New Sunday Ticket features announced by YouTube

[OUCPFL]

8 minutes ago, BOW BOW BOW BOW™ said:

That higher education sure did you a lot of good. Have fun on the high seas or paying the regular rate while I use my regular ol' .edu email and enjoy my discount.

Ha. I don't have to worry about it anyway. I live in NC you freaking weirdo. 

Plus, I'm in school right now. So even if I wanted to use it, I could. 

[OUCPFL]

47 minutes ago, KSpan said:

My student discount last year only asked for my college email, which they accepted once I confirmed it via that email, nad my brother did it for years via his college email. If there was more behind the scenes it wasn't obvious.

Working at the Higher Education place I worked at. They ALWAYS rejected mine when I tried it...............

Maybe it was because I worked there and wasn't a student. 

[RumHam]

21 hours ago, chknwing said:

If only YouTube TV guide wasn't terrible

we were stuck with cable box guides for so long, it's still an improvement. This is the kind of stuff you do with all that money. unlike direct tv. Direct TV will be dead in 5-10 years. Garbage company.

[PanthersATL]

4 hours ago, joemac said:

DTV offered single game options late in the season last year?

uh..... supposedly?  like at the very tail end of the season?
Can't find reference to it specifically so maybe that's just a hopeful typo on my part

[PanthersATL]

Police are going after illegal streamers -- this one was in Argentina and was brought down by DirecTV recently.

https://torrentfreak.com/digital-tv-raided-by-cybercrime-unit-following-directv-iptv-piracy-complaint-230721/ 

They recognize that it's a bit of whack-a-mole, and taking out one provider doesn't make a dent.   But, as we saw with the rise of Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, etc vs using Limewire or Napster --- if you make legal content easily accessible and (comparatively) inexpensive.... the majority of consumers will stop pirating content

Changing from the audience-specific DirecTV to a "open for anyone" YouTube solution should result in less pirate streams.

[joemac]

On YouTube TV, does anybody know if I can put in a Charlotte zipcode as my local area and watch the Panthers games that way?  I realize that your location is based off IP address, but the YT GUI says that you can do it manually if its not correct...

[Ricky Prickles]

2 hours ago, Floppin said:

It doesn't suck. The yttv guide is great. Sling fuging blows

I've only ever used Sling and was okay with it but hated the fact that you have to have an antenna to watch locals. Sounds like you have suer both and yttv is your choice. Going with it then.

[Ricky Prickles]

2 hours ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

Google NFL ... and then what you do to an apple to pierce the skin. Dozens of streams for every game. Minimal ad intrusion (zero if you know how to block them ... and the way to get to the actual stream*), and the streams are actually decent. In HD, shows local coverage (as in the real commercials you'll see), and just a few buffer issues a game if any. If you're not a hardcore "Sunday is my holy day" NFL guy, and the Panthers don't come on where you live, it's pretty much perfect.

*key

Thanks I appreciate it!

[PanthersATL]

2 hours ago, joemac said:

On YouTube TV, does anybody know if I can put in a Charlotte zipcode as my local area and watch the Panthers games that way?  I realize that your location is based off IP address, but the YT GUI says that you can do it manually if its not correct...

I wouldn't recommend it, unless you want Charlotte TV full time.

Per Google, once you enter your home ZIP that's it.  (you can change your home ZIP twice a year... and you have to physically be in the home area to update to a different ZIP)
 

[joemac]

4 minutes ago, PanthersATL said:

I wouldn't recommend it, unless you want Charlotte TV full time.

Per Google, once you enter your home ZIP that's it.  (you can change your home ZIP twice a year... and you have to physically be in the home area to update to a different ZIP)
 

Ahhh ok so I cannot change my zip to Charlotte while im in Texas?

[PanthersATL]

3 minutes ago, joemac said:

Ahhh ok so I cannot change my zip to Charlotte while im in Texas?

Not as a temporary change, no.

And it sounds like there's a cross-ref between home market/zip/IP address to verify that you are where you say you are.    And you have to log in (regularly) from that same combination to keep the connection/setting active.

[DamnItJake!]

12 hours ago, PanthersATL said:

Slight concern about latency delay vs traditional broadcast, but shouldn't be that much worse than DTV was

Haven’t watched enough sports yet on YouTube to notice the latency.. but Direct Tv was about 5-10 seconds when using the genie boxes versus the main receiver.. the clarity is much better than Direct!!

[Floppin]

5 hours ago, Ricky Prickles said:

I've only ever used Sling and was okay with it but hated the fact that you have to have an antenna to watch locals. Sounds like you have suer both and yttv is your choice. Going with it then.

Well I've used both yes. I'm not sure why you needed an antenna to get local channels with sling because my sling had all my local channels. It just sucks and is glitchy and the latency is ass. YouTube is infinitely better.

[MillionDollarCam]

8 hours ago, Ricky Prickles said:

How are you pirating? Please teach me the way as I may join your jolly group of pirates as well.

What @Brooklyn 3.0said lol.