YouTube TV and Billiard TV channel

JAM

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We have Comcast Xfinity with three DVR boxes, one for each member of the family, and a bundled package. By the time they add the fees and taxes, it's $300 a month. I don't drink alcohol, use drugs, or smoke, and watching TV is my high in the autumn of my life.

On my neighborhood listserv, everybody is complaining about Xfinity raising their prices. My bill will now be $330 a month. One neighbor suggested YouTube TV. I went to check it out, and it's very reasonably priced. And then, much to my surprise, there's a Billiard TV channel. I click on it, and guess who's shooting pool? It was the 2019 U.S. Straight Pool Championship: Gabe Owen v. Bob Jewett. Wow!

Does anybody have YouTube TV? Is it worth it? Better than other cable providers?

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We have Comcast Xfinity with three DVR boxes, one for each member of the family, and a bundled package. By the time they add the fees and taxes, it's $300 a month. I don't drink alcohol, use drugs, or smoke, and watching TV is my high in the autumn of my life.

On my neighborhood listserv, everybody is complaining about Xfinity raising their prices. My bill will now be $330 a month. One neighbor suggested YouTube TV. I went to check it out, and it's very reasonably priced. And then, much to my surprise, there's a Billiard TV channel. I click on it, and guess who's shooting pool? It was the 2019 U.S. Straight Pool Championship: Gabe Owen v. Bob Jewett. Wow!

Does anybody have YouTube TV? Is it worth it? Better than other cable providers?

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We cut the cord and now have YouTube tv. Very happy with it. Combined with Wifi from W.O.W. our total bill is under $100 a month. We can watch on all tv's in the house. Unlimited recording. Rewind. We have LG tv's. With them we had the ability to watch the Billiard channel on LG's freely provided "Live" channels. The Billiard Tv channel was removed from their lineup a month ago and replaced with Cornhole. Bummer. You've enlightened me on YouTube's sports package (14 channels) that includes the Billiard Tv channel. We'll be adding it to our package for an additional $10.99 a month. Thanks Jam!
 
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We have Comcast Xfinity with three DVR boxes, one for each member of the family, and a bundled package. By the time they add the fees and taxes, it's $300 a month. I don't drink alcohol, use drugs, or smoke, and watching TV is my high in the autumn of my life.

On my neighborhood listserv, everybody is complaining about Xfinity raising their prices. My bill will now be $330 a month. One neighbor suggested YouTube TV. I went to check it out, and it's very reasonably priced. And then, much to my surprise, there's a Billiard TV channel. I click on it, and guess who's shooting pool? It was the 2019 U.S. Straight Pool Championship: Gabe Owen v. Bob Jewett. Wow!

Does anybody have YouTube TV? Is it worth it? Better than other cable providers?

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We have had Youtube tv for 2 years and love it. The DVR part is great, see something you like just add it to the library and you have 9 months of access when you want to watch it, also if it is in your library you can skip through the commercials.
 
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We have Comcast Xfinity with three DVR boxes, one for each member of the family, and a bundled package. By the time they add the fees and taxes, it's $300 a month. I don't drink alcohol, use drugs, or smoke, and watching TV is my high in the autumn of my life.

On my neighborhood listserv, everybody is complaining about Xfinity raising their prices. My bill will now be $330 a month. One neighbor suggested YouTube TV. I went to check it out, and it's very reasonably priced. And then, much to my surprise, there's a Billiard TV channel. I click on it, and guess who's shooting pool? It was the 2019 U.S. Straight Pool Championship: Gabe Owen v. Bob Jewett. Wow!

Does anybody have YouTube TV? Is it worth it? Better than other cable providers?

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All I ever see is 10 ball or the stupid shootout thing where they try to make spot shots. They play old matches, take breaks after every single rack for commercials, but they don't have any sponsors buying commercial time, so they spend 2 or more minutes playing a computer generated song that is about the worst composition I ever heard, it's really annoying. Don't pay for the sports pack unless there is something else in it you'll watch. The billiards channel is not worth it.
 
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I cut the cable a couple of years ago, and I've had YouTube TV, ever since. It's been reliable, and runs around $75/month for the package I have. I do not have the Sports Plus package, though, so I do not get Billiard TV. However, I have a Samsung Smart Television, so I do get all of the Samsung Plus channels, and they are free. One of the included Samsung Channels is "For the Fans (FTF)", and they show pool/billiards for much of every Monday, and on some other days, too. They are mostly reruns of tournaments from the past 3 or 4 years, but I have seen some live pool events on there also.

So, between YouTube TV, Samsung Plus channels, and an (over-the-air) antenna, I get a bunch of channels.

If you are not familiar with the Samsung TV plus channels, here you go: Samsung TV Plus
 
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I've had YouTube TV for a year or so now. Mostly I'm happy with it; especially with all of the sports programming I can get.

The only thing I absolutely HATE about it is that once you record a show and watch it, there's no way to delete it from your library. So your library grows to be HUGE with shows that you've already watched.
 
