I signed up for YouTube TV today…
We only get the first five days for free, then they charge us the monthly fee.
I hope that we like it. 
I found the live tv online streaming services to be just as expensive as cable or satellite. Especially if you have too many people in the house that need their particular channels. I just have Netflix and Prime now. Anything else I need I just steal off the internet. If you pay for every service just to get the shows or movies you want, it will cost a small fortune.
These TV services have found a way to get our money more than once. You might have sat or cable for a few channels and streaming services for others. You end up paying for the same channels more than once because they are bundled in all the services you pay for. Nonsense. I don’t really see my friends and family saving much if any money by cord cutting.
There’s going to be a consolidation at some point. People won’t keep paying for 4, 5, or 6 streaming services in a recession. Winners are probably Amazon (due to being everything else as well), Netflix, and Disney, but I think a lot of the ones tied to a single company’s properties are going to lose a lot of subscribers unless they lower their prices, which they are probably unlikely to. We’ve probably not seen the end of attempts to squeeze out extra subscriptions by restricting account sharing either, and will probably see a few buyouts of smaller services by larger ones to build up content libraries cheaply.
As for paid TV myself: Have Netflix, but really more for my partner. I don’t watch that much TV overall, and the few things that are really worth it are easy to… ah… ‘find’. Have never paid for cable/satellite and probably never will. For the most part, there’s a comparable amount of actual free content I find just as interesting to watch for that matter. I guess sports are a big one for a lot of people though (I’m investing in one streaming service with a lot of sports due to aforementioned chance of buyouts), but personally the only sports I really care about are racing.
We cancelled DirecTV today.
By the way, if you like DirecTV but want to save some money, you can tell them that they are too expensive and they’ll take $50 off your monthly bill for a year.
Apparently, you can keep on doing that year after year forever.
YouTube TV is about the same price at DirecTV (with the discount), so we’re not really saving much money, but YouTube TV is so much nicer than DirecTV.
Of course, you need an excellent internet connection for YouTube TV to work optimally, but if you have that, YouTube TV seems to be more convenient than DirecTV.
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Was that Directv sat. or streaming that got reduced $50?