This isn’t YouTube Premium; this is YouTube TV which is an entirely different product. YouTube Premium is like $13/mo. and cheaper for students.
And really it’s just saying it’s tv without physical cables which arguably is still incorrect I guess if you consider internet cables
I don’t. I consider it a series of tubes.
A cable is a tube but for electrons
Technically it’s more like a Highway. The majority of the electrons are traveling on the outside
A highway is a tube but for cars
A car is a tube but for people
The tube people will destroy us all.
Except if you use optical fibre, in that case it’s photons
Hold up, it’s not a big truck?
Woah, what year is it?
2006 baby
Ted, is that you?
This.
YouTubeTV carries network channels that directly charge YouTube TV carriage fees. Those channels charge a pretty hefty fee regardless of who you get the channels through.
https://variety.com/vip/pay-tv-true-cost-free-1234810682/
This is not YouTube premium.
YoutubeTV is $73 per month. What is $50?
YouTube TV used to be $50/mo until June 2020, so I presume that this is an old meme.
Sadly, its going up to like $19 a month :(
No it’s not. It’s going up by $2 to $13.99/mo. Considering how much time I spend on YouTube, I feel like it’s worth it.
Unless you know a way to decouple youtube from youtube music, im not wrong. I would happily pay that price for it too.
That’s because you’re looking at it in the iOS app, so they add ~30% to make up for Apple’s cut of in app purchases. If you buy it directly through the YouTube website, it will be cheaper
Thank you! Ill check that now bc these ads are driving me up the wall
I think I’ve seen news rumors that they’re testing an ad-free YouTube-only plan that doesn’t include YouTube Music. (edit: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/2/22605455/youtube-premium-lite-pilot-benelux-nordics-experiment-ad-free-subscription)
But the reason you’re seeing $18.99/mo is because of the Apple tax. Go to https://www.youtube.com/premium to see the actual price.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/premium
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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50$ a month and you can bet your ass they will still shove ads down your throat eventually.
It’s just cable tv, it has normal tv commercials.
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Couldn’t you just use an antenna?
Because … O(ver) T(he) A(ir)?
I’m near Detroit and pick up ~50 channels with a $20 antenna.
This is the best way, but it doesn’t work in every scenario. At my last apartment, I was basically unable to get OTA channels. Too much of the sky was blocked, and I think radio interference from a nearby military base didn’t help.
In my current condo it works mostly well, but I do get some skipping and drops that can be annoying during a long game.
Sure. If you don’t mind watching Wheel of Fortune and Ellen all the time.
I get, over the air, in HD, free, with an antenna, the major networks and their subchannels, movie channels, retro channels, pbs, game show channels, scifi channels, comedy channels, local channels, etc. Free.
But I don’t mind watching wheel of fortune.
Anything I don’t get, I find a pirate stream for - which is usually found on one of 3 or 4 sites I use.
I’m just messing with ya. We used to have an antenna and those shows were on all the time just because of our schedules
bro you pirate tv channels?
I live in a hole on the ground. Almost literally.
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Surely they’d let you pay more to keep from having to see those ads.
No. This is LITERALLY just cableTV. TBS, USA, TLC, MTV, etc. you’re just paying YouTube vs Comcast for access to the channels.
$50/month + 2.5% of every previous months’ payment
Quick, someone in marketing promote this man!!!
Start with 1 cent per month. What a deal!
Then double it every month. 2 cents, 4 cents, 8 cents? Still cheap as hell! And you can cancel after 24 months.
Sure, I have $16,777,216.00 budgeted for tv.
The Bittorrent protocol is your friend.
How do you torrent live tv?
You don’t. What live TV do you need?
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Sportsurge.club or something like it
Kodi
The addons keep dying, the links keep breaking and the whole experience is overall pretty abysmal and unreliable.
Have you looked into antenna for your TV? I get local stations that sometimes play sports. (I don’t watch sports so I don’t know if it is good games.) It’s how I watch the Olympics.
This can help you get an idea of what stations you can expect. https://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29
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50 USD per month? Are they crazy?
For YouTube TV, not YouTube Premium. YouTube TV is actual live TV channels, like cable.
Is this a normal price for TV in the US? In Europe it is more like 10-20€, which is why 50$ sounds out of this world ridiculous.
If anything, that is low. Cable bills can get truly outrageous depending on what you add. You get an NFL or MLB subscription, a few premiums like HBO and you can have a $200/month cable bill.
jesus. brb recovering from my aneurism
Pretty normal in a package yeah. The cheapo packages are like 15-30 USD
If there were no ads at all I’d instantly subscribe. But I don’t pay for anything that has ads. It’s either free with ads, or paid with no ads.
