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Google raises price of YouTube TV to $73 a month, blaming content costs

YouTube TV is Google's cable replacement. It provides access to live TV and cable channels, delivered through an internet connection.

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Google raises price of YouTube TV to $73, blaming content costs

archived 17 Mar 2023 00:37:56 UTC

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Google announced a price increase for its YouTube TV subscription on Thursday. It’s rising from $65 per month to $73 per month starting in April, according to an email sent to subscribers Thursday.
YouTube TV is Google’s cable replacement. It provides access to live TV and cable channels, delivered through an internet connection.

“As content costs have risen and we continue to invest in the quality of our service, we are updating our price to keep bringing you the best possible service,” the company said in the email to subscribers.

Google’s move to hike the price of its over-the-air subscription for cord cutters comes after several competing online streaming services have also raised the amount they charge, including services from Disney, Apple and HBO.

In December, YouTube TV secured rights to the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” package, which will allow it to sell a bundle of out-of-market NFL games that don’t air on local TV to subscribers around the country.

YouTube will pay about $2 billion per year for the package, CNBC reported, which had several other bidders including Apple and Disney. Google hasn’t announced pricing for its “Sunday Ticket” bundle, but it cost $80 per month under its previous owner, DirecTV.

Google will also lower the price of an add-on to access higher-resolution 4K streams from $20 per month to $10 per month, according to the email.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

No one watches live tv for anything but sports and SNL.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

They also IP restrict 'shared' to the billing address, from what I can tell. Not being able to share it to a single other person is really crap.

If you use a VPN you can't access the service?

My IP changes frequently. What good is having a streaming service if i can only stream it from one house? What fucking retard decided that was a good idea?

 

[mlanguishi]

If you use a VPN you can't access the service?

My IP changes frequently. What good is having a streaming service if i can only stream it from one house? What fucking retard decided that was a good idea?

I didn't mess with it that much, but it appears you can use the same account on multiple IPs and locations. It's if you want to 'share access' that it has to be in the same location as the main on a separate google account. I don't really want to share the actual google account/password with someone else. You can add another account under sharing settings though, and that's what's limited.
ETA:
https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/7251139?hl=en has the details. I can probably fight it more to get it to work, but I'm on a 'shared group' with someone else but YoutubeTV access still wants me to sign up. If anyone knows how to really make that work, that would be nice info.

 

[TheRetardKing]

With that same amount of money, I could just buy a Switch game.

 

[NOT Andy Kaufman]

Anyone who pays for youtube should unalive themselves in Minecraft.

 

[moocow]

I’ve looked at the whole cutting cable thing. Live sports is always the deal breaker as I’ll end up paying like 3 companies the same I pay xfinity. So.. why?

Buy a decent (sub-$100) OTA antenna and plug it right into your TV (or a digital tuner card, either via a PCI slot or USB port) and just watch your local stations for free in crystal-clear 4K (usually with higher quality and bitrate than you'll get over cable or satellite).

I still can't believe anybody at all still bothers subscribing to cable TV service just for the local stations. They all broadcast high-definition digital signals at such high power you can probably still get a signal if you were hiding in a bunker under 10 feet of concrete.

Smart TVs have YouTube apps. That's a huge, huge deal for the vast normie population.

And those apps universally suck ass. No matter how fancy the TV (or playstation or xbox) running them, they're sluggish, unintuitive, feature-free, ad-compliant and often break (and are rarely updated to fix breakage).

 

[Mothra1988]

Imagine being such a consumer whore you pay for YouTube. lol Also this year YouTube ruined the ability of most people to make money on the site by changing monetization policies. Gee, if you dump most of the people bringing in ad income, revenues go down. Shocking shit. The site is still ran by retards even with a CEO change.

 

[Matt Damon]

And those apps universally suck ass. No matter how fancy the TV (or playstation or xbox) running them, they're sluggish, unintuitive, feature-free, ad-compliant and often break (and are rarely updated to fix breakage).

I agree completely, but it's really, really important to normie and/or boomer types even if you and I know the experience sucks.

Just an illustration: my parents periodically stay at my place when they come up north. I had a dumb TV that I'd hook up to my laptop via HDMI if I really cared to watch something on a big screen. They went out and bought me a giant-ass 4K smart TV and wall mount, just so they'd be able to use MUH APPS whenever they're visiting.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

When I was married we just had to have our omg (((cable))) and near the end it was like $150 a month just for cable and dvrs not counting internet. My parents, her parents, everyone we knew including some who really didn't have the money for it were all doing the same, fucking pathetic.

