nfl
 

I think the ridiculous professional sports salaries are to blame.

Your last paragraph pretty much sums up how we feel and why we stayed with DirecTV.

Once football season is over I will try another plan as long as it has CNBC. I spend more time on YouTube than TVYouTube. I can do without ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC.

Edit: Don't forget about suppose.tv

Still a good buy IMHO. Rates go up just a fact of life.

It's great if you don't mind paying for a company that allows illegal broadcasts, copyright infringements, and pirated content that means the people who created the content don't get paid.

No, Apollo doesn't do that themselves. They just PROVIDE it. That's how they get away with being called "legal." If you're using this, and any broadcast group is investigating warez (what all that illegal pirating stuff is called), and one of the pings traces back to you, they WILL shut you off, and you CAN be prosecuted.

Might be a promotional rate. Reality will set in soon.

So what do you think is their real driver for increasing subscription rates?

Let’s put this into perspective. It’s going to cost about the same for a one month subscription to watch and record unlimited TV at both of our homes as it will after taxes for a Villages resident to play one 18 hole round of golf at Palmer starting January 1st. Looking at it that way, the monthly subscription seems rather reasonable!

We pay $85 per month for DirectTv. Three tvs, dvr, all the regular broadcast channels plus hundreds more, search function allows us to watch many past tv show episodes or movies etc free on demand, can record episodes or an entire series of a show, we get all the news channels, many sports channels, music channels, and a lot more than we can watch; can watch many recent movies for a fee (similar to Prime). Customer service is a ph call away although we almost never need to call. We've had it for years and get many recurring loyalty etc discounts; it works fine for us. It is auto charged and paid through our CenturyLink Internet service, high speed, which is $45 per month; so $128 for the two services.

You tube tv
 

Still way better than cable and I still have my T-Mobile discount.

Is that through a satellite dish or streaming?

YouTube TV Price Goes Up Again! Some ALTERNATIVES.
https://youtu.be/9MNonzs2z8s?si=VqSkER_WXY3yppRt

Partly politics. Partly because they can.

I was originally ready to cancel but then decided it's ten bucks a month...it won't change my life.

Me too

Philo TV
 

Philo TV is $28/ mo with all your favorite channels including history channel.

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No local news or sports channels. It's all the same stuff (other than the History channel) that comes free with a Roku or smartTV.

I still have dish. It's about $90 a month. Are the other options better?

There is no contract with streaming services so you can change companies at will.

Since you pay a similar price, whether other options are better is personal preference.

What would make another option better? Maybe a channel you cannot find, an old show that is not available with Dish's On-Demand, a movie that's only available on Prime or Peacock, hockey games from your favorite hockey team across the country, or four NFL games at a time. If you want those but cannot get them with Dish then that might make the other service better.

If I am traveling I can watch my channels wherever I can get a sufficient internet connection. I know DirectTV had a streaming app and I suspect Dish does too.

For me, quality of the signal varies from service to service. If I remember correctly, the video quality of most channels on Dish was very good though occasionally there might be an issue.

If you were paying two or three times as much for the same programming, like some are reporting for cable TV, then streaming would be better. If you are paying nearly the same amount and are happy with the channels you have then maybe there is nothing better.

You can get an antenna. A few months of not paying disk will pay for the antenna & installation.
Lots of free channels like local news & weather, numerus US and some international channels. You can add plex. tv for free streaming and will have more than you can ever watch.

I recommend ZapperBox M1 - ATSC 3.0, 4K, HDR, and Dolby(R) AC-4 Tuner for an execulent DVR. It supports the current ATSC 1.0 and newer ATSC 3.0 tv standards including encryption. It will soon support multiple TVs over your local home network.

And I don’t care

For Free, the Roku channel is pretty darn good.

Roku offers a ton of content on a variety of channels. Huge menu, over 350 channels. You can watch the Miss Universe pageant live, you can access one of the Reuters channels (some of them are subscription only), ABC and NBC live, Cheddar News, Live sports coverage (nothing "local"), Lifetime and Hallmark movies, Every possible syndicated rerun that's ever been broadcast since the 1950s...

Scores of movies (many obscure), AccuWeather, Cooking shows, This Old House...

All free. Plus you can "add on" options like Cinemax and HBO/MAX, Showtime, and Starz for an extra fee.

There is a similar service called OMNIVision which provides the exact same service.

Last year an Omnivision rep was giving a sales presentation at Brownwood. The industry knows about it but doesn't do a damn thing about it.

Technically speaking, if you record the illegal content then you can be held civilly liable.

But there is almost a zero percent chance that will ever happen.

I vaguely recall one story that came out in some investigative journalism about this topic a few years ago. It involved someone who /was/ prosecuted for copying illegal content from a "grey area" provider of illegal content (aka Warez). Anyone who owns the copyright to content OR gets paid residuals when content is used (actors, directors, etc) - has the right to press charges when they discover someone is using it without them getting their percentage for the work THEY created.

And - there absolutely have been customers of some of these shady businesses that have been cut off from their service, with zero recourse even after they've paid for a year of service in advance (that was a thing for awhile).

How to save.
https://youtu.be/NGjva2EWFkk?si=Df6f7jlLaau3dzWI