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YT is great I have it, however you cannot get Ballys Sports on anything but DirecTV. I think maybe you can stream it alone for $20 or so a month. Not worth that. I hope Ballys goes bankrupt, it sounds like it.that you guys are still doing this. I've had YT TV for 2 years now. Can watch it anywhere on any device. Could not do that with DTV. I add Red Zone for $10/mo and then cancel when season is over.
Got an email the next day asking me to stay and call them. Ended up roughly where I was last year and accepted it. $50 off a month for the Xtra package (yet actually a little more because she somehow changed the base rate which was confusing), 3 months of $5 off HBO Max, Sunday Ticket Max (which I already had), and a $100 gift card. Bill will go from $183 to roughly $115 for 3 months then $120. Still pretty high for what we use it for but I confirmed there is no contract added so I'll revisit after the NFL season.
I was planning on switching from DirecTV to YouTubeTV next week unless DirecTV has a compelling discount. Now it better be close to free to get me to stay.
Ive been looking as well...tired of the song and dance (though, not as if the streaming services are any different as their prices increase every year).
You are right that the cost of the streaming services are creeping up. But even so, what I pay for my Google Fiber and Hulu Live and couple other add-on services I'm still about $40 less per month vs what I was paying for traditional cable and internet. And I've had those savings and more for the three years since I went full streaming. When I started I was saving about $90 a month.
I don't have a smart TV.
I dropped it for YTTV when I moved in 2021 and couldn't be happier. I was with DTV since 1994, the first year of Sunday Ticket when it was $99.
I have a Roku and its great.
Try YouTubeTV
I also have Samsung TVs and Youtube TV. I went with a firestick on each of the TVs to access YoutubeTV. Much smoother.
Yeah...this will be our learning curve as we are doing the trial now and liking it thus far.
We may end up doing that on the SONY...already have a firestick on it that we had around as the sony OS using google play did not have apple + so we had to add a device to a smart TV to use the service (and a few times the TV loses the wifi signal and its a pain to get it all reset so we just end up streaming through the firestick which seems to hook up to the wifi better than the TV does).
We have Firesticks for all our TVs and that's the default interface. No issues whatsoever. We don't ever use the native TV interface.
Just signed up for YTTV on a trial run (been with DTV since like The Old Yeller days). My current hangup is there's no numbers on the Firestick or Roku remote. How do you get to channel X without scrolling through the whole stupid guide?
1. Edit channel lineup however you want. Put the ones you use more often at the top.
What gianmarco said. You have to use your phone to do it though.
No you don't. The newer versions over last few years have built in voice buttons on the remote. These 4K Firesticks go on sale for $25 pretty frequently.
I still have to on my Samsung TV. I have to sign into something to use the voice thing. I'm an old guy all that talking to the TV ,refrigerator, lights,stereo freaks me out.
I'm in the process of going the other way. I signed up for YouTube TV on Friday. 3 weeks of free trial, but I fully intend to switch over. Just need to go through my recording list and make sure that everything is setup for going forward, plus that I watch the things I cannot get. I like that after setting up some series in my library that it adds some older episodes. So, I don't have to watch them on my DTV DVR. I plan on doing the full cancel in about a week.
Hulu Live is pretty close to that now. So they are all creeping up.
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