 

[The Last Stand]

I was JUST thinking about subscribing to YouTube TV. No thanks.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Imagine being such a consumer whore you pay for YouTube. lol Also this year YouTube ruined the ability of most people to make money on the site by changing monetization policies. Gee, if you dump most of the people bringing in ad income, revenues go down. Shocking shit. The site is still ran by retards even with a CEO change.

And the funny thing is, the new CEO? May as well have been the CEO years in advance considering his influence.

 

[CaptainRockall]

Youtube and Twitch still allows anyone to freely upload and stream content with whatever they please. Sure, they can try to hunt down that content to delete or ban them from the platform, but that still doesn't matter with the ESG scoring and their expected standards. I am more surprised that they didn't push limitations like Pornhub requiring real life verification before you can start uploading content.

We all know why...

Bad thoughts and feelings are worse than posting nudes of 14 year olds on Paedohub.

 

[CaptainRockall]

Let me see, YT are charging more than Netflix and Amazon Prime for what exactly?

Sounds to me as if Google needs monies...

Oh what a tragedy it would be if certain foeks went 'pssst, Google ain't got a pot to piss in... sell, sell, sell!'

 

[The Tall Man]

I agree completely, but it's really, really important to normie and/or boomer types even if you and I know the experience sucks.

Just an illustration: my parents periodically stay at my place when they come up north. I had a dumb TV that I'd hook up to my laptop via HDMI if I really cared to watch something on a big screen. They went out and bought me a giant-ass 4K smart TV and wall mount, just so they'd be able to use MUH APPS whenever they're visiting.

The same model microsoft uses get your low quality software shipped with the hardware and normies won't bother switching.

 

[mlanguishi]

The same model microsoft uses get your low quality software shipped with the hardware and normies won't bother switching.

I will say, for @Matt Damon 's sake, there's some value with sharing MS OFfice across users. I'd *think* YoutubeTV would be a good deal, but its sharing is not the same and it insists on same housing areas for sharing. Office is MS's cash cow, and $100 per year for 5 users across accounts, to me, seems like a great deal.

ETA Office account details. I think MS 1TB of onedrive and latest Office updates is a good deal for $100 a year, for now

And again, MS is not that picky on locations for accounts. Youtube/Google is, which makes Youtbube's $73 per user suck.

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

I think MS 1TB of onedrive and latest Office updates is a good deal for $100 a year, for now

Alternatively, you can use OpenOffice for free and self host your cloud storage with a bit of upfront investment (Raspberry Pi and a hard drive) using something like nextcloud.
Idiot-proof video tutorials are absolutely everywhere.

 

[mlanguishi]

Alternatively, you can use OpenOffice for free and self host your cloud storage with a bit of upfront investment (Raspberry Pi and a hard drive) using something like nextcloud.
Idiot-proof video tutorials are absolutely everywhere.

Yes we all know the yeeyee non-MS/Linux way as well... Right.

 

[Flan Handler]

I was too poor to have cable when I got my first apartment so I got out of the habit of watching TV right as reality TV started replacing scripted shows (late 90s) My husband did the same, so we never bothered to get cable even once we had money.

I should calculate how much money just that saved us over the years. Plus, we missed a lot of NPC programming, thank goodness.

I think ditching TV and immediately clocking reddit as stupid really pointed me down a totally divergent life path.

 

[Beavis]

Youtube's new President is YoutubeTV's baby daddy it seems,. It's going to get a huge push. There is so little on network TV worth watching now, I really haven't noticed not having it. Everything you want is out for free with the mildest of effort anyway.

They also IP restrict 'shared' to the billing address, from what I can tell. Not being able to share it to a single other person is really crap.

I share my YouTubeTV account with my parents and sister for the last two years with no issue. We’re in the same city though.

 

[mlanguishi]

I share my YouTubeTV account with my parents and sister for the last two years with no issue. We’re in the same city though.

Is it the same account? I'm not going to actually share google passwords unlike netflix/prime video. I've done the 'family group' sharing and it insists I sign up whenever I try to login to YoutubeTV. Again, it would be nice if it worked, but I don't really use live TV enough to fight it.