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I can promise if I drop YTTV (I only have it to watch the Clones, period), I will not be adding anything else. It will be OTA only 5 times a year, and a lot more John & Eric.

Seriously, keep keeping me in the sack with higher costs, inconvenience, collusion against ISU's competitiveness, etc... and I will find other things to do. I am already not watching any other sports except by accident (at someone else's house, at the bar, etc).

I'm old. I can get into history more, or just riding my motorcycle every saturday.
 
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CascadeClone said:
I can promise if I drop YTTV (I only have it to watch the Clones, period), I will not be adding anything else. It will be OTA only 5 times a year, and a lot more John & Eric.

Seriously, keep keeping me in the sack with higher costs, inconvenience, collusion against ISU's competitiveness, etc... and I will find other things to do. I am already not watching any other sports except by accident (at someone else's house, at the bar, etc).

I'm old. I can get into history more, or just riding my motorcycle every saturday.
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THIS! I have told myself to ride it out if ESPN goes away from YTTV...and not sign up for any other service. I have been tinkering with dropping YTTV just to see what I would do instead of having it...I would still keep MLB.tv and maybe one of the smaller streamers like Hulu (no live tv) or Netflix (haven't had that in years). I feel like after a few weeks...I wouldn't miss it all that much. I do like to have sports on in the background often...but who knows? Maybe I will just listen to more music!
 
WIBadger said:
Because I hate ESPN, I’m actually on Google/Youtube tv’s side here and will be sticking with them through the dispute. I think if a lot of people did, ESPN/disney would fold a lot quicker.

Another thing that annoyed me was I wanted to give ESPN that feedback just to do my part but you can’t actually submit feedback on espn’s website (at least not that I could find). There a lot of places that they say will let you provide feedback, but they’re just faqs or don’t work. So I actually called them. The guy I talked to was super nice, but I shouldn’t have had to call in the first place
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Yeah agree. Pretty clear here that ESPN is asking for more than YTTV is willing to pay. In that argument, I'm with YTTV. I don't want to pay a dime more for ESPN than I absolutely have to.
 
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The good thing is that Google is big enough that Disney won’t push them around. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google asks courts to get involved for anti-trust litigation. ESPN being the content provider and competitor gives their package an unfair competitive advantage in the market. At some point, we need to break these mega corporations up.
 
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cyclonespiker33 said:
Because their streams suck. For one of the Iowa State basketball non-con games last year, the stream went out in the last 5 minutes of the game. I asked them for a credit and they basically called me a liar. I was like "check twitter, everyone is complaining". They didn't budge. I cancelled and will never go back.
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And even if they do acknowledge it, in a lot of cases it’s “don’t blame us, we just carry the game, this was a problem with whoever was producing it (more common for the small sports and foreign leagues).”

Which to some extent fair enough. But they try to have it both ways of bragging how many sports they have and then passing the buck if anything goes wrong.
 
For those rebels that are using cracked firesticks what's your preferred things? Any suggestion for an IPTV source that is great for live channels and sport events
 
I have no love of ESPN, but I've visited family members a couple times in last month and both have YTTV. Other than live sports, I struggle to find anything I want to watch on YTTV's 100+ channels.

IMO YTTV's days are numbered or it will look much different in 5 years.

IMO the future is platforms like Amazon Prime where a customer can buy additional subscriptions. A la carte is is what people have been asking for, for over a decade.
 
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I was probably the last person in the world to drop cable. I like TV. I like having it on in the background when I'm at home. I find not much that is more pleasant that having a random football game on in the background on a Saturday when Iowa State is off or on the road. But Mediacom finally got me to drop it. And I picked YouTube TV. And frankly I don't like it. And this doesn't help matters. On the positive front paying $80 or $100 for it, isn't a big deal because Mediacom was costing me close to $300.
 
jsb said:
I was probably the last person in the world to drop cable. I like TV. I like having it on in the background when I'm at home. I find not much that is more pleasant that having a random football game on in the background on a Saturday when Iowa State is off or on the road. But Mediacom finally got me to drop it. And I picked YouTube TV. And frankly I don't like it. And this doesn't help matters. On the positive front paying $80 or $100 for it, isn't a big deal because Mediacom was costing me close to $300.
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The best and probably the biggest reason I have YTTV is the 4 way split for games, otherwise I liked Hulu Live better.
 
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aeroclone said:
Yeah agree. Pretty clear here that ESPN is asking for more than YTTV is willing to pay. In that argument, I'm with YTTV. I don't want to pay a dime more for ESPN than I absolutely have to.
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It's already stupid expensive for how much I use it. I only use it for live sports and I put my account on hold most of the year. I didn't have any TV for nearly 20 years and I can go without it 100%.
 
cyclones122 said:
Nope, not fairly young. Never had Dish or Direct TV. Where we lived neither were an option. But I do know of people that had the same issues.
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You must have lived in a different country or in the middle of a forest if you were unable to get Dish or DirecTV as options.
 
isucy86 said:
I have no love of ESPN, but I've visited family members a couple times in last month and both have YTTV. Other than live sports, I struggle to find anything I want to watch on YTTV's 100+ channels.

IMO YTTV's days are numbered or it will look much different in 5 years.

IMO the future is platforms like Amazon Prime where a customer can buy additional subscriptions. A la carte is is what people have been asking for, for over a decade.
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Winner.

About the only thing I hate about AirBnB's is that none have cable or dish, they all have youtube tv or something like that which have nothing I want to watch.
 
BigJCy said:
Anyone have the standalone app? Is this true?

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Don’t have the app but wholeheartedly believe it. The original ESPN app, and back when they had the ESPNWatch app, is complete garbage and always has been. Can barely navigate the app.
 
Fubo TV will give you local channel and ESPN on a free trial basis for those looking for games today.

The downfall? No TNT so you wouldn’t be able to flip around during clones.
 
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