I live in MN, will I be able to watch the 5-7 games a year on FS Wisco other regional networks with YTTV?
Always been a DTV guy but it's expensive and I'm moving and kind of don't want to get the house wired for DTV if it's not already. I've always called and negotiated my DTV bill down, but ira getting harder. Also heard that DTV is getting phased out but not sure if that was just a rumor.
Switched to PSVue for a bit but then that went away shortly thereafter and haven't considered a change again. But paying $200+ a month for fairly basic TV and internet is getting old AF.
Quote from: JamilJaeJamailJrJuan on July 19, 2020, 12:29:31 AM
Does YTTV offer FS Wisconsin and other regional sports networks for out of towners? I live in MN, will I be able to watch the 5-7 games a year on FS Wisco other regional networks with YTTV?
Not really - though there's some work-arounds to make that happen - I think it's a chrome "location" extension that's been posted here a couple times. Never tried it.
Just put YTTV on hold today (well, officially Aug 9 for me) because of the price increase. If there's a hoops season I'll pick it up again. But if you're paying $200 for internet & TV you should be able to save at least $60 by switching to YTTV and any other internet service.
Yeah—dropped it as well.
Have OTA tv, Netflix, Hulu.
I don't miss any MU games, so will jump back on if/when the season begins.
More to make a statement than anything.
No sports so throw a bunch of channels together and hike the price? Bad play.
Agreed, paused as well for 6M until hoops season so you can keep DVR.
In Feburary switch from Spectrum to YTTV. Even, with the $15 price increase. I'm still saving $65 per month.
Quote from: Retire0 on June 30, 2020, 08:36:18 PM
Works great for me, dropping Philo so it's wash.
This.
Quote from: We R Final Four on July 19, 2020, 08:21:12 AM
Yeah—dropped it as well.
Have OTA tv, Netflix, Hulu.
I don't miss any MU games, so will jump back on if/when the season begins.
More to make a statement than anything.
No sports so throw a bunch of channels together and hike the price? Bad play.
Do you live in Wisconsin? Just curious how you're able to get all MU games on YTTV if you live out of state.
Quote from: JamilJaeJamailJrJuan on August 21, 2020, 10:39:22 AM
Do you live in Wisconsin? Just curious how you're able to get all MU games on YTTV if you live out of state.
I live in MN and did NOT have access on YTTV to the handful of games that were on the regional networks.
Would have liked to see them, but I'm an old dude who remembers when there were like a dozen college BB games televised across the country all season, so I just went old school and lived without....
I do live in Wisconsin.
Gooooo....In Wisconsin, some of the games are carried by FSN....which is Minnesota's Fox Regional.
I would imagine that you would get games on that channel if I am.
Mr. Neilsen does a great job of showing which channel is carrying which game.
Quote from: We R Final Four on August 22, 2020, 11:37:58 AM
I do live in Wisconsin.
Gooooo....In Wisconsin, some of the games are carried by FSN....which is Minnesota's Fox Regional.
I would imagine that you would get games on that channel if I am.
Mr. Neilsen does a great job of showing which channel is carrying which game.
Correct. I get some games on FSN or FSN plus. But there were a few occasions when a game was on FS Wisconsin that neither of those channels carried. Typically, it was a conflict with the Timberwolves, Wild or Gophers.
NFL Network has been added to YTTV. Free preview of NFL Red Zone this weekend.
Sports Plus includes seven networks for an extra $10.99 per month: NFL RedZone, Fox College Sports, GolTV, Fox Soccer Plus, MAVTV Motorsports Network, TVG and Stadium.
NM
Just dropped YTTV. Went back to Fubo, neither one carries Fox Sports WI, so for the same price I get a lot more futbol. ESPN is now included with Fubo too.
Being bilingual, I prefer watching the Spanish broadcasts for soccer, Fubo has more Spanish channel options too.
Quote from: Tortuga94 on October 22, 2020, 12:39:28 PM
Just dropped YTTV. Went back to Fubo, neither one carries Fox Sports WI, so for the same price I get a lot more futbol. ESPN is now included with Fubo too.
Being bilingual, I prefer watching the Spanish broadcasts for soccer, Fubo has more Spanish channel options too.
Yeah, 'cause then you get this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkIGO2UA-u8
Quote from: GooooMarquette on October 22, 2020, 12:49:58 PM
Yeah, 'cause then you get this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkIGO2UA-u8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkXNtGRZMNY
So much better in Spanish.
