You Tube TV $83!!

[THORROMIG]

The rich get richer -- I cut the cord about 15 years ago. Antenna on the roof with WI-FI and 4K Firesticks in bedrooms and living room. I watch pretty much whatever I want and have about 60 odd some channels my antenna brings in. Not happy my WI-FI is up to 150.00 a month now with taxes though.. All about contentment...

 

[Hermann]

Does YouTube TV have local channels as standard?

 

[Wylie6G72]

I guess I'm lucky that I get a lot of over-the-air channels coming in crystal clear through a digital antenna I mounted in the attic. Dropped FiOS years ago after my rate reached $220 a month. Ditched the landline too. Subscribed to Netflix, Prime, Paramount+ and FreeVee, perfectly happy with all the choices. But there aren't specific sporting events I require.

 

[supton]

Not sure what I could get over the air, in a bit of a valley and am dubious it would be much. I play with ham radio and if I ever got a tower... I probably still wouldn't have a TV antenna.

Cut the cord years ago. Come to think of it, another month and it'll be 20 years. After a few months I no longer knew what was on TV and found I didn't miss it.

I think my internet cost is $150/month but I'll gladly pay it--I can do WFH twice a week, and at 54 miles each way, that's a wash I am happy with. Nevermind the benefit of having fiber every other day of the week too. Bit of youtube, wife has Netflix, and I'm all set. When I was younger I was stuck with watching ads, on our TV that only got 4 channels, so you young whippersnappers can deal with a few youtube ads, it won't hurt you.

If you'll excuse me, I need to walk barefoot, uphill in the snow, to someplace, I've forgotten where, but I'll know when I get there.

 

[Nukeman7]

Does YouTube TV have local channels as standard?

Yes, in most markets they serve, the local major channels are included as standard. In a few limited markets, a channel might be the national feed from the network programming instead of the local independent affiliate broadcast.

 

[dubber09]

Basic TV, DVR, Internet with 250mbps, Netflix, home security with cameras, motion sensors, door sensors, C$159/mo after tax.
IPTV is about $10/mo with TV, movies and TV series with no commercials. We don't watch live TV thou, well, may be 1hr/mo at the most, mostly TV series. Just finished watching NCIS Origins the other night, liked it quite a bit.

 

[CKN]

I spent close to $100.00 on a top-of-the line OTA antenna about three years ago. Another $40.00 on a Tablo (plus a hard drive) for recording. Best money ever spent.

https://store.televes.com/tv-antennas.html
Second one on the first row. The broadcast towers all should be located together for all the networks. They usually are.
Good resource is here-
https://www.antennaweb.org/
For recording broadcast TV-
https://www.tablotv.com/

Indoors is OK. The antenna I referenced has an extremely small footprint for outside mounting (It is available from Amazon-last I checked). I used existing cable from a DISH SAT receiver to hook the antenna up to.
It's very popular brand in Europe because it can be mounted from a balcony-whatever.
Please note-you cannot run a wifi signal over a OTA signal. The cable companies have the tech to do this. So you have to isolate the one cable where your wfif service comes in to your house-and then you can hook up antenna to a splitter to run in to every where else. OR-use the Tablo to wirelessly broadcast to Rokus to other TVs. The Tablo APP resides on all your Roku devices. So you run one antenna line to the Tablo.

 

[CKN]

What antenna do you recommend? Do indoor antennas work? Thanks in advance!

Sorry-didn't reply to you directly but see recommendations I just posted in this thread (above).

 

[Mackelroy]

I think they are setting a new standard for jacking prices up!!

[td] [/td]

Yeah, you tube even tries to lock you out, nowadays if you try to avoid their ads.

not the same ol Youtube, they are cannibalistic in todays world.

 

[Mackelroy]

Sorry-didn't reply to you directly but see recommendations I just posted in this thread (above).

yes indoor antennas work, with a tv with a scanner, old analog tvs dont work. all smart tvs have built in scanner.

streaming offers the most choice, as you have access to everything, but not all is free.

 

[Oldwolf]

Streaming services pricing are continuing to increase. This is so painful for Americans that are addicted to easy access entertainment. When did we become so soft?

