Streaming services versus Direct TV

[scott_vt]

Good Evening Furu,

Been very satisfied in general but it has become very expensive in the last several years and the value is just not there any more.

We had Dish for many years and it got expensive also ! When we got Fiber in our area we made the switch to streaming with an Apple TV box ! Dish was costing us $98 per month at our Ct home and another $98 at our Vt home !
So almost $200 per month ! We now pay $80 plus per month for both houses combined, we are able to use our VPN to get everything up at the Vermont home !
We presently have HULU, PRIME, and Disney Plus ! We have more to watch and pay significantly less !

I personally think that DISH and DIRECT are in trouble, especially that anyone that has Fiber can do the same thing !

 

[lman]

I paid for ad-free Netflix and Amazon Prime and then they added ads. I'll stick with my OTA DVR and skip the ads at no cost.

 

[Oaktree]

We have both a Roku and a Firestick. The Roku seems a little less glitchy but both are good.

Never used a Firestick, but I've noticed the audio occasionally gets weird on our Roku. Usually the pitch will be off or it will garble, last night it got out of sync with the video by several seconds. Backing out of the program and then back in usually cures it. Occasionally the box will need rebooting.

 

[dodge man]

I have run into a couple of programs on YouTube that would not let you fast forward through commercials. I’d say 99% of the stuff you can. The one where I couldn’t was a network show, the new Matlock show as I recall.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I have Direct TV, it cost me 120 a month and it works anyplace there's internet and up to 5 can be on at a time.

I'm 800 miles away from my home right now, streaming the shows I like on Direct TV right now, no problem at all.

SR

 

[jk96]

I have Direct TV, it cost me 120 a month and it works anyplace there's internet and up to 5 can be on at a time.

I'm 800 miles away from my home right now, streaming the shows I like on Direct TV right now, no problem at all.

SR

Same for youtube tv and only $75 or $85/month depending on plan. Might be worth trying. You can sign up, pay a month, and cancel with no cancel fees to see how you like it before cancelling directv. May even be able to free trial a month if they are still offering it.

 

[Oaktree]

Same for youtube tv and only $75 or $85/month depending on plan. Might be worth trying. You can sign up, pay a month, and cancel with no cancel fees to see how you like it before cancelling directv. May even be able to free trial a month if they are still offering it.

Just checked, there is a free 10 day trial.
Still a LOT of money, how many of those channels would you actually watch? I also got the impression it's all linear tv as opposed to on-demand.
I don't know why no one offers an a la carte system where you only pay for what you'll actually watch. They all seem to be competing on the # of channels offered.

 

[jk96]

Just checked, there is a free 10 day trial.
Still a LOT of money, how many of those channels would you actually watch? I also got the impression it's all linear tv as opposed to on-demand.
I don't know why no one offers an a la carte system where you only pay for what you'll actually watch. They all seem to be competing on the # of channels offered.

Correct youtube tv would be a rival to cable or directv. It is not an on demand like netflix for instance.

 

[John0829]

I don't know why no one offers an a la carte system where you only pay for what you'll actually watch.

YES! I remember it being that way when we got our big 10' dish back in the 80's. The joy of watching and only paying for what we WANTED. Now you get so many channels, many you never heard of or want, thrown into the subscriptions and for what? Just so they can claim highest channel count?

 

[dodge man]

When my wife worked for our local phone company op they offered a sort of cable TV that came in over the internet. It was a very difficult thing to deal with the various providers. Take ESPN for example, you can’t just offer one channel, you take them all or nothing, which is probably 6 channels. When they first started the local network stations begged to be included and were free, then they started wanting money. In other words picking just the channels you want is not in the works yet.