What is your main streaming channel for live sports and why?

[DayButtAssMans’s]

That's what did it for me. THAT was the "new" special price they were offering me.

The data limit is extremely low for now days, especially with for people in the house who stream stuff. One Warzone update is like 1/12 of your total limit.

I got ya, yeah, that'd do it for me (again) too. I'm sure I'll be back to bouncing between all the streaming options in a couple years.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

I got ya, yeah, that'd do it for me (again) too. I'm sure I'll be back to bouncing between all the streaming options in a couple years.

side note, I also love having my "cable" service pretty much anywhere. I can essentially use any phone, computer or TV as my own. We bring our fire stick on vacation and plug it into hotel rooms when possible and it's just like having our home cable box.

 

[DayButtAssMans’s]

Just throwing out there though, ALL streaming options have been steadily creeping up in price, and for me there's really only two viable options if I want to watch the Kraken and Mariners (and I do), and one of those sucks major ass in my experience. We'll see what the future holds.

 

[DayButtAssMans’s]

side note, I also love having my "cable" service pretty much anywhere. I can essentially use any phone, computer or TV as my own. We bring our fire stick on vacation and plug it into hotel rooms when possible and it's just like having our home cable box.

Yeah, that's a huge perk for sure.

 

[ralphiewvu]

Guess it depends on what your local prices are. But mine is solidly $165 every month now. Basically all I lost was Bally sports. And I was only slightly bummed about not having History Channel because I like that Alone show -- which ends up a year later on Netflix anyway.

It likely would be cheaper, even with $100 Wi-Fi bill a month. I miss saw your $65 as $165. With Peacock being only $4.99 it seems it‘s worth it to switch. And I can’t imagine Wi-Fi would be $100 a month from Comcast even so.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

It likely would be cheaper, even with $100 Wi-Fi bill a month. I miss saw your $65 as $165. With Peacock being only $4.99 it seems it‘s worth it to switch. And I can’t imagine Wi-Fi would be $100 a month from Comcast even so.

I'm sure you could get the base comcast package without the unlimited data for $30-$40/month without cable tied to it. Plus the $65 a month for Youtube and you'd probably be at $100 total for both.

 

[Thiefery]

$200 doesn't sound bad.. I pay $260 for my internet and cable package that includes sports, HBO/SHO/EPIX/STARZ.. also comes with Peacock sub for free. I pay extra for Neflix/Hulu/Amazon and Apple.

 

[WhosYourDawggy]

Interesting, Ive never really used youtube although my cousin and her husband have it and we’re showing me. Do you still get internet from Comcast ?

I am lucky ... we have Google Fiber in the Raleigh area so I get 1 GB speed for $70 per month. I could bump to 2GB, but that just doesn't make any sense for now.

 

[ralphiewvu]

$200 doesn't sound bad.. I pay $260 for my internet and cable package that includes sports, HBO/SHO/EPIX/STARZ.. also comes with Peacock sub for free. I pay extra for Neflix/Hulu/Amazon and Apple.

It still seems a bit steep at $200. But I also pay for Netflix/Amazon/ESPN+

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

$200 doesn't sound bad.. I pay $260 for my internet and cable package that includes sports, HBO/SHO/EPIX/STARZ.. also comes with Peacock sub for free. I pay extra for Neflix/Hulu/Amazon and Apple.

See, that's how they get you. Comcast locks you into those things and you probably don't use them but maybe occasionally. YouTubeTV lets you go on, add one of those add ons, you can watch whatever you want to watch and then instantly remove it when done. You don't just casually pay $50/month for all these things you don't use. I'm constantly adding/dropping Sho, HBO, ect. and hten removing it when I'm done watching whatever it is. For instance, added HBO last night to start watching hard knocks. Will drop it as soon as it's done. Dont have to call anyone, don't have to chat anyone. And you get a pro-rated rate if you drop it before the month is over.

 

[Thiefery]

See, that's how they get you. Comcast locks you into those things and you probably don't use them but maybe occasionally. YouTubeTV lets you go on, add one of those add ons, you can watch whatever you want to watch and then instantly remove it when done. You don't just casually pay $50/month for all these things you don't use. I'm constantly adding/dropping Sho, HBO, ect. and hten removing it when I'm done watching whatever it is. For instance, added HBO last night to start watching hard knocks. Will drop it as soon as it's done. Dont have to call anyone, don't have to chat anyone. And you get a pro-rated rate if you drop it before the month is over.

