About a month ago, the Borden family made a big decision. We canceled our FIOS TV subscription and switched over to YouTube TV.
The biggest benefit, to me at least, is the cost savings. It looks like the move will save us between $400-500 per year.
Other benefits, from the YouTube TV website, include:
- 85 channels
- no annual contract
- NFL, NBA, and MLB networks
- PBS, BET, Comedy Central, MTV, and Nickelodeon
- Unlimited cloud DVR storage space, with rewind, fast forward, and pause capability
- three simultaneous streams and six accounts per household
- $0 installation fee
We’ve tried it on our Samsung SmartTV, an iPad, an iPhone, Amazon FireTV, and a Roku device and it worked flawlessly on each one. It is also quite easy to set up and use.
It’s also nice knowing that we are no longer tied to a cable box, and no longer paying the monthly rental fees associated with those cable boxes.
We still use FIOS for our Internet service, since we have always been happy with it. We also liked our FIOS TV service, but not enough to justify an extra $400-500 a year in costs.
P.S. I am not earning any fee from Google for writing this favorable review of YouTube TV. But if they want to pay me one, I wouldn’t say no.
P.P.S. This is the kind of post I write when it’s getting late, and I couldn’t find anything interesting to write about. I never promised that you would get Bill Shakespeare every night. Or any night for that matter…
What is FIOS?
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FIOS is the fiber optic part of Verizon’s business. Verizon is a large telecommunications firm.
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Congratulations on your big money savings. I’d like to cut the cord and do something like that, but my wife has a very difficult time with technology. She kind of understands the cable TV remote, so I’m not going to rock the boat and change things. I hope you enjoy your new viewing selections.
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we now use such a basic remote and it works quite well…
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Well, that’s encouraging.
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I might even blog about the remote, if and when I get desperate for an idea, which is every day…
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I don’t know these options, Jim.
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FIOS is the fiber optic part of Verizon, which we use for our high speed internet access.
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Got it, we have fiber and 5-G as a backup.
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we are quite happy with our fiber from Verizon. I have not yet switched over to 5-g for my cell phone…
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Amazing how much they can get us to pay for TV. I like the unlimited DVR storage you have on YouTube.
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it is a nice option. the only downside to having switched is that we lost all the shows and movies we had saved on the DVR…
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Luckily I delegated all electronic decisions to my wife and children. I am sure I am squandering lots of money but at least I do not know how much. I also get to complain about all their decisions.
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ignorance is bliss, and complaining always helps… 🙂
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I’m ready to try something else. We bundle through our cable company, but it seems like we have to have them out to our house all the time.
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what’s odd is that Verizon offers YouTube TV as a subscription… maybe they see the writing on the wall…
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It’s all a strange world to me – but I’m sure wherever we live we have innumerable ways of accessing magic pictures. A magic being called Virgin supplies lots of television channels, a landline and my WiFi. When I was four my parents rented their first little black and white television set and they just pressed a button to turn it on for the sole BBC channel. Apart from Watch with Mother nothing much was broadcast during the day, then when the BBC thought it was time you went to bed they would play the national anthem and the picture would disappear into a tiny white dot…
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somedays I wouldn’t mind if I had no choices, no decisions to make…
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I, too, have been considering a switch, as I watch a ton of money go to my cable company every month. So your info on YouTube TV comes in quite handy. It appears that everything is moving to being a streaming service so I might as well get on board early. Great post, Jim!
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thanks, Brad. We’ve been happy with it…
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I switched when I moved a couple of years ago. like you, I still use my cable company for internet only. but stream all the rest through Hulu and a few other sources and have saved so much money. my daughters encouraged me to do so, and even my cable company told me what to do to set it up. tech is not my big thing, (to put it mildly) so if I could make it work, anyone could
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Hulu was theother option we looked at, but I knew a couple of people who were using YouTube and they seemed quite happy with it. That was nice of the cable company to help you through the set-up…
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One of my daughters uses YouTube and loves it too
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sounds like I’m in good company then…
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We gave up on tv a few years ago. It was just so expensive and the kids still wanted Netflix and Hulu. The cost of internet in Gettysburg is absurd. I think we’re at $120 per month now. There’s no competition so Comcast just continually raises the price. The only time I miss tv is during the olympics.
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that is a lot just for Internet service. but it seems like you have managed to be without it…
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😀😀😀
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my son and I watched the England-Scotland football match today; it seemed as if the Scottish players were happy with the tie…
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What a game jim! Good introduction for you and your son. Your kilts are in the post….
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Hopefully the kilts will arrive before the Croatia game… cheers!
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😃
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Interesting about utube Tv..but not available outside the US unless you have a VPN and I don’t like them they cause banking problems when you start hiding your location or did for me here…
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too bad about YouTube TV, but getting a VPN doesn’t sound like it’s worth the effort…
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It wasn’t for me…so I make do with downloading and live streaming and what I can’t get then I don’t lose sleep over..but it sounds like a good deal for you and maybe they will extend to overseas if they are successful….x
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I am sure you are not missing anything…
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Good for you Jim. I was looking at the apps instead of the cable. Our cable bill was huge. Now that I’m moving, they offered a hugeeeeeeeee promotion. I took it, and when it runs out in a year, then I shall probably do the same as you. 🙂
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those promos are hard to resist…
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