re: Roku and YouTube TV (Google) Update: YouTube TV to be removed, YTTV response added

Fubo ftw.

Love how these companies always blame each other in these spats.

I THINK as long as you already have the app on your device you're ok. Same thing happened with the Spectrum App but it was only removed from the App Store, you could still use it if it's already on your device.

Yes, a bunch of grand standing in finger pointing. The tech companies have been stealing our data for years, it is how they cash in. Between our cell phones and emails and devices we are all already compromised anyway. Neither company cares about our privacy beyond their own liability


This is simply about money as it always is

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At $65 a month, there just isn’t a whole lot they are offering that you can’t get on other streaming services.

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Yeah, this is where my head is.

Aside from Live sports, the really quality content is on specific streaming platforms and you don't know the release date until a month or so beforehand.

Tom Segura was on Rogan a couple weeks back and I think he made a solid point about the direction of comedy and how the creators are seeing a larger piece of the pie by completely bypassing networks, sometimes even opting out of platforms altogether. I saw it the other day when I wanted to listen to Louis CKs most recent stand up special. I went directly to his website and paid $8 to download his show to my hard drive. No subscription service, no extra upsell, no BS. Just his special, exactly what I wanted.

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I already have Hulu, Disney+, Netflix, and HBO Max. By the time you tack on another $65 to that bill it’s well over $100 which might as well be a cable tv subscription.

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we're with pluto (free,) disney/hulu/espn+, prime, and hbo max. then we do sling for sports and keeps it all under $75ish.

for live, i only really care about CFB and CBB. my wife wants tennis. the only times i can really pause my account is Apri-late may, June, and August. not worth pausing it for 4 months a year but sling is price locked unlike YTTV and hulu.

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I already have Hulu, Disney+, Netflix, and HBO Max. By the time you tack on another $65 to that bill it’s well over $100 which might as well be a cable tv subscription.

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And it is going to continue to get higher and higher as more and more networks create their own streaming platforms and pull their content from existing services.

Eventually, we will see a company launched (or an existing company, likely) that takes all these individual network platforms and puts them into one handy system where you will have access to them all. That system will be tiered and you can choose which networks you want. You will be able to add or remove services. It will be one convenient monthly fee for all your television viewing experience. Or......you know, cable.

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I think you are misunderstanding the issue. ROKU just won't have the Youtube TV app on their ROKU streaming devices. Many other streaming device brands out there you can use to still get Youtube TV.

That said, almost all my TV and devices are ROKU. I may switch to ATT TV. Love not having a contract.

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I understand perfectly. I was assuming you didn't want to switch all your devices to AppleTV or Firestick or whatever.

It's all six of one and a half a dozen of the other at this point. Even if you don't have a cable contract, you have a contract with the ISP that allows you to stream cable content.

I use FuboTV. It's amazing, especially as a sports fan.