<story><title>YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308449/youtube-tv-price-increase-64-99-viacom-hbo-new-channels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keithwinstein</author><text>ObShameless reminder that &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&lt;/a&gt; remains free of charge.&lt;p&gt;The site streams San Francisco affiliates and local stations of NBC&amp;#x2F;CBS&amp;#x2F;ABC&amp;#x2F;PBS&amp;#x2F;FOX&amp;#x2F;CW as part of a university study on video streaming algorithms -- it&amp;#x27;s essentially a big A&amp;#x2F;B test to try to reproduce or clarify some of the findings in the research literature. We&amp;#x27;re now posting all our data and analysis each day. Research talk here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;63aECX2MZvY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;63aECX2MZvY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The content is... well, it&amp;#x27;s U.S. network television and associated daytime programming. But some people like it! And it&amp;#x27;s free (for people inside the U.S.).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ozbonus</author><text>This was the first time I&amp;#x27;ve watched live broadcast US TV since leaving the country ten years ago. Are there any shows on, or is every channel besides PBS just advertisements all day?</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308449/youtube-tv-price-increase-64-99-viacom-hbo-new-channels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keithwinstein</author><text>ObShameless reminder that &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&lt;/a&gt; remains free of charge.&lt;p&gt;The site streams San Francisco affiliates and local stations of NBC&amp;#x2F;CBS&amp;#x2F;ABC&amp;#x2F;PBS&amp;#x2F;FOX&amp;#x2F;CW as part of a university study on video streaming algorithms -- it&amp;#x27;s essentially a big A&amp;#x2F;B test to try to reproduce or clarify some of the findings in the research literature. We&amp;#x27;re now posting all our data and analysis each day. Research talk here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;63aECX2MZvY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;63aECX2MZvY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The content is... well, it&amp;#x27;s U.S. network television and associated daytime programming. But some people like it! And it&amp;#x27;s free (for people inside the U.S.).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anon102010</author><text>Wow. How can this be SO much better than even my cable box!&lt;p&gt;Seriously, clicking up down with channels, there is very little of that slow feeling blank out &amp;#x2F; blank in thing that is so annoying.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to have an OTA receiver go into something like this at my house with this simplicity and speed (I did HD Run or something once and the hoopjumping was high and quality low).</text></comment>