I negotiated a great price for Dish last year and that finally ran out. They've always been will to negotiate in the past but this time they're making it much tougher. So we finally decided to give YoutubeTV a try. When I called to cancel they offered me exactly what I was paying before the increase, but I'd already made up my mind. Besides, YTTV was a few bucks cheaper. Dish was willing to put a 3 month hold on my account in case I wanted to return so we did that. This first week we've been mostly happy with YTTV. There is one thing I'd like changed....for instance, I'd like to delete individual watched episodes from my Library rather than just have them marked as "watched".
But the real test came today, though - recording a football game. I prefer to start it about 45-60 minutes after kickoff so I can skip commercials for at least the first half. However, I didn't get started on the GB-SF game until the game was already over. I keep getting error messages when trying to play it, though. Same thing happened to me with a basketball game a couple of days ago. Is this a common occurrence when trying to watch sporting events? Because fucking around with watching games will drive me right back to Dish.