@demsd wrote:
If you are thinking about spending $65 for 85+ channels from YouTube TV, you might as well consider adding an additional $5 to get America's Top 120 from Dish.
With streaming you're at the mercy of your Internet connection. If it's robust, then you're fine. With satellite, you're at the mercy of weather and sunspot activity. While the latter doesn't happen with regularity, weather most certainly could be an issue depending on your location.
I had Dish Network for years, in fact I was one of their early subscribers, before they had their first million. But it reached the point I realized I was paying over $200 per month for close to 400 channels, and we watched about five of them. And we realized life wouldn't stop if we no longer had those channels.
I concur that the cost for YouTube TV, Fubo TV or Sling TV is too high, since both satellite and cable have lowered prices to compete with streaming. What I used to get from Dish for $200 per month is now around $100, so competition is good. Hopefully the streaming providers will recognize this and make some adjustments.
I acknowledge that we get very good over the air TV reception. But still, we watch almost nothing OTA. I have a computer set up to record from OTA, mostly to catch some of the old, corny movies that never appear on DVD. We subscribe to Amazon Prime for the shipping, so the streaming is a freebee for us. But our primary viewing is all our purchased DVDs and Blu Rays, which I have ripped to a media server and can play on any TV in our home. Between movies and TV shows, we have 5000 titles to choose from, so even if the Internet fails we have plenty of things we actually care to watch.
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