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OTA and Prime is it for me. I have Prime for a number of reasons but you get a lot of content with it both viewing and music. Lots of other free stuff out there is available. Pluto tv is pretty good lots of movies and Gunsmoke channel 24/7! Commercials of course but I'm a casual tv watcher so commercials don't necessarily bother me. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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Very true. Also, same price for downloading library loans to a Kindle e-reader. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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This is the way. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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Never had cable TV. Got rid of Netflix a few years ago. I believe Amazon paid for itself this year. Don't subscribe to any Paramount+ or anything of that nature. Give it a little time and everything ends up on YT, Tubi, Freevee etc. Lost internet for a few days and had to fire up the OTA digital antenna for entertainment. Felt like living in 1990s again. Worst case I'll just put in a DVD or CD. My PS2 is also at the ready. | |||
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I now get 101 OTA channels since my attic antenna is in direct line with Washington TV hill, Baltimore, and Annapolis. 41 | |||
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$10 increase is pretty steep. I would ditch YouTube but it's the closest thing to cable for us. I have Amazon prime but that's just because I have Amazon prime. And I'm in between sign-ups where i sign up for a month or two and I binge watch what I can then I lay low for a while. I also do Fandango at home but infrequently. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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You just have to be willing to watch 175 commercials per hour. 12 commercial per break. How's Joe Namath these days? _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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I was angered by YT increase. I tried Sling for a day, as it is $40. No bueno. Really bad user interface. No local channels. I decided to drop my Apple package subscription of $38 to only the 2 TB storage, to keep my overall subscription costs down and maintain the superior YTTV. ------- Trying to simplify my life... | |||
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"You just have to be willing to watch 175 commercials per hour. 12 commercial per break. How's Joe Namath these days?[/QUOTE]" At 67 y.o. Being retired, The president has stopped calling, E-mails from fans are non existent, Military leaders can't be bothered to return correspondence. A third of the friends and family are dead, No kids or grand kids, My schedule seems to be on the open end, these days. Waiting to croak doesn't require top tier entertainment. Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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Until late 2022, I was paying around $210 per month for internet and cable TV. Then I "cut the cord" and went internet only and OTA. I do have Netflix, and piggyback off my son's Amazon. We can get almost anything we want to watch OTA or streaming now, or online for some sites. My only complaint now is that internet services also are increasing; I pay around $88 just for non-fiber internet. | |||
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I'm at $95 and I'm sure it will be going up any minute. That's why the whole "cutting the cord" thing never made sense to me, adding a bunch of streaming services seems crazy to me (money wise, I can't afford channels now, so there's nothing to cut out). The industry is so fractured now, with so many options / streaming services they're shooting themselves in the foot IMO. (especially now with people's value depleted dollar stretched so far.) | |||
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So far it looks like these are my only real close alternatives and the first two are already at or more than the price that YTTV is going to and Sling seems to be very limited with channels and few or no local channels? Hulu + Live TV DirecTV Stream Sling Anyone here use these?
That's what we are now looking at. Seems like YTTV is still the best one and they know it. We may drop another streaming service or two to compensate for the increase. | |||
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| Shit don't mean shit |
We've had Hulu + local channels through a Roku for a few years now. It also keeps going up in price. Our last monthly bill was $95.25. My biggest issue is I live in the mountains and I can't get local channels OTA. I think Hulu is much cheaper if you don't need local channels. If it was up to me I'd cancel Hulu, but my wife wouldn't stand for that. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
One less option in the near future...
Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Where we live there is no OTA available for us. My wife likes utube, amazon and other stuff. Me, I like my Directv. I know where all the channels are and the news programs are real time unlike the news my wife watches which is usually at least several hours old. | |||
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Make America Great Again |
That's what I do also. My only issue is... How do I add a decent "ad blocker" to YouTube when it's on my FireStick streaming? I have ads blocked on YT on my computer, and it works great, but even if I "cast" it to the TV, I still get ads there. I don't want to derail the thread, but how do you block YT ads on your TV??? Thanks in advance! _____________________________ Bill R. North Alabama | |||
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I don't pay for YT premium but we watch lots of youtube. I have computers on both our living room TV's. I run YT through chrome with the ublock origin extension. We have no ads/commericals. I have tried YT on our "smart" TV in the bedroom and it's an abortion, slow AF and full of ads. I'll buy a $120 mini PC and use that to stream before I ever use the TV's build in apps again. "We've done four already, but now we're steady..." | |||
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I cut the cord about 5 years ago. Paid $39.99 for an ota. Have not paid for anything else since then. Only watch free streaming services, to include You Tube without joining. Have a large collection of DVDs too. So far, it's worked for us. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice. | |||
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I don't know of any ad blockers for the YT app on stuff like Rokus or Fires, and would be surprised if it existed, but then I haven't really looked. I watch YouTube exclusively on my computer. Connecting a PC to your TV via HDMI and using it basically like a large monitor would be the simplest solution. | |||
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Other than the price, do you guys like YouTube TV? The price works for us by being able quit paying for duplicate services at both houses. | |||
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