Looking to drop AT&T cable since I'm paying $148/month. Looking at Hulu vs YouTube TV. Any opinions one way or the other? Thanks..
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Cutting the cable
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I’m thinking of doing the same!
I’m looking forward to help from the Forum.
I’m looking forward to help from the Forum.
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Cable should cost half that. Are you also buying all of the premium channels?
I get 200 channels, which covers everything I watch. I don't really care about the other stuff. Mostly **** anyway.
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That's for the 200 channel package. I spoke to the "loyalty department " and they have no offers to reduce the price..
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I dropped cable years ago and went with SlingTV for a while, then their price started getting up near what cable was. So, I switched to Fubo for a while, and their prices started getting up close to cable. So I cut everything except internet and I either watch OTA broadcasts(mostly GRIT), free streaming on the Roku Free channel, or I use the Youtube app on my Roku box to stream vids or movies on the big screen. Only thing I kinda miss is sports. but, since baseball is what I mostly like I just got a subscription to MLBtv for the season. I can even watch minor league baseball on the computer if I want with that subscription. Cost me the equivalent of $25/mo through the World Series.
Dave.357
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I am in the same boat.
But electric Company is putting internet
Cable . It will be up and running in a year
Price $85 a month. They say I will have
Internet and TV for less than I am paying
Dish network.
But electric Company is putting internet
Cable . It will be up and running in a year
Price $85 a month. They say I will have
Internet and TV for less than I am paying
Dish network.
In my area, YouTube TV looks like a better deal. I cut my cable internet six weeks ago for fiber. 1/3 the price, 2 1/2 times the speed. TV is still cable, and $125.00 ($133.00 with taxes and fees). I can do YouTube TV with my local stations for half that. Just have to figure out how I can get that to my two non-internet tv's, one in my home office/shop, and one in my bedroom, without spending a lot on converters or renting anything. I'm retired. Got to look for tech alternatives. The living room tv is newer, and fully connected.
FWIW:
Had YouTubeTV, have Hulu Live now. Both are good value compared to DirecTV. Not a lot of difference in the technical aspects, but if I had a 4K TV, I’d probably look hard at the higher-res feeds on each. You may want a higher speed internet connection, particularly if you have multiple users on your WiFi - am running Ethernet from the router to the Roku box, with excellent speed & no dropouts. The channel selection may be your deciding factor - know which ones you watch most, and choose wisely. If NFL is your passion, YouTube may be your pick…tho I can watch my out-of-market team with only a few hours’ delay, and the live radio feed on SiriusXM. MLB.com and SiriusXM cover my baseball needs well.
Either way, I do not miss cable or DTV…. Good riddance. You may want to look into over-the-air options if available; good backup if the internet goes down. Your internet provider is critical. Frontier fiber optic has been very good; Spectrum was laggy and lost its speed when the neighborhood went online. Can’t speak to 5G, but wouldn’t go there for a few years to get that settled.
Had YouTubeTV, have Hulu Live now. Both are good value compared to DirecTV. Not a lot of difference in the technical aspects, but if I had a 4K TV, I’d probably look hard at the higher-res feeds on each. You may want a higher speed internet connection, particularly if you have multiple users on your WiFi - am running Ethernet from the router to the Roku box, with excellent speed & no dropouts. The channel selection may be your deciding factor - know which ones you watch most, and choose wisely. If NFL is your passion, YouTube may be your pick…tho I can watch my out-of-market team with only a few hours’ delay, and the live radio feed on SiriusXM. MLB.com and SiriusXM cover my baseball needs well.
Either way, I do not miss cable or DTV…. Good riddance. You may want to look into over-the-air options if available; good backup if the internet goes down. Your internet provider is critical. Frontier fiber optic has been very good; Spectrum was laggy and lost its speed when the neighborhood went online. Can’t speak to 5G, but wouldn’t go there for a few years to get that settled.
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Wish we had frontier here, had them in Sacramento. Blazing fast and great local customer service..
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Cut cable and internet in 2014. Couldn’t be happier. Just use my unlimited data and my antenna gets me all the networks and 40-50 channels.
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Lee in Quartzsite
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Here is what we did 2 months ago. We canceled our cable TV programming and bought a Firestick for about 50 bucks from Amazon. There are no subscription fees and more TV programming than we could ever imagine. To get more programming we also subscribed to Sling and paid for both of their plans for $60 a month. The big advantage of Sling is that it has a DVR to record programs, Firestick does not. We have our local TV channels on the Firestick, plus news programs from all over the country.
Another thing we did was to put up an outside antenna and now get about 35 HD channels for free. We have more TV choices now than we ever had before at a much lower cost. Will never go back to cable TV.
Another thing we did was to put up an outside antenna and now get about 35 HD channels for free. We have more TV choices now than we ever had before at a much lower cost. Will never go back to cable TV.
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Went with Verizon 5G Home. We stream everything. We have Amazon and Netflix. Don’t miss live TV. Nothing good on there anyway.
