Roku may end agreement with YouTube TV

[HFCS]

It was a major blunder for peacock that it wasn't available as a roku app immediately and then not easy to access for a while.

Dedicated yttv subscribers who love it will find a way but this would impact both in terms of new subscriber pickups. Older people and casual viewers are not going to problem solve if they already have a roku device with several other apps they use.

 

[acoustimac]

I’m like a combination of many of these posts.
1. I share YTTV with family.
2. I put Roku on every single tv because of the remote. My wife can use it.
3. my dilemma isn’t so much about losing YTTV as giving google information, having to buy all new devices for my TVs AND teaching my wife how to use it. Bastards.

 

[06_CY]

One Roku smart tv, two roku devices on other tvs. This is a dilly of a pickle.

 

[jdcyclone19]

We've got 3 Roku's around the house that are primarly used for YTTV... I'll have to watch this situation closely

Just cancelled Disney + after falcon and winter solider series ended. Will pick it back up again in the fall

Don't forget about the Loki series coming in June.

 

[jpete24]

I've gone all Apple TV and Hulu and haven't looked back.

 

[cyfanatic]

We have Rokus, Fire Sticks and Google Chromecast devices in our house...I used to LOVE Roku...but lately when bored and messing around with technology...I moved the Roku devices to the TVs in our house that get used the least. They just don't do it for me like they used to. Google Chromecast is my favorite and the new Fire Stick program guide is very nice...Roku is simple which is great for some (like my parents, who use YTTV so that will be a headache I have to solve) but it is my 3rd choice of the big 3.

 

[cyfanatic]

I just realized that many people bought Roku TVs with Roku embedded into them...that would suck for those who stream YTTV that way!

 

[HFCS]

One Roku smart tv, two roku devices on other tvs. This is a dilly of a pickle.

I think it'll work out for this reason. Google is huge but the number of non-tech-friendly people with a roku enabled TV is a real hurdle.

This board doesn't represent the average streamer at all.

 

[clone52]

i still pay 67/month for yttv.

my father in law pays well over $200 for directv.

Depends on how much you get from DirectTV. When I cut the cord, I paid over $90 just for equipment and no programming.

 

[HFCS]

We have Rokus, Fire Sticks and Google Chromecast devices in our house...I used to LOVE Roku...but lately when bored and messing around with technology...I moved the Roku devices to the TVs in our house that get used the least. They just don't do it for me like they used to. Google Chromecast is my favorite and the new Fire Stick program guide is very nice...Roku is simple which is great for some (like my parents, who use YTTV so that will be a headache I have to solve) but it is my 3rd choice of the big 3.

Chromecast must have come a long ways because the 1st gen sucked compared to roku devices of the time. I have a couple collecting dust somewhere I barely used.

 

[HFCS]

I just realized that many people bought Roku TVs with Roku embedded into them...that would suck for those who stream YTTV that way!

They have to be posturing for that reason. Or more likely they are happy to lose money to drive a competitor down.

 

[cyfanatic]

Chromecast must have come a long ways because the 1st gen sucked compared to roku devices of the time. I have a couple collecting dust somewhere I barely used.

I never owned the first generation Chromecast...but I bought one of the new ones and Google gave me a free one this winter and they are really slick! I think the new Fire Stick onscreen program guide basically copied Google's (or vice versa, who ever developed it first).

 

[HFCS]

I never owned the first generation Chromecast...but I bought one of the new ones and Google gave me a free one this winter and they are really slick! I think the new Fire Stick onscreen program guide basically copied Google's (or vice versa, who ever developed it first).

Yeah I remember messing with one a couple years later and laughing at how much better it was than my early adopter product. No big deal because it cost like 25 bucks.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

i still pay 67/month for yttv.

my father in law pays well over $200 for directv.

Plus the sharing capabilities of the streaming services increase the overall value. The price point could go up to even double what it is, but you can share your account with another household and split the cost, like my wife and I do with her Dad, and still be absolutely scoring a better deal than the satellite/cable companies.

 

[brianhos]

I've gone all Apple TV and Hulu and haven't looked back.

New apple TV looks interesting. I hate that they are $200, and the remote is just horrible, but it sound like that may have been fixed also.

 

[cyfan92]

Don't forget about the Loki series coming in June.

I've been watching way too much TV since 3/2020.. Our goal as a house it to get out more now that we are fully vaccinated.

 

[Isualum13]

Plus the sharing capabilities of the streaming services increase the overall value. The price point could go up to even double what it is, but you can share your account with another household and split the cost, like my wife and I do with her Dad, and still be absolutely scoring a better deal than the satellite/cable companies.

A lot of cable companies that service rural areas offer a service called Watch TV Everywhere. While it doesn't have its own app, for an extra $5 a month, a tv subscriber can add the service to their account and get 4 individual accounts to use the service. You use the account to log in to the different apps. Gets access to nearly all the same content as the other services, pretty much everything the the account owner has access to, just not in one place. The convenience of the other services make them a better product, but since I rarely watch live TV, pretty much only for cyclone football away games in the fall and occasionally the food network, it works great for me.
My parents have the cable TV subscription out in the country and added the service that my siblings and I use.

 

[BryceC]

I just realized that many people bought Roku TVs with Roku embedded into them...that would suck for those who stream YTTV that way!

Yeah I've got one of those. Actually it's a simple choice, I just cancel YTTV.

 

[simply1]

I’m like a combination of many of these posts.
1. I share YTTV with family.
2. I put Roku on every single tv because of the remote. My wife can use it.
3. my dilemma isn’t so much about losing YTTV as giving google information, having to buy all new devices for my TVs AND teaching my wife how to use it. Bastards.

Not many people seem to care what the predatory practices are, kudos.

 

[KnappShack]

A lot of cable companies that service rural areas offer a service called Watch TV Everywhere. While it doesn't have its own app, for an extra $5 a month, a tv subscriber can add the service to their account and get 4 individual accounts to use the service. You use the account to log in to the different apps. Gets access to nearly all the same content as the other services, pretty much everything the the account owner has access to, just not in one place. The convenience of the other services make them a better product, but since I rarely watch live TV, pretty much only for cyclone football away games in the fall and occasionally the food network, it works great for me.
My parents have the cable TV subscription out in the country and added the service that my siblings and I use.

Not sure what this looks like, but on Roku I was able to use the ABC, Fox, and NBC apps with my cable log in to watch live TV. CBS was behind a paywall

I haven't done it in a while, but it did work for a time.