I just got rid of Dish. Tired of all the rate hikes and BS. I can now see why they are bankrupt, Direct TV bought them out, and Direct TV is going streaming. I believe cable and satellite is dying. Anyway, got an Amazon Firestick 4k for $21.99, got YouTube TV for free the first month, $42.99 for the next two months, then $72.99 a month after that. That is $100 less a month than Dish. Wife has Amazon Prime so I have that as well on here.

The best thing about cutting cable and going with YouTube TV is being able to DVR specific shows.
We now watch TV on our schedule, when we want.

Ditched cable after the 3rd rate hike in 2012. If it's not OTA, I don't get it. Funny thing is that it only took about 2 weeks to realize I don't need it and only about a month to get to the point where I don't miss it. OTA for 12 years and it's fine and free. If I want to see a particular movie, I wait for it to hit the $5 bin at Walmart.

We ditched cable in 2013 and I installed an OTA antenna on the roof. I use a powered splitter to send the signal to all my TV's in the house. I have PC's on my 2 main TV's and just stream most of what we watch. We have a Roku in our bedroom. My wife just canceled her Amazon Prime account, but still uses mine from time to time to watch content there. We have Netflix but am about to cancel that as well. I buy movies, rip them, and serve them with plex on my local network. Honestly we watch content mostly on YouTube. We watch Johnny Carson reruns, OTA, at 9PM when we got to bed

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Out of curiosity what is/was the benefit of having two Prime Accounts?

Youtube tv covers everything the cable channels covered, also has DVR and you can use it on 4 devices including ipads. It's the way I went. But then over time you keep adding other stuff.....Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, peacock......

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Originally posted by Black92LX:
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Out of curiosity what is/was the benefit of having two Prime Accounts?

Mine is tied to my side business. Just easier to keep things separated.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
Youtube tv covers everything the cable channels covered, also has DVR and you can use it on 4 devices including ipads. It's the way I went. But then over time you keep adding other stuff.....Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, peacock......

If you subscribe to YouTube TV, does it give you ad-free YouTube? You know when watching videos on it? Just curious.

Google is as invasive as it gets. They save and catalog everything you do, type, watch, etc. Interested but hesitant about their streaming service.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
Youtube tv covers everything the cable channels covered, also has DVR and you can use it on 4 devices including ipads. It's the way I went. But then over time you keep adding other stuff.....Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, peacock......

If you subscribe to YouTube TV, does it give you ad-free YouTube? You know when watching videos on it? Just curious.

Google is as invasive as it gets. They save and catalog everything you do, type, watch, etc. Interested but hesitant about their streaming service.

NO, you get ads with youtube TV (live) just like with Cable, but if you're watching from dvr you can fast forward right through the ads. There's no subscription with most of these so you could pay for a month to try it and then just cancel.