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All I ever see is 10 ball or the stupid shootout thing where they try to make spot shots. They play old matches, take breaks after every single rack for commercials, but they don't have any sponsors buying commercial time, so they spend 2 or more minutes playing a computer generated song that is about the worst composition I ever heard, it's really annoying. Don't pay for the sports pack unless there is something else in it you'll watch. The billiards channel is not worth it.
You are mostly correct. They do show ALL of the Predator events though. I'll use the rewind often while enjoying them and a lot of the amazing Venom. There have also been other events (very few) they have telecast if I remember correctly. Though I won't watch most of the other channels in the package, I will watch the offered Poker Go channel. Others might like some of the other channels.
 
Thanks to all who shared their thoughts about YouTube TV channel. I may look into purchasing a new Samsung TV. THe new TV features are beautiful with the colors. I saw a 75-inch Samsung at Costco yesterday for $1,599. Considering I spend a lot of my life in front of the TV, I might go for it. I'm going to shop around for prices. The Samsung has a way to access for a fee certain channels. For my other half, it's all about the sports. For me, it's all about HBO, Showtime, Netflix, Amazon Prime, STARZ, Hulu, MGM+ (formerly EPIX), Paramount+, AMC+, Britbox, et cetera.
 
There are 3 Samsung TV's in my family and they have all been rock solid.
I have two LGs right now and Keith has a no-name brand in his den.

At Costco, the new 75-inch Samsung is $1,599, and I just found it on QVC with free shipping for $1,199. Wow!

I just paid 4Q estimated taxes and fee a little on the shortskies, but I might have to reach into my savings.

 
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Holy moly, that is a deal. Wow! It pays to shop. THANK YOU!. I might have to go for it. That is a great, great price. I saw that TV in Costco yesterday. The colors are so vibrant. I must have this TV, dag nab it.
 
We have Comcast Xfinity with three DVR boxes, one for each member of the family, and a bundled package. By the time they add the fees and taxes, it's $300 a month. I don't drink alcohol, use drugs, or smoke, and watching TV is my high in the autumn of my life.

On my neighborhood listserv, everybody is complaining about Xfinity raising their prices. My bill will now be $330 a month. One neighbor suggested YouTube TV. I went to check it out, and it's very reasonably priced. And then, much to my surprise, there's a Billiard TV channel. I click on it, and guess who's shooting pool? It was the 2019 U.S. Straight Pool Championship: Gabe Owen v. Bob Jewett. Wow!

Does anybody have YouTube TV? Is it worth it? Better than other cable providers?
Have you ever thought about a Roku TV? You still have to pay for internet service, but they have a ton of free channels on there. Anything from hallmark movies, cartoons, forensic/murder mystery, car stuff, to bob ross channel. Just tons and tons of stuff for free. I think it's channel 225 or right about there called FTF (For The Fans), but it often has pool on it, even the matchroom and predator events.

The Roku tv lets you add apps to it (basically other streaming services). Many are free, local channels, all sorts of stuff I couldn't even begin to list. That and you can buy premium streaming services, hbo, disney+, hulu, netflix, discovery, etc. etc. We have 2 streaming services, plus we share passwords with my nephew and sister in law so we actually have 5 services.

You can also do regular youtube or the youtube tv thing on there. It ends up being way cheaper than usual cable and for the most part on premium services you can pay $2-3 a month more for no ads. That is huge, for every 4 hours of tv you watch, you just lost an hour to watching ads for crap you don't want anyway.
 
T-mobile home internet and YouTube tv here. I was so happy when we ditched Comcast. The savings part is nice too!
 
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Just a quick heads up about the Samsung TV Plus, channels. There are a bunch of them (I think 200+), and I watch some of them often. But, they show a lot of replays. For instance, they have a "This Old House" channel". But they have been showing how to restore the same four houses on that channel, for at least 2 years, now. They restore one house (maybe 20 episodes), then move on to the next house, and so on. Then they start over again, with the first house.

The other channels do the same thing, and you see the same movies being repeated over, and over, too. But they are free, so it's hard to complain.

Of course, you will need to have an internet provider (I use Frontier Fios) for any of the streaming services. And if you do cut the cable, an over-the-air antenna is very nice to have. Depending on your location, you could receive 60-80 channels, or more. ( I think I get around 60). And since they are digital, the quality is very good.

Check your available over-the-air stations here: https://www.fcc.gov/media/engineering/dtvmaps. or here:

https://www.antennasdirect.com/transmitter-locator.html
 
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Holy moly, that is a deal. Wow! It pays to shop. THANK YOU!. I might have to go for it. That is a great, great price. I saw that TV in Costco yesterday. The colors are so vibrant. I must have this TV, dag nab it.
The downside to ordering a TV online is that if it comes damaged,doesn't work out of the box or you just dont like it you have to send it back and wait for a replacement.
If you buy it from a local store if any of the above happens you can get a replacement in a couple hours.
To me thats worth any small potential savings.
 
