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YouTube TV Raises Prices To $65, Becoming Most Expensive Cord-Cutting Option

YouTube TV Raises Prices To $65, Becoming Most Expensive Cord-Cutting Option

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The last time we went over the consumer options for dropping cable TV and getting channels streamed from the Internet, we said that in the absence of Playstation Vue, YouTube TV was now the best of the existing services. Looks like we’re going to have to evaluate that again. YouTube finally reached a deal with Viacom to plug the biggest hole in its lineup…until now, channels like Nickelodeon and Comedy Central were absent from their grid. We’ve known about the addition for some time, but we figured YT’s parent company Google would eat the cost of the Viacom channels to stay competitive with rivals. Apparently being the dominant search engine makes you forget what competition actually means. Bold move by YouTube TV to increase their price by $20 in a time when there are no sports and people have less money — Monster SmashMike (@Mikelennial) June 30, 2020 YouTube TV is now $64.99, a leap of $15 from $49.99…which wasn’t even YouTube TV’s original price. Until April of 2019 it

AT&T Enters The Streaming Cable Competition

AT&T Enters The Streaming Cable Competition

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Tomorrow (November 30) the growing market of non-contract, price-reduced cable over the Internet will become a three-horse race. On that day phone giant AT&T will launch DirectTV Now, an off-branch of the DirectTV satellite service it owns. This move would seem like shooting themselves in the foot since the new service is undeniably better and cheaper at the same time, provided you can get Internet from another source. AT&T has studied the numbers, however, and they’ve concluded if they’re to keep the new generation of humanity from sticking with Netflix and Hulu only, this is a step they have to take. So now that we have three choices to pick from, let’s size them up. DirectTV Now comes in four pricing tiers, and please forgive me when I pass these names on, because I did not pick them: Live a Little – $35 a month, 60+ channels Just Right – $50 a month, 80+ channels Go Big – $60 a month, 100+ channels Gotta Have It – $70 a month,

Enter Player 3: Hulu To Join The Cable Streaming Race

Enter Player 3: Hulu To Join The Cable Streaming Race

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First there was Dish Network with Sling TV. Then Sony stood up to the challenge with Playstation Vue. Now a third competitor is about to enter the growing market for Internet cable streaming — Hulu. TimeWarner announced today it is entering a deal to run live feeds of all its channels on Hulu in the future. The deal spans everything WB owns including CNN, TBS, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, TNT, HLN, Turner Classic Movies, truTV, Turner Sports, and Boomerang. In accordance, the media giant purchased a 10% stake in Hulu. Warner is just the latest in the line of studios currently negotiating a deal with Hulu to air live feeds: NBC Universal, Disney and Fox have all committed to providing their cable channels when the service goes live. Hulu has also promised to deliver local channels in some areas, like Vue provides. It’s important to note, though, that in the areas where Vue can broadcast local channels the subscription fee is $10 higher — it might be similar here. Hulu’s cable service

Sling TV Update: Viacom Channels Finally Added

Sling TV Update: Viacom Channels Finally Added

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Sling TV is Dish Network’s $20 streaming service that delivers a couple dozen cable channels to your devices without the need for a cable subscription or contract. On just about every newspost we’ve published about Sling, we’ve lamented the lack of Viacom channels on the service. Viacom owns a mess of established cable institutions: Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, Spike, MTV, MTV2, Nicktoons, Nick Jr., VH1, CMT, and TV Land, plus possibly others I can’t think of at the moment. We may never know what the real holdup was, but Dish confirmed today that they had reached a deal with Viacom to stream its stations on Sling, and the deal covers both versions — the single-stream plan with Disney networks, and the multi-stream plan with Fox networks (due to Disney having qualms with multi-stream, consumers aren’t allowed both). It’s unknown if the addition of these channels will raise the price any, but hopefully not. The deal came as part of the negotiations Dish was having with Sling at the eleventh hour

Sling TV Expands, But Still Needs Work

Sling TV Expands, But Still Needs Work

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Now that we finally have a two-horse race in the Cable-Through-Internet business, Dish Network’s Sling TV should be stepping up its game if it wants to hold its own against Sony’s Playstation Vue. As our review pointed out, there are just too many advantages to ignore, even with a price that’s $10 higher. This week Sling finally announced an upgrade: it can now handle three streams at once from the same account, as opposed to the single-stream service it’s been until now. There’s just one catch: the multi-stream is a separate plan entirely, and switching to it means giving up ESPN. Don’t blame Dish for this, blame Disney — they see a multi-stream ESPN for $20 too much of a threat to the big cable bottom line, and they were the bottleneck that prevented more than one stream from being allowed on Sling in the first place. Sling’s workaround is this: they can’t put ESPN in the multi-stream plan, but they CAN fill the hole with other channels: the Fox-owned

The Popgeeks Review Of Playstation Vue

The Popgeeks Review Of Playstation Vue

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For over a decade now, it’s been the dream of Sony and Microsoft to make their Playstation and XBox consoles viewed as more than just game-playing things. They want to be the all-in-one media hub of your entertainment center, and they’ve been fighting a vertically uphill battle to accomplish this against apathetic consumers that are just fine with using their console for games. The recent movement of cord-cutting and migrating to streaming services instead of cable has to be a dream come true for Sony, who finally has a service outside of Playstation Plus to pitch that people will actually buy. It’s Playstation Vue, first revealed at last year’s E3, tested in a few major cities and expanded nationwide earlier this month. The major, behemoth, too-big-to-fail cable companies (both of them) don’t seem to understand why the younger generation hates them so much that they’ll do anything to get out from under their thumb. It’s not hard to understand: Cable bundle (after promotional period): $179.97/mo Netflix: $7.99/mo Also: 1) The