YouTube TV arrives on Apple TV after months-long delay
YouTube on Thursday launched its live TV streaming service, YouTube TV, on Apple TV, making good on promises made last year to deliver the product to Apple's set-top devices.
Google-owned YouTube unveiled YouTube TV for Apple TV in a surprise post to Twitter, saying, "Hey @AppleTV users, check the app store."
A follow-up tweet included a looping GIF image featuring a Duke basketball game, one of many live sports options available through YouTube TV.
YouTube TV on Apple TV arrives just hours after company representatives told media outlets that the service would support Apple's hardware "very soon." Earlier today, YouTube TV rolled out for Roku devices, another platform for which YouTube promised support last year.
Google planned to deliver YouTube TV to Apple TV devices shortly after an October debut on Android TV and Xbox One devices, but the company missed its goal. In December, YouTube modified its expected launch timeline to the first quarter of 2018.
Unlike traditional YouTube channels, which serve up pre-recorded content, YouTube TV streams live TV to compatible devices. The U.S.-only service costs $35 per month and is now available on a range of platforms including iOS, Android and certain smart TV sets.
Subscribers get access to live television shows from major broadcast networks like ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, as well as certain sports and cable channels. Add-on plans are available for an extra fee and include networks like Showtime and Fox Soccer Plus. Unlike competing offerings, however, YouTube's cord-cutting option does not include popular properties owned by Turner and Viacom, such as CNN and the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim.
Google-owned YouTube unveiled YouTube TV for Apple TV in a surprise post to Twitter, saying, "Hey @AppleTV users, check the app store."
A follow-up tweet included a looping GIF image featuring a Duke basketball game, one of many live sports options available through YouTube TV.
And there it is! We are happy to announce you can now use YouTube TV on @AppleTV.
Try it now https://t.co/OWpJ6AL7S7 pic.twitter.com/9t31aHfFlv— YouTube TV (@YouTubeTV)
YouTube TV on Apple TV arrives just hours after company representatives told media outlets that the service would support Apple's hardware "very soon." Earlier today, YouTube TV rolled out for Roku devices, another platform for which YouTube promised support last year.
Google planned to deliver YouTube TV to Apple TV devices shortly after an October debut on Android TV and Xbox One devices, but the company missed its goal. In December, YouTube modified its expected launch timeline to the first quarter of 2018.
Unlike traditional YouTube channels, which serve up pre-recorded content, YouTube TV streams live TV to compatible devices. The U.S.-only service costs $35 per month and is now available on a range of platforms including iOS, Android and certain smart TV sets.
Subscribers get access to live television shows from major broadcast networks like ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, as well as certain sports and cable channels. Add-on plans are available for an extra fee and include networks like Showtime and Fox Soccer Plus. Unlike competing offerings, however, YouTube's cord-cutting option does not include popular properties owned by Turner and Viacom, such as CNN and the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim.
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YouTube TV has family sharing like all other Google play products.
This means that 6 people can have their own independent YouTube TV if they are in the same family group. I am using it because I share with my brothers and they like to watch TV and 35 dollars for 3 people is cheaper than having 2 basic Comcast cable subscriptions.
Soon at home I will be 'cutting the cord' and ditching cable. There's an all-fiber provider making their way through Lincoln, Neb., and as soon as they hook me up I'm giving TimeWarner the boot. We'll be able to watch basically the same things we watch now for about half the cost.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/02/how-youtubes-algorithm-distorts-truth
Why not? I can record any OTA content on a TiVo, and watch it live or later, on any iPad or iPhone anywhere in the world.
BROADCAST
SPORTS
ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE
NEWS
KIDS
SPANISH LANGUAGE
PREMIUM CHANNELS (Additional charge)
- SHOWTIME
- Shudder
- Sundance Now
- Fox Soccer Plus
That took 10 seconds and a Google search...I'm no millionaire... but $35 a month barely even registers... especially for something I'll use every day. (If you don't watch much TV that's something altogether different)
With Verizon I was paying ~$250 per month for my cable package and internet. I recently moved and decided to "cut the cord"... I'm now paying $60 for internet and $35 (extra) dollars to add live TV to Hulu. That's a HUGE savings over what I was paying!
$35:
- Two movie tickets and popcorn for 2 hours of entertainment
- One dinner out with your SO at a mediocre restaurant
- A bunch of wings from a good wing place to watch football
- One 2m Lightning to USB-C cable
- Parking in Downtown Boston for one day
- A tank of gas
...
Or: An entertainment package that gives you ~40 live channels + an essentially infinite supply of VOD entertainment for a whole month...
I don't get it.
Bash Youtube TV because you don't like the interface... or you don't like the quality of the streams... or any other valid reason... but complaining about $35 is ridiculous...
As for even the live TV channels I live fairly close to a major metro with stations covering all the major broadcasters, a couple dozen all within 35 miles, but still have problems with certain ones depending on their direction from me and the obstructions involved. Out of three ABC stations I can get one. Only one CBS too and that one is iffy, occasionally just a pixel puzzle. Having live channels included with my internet-provided streaming package is a welcome thing. My current streaming provider doesn't offer CBS or NBC tho, and I particularly like the new Star Trek Discovery (CBS).
But I don't have plans for subscribing to YouTube TV myself. For me Sling is still the better match for the channels my family enjoys. Options are good. It wasn't all that long ago I only had two: Either an antenna or one single cable TV provider for the entire area. DirectTV isn't an option for me even now, no clear path to the Southwest sky.