This is going to sound obvious yet nobody ever does it and it really helps to make things so much clearer and easier to decide. Go through your current tv service and write down every channel that you absolutely must have because those channels have certain shows that you just can't live without and that are only available on that particular channel.

Every tv service, whether streaming, or cable, or satellite, has a page where they list all of their available channels. Here is the one for Youtube TV. Just put in your zip code to see the channel listing/availability for your area.

Go through their channel listing and see if they offer all of those must have channels that you wrote down. If they don't, then Youtube TV may not even be in consideration for you depending on how firm you are about those "must haves". If it does have all of them then go ahead and add up what the cost will be to get them all (maybe not all of them are available in the Youtube TV basic package and you will have to pay extra to get some of them as "add ons", so you need to add up the total cost). Now compare that total cost to what you currently pay, and if Youtube TV has all your must haves at a cost that is cheaper than what you pay now then it is a no brainer and you should give up what you currently have and change over to Youtube TV (unless of course there is another service or combination of services that offers everything you want even cheaper than that). If it doesn't have all your must haves it still might be worth switching over if it is cheaper and the cost savings are enough to justify giving up whatever "must have" channels they didn't have, but only you can made that call.

Do a google search for the channel list for all the other streaming cable tv replacements (Sling TV, FuboTV, Hulu, etc) to see what channels they have on offer so you can find the cheapest combination of services that will get you everything you have to have.

As far as tv's go, if the decision ever comes down to getting a slightly better tv or a slightly bigger tv, in most instances your money and happiness and viewing pleasure are usually going to be better off with the bigger tv as long as it is a decent tv.

Speaking of tv size, nobody in the history of tv purchases has six months down the road said "I sure wish I had gotten a smaller tv". Never. No matter how enormous a certain screen size may look at the moment, after six months of owning it it is no longer going to look that big and like every single other person you are going to be thinking "yeah its ok but bigger would be even better". Get the biggest you can justify and keep in mind that you are going to have it many years which will make the investment easier to stomach.

This is an excellent tool/site for comparing any two TV's in detail and finding out which one is actually better, and how much better in what areas, and what all of their individual strengths and weaknesses are to help you determine which tv will be the best fit and value for you. I highly suggest you use it to compare any TV's you are considering, and read their reviews on those TV models as well.

The Samsung Q60B is a decent tv but the best two tv's in that same general price range are the Hisense U8H and the TCL R655 and they both go on sale fairly regularly. Both have significantly better pictures and features. Which one of those two is very slightly better comes down to a few relatively minor personal preferences and both are excellent.

As others have mentioned I highly suggest getting the Roku service which is free to use as long as you have a Roku device or it is already built into your tv. It has by far the most free streaming content, is by far the easiest to use, and has by far the best search capabilities to find programming to watch that would be of interest to you. At any given time there are something like 500,000+ programs and movies available to watch through Roku, a sizeable portion being free.

Some TV's already have Roku built in but if not Roku can be added to any tv, just buy a Roku device for $40-100 depending on which one you want (they all give you access to the exact same programming, the differences are in what features the remotes have, whether they will stream in Dolby Vision, etc) and plug it in to an HDMI port on your tv and you now have access to all of the Roku programming. There is no monthly fee to use Roku and that would give you access to all of their free programming. Roku also offers ALL of the popular stand by's you can pay for such as Amazon Prime, Netflix, HBO, Showtime, STARZ, Hulu, MGM+, Paramount+, AMC+, Britbox, etc. There is next to nothing available anywhere else that isn't available through Roku, but Roku has lots of extra content (especially free content) that isn't available through other services.

Feel free to PM with any questions.
 
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Thanks to all who shared their thoughts about YouTube TV channel. I may look into purchasing a new Samsung TV. THe new TV features are beautiful with the colors. I saw a 75-inch Samsung at Costco yesterday for $1,599. Considering I spend a lot of my life in front of the TV, I might go for it. I'm going to shop around for prices. The Samsung has a way to access for a fee certain channels. For my other half, it's all about the sports. For me, it's all about HBO, Showtime, Netflix, Amazon Prime, STARZ, Hulu, MGM+ (formerly EPIX), Paramount+, AMC+, Britbox, et cetera.
IMO, Samsung is horrible. You will be cursing at the user interface and want to throw your brand new TV out the window. I bought mine last year, hung it on the wall, and one year later I want to give it away for free I hate the user interface that much.
 
Probably doesn't matter to most people, but there is a reason for those low price smart TVs. They make most of their revenue after the sale, selling access to your viewing habits and ads. Once you connect it to your WiFi, bye bye privacy.

That being said, I've had the best experience out of the Hisense with built in roku. Has all the apps/channels you mentioned. Have no idea where the brand is from, South Korea? Who knows.
 
Probably doesn't matter to most people, but there is a reason for those low price smart TVs. They make most of their revenue after the sale, selling access to your viewing habits and ads. Once you connect it to your WiFi, bye bye privacy.

That being said, I've had the best experience out of the Hisense with built in roku. Has all the apps/channels you mentioned. Have no idea where the brand is from, South Korea? Who knows.

it's chinese.
 
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