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[–] [email protected] 159 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And really it's just saying it's tv without physical cables which arguably is still incorrect I guess if you consider internet cables

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't. I consider it a series of tubes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A cable is a tube but for electrons

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically it's more like a Highway. The majority of the electrons are traveling on the outside

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A highway is a tube but for cars

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[–] chase_what_matters 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hold up, it’s not a big truck?

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[–] nexguy 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YoutubeTV is $73 per month. What is $50?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

YouTube TV used to be $50/mo until June 2020, so I presume that this is an old meme.

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[–] aphonefriend 44 points 1 year ago (8 children)

50$ a month and you can bet your ass they will still shove ads down your throat eventually.

[–] Blaidd 51 points 1 year ago

It's just cable tv, it has normal tv commercials.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Bittorrent protocol is your friend.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you torrent live tv?

[–] aircooledJenkins 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't. What live TV do you need?

[–] vaseltarp 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

50 USD per month? Are they crazy?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For YouTube TV, not YouTube Premium. YouTube TV is actual live TV channels, like cable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] InvaderDJ 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] adamantris 5 points 1 year ago

jesus. brb recovering from my aneurism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty normal in a package yeah. The cheapo packages are like 15-30 USD

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] feedum_sneedson 27 points 1 year ago

MORE MONTHLY EXPENSES PLEASE

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I can't believe people still watch TV.

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[+] mtnwolf 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] ronalicious 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] greendakota99 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] PsychedSy 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] guriinii 6 points 1 year ago

🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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).