Went with Verizon 5G Home. We stream everything. We have Amazon and Netflix. Don’t miss live TV. Nothing good on there anyway.
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Our local OTA sucks.
I will not consider any system that does not offer recording.
That really limits my options.
I will not consider any system that does not offer recording.
That really limits my options.
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Youtube TV is what we have. About $75/month gets you pretty much all the cable channels and many (but probably not all) of your local channels. I really haven't compared it to Hulu Live as far as channels / price, so I can't help there.
I have DirecTV, a bit expensive if you also have extra channels but I'm at home handicapped so I watch a lot of TV. I pay extra for the Baseball extra channels during the season because baseball is the only ball sport I enjoy. Maybe the best thing about DirecTV is the recording feature. Recording space on the disc is very generous and will hold many hours of recordings so you can always have something on TV you want to watch.
I have 5g internet for 60 bucks a months and I pay monthly for Amazon mainly to get the free shipping and about 90 % of everything I buy comes from them. Only thing I get at the grocery store are frozen or refrigerated items. I rented Apple TV to watch Masters of The Air but when I've seen all episodes I'll cancel it. We rent movies occasionally and some college football channels in the winter but very little TV, news, or sports anymore. We play a lot of pickleball and do active things and go places and tv is really just to rest and wind down before bed. TV has become very boring and unneeded to me and I'm almost 65 and it scares me that when I get old I won't be able to get out and be active anymore. I guess I'll start reading books.
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taz666
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Have fiber optic internet and lowest sub's to providers that have what we want to watch (series. etc) then drop 'em till they get something else we like. For news, I cast from free internet content with an app.
We got tired of the high prices and the wife went to plan "X" that was 50% cheaper,
however we can't record shows now and we have to learn all the new channels, all over again.
Lots of old times shows with this ticket, which is sort of neat.
Archie, 60's westerns, Chips, Columbo, etc. but I can't find CNN, yet.
however we can't record shows now and we have to learn all the new channels, all over again.
Lots of old times shows with this ticket, which is sort of neat.
Archie, 60's westerns, Chips, Columbo, etc. but I can't find CNN, yet.
for about $13-14 a month you can eliminate commercials on youtube (not youtube tv). I'm like most people and finally cut the cable but I cant stand commercials. the cool thing is you can try it for free for a month I think. I watch mostly youtube so it was well worth it.
cheers
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cherrypointmarine
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My wife was a manager with AT&T for 40 years before she retired last year . We were getting cable for free , just paid taxes . When she retired and looked at how much it would be even with a discount we said bye-bye to cable .We discovered Samsung has free streaming with over 200 channels , Vizio has it also . We bought Paramount+ , if you pay by the year it's less than $100 . Add in Amazon+ , we get it with Amazon Plus and we get all we need .
chuckie
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We cut cable a year and a half ago. We bought Roku sticks and subscribe to Fubo, went with Fubo because they're the only streaming service that I could find that carries NESN. Gotta have my fix of the Bruins and Red Sox.
I refuse to pay that kind of money just to get rid of commercials. If it was a couple dollars a month, say 24.99 a year, I would do that. Really chaps my hide that since Google took over Youtube the commercials have gotten ridiculous.
This sounds like what I am doing. Currently have Netflix, Amazon Prime, and YouTube Premium (means no ads; does not mean YouTubeTV.)
We've been using Ziply optical internet service since we moved in several years ago, but every time I turn around they are jacking the price. Started at $50. Then jumped to $80, and when I called and complained they dropped it back to $60, but then they just jacked it back to $80.
It's annoying.
So I had an offer for 5G home internet from T-Mobile, our cell phone service provider, at $50 a month, and they claim they will not raise prices anytime soon. (They said they recently raised prices to $50 and that was the first increase in five years...) Plus they are promising a $200 Visa gift card in five weeks, if I don't take advantage of their cancel in 15 days at no charge option.
I figure the $200 will likely cover what Ziply will try to charge me for a cancellation fee when I cancel them..
Fingers crossed.
Also get regular over the air TV and a zillion channels we don't watch from somewhere or another... Samsung? FireTV? Both? Neither? (Beats me.)
I have DISH network and I like it, but, we can’t get NBC or Penguin & Pirate games. Luckily I live high and get OTA broadcasts, channels I never knew existed. Verizon is our internet and phones provider. All 3 girls’ phones, wife & my cellphone and house phones are high, but we love and spoil the kids! Happy with all services and we can record any DISH broadcast endlessly it seems.
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Thanks for the info on vizio tv, we will check it out since we have it for free. Never heard of it til you mentioned it !
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I do the same thing. I'm a displaced fan of the Cleveland ___________ ( I refuse to call them by their current name). Turner Classic Movies was having 31 days of Oscars so I'm getting a chance to record and watch all the movies from the 50s and 60s I never got to see but were part of the culture. I just watched "The Caine Mutiny" for the first time ever.
