Its still better then Comcrap. We canceled them after 15 years. They ripped us off for thousands with their fees, price hikes, date fees and everything

Understand!

@@MichaelSaves Yeah us old folk used to Ads so its not as jarring and actually sometimes its weird to see the missing spot where an ad should be. LOL. But yeah the biggest issue is they tricked everyone into thinking that streaming would be the future to get away from Ads. LOL. Not.

Back in the day, when, for example, the Original Star Trek went into syndication, how do you fit 50-minute show into a 60-minute block but with more ads? Yeah, they cut scenes and they would put the ads in the spots that the original flow wasn't designed for (I like to say when Capt Kirk would go in to kiss the babe alien of the week, bam! there's the commercial break). The other thing is that prior to 1978 the ad-time was regulated to 5 and 10 minutes per 30 and 60 minutes. After then, it was left up to the market. And then pretty soon all the broadcasters started thinking like us passengers on a NYC subway train: sure, lets add another minute of ads, there's always room for one more. So we got to 10 and 20 minutes per those 30 & 60 minute blocks. And don't get me started with the channel logos and hashtags. So, any one know if these ad-supported channels have logos on-screen during the actual content? Since we didn't pay for the CBS, et al years ago, we couldn't really bitch and complain since we didn't pay for the channel. But when Showtime, et al started slapping their logos on-screen during the movies and shows, well, that was it for me. I canceled my entire directv package (well, first were those 'premium' channels, but when I got laid off, then came the rest of directv). I've got netflix ad-free (and I miss the DVDs), amazon prime [though after moving recently, I haven't set things up so I haven't seen how bad the ads are], and paramount+ [ad-free, it's through a walmart & amex promotion]. Even if I was still caring and watching the NY Mets (I stopped after the 1994 strike), I'd probably have stopped maybe 5 or even 10 years ago, what all the advertising that takes place along with the despicable practice of naming rights for the stadiums (I think 20 out of the 30 all have what I call names of corporate naming rights johns - johns as in one side of the transaction for the world's oldest profession). Every piece of info has a sponsor attached to it and the things like that pitch location graphic usually has a sponsor logo on it and in recent clips I've see on youtube, there are ads painted (?) on the back of the mound and alongside the coaches' boxes. I miss the days of Shea Stadium as well as the backstop behind home plate saying "NO PEPPER GAMES." /end of rant. Thanks for reading.

The ads are also repeated over and over. Same ads.

Paramount sucks big time. The app has bugs and they know it. When you’re watching a show or movie, when you least expect it, it’ll get stuck on an ad and back up two seconds and keep doing that. Paramount also has a no refund policy. I want subscribe to Paramount+ because of that.

What do you record them on? As far as I know only TIVO is available to record. Right now I have basic plus cable with a DVR. Our bill is about $200 a month. I was thinking of cutting the cord but with no way to record anything it's not nearly as appealing. I absolutely hate seeing ads. I record anything I care about seeing and fast forward thru ads.

​@@arieslady4951 UKposts records everything automatically. All I have to do is select a program that I may want to see later. I could record/save every program on every channel. I never watch a program/show live unless it is sports, though I often miss the live event, but always can watch later (with no adds, I fast forward in 15 second increments). Love UKpostsTV!!!!

That's great except UKposts TV is very expensive and I can't justify the cost but I'm forced to keep it because I have nothing else if I let it go. The one Antenna I have is lousy and I have no way of recording over the air. I'm relying on UKposts TV for locals as well as for the other channels. So I paused it in a fit of rage over the bill but likely to unpause it because I need it especially for March madness. I've been working to cut the costs down. But the most expensive item is the one I really need. I use it for sports, I put on the add-on for MGM Plus so I use it for movies, I have the 4k add-on which I got rid off in the past but which I returned to when the pricing decreased. So you see why I'm complaining about the cost. It's not $73 that I'm paying. Plus everything comes with taxes so that $73 was really more like $82 anyways. It's disappointing.

​@@arieslady4951UKposts TV has a cloud DVR that is unlimited but after 9 months kiss your recordings goodbye unless you screen record it and save it as a file. It's a trade-off. You get to record everything you want but after 9 months it gets erased to make space for new things. So it's not technically really unlimited storage in perpetuity. It's more like unlimited space to record and it'll keep it for 9 months to watch. Now if a movie for example replays then you get another 9 months and if it's on a lot you can see the different recordings and the channels it recorded on. And how long you have to watch that particular recording. So basically it's unlimited space to record to their cloud DVR but after 9 months they're recording is erased and sometimes even earