I am not paying for YTTV, I misspoke. I just get the Sunday Ticket standalone package with Red Zone for $489 that is available from YouTube. This is not directed at you but others - it’s not like I am oblivious to the other options out there. As @Dbeasy said a few posts up - there are significant gaps for sports fans and for my wife for options like Fubo and Fubo can go fuck themselves with the bullshit they pulled this year with the Euros by having games exclusively shown on their bullshit channel instead of available on Fox. YTTV doesn’t have SCHN — Astros and Rockets games make up about 40% of my total TV viewing. As everyone’s seen with NFL playoff games exclusively on Peacock and now regular season games on Netflix and Prime — the move to streaming from the traditional cable/satellite bundle has been horrible for sports fans.
I get Max from my DirecTV package, the ESPN+, Hulu and Disney+ package free from my Verizon unlimited plan same with Apple+, pay for Prime since we do a lot of Amazon purchases, Paramount+ comes free now since we get Showtime from our DirecTV package. The only one I refuse to pay for and use my mother’s Xfinity login to get is Peacock.
DirecTV satellite unquestionably has the best picture quality of any live TV provider with the least amount of compression and offer the most 4K offerings and will provide every 4K telecast that Fox or ABC/ESPN produces for college football. The people who have stuck with DirecTV for the most of have are big time sports fans, home theatre aficionados, power users, sports bars and other commercial users. For them to thumb their noses at us is suicide. Think if you were a bar owner last night and the shit they had to deal with from their customers wanting to watch the LSU game.
BTW, in my anger last night, I miscounted the number of TVs I have. I actually have 9 with 8 of them using DirecTV satellite and a small RokuTV in the kitchen
3 in the living room, 1 each in the master bedroom and the 2 guest bedrooms, my office, wife’s office and the RokuTV in the kitchen. Living room and master have the top of the line LG CX series 4K OLEDs, office TVs are LG 4Ks but cheaper models