[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by davephan

I currently have YouTube TV. I dropped Comcast cable TV because the total cost was about $230 a month, including high speed Internet and cable landline. Comcast is about $107 without cable TV now, but YouTube TV’s price keeps going up over time.

It’s nice to be able to watch YouTube TV on the iPhone in different places. Technically, you’re not supposed to share the service and cost with people that do not live in your household, but I don’t know how they stop you from doing that. We don’t share it with in-laws that don’t live in our residence because the agreement says you are not supposed do that.

The unlimited cloud recording is nice with YouTube TV, but the user interface is horrible! Sometimes you have to search for recordings by names that you have to remember to find the recordings. I never watch the new channels that they added, which increased the price. I’d rather have a lower price than receive sports channels that I never watch.

Another downside to YouTube TV is the lip sync is sometimes a few seconds off. To fix that, I have to restart the stream several times, restart the Roku, or stream with the iPhone and Chromecast, instead of using the Roku.

Another option is to subscribe to YouTube Premium, which used to be called YouTube Red. YouTube Premium is YouTube without inserted commercials. Years ago, we subscribed to the Google music streaming service, because they threw in YouTube Red for free. So, we get YouTube Premium and the Google music service for the same price for the two services, that you’d now have to pay for each service separately. YouTube Premium costs about $16 a month. But we get both YouTube Premium and the Google music streaming service for about $16 a month for the family sharing. An individual subscription price is about $10 a month.

If there was a cheaper and better way to get the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel, and AMC, plus be able to DVR them, we would switch. We only want those 3 channels. We almost never watch live TV. We must be able to skip the TV commercials.

YouTube TV is a good option for snowbirds, since it’s portable. We are planning to become in the future.

For those who currently have Xfinity Mobile cell phone service and a Comcast landline as part of a bundle, you may want to consider replacing the landline with an extra cell phone. You can get unlimited cell phone service for $13.49 per month with up to 1gb of data, and even cheaper if you use a shared data plan. And, if you use it mostly in the house, you wouldn't use any data because the phone would be connected to wifi. An extra cell phone would also come in handy if you lose or break your primary cell phone.