I have 2 daughters and a wife.. they seem to use all those premium channels for shows (HBO for Euphoria, Starz for HighTown, Epix for War of the Worlds, SHO... for my boxing fetish)

I know it's a ridiculous amount to pay every month for TV but I don't see it changing anytime soon.

EDIT... one plus of xfinity is that I can just talk to the remote and say a show or movie title.. and if it's only available on Hulu or Amazon prime it automatically logs me into it so I can start viewing it

 

[NinerSpartan]

About the time YoutubeTV stopped carrying Braves game, I had Directtv installed again and have no intention of going back to streaming.

Fuck. I was thinking about getting Youtube TV, but that is a deal breaker

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

I have 2 daughters and a wife.. they seem to use all those premium channels for shows (HBO for Euphoria, Starz for HighTown, Epix for War of the Worlds, SHO... for my boxing fetish)

I know it's a ridiculous amount to pay every month for TV but I don't see it changing anytime soon.

EDIT... one plus of xfinity is that I can just talk to the remote and say a show or movie title.. and if it's only available on Hulu or Amazon prime it automatically logs me into it so I can start viewing it

The firesticks do that now as well. They have the voice feature, you spout out a show or movie and it knows which of your subscirptions has (or doesn't have) it. One of my favorite features, having already been buying movies on Amazon, is that the movies you own show up on the same device. It also knows if multiple things have access to a particular movie. And one of my other hated features of Xfinity is when you rent something, it doesn't just charge you it collects until the bill for the month.

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

Fuck. I was thinking about getting Youtube TV, but that is a deal breaker

Bally Sports sucks. Not a lot of streaming providers carry them. I told Dish Network to come get their shit when they got in a pissing match with Fox Sports that caused weekend Braves games to get blacked out. Being able to watch the Braves is my number one concern with any tv provider. If TBS were still on antenna and still carried every Braves game, I could get by with rabbit ears

 

[NU_WTF?]

I get it, not knocking it. Comcast is a pain in the ass, but you can pretty much always get the special price if you don't mind dealing with them every couple years. And you don't really need to worry about the limit if you have cable and aren't constantly streaming HD.

1tb won't even cover my family's gaming data

 

[DayButtAssMans’s]

Back on topic though

1tb won't even cover my family's gaming data

I never went over until I switched to streaming everything, but since I switched to unlimited I’ve never paid attention to how much I use. I’m sure 1 tb went way further 5 years ago.

 

[NU_WTF?]

Back on topic though

I never went over until I switched to streaming everything, but since I switched to unlimited I’ve never paid attention to how much I use. I’m sure 1 tb went way further 5 years ago.

Cod is over 100gb eso is about the same my youngest loves downloading new games off game pass constantly. If you only update each of our consoles and PCs once a month it's over the data cap. My youngest just started playing warzone with my oldest my middle used to download new games all the time but he's settled down on that. Once direct storage becomes more widespread redundant assets can be eliminated and reduce size but then texture quality goes up and you got higher res assets that replace redundancy. I've been over on data for a while, since ps Vue launched. 7ish years? Maybe more But that's my whole family using data

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Cod is over 100gb eso is about the same my youngest loves downloading new games off game pass constantly. If you only update each of our consoles and PCs once a month it's over the data cap. My youngest just started playing warzone with my oldest my middle used to download new games all the time but he's settled down on that. Once direct storage becomes more widespread redundant assets can be eliminated and reduce size but then texture quality goes up and you got higher res assets that replace redundancy. I've been over on data for a while, since ps Vue launched. 7ish years? Maybe more But that's my whole family using data

I brought this up earlier. There's been Warzone updates that take up basically 1/12 of your data for the month, and those are just updates. If you download games off gamepass your data would be gone in just a few games now days. And that's just to download them, let alone actually play any of them online + normal internet use + any streaming you might do for TV. 1TB just isn't what it used to be.

 

[NU_WTF?]

I brought this up earlier. There's been Warzone updates that take up basically 1/12 of your data for the month, and those are just updates. If you download games off gamepass your data would be gone in just a few games now days. And that's just to download them, let alone actually play any of them online + normal internet use + any streaming you might do for TV. 1TB just isn't what it used to be.

Yea and that's just one device, imagine 7 Xboxes a Nintendo switch and 2 gaming rigs of just updating lol

 

[Kburjr]

You are a better person then I. most of the reason I have and stick with cable is for live sports. Shit I bought ESPN+ a few years ago to watch WVU play Kansas in football, I’ve kept it ever since because we usually have a game if not two on there.

Not better, just Dole cheap.