MORE MONTHLY EXPENSES PLEASE
I can’t believe people still watch TV.
I think live sports is really the only reason most people pay for TV anymore. The rest of the content is available online on one of the 3,000 streaming platforms.
That’s a solid point.
Yup, my mom is trying to cut down on some bills but guess the one thing they can’t bring themselves to cut because they can’t imagine using anything else to watch their shows?
True, I can understand if people are elderly, sorry for assuming that if it’s not the case. But it seems like this promo is for a platform for streamed “cable TV”. In that case, people might as well just have streamed individual shows or movies if they don’t know how to torrent.
Not elderly, but god damn do they act like it sometimes.
I cancelled cable a few years ago and now use YouTube TV. I love it because I can record everything, never run out of DVR space. I can run 5 tvs with different shows on each. I can watch TV anywhere on my phone and laptop. I can stop on one device and pick back up on another. Well over 100 channels now (but I only really watch a handful). Every channel also has an on-demand section. Like TCM has what’s live but also a huge library to stream from.
I have Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Peacock, Max…but if I had to just use one service, it would be YouTube TV. It follows me, and is not tied to my house. If I go visit another state, it will even switch to the local news wherever I am. It has, by far, the most content in one spot for one price.
thing that got me w/ YTV, and got it ultimately canceled was trying to share it w/ a family in another state. that doesn’t fly, which was a huge bummer.
Was this a few years ago? This is no longer true.
The past 3 years, I have shared the service with 3 friends, one of which lives in a different state and we have had no issues. You just add them to your Google Account as “family” and they login their own devices.
There is some weirdness where YouTubeTV gives you 5 family shares, but only 3 total streams (outside your home’s WIFI) can be active at once. That’s why I limited the sharing to 3 total.
You should give it another try!
I randomly swap family members and friends out sometimes, too. It’s pretty sweet being able to share all of my apps, books, games and yt.
I used it when it was new for a little while. I liked it as far as a TV service goes but I’m kind of over live shows at this point.
Holy cow how much do you spend on media a month, I’m over here thinking the $20 usenet I paid for the year was too much, but was debating on getting sling tv for the parents, right now I have an antenna connected to my plex server but it’s not the easiest to use
Well I think I pay something like $95 for YouTube TV +Max. Netflix is like 12? I’m on a sweet Spotify+Hulu for 9.99 promo for years, but I think it’s going up to $10.99. Disney is like $9. It may seem like a lot, but that’s all I spend on entertainment. I don’t eat outside the home regularly. I don’t go see movies at theaters. I don’t buy things like DVDs and stuff.
And to be fair, it’s for the household. We’re poly so there’s a variety of interests. And if you divide that by 5 adults, it’s cheap.
I’d honestly rather pay the 6 euros for IPTV at that point (it’s only that cheap because our Internet is 3x more expensive than neighboring countries so they let you have cheap IPTV as an extra).
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For TV better, 100% free
How does this work?
Huh? This only opens my Pluto TV app.
This opens more than only Pluto, there I watch f.Exmpl also Euronews, BBC, NASA live and a lot of others, well, among these also Pluto, anyway better than YT TV. apart of free.
Doesn’t work for me. Pretty much every link either says “This feature is coming soon. We’re currently working on it! Thanks for your patience.”, or it says that it’s not available in my country. :/
Fucking country restrictions because of some idiotic copyrights.
I use YouTube the most of all streaming services. Yet I don’t understand why there isn’t an affordable easy to use option, that includes no ads and a high CPM for creators.
My understanding is YouTube premium, doesn’t highten the payout to creators, but rather just substitutes the dirt poor ad revenue per impression.
You’re misinformed. I watch many creators who have said in their own words that Premium subscriber views make more money for them.
All of the creators I watch say don’t bother because they just get demonitized from both and the money just winds up going to copyright trolls anyways.
It actually does get higher revenue for content creators for the majority of your creators. Average per view is something like 5-10x vs non premium views.
It’s based around your watch time and something like 50%? of your subscription split across the channels you watch.
Ad impressions pay very little on YouTube.
Gawd yeah I get Hulu Live, and it costs $80+ a month… the video constantly drops or the image becomes static. And I’ve never been bombarded with more jardiance musicals and balance of nature ads in my life. It’s just non stop stuff I will never ever buy.
