#17 - Living without YouTube TV
Our YouTube TV Pause went into effect a couple months ago. It's a definite change for us, but we haven't felt deprived.
YouTube TV was our service for broadcast TV channels and standard cable TV channels. The biggest change for us is that we no longer have access to live sports, except for Thursday night NFL on Amazon Prime. I haven't yet felt deprived. We never watched much baseball, and the Lions are, well, the Lions.
As for Michigan football, I've been satisfied watching game highlights on YouTube after the game is over. Michigan basketball might be a different story. We might have to resume our YouTube TV service for a while if the season goes well.
We've never been in the habit of watching TV news, so we don't miss that.
Nancy watches some of the late-night show highlights on Instagram.
We can stream PBS shows on PBS Passport.
We watched the presidential debates and the Biden/Harris post-election speeches live on YouTube.
With our various streaming services, we still have more good TV available to watch than we have time to watch it.
Some Recent Comcast Developments
- Comcast has increased our monthly data cap from 1 TB to 1.2 TB. We haven't gone over 500 GB during the last six months.
- Some months ago, Comcast upgraded our download speed from 60 Mbps to 100 Mbps without a price increase.
- Comcast sent us a free Xfinity Flex device with a remote control. It could possibly replace a Fire TV stick or a Chromecast device, but for now it just sits on the shelf.
- Comcast is also providing us a free Peacock Premium streaming service (it has "limited commercials"). We haven't watched anythng since verifying that it works.