Two things .. YoutubeTV going to $73/month. Funny to look back in this thread for the price increases.
Second: If you want "multiview" for NCAA games .. you can submit this form and ask for it. "Please enable multiview for my account."
I did it this morning, and ~6 hours later, I have it.
https://support.google.com/youtubetv/contact/youtubetv_ghelp_email?dark=0
I didn't do anything and I got multi-view. All 4 games at once.
We dumped Comcast cable and it's nearly $300 per month bill earlier this year — after 39 years as a Comcast customer. Went to YTTV down here in Florida.
Only thing I miss is MeTV, Decades and one or two old tv show channels.
Got almost every Marquette game I wanted and will have the NFL package in the fall. And, I get Chicago news on NBC5 and the "Lovely" Allison Crime Report.
What more could you want?
Quote from: Jockey on March 17, 2023, 10:51:04 PM
I didn't do anything and I got multi-view. All 4 games at once.
Same here. Nice feature also. Game cuts to commercial and then immediately I'm able to go to a game in process.
Was a really cool feature I wasn't expecting but have wanted for awhile.
If it's available in the fall could be a huge selling point for Sunday ticket.
Quote from: CreightonWarrior on March 18, 2023, 11:02:57 AM
Was a really cool feature I wasn't expecting but have wanted for awhile.
If it's available in the fall could be a huge selling point for Sunday ticket.
I'd imagine that this is exactly why they developed it and went with a limited rollout. I also got it without asking...not sure how they decided who they would test it on. I got an email saying I had been "selected for early access" and then it was just there. I'm guessing that this is their beta to prepare for Sunday Ticket.
I used multiview for about 5 minutes. It's eye candy.
Maybe OK on an 80" TV, perhaps.
Quote from: dgies9156 on March 18, 2023, 07:20:23 AM
We dumped Comcast cable and it's nearly $300 per month bill earlier this year — after 39 years as a Comcast customer. Went to YTTV down here in Florida.
Only thing I miss is MeTV, Decades and one or two old tv show channels.
Got almost every Marquette game I wanted and will have the NFL package in the fall. And, I get Chicago news on NBC5 and the "Lovely" Allison Crime Report.
What more could you want?
For your old man channels, can you get an OTA antenna and get those stations? Eg. We get me tv on 27.2.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 18, 2023, 02:01:05 PM
I used multiview for about 5 minutes. It's eye candy.
Maybe OK on an 80" TV, perhaps.
I don't watch on it. But when the game I'm watching goes to commercial, I hit the "back" button on my remote which takes me back to the multiview. I can then see which games are in commercial and which are live and got to one of the live games. Otherwise, I end up trying to switch to other games and they're also at commercial. I then typically return to the game I'm watching by hitting the down arrow and it'll be last channel viewed.
Multi view rocked last night.
Ditched directv for youtubetv and haven't looked back
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 18, 2023, 02:01:05 PM
I used multiview for about 5 minutes. It's eye candy.
Maybe OK on an 80" TV, perhaps.
I set up 3 tvs in the living for the first two rounds, didn't use it on my main tv but had on side tv to monitor things
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 18, 2023, 02:01:05 PM
I used multiview for about 5 minutes. It's eye candy.
Maybe OK on an 80" TV, perhaps.
I thought it was pretty well done - though surprised they didn't let you choose the channels for it (what if I wanted to watch baseball and 3 basketball games?). But I've got a 70" TV, and didn't use it much because I already had 3 TVs setup for viewing.
My biggest complaint about Sunday Ticket on DirecTV was I wanted the ability to pick which games I wanted to watch on the mix/multi-view channel. If YTTV is going to potentially fix that, it'd be a nice selling point.
I will be ditching YTTV IF mLB Network doesn't return by the end of April.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on March 18, 2023, 02:03:20 PM
For your old man channels, can you get an OTA antenna and get those stations? Eg. We get me tv on 27.2.
We're about 70 miles away, give or take, from the transmitter. An OTA antenna won't work very well.
Quote from: dgies9156 on March 21, 2023, 12:15:26 PM
We're about 70 miles away, give or take, from the transmitter. An OTA antenna won't work very well.
I bought one for camping (yes, I'm that guy) that is supposed to be able to pull 250 miles. $50 or so.