YouTube TV had enough channels at launch. They kept adding channels that I didn’t want and charging for it. This went from best value to worst value in three short years.
Not sure what the old media hacks are trying to accomplish here.
Just cancelled. The value proposition of YouTube TV was great a few years ago, for $40 a month. They've added a bunch of channels I won't watch several times, and raised the price multiple times now. I wish they had a cheaper option, with the original channels.
I love YoutubeTV, and I've been using it for years. This is probably enough to get me to cancel, though. It started at $40 when I signed up a couple years ago, they raised it to $50 last year, and now $65 for just a few more channels (and among them, only one I even want).
I wish they'd offer a more a la carte option. I'd be willing to pay $10-15 per major broadcaster's channel collection, or $2-7 for individual channels (depending on quality of programming). I might even land at $50 or more with my channel choices, but I'd prefer to pick what I'm paying for instead of subsidizing dozens of channels of programming I dislike (and quite a few that I would prefer to boycott entirely).
I love YouTube TV and have been a customer since it was $35 a month. Their UI and digital DVR feature are unparalleled. But I agree with the other post where it’s quickly becoming cable. They’re adding one channel I remotely care about and jacking up the price. I wouldn’t mind if I had a choice between all the price tiers they have offered in the past, but I don’t see myself sticking with the service.
I am almost at the point of dropping YouTubeTV. When it started it was a fair price ($35), had a lot of sports, a little news and a handful of channels that at least I never, or rarely would watch. Now that the price is up to $50 and the additional content is just your typical cable tv filler, it is one price increase away from being axed.
I subscribed when YouTube TV first came out in 2017, for $35/mo. It was a good deal at the time and well worth it (since I didn't have cable), even though I didn't watch much regularly scheduled TV. When it hit $50/mo it wasn't a good deal anymore. Doesn't matter they added a ton of new channels because most of what is there is stuff no one (in my household) watches. This was the problem with cable, I don't want to pay $100/mo for 3 channels.
In the last few years there has been a fairly consistent drama of "Will they or won't they" related to channels. Seems like Google likes to play hardball with the channel providers and just causes a headache for the subscribers.
I'm not going to say this price hike is the straw that broke the camels back, because our house really didn't use YouTube TV regularly enough to warrant the price previously. But it was a good reminder to cancel the service, so I have.
Right now I can upgrade my cable internet provider (sadly the only high speed option right now) to add "Preferred TV" (aka ALL the channels) for only an additional $63/mo more than what I'm currently paying for just internet.
So yes, YouTube TV is more expensive than cable now.
YouTube TV is nowhere near good enough to demand that high of a price. The shows are limited, the DVR interface is terrible, and the DVR barely even works. It's nowhere near as good as Vue was.
YouTube TV is more expensive once factoring in the premium sports and cable networks I subscribe to. And they don't even bundle internet access with it /s
YouTube TV was asking an extra 20$ per month for UHD streaming, all you got was some sparse 4K sports programming. Not to mention they couldn’t get the color space correct, looked like r709 content played through r2020 container. Any orange or brown was shifted red. I believe they lowered the cost to 10$ per month for uhd add on.
Disappointing, as Youtube TV's low entry price for the last several years took the wind out of Playstation Vue, which I really enjoyed. It's frustrating to see the big tech companies engage in monopolistic, anti-competitive behavior by selling services at a loss to drive out competition only to then jack up prices.
I subscribe to Youtube TV and I feel like they have been doing this in there already. It was a great service and now not only do I have to pay $65 a month for the service but also have to watch 3 3-minute advertisement blocks during a 30-min episode of Family Guy. It's starting to make cable more attractive.
I pay for YouTube. Although they jacked up price from $9.99 to $17.99 with 0 difference in offering.
I know the latest cool post pandemic is to keep on jacking up price until you see churn but that really rubbed me off.
It felt very fuck-you-pay-me!
Google has a huge monopoly and I’m sure they can double the price without losing much customers since they’re the big game in town.
Unfortunately I ended up cancelling Netflix and Disney to make up for it.
Perhaps this is the game they’re all playing. I only got a fixed dollars per month to spend on entertainment and each one wants to get it all at the loss of others.
My $25/mo for life youtubetv subscription is now up to $80/mo. I'm regretting that now, but also kind of stuck because I have family members on the account.
I'm definitely not signing up for youtube premium.
I feel like YoutubeTV forgot that at the end of the day, I’m paying them for content, not their cute little app. Left them last year when they lost my MLB team and haven’t really looked back.
YouTube TV will raise rates to 50$/month in May, this imo is overpriced for what they offer. I have been with the service from the beginning, and was happy with it. Unfortunately I now need to find a replacement.
YouTube TV started out as something that was almost worth the price; but, yes, it's a service that, IMO, combined should be max $45 a month. At $60 a month for both, it's just absolutely not worth it.
Not sure what the old media hacks are trying to accomplish here.
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