Twice this week, YouTube TV has been within the information: As soon as for rolling out its new Entertainment Plus package with HBO Max, Showtime, and Stars, and once more for announcing an upcoming 4K package with offline downloads and limitless concurrent at-home streams. Associated feedback had us questioning what number of of our readers have a subscription to dwell TV — whether or not that is by way of an old-school cable supplier or tied to a web based streaming service like YouTube TV.
Cable subscriptions proceed to say no. In truth, 2020’s lockdown appears to have accelerated that process even more. You’d assume with us all caught at dwelling, we’d have turned to dwell TV as a supply of stuff to look at, however final 12 months, streaming was more popular than ever. Solely a handful of our readers claimed they didn’t subscribe to any video streaming services.
Streaming dwell TV is a distinct beast, although. Netflix could run $9-18 a month, and Disney+ a mere $7, however YouTube TV begins at $65 a month, up an entire hell of lots from its authentic $35 launch value. That is a transfer that has pushed many of our readers away from the service. And there are many options, like Hulu with Reside TV, Fubo TV, Sling, and even the anachronistic cable companies themselves. Comcast has its Xfinity Stream, which helps you to watch TV on the web, your telephone, or from a Chromecast, gratis with any TV plan. AT&T and T-Mobile each have their very own dwell TV streaming companies, too, although AT&T’s streaming situation is complicated.
There are additionally methods to get some restricted TV entry at no cost, like Pluto TV, however the choice could be “eh.” And that is not even mentioning all the free trials you can rack up for other services.
So, do you may have a dwell TV subscription — cable or in any other case? Or has your cord-cutting given the entire idea of channels and linear non-on-demand companies a go? When you subscribe to a couple of (I guess it is attainable), choose all that apply.
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