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YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads (arstechnica.com)
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YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads::Google to "modify or cease" ads after industry review board rejects appeal.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Is cable cheaper? I haven't used it for 15+ years so I have no comparison.

[–] TopTierKnees 10 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I currently pay $130 for cable and internet with Verizon (was $115 but they raised it recently). Cable package is comparable to youtube tv and the internet is 90 up/down.

But I'm moving and if I want useful upload speeds from Comcast at the new place I need a package that's something like $200+ per month. I'm going with tmobile internet and YouTube tv since it's about $70 cheaper.

Personally, I'd love to just diitch cable. I only want it for hockey and I can get that with ESPN+ and a VPN. But my wife watches it quite bit. She's got a dozen shows on different cable channels she watches religiously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think I'm paying 120/mo for 2gig down and 350 or 500 up, unlimited. I just use yt premium and pirate all else so I just need the fast connection

90? How do you live?

[–] TopTierKnees 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

90 is plenty for us since we have cable. We've only got about two people max at a time streaming something and it's always at 1080p anyway. The upload speed is actually the bigger deal for me as I play online d&d with video calling and a self hosted virtual tabletop a couple times a week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, yeah. I pirate random shit, download/update games a lot and my tv is almost always on a 4k youtube video of some sort

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