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YouTube TV Opens To the Whole US (venturebeat.com)
Google is today expanding its premium YouTube TV streaming service to the majority of locations in the U.S., with the rest to follow shortly. From a report: At launch, YouTube TV was available through mobile apps in five markets. In the nearly two years since its introduction, it has arrived on the big screen via apps for Android TV and Xbox, as well as Apple TV and Roku, and expanded to 100 U.S. markets, covering 85 percent of households. Now it's landing in an additional 95 markets, which will extend this coverage to 98 percent of households. Other markets not yet covered will soon be added to the mix.
You know by paying more, you are economically saying "I am willing to pay more for video content, you should raise my rates." to your cable co.
Personally, I prefer to subscribe to HBO Now, Netflix, and other commercial free services. I hate commercials. If I want to watch something that isn't on those services, I use iTunes to rent or purchase it (if its something others will want to watch or something I prefer to have).
Everything is in relatively great quality, commercial free, and on demand. Oh, and on all my TVs via Apple TVs (no more multi-tv costs, no more DVR costs) and I can stream them to my mobile devices and download them for offline viewing.
The only thing I was missing out on was sports / major news events, but recently I decided to take advantage of a Direct TV Now offer from my cell company, and that works too. It just doesn't work on the Apple TV universal search, but at $35/month, I can't complain. This is all much cheaper Than my old $150/month cable bill that included commercials.
Then go with Sling. Highest cost plan is 52 channels for $40 a month or two smaller tiers for only $25 (one of those with 49 channels the other with 32). It also works on way more devices.
Content creator posts public video on a public website.
Artificially restricts who can view it.
Yeah it's called geoblocking. Welcome to the way content licensing and distribution has worked for decades.
Well that's what they get for burning down our capital. #neverforget
Content creator posts public video on a public website.
You're confused. YouTube is owned lock, stock and barrel by a corporation. The fact that they have a part of the website available for free access and upload of user content doesn't make the entire website "public."
Isn't the WHOLE point of putting it on YouTube in the first place is to get views???
No. The "whole point" of this specific part of YouTube is to act as a delivery medium for content you have to pay to get.
The crazy thing is those sports channels are probably responsible for at least 55% of the total monthly price due to the crazy agreements they require of anyone that wants to provide them to their customers.
I find that content pretty boring, a lot of it has been really lame for decades, poorly done repeats. The only way I can generally watch it, is while playing computer games or browsing the internet. That canned shite has simply become too boring, poorly written, poorly told stories. Finally watched that STD show on Netflix, sexually transmitted disease alright, so stupidly written, turning scifi into a gobfest, ohh the klingon orcs couldn't stand to hear them talk in slow motion with a mouth full of marbles, reverse the polarity was kinda of dumb but the silly shit they come up now, fuck any kind of sense, science needs to work like this to hit the plot points, no sun shades on a star ship so they all cringe from the enemy vessel, fine not a problem. It took a little over three hours to watch the whole season, fast forwarding through the worst shit, yeah, not much left after that.
Internet interaction and computer gaming is killing my desire for canned poorly written, content, the stupid practically exudes from the STD show, yes, stupid is a sexually transmitted disease, from generation to generation (Star Trek, we don need no stinkin scientists, we are social studies geniuses and it really stands out in the silly shit they say).
For canned content $10 a month is my limit, probably add music video streaming for $5 per month. Just the limit based on other activities, why pay for something not accessed that often. Canned content versus interactive internet and gaming, the internet and gaming win hands down, just the way it is. Canned content has nothing on say, multi player gaming, nothing at all.
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