ESPN is now off YouTube.
- Thread starter L4Dawg
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First off, it isnt stealing. It is, if anything, a violation of the TOS which in this case is a contractual user agreement between two parties.
Ease up there.
Secondly, yep- we knowingly violate the TOS and dont give a 17. People share newspaper subscriptions with their spouse and share streaming subscriptions with their adult children...it happens.
Remember when the world's largest streaming service said this?...
You will likely lose your mind on this next one- my parents are on my cell phone plan as additional users since it is cheaper to add them as 2 users than it is for them to heave their own household plan...and the carrier knows!
I guess I haven't matured from back when I used to record a cassette album onto a blank cassette tape for friends.
Try TV Garden too. Select USA (or any country actually) and scroll down the list and see all the stuff that it has available. I use the tablet for it and its got hundreds of shows
TV Garden Channel Link
....BUT......I don't really have an issue telling Disney / ESPN to 17off.......I love college football and baseball, but I sure as sh^t don't have to watch it on TV.
I can go live
I can go hunt
I can go fish
I can go build stuff
I can go run
i can go ruck
I can go do things with my family
I can cook stuff in peace
I can smoke meats
I can study WWII stuff
I can organize all of my scrap wood in the event a project comes up.....and needs a 10" 2x4
BUT.......
What I don't have to do is be agreeable to ESPN/Disney and these type antics.......they are serving themselves and NOT a customer
......and we are the customer
From what I can tell from a google search, it doesn't look like Sling day pass includes SEC Network. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what we will need for the State/Arkansas game tomorrow.
They have this weekend to fix the problem. Or else I will find us another partner on Sunday during the time that I watch Redzone.
I envision this is to eventually get everyone on Hulu Live or the ESPN/Hulu bundle and kill YTTV so that they can jack up Hulu Live to an astronomical fee.
Diz has a Capital of 201.36 B, Google has 3.4 Tril. , they could eat them for breakfast, if they want to.
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That's why they can actually tell Disney to take a hike like they did. Will be interesting to see how much this hurts YTTV. I assume most people that have live tv nowadays have it to watch sports
Exactly. I bet that YTTV is not even in the Top 10 for revenue / profit out all of the various enterptises under the Alphabet umbrella. They’ll let it fade out entirely before they pay out the asś for meaningless market share in a low margin segment like streaming TV.
And ultimately, that’s what ESPN wants. If YTTV doesn’t negotiate with terrorists, then Sling is the last outfit standing to prevent ESPN from having a total monopoly. They’ll get an even worse deal than YTTV got, because they are already lower cost and will have the exclusivity carrot dangled in front of them as being the only non-Disney streaming package with ESPN.
The only other streaming service out there that can compete with Sling and YTTV is Fubo, which is already 70% owned by Disney. If Sling and YTTV are both shut out, that’s when the FTC should get involved.
You just do the day pass for Sling Orange, then just add Sports Xtra for only $0.99 more. It’s $5.98 total per 24 hr pass.
Well, then you’ll get some use out of it eventually. But until basketball is going, you still might be better off just doing touch and go.
The wife says Wait... they will come back in a couple of days. I can stream ESPN, so I wait until one of her channels goes off the air.
If it is not resolved for the weekend I will probably look into Fubo. I have friends that are using it and seem to like it. Since they are already part of ESPN shouldn't have to deal with this anymore. That is the main reason I left satellite. Note that these issues always come up during football season. Never in the summer. I will just have to teach my wife a new platform and I dread that.
They hold a lot of the cards. But not all of them. YTTV being out will likely make Sling overpay to keep their access, even if it becomes a loss leader for them. It’s their whole business.
Current Sling Orange + Sports Xtra monthly cost is $56.99/month. YTTV was $83 / month. YTTV will drop to $63 per month without ESPN / Disney, temporarily. Even if Sling has to go up to to like $65 / month ($8 increase) to keep Disney family, that’s a no brainer for households with a broad TV interest in both sports and non-sports. FUBO is $85 / month for the cheapest package. Sling would be king of the cord-cutting hill for sure.
Something I didn’t realize until just a minute ago is that since I’m already paying nearly $20/mo for Disney, Hulu, and ESPN+, it will only be $10 more to upgrade to the package that includes ESPN unlimited.
So if YTTV starts crediting me $20/mo for dropping ESPN, I’m gonna somehow come out ahead on this deal
My “3 channels” reference was to what people would actually watch. Very, very few people are going to venture beyond ESPN, ESPN2, and their conference network of choice (SEC Network, ACC Network, etc.). B1G fans aren’t even going to venture that far. And “ESPN on ABC” is almost fraudulent to even offer up as a channel. ABC is free over a 4K antenna for a one time cost of like $15-$20.
By all means though, if you spend hours per month watching pro wrestling, dabbling around in cricket on ESPN Deportes, or watching volleyball / lacrosse on the “U”, then you’ll be pretty happy for a little while.
It’s only a good deal if you watch A LOT of sports, and almost nothing else. And it’s only going up in price. I don’t watch a whole lot of anything…..that’s why I’m out. I’m just done with any recurring monthly payments over $15-$20 per month unless its my cell phone or internet bill. It’s too much to manage and way too much 17ing hassle to deal with all the cancellation threat so you lower my bill by $10 month horseshít.
That’s my favorite thing about the Sling day pass. I pay for what I use as I go, not a cent more.
I already get Hulu, Disney +, and ESPN+ over the air for $21 per month. Anyone paying $30 month for ESPN Unlimited with those other two things is going to be looking at hellacious sticker shock in month #13.
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You may come out ahead for a little while. But, the $20 credit from YTTV won’t even start until they formally stop negotiations, and it likely won’t last more than a few months before they start unwinding it.
And you’re in for a rude awakening on trying to combine the Disney / Hulu / ESPN+ bundle with ESPN Unlimited. You can only have one Disney account per ESPN package, meaning that you’ll have to create a separate email and log-in for ESPN Unlimited than what you use for the other 3 services. I ranted about this months ago when they first rolled out ESPN Unlimited. Total PITA. Good luck with that and with switching back and forth with your TV remote.
I got that last year. Got killed with the price this year. All I really wanted to watch was Dak too which is sad that I paid what I did just to see it. Plus I have Amazon so I get the Thursday night games.
Yeah I didn't realize it was per month. I hope that they do drop it or give you the option to add it for an extra $20.
The downside would be if you can't watch 4 games at once
No free trial but Hulu has a special $65 for 3 months then it shifts to $83 monthly of course you can cancel anytime.
Get a super box. $300 for the device and you get everything for no monthly fee. I’ve had one since January and it works perfect. I get every game that is on regular tv plus the ones on espn+
Yes. I pay quarterly. The interface is fine. You setup your favorites so you don't have to see all 250 channels.
Looks like they are running a deal for a month for $55 were you can try it. You can cancel at any time.
I tried Hulu live last year and it was an absolute disaster. I canceled in 2 days.
Just cancelled youtubetv and got HULU. , Hulu doesn’t seem to be as user friendly as YTTV but they have sports
I saw where I can get a Fubo trial, I just want to watch volleyball games tonight football tomorrow. Anybody know if I can do that with a fubo trial?
