YouTube cable tv and virtual DVR

Goshawk · Mar 2, 2017

It looks like YouTube will be starting up a cable TV service that lets you pick whatever channels you want to watch. Actual cable tv channels. Then having them feed to a DVR for you virtually online. You can share the account with six friends. $35 per month. They are trying to put all cable companies out of business. Assuming you have internet connectivity.

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jimindenver · Mar 2, 2017

Interesting. There was a service called Aereo a while back that did much the same with OTA channels. They got shut down by the courts mainly because they offered DVR service.

Goshawk · Mar 2, 2017

jimindenver said:
Interesting. There was a service called Aereo a while back that did much the same with OTA channels. They got shut down by the courts mainly because they offered DVR service.

AEREO did it without a license to the channels. YOUTUBE has so much market weight for eyeballs that they could both strong arm channels and give them extra eyeballs. Hope it works.

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grandpacamper · Mar 2, 2017

I canceled my DirecTV after 5 years, you couldn't convince me to go back to Comcast. I did have Netflix, then decided to subscribe to SlingTV (Dish). Problem I encountered was with DSL, any movies I tried to stream caused buffering & loss of content. Quit after 30 days. Re-activated my Netflix, then signed up for Hulu. I've had both for just about a month. Total cost is $15.98, my DSL is $43 & haven't had one movie or TV program buffer.

I can watch all the current programming a few days later but when I had DirecTV I was watching 90-95% reruns anyway. I can also watch Hulu on my laptop, Netflix is still holding down Linux access. But I have enough TV to watch, believe me. Thousands of older sit-coms & otherwise to satisfy anyone's taste. I had bundled basic DirecTV & DSL was paying $85+ $8 (Netflix). Now I'm paying under $60 with no contracts. At $35 for YouTube & DSL or an active cable ISP you will be paying well over $75-80 with less content than I have now. I have no sports channels, quit watching those over paid prima donnas years ago.

Goshawk · Mar 2, 2017

grandpacamper said:
I canceled my DirecTV after 5 years, you couldn't convince me to go back to Comcast. I did have Netflix, then decided to subscribe to SlingTV (Dish). Problem I encountered was with DSL, any movies I tried to stream caused buffering & loss of content. Quit after 30 days. Re-activated my Netflix, then signed up for Hulu. I've had both for just about a month. Total cost is $15.98, my DSL is $43 & haven't had one movie or TV program buffer.

I can watch all the current programming a few days later but when I had DirecTV I was watching 90-95% reruns anyway. I can also watch Hulu on my laptop, Netflix is still holding down Linux access. But I have enough TV to watch, believe me. Thousands of older sit-coms & otherwise to satisfy anyone's taste. I had bundled basic DirecTV & DSL was paying $85+ $8 (Netflix). Now I'm paying under $60 with no contracts. At $35 for YouTube & DSL or an active cable ISP you will be paying well over $75-80 with less content than I have now. I have no sports channels, quit watching those over paid prima donnas years ago.

For sports I go to a club-bar and pay $5 for a beer to nurse.

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