 

[Cropduster172]

Meanwhile 1GB internet and 3 TV boxes runs me close to $300 a month for XFinity...

That's close to what we pay for the same...$316 to be precise. It includes Max and Netflix I believe. I got rid of the cable package and just get high speed Internet at our beach house though...but I get Fubo which is close to $80/month so I get Philly sports...Go . Overall I save about $100/month without the Xfinity cable and no modem rental. Tried the T-Mobile 5g WiFi down there but it wasn't good. My daughter has a beach house in the same town and uses Verizon 5g and seems to work well.

 

[Delta]

That's close to what we pay for the same...$316 to be precise. It includes Max and Netflix I believe. I got rid of the cable package and just get high speed Internet at our beach house though...but I get Fubo which is close to $80/month so I get Philly sports...Go . Overall I save about $100/month without the Xfinity cable and no modem rental. Tried the T-Mobile 5g WiFi down there but it wasn't good. My daughter has a beach house in the same town and uses Verizon 5g and seems to work well.

I'd get just internet, but the other two in the house are set in their ways and refuse to have nothing other than cable. I don't even have a TV for myself personally. I cancelled Netflix a while back.

 

[alarmguy]

I LOVE not being tied to ANY pay TV service and we haven’t been for well over 10 years now. From some of the first gen Roku players to the current.

We enjoy great video and sound. Love watching movies and some select series. No sports. Other than that TV doesn’t rule us. We decide what streaming services to subscribe to and what not to. Never cost us more than $25 a month. Every year we pick up an extra streaming service at deep discounts around Black Friday

Netflex is a staple though. $16
Plus right now 4 months free of Apple TV, $1 a month for Hulu, $2 a month for Peacock, free Paramont, many free movie channels like Awesome and occasional rental on Fandango
Plus somewhere in here we are getting free Starz

 

[99Saturn]

Cut the cord maybe 10 years ago, was doing a basic cable package that was channels 2-13 and it was creeping up past $20, maybe $25.

We're doing Hulu and Peacock Black Friday deals, Have a Paramount+ subscription that expires in January when the freebie Walmart+ subscription is up. We have Prime but almost never use the streaming, and a couple of other free thinks like Pluto. The Peacock and Hulu is enough for us and now that it is gone we don't miss it, ~$3 a month. I think of it like the, if I bring my own coffee/lunch rather than buy every day how much am I saving a year.

 

[panthermike]

We like the YTTV, but yes disappointed in the price hike. However, we split with a friend so not too bad.

 

[dishdude]

Pluto is free and probably has most of the crap anyone is paying for with cable - commercials and reruns.

 

[alarmguy]

Cut the cord maybe 10 years ago, was doing a basic cable package that was channels 2-13 and it was creeping up past $20, maybe $25.

We're doing Hulu and Peacock Black Friday deals, Have a Paramount+ subscription that expires in January when the freebie Walmart+ subscription is up. We have Prime but almost never use the streaming, and a couple of other free thinks like Pluto. The Peacock and Hulu is enough for us and now that it is gone we don't miss it, ~$3 a month. I think of it like the, if I bring my own coffee/lunch rather than buy every day how much am I saving a year.

Also check out "Awesome" (free movie streaming) for some good older movies.

 

[zzyzzx]

People pay to watch YouTube???

 

[SubieRubyRoo]

I’m too chicken to cut the cable. I pay $220 out the door now for FiOS. It was once $140 for exactly the same. And each renewal they would offer up something around $250.

My excuse is to have the Flyers games. I don’t even truly watch all and some are even only on ESPN+ and Disney.

All providers seem bad these days….

You can usually con(Vince) them into giving you the “new customer” rate if you offer to sign up for 2+ years; ask to talk to their retention team if necessary. If not, bail on the spot and demand a cancellation confirmation.

I had only a 4G hotspot provider locally; $120/mo for 100Mbps and always averaged 88-92Mbps which JUST BARELY satisfied their 90% rated speed minimum. Once their gear started needing to reboot the router 2-3 times per week, Starlink price was competitive. I called their cust service, said I wanted to cancel, and when they said “Ok sir, your service will end on XX day,” that I had made the right choice.

Starlink produces consistent 320+Mbps at my location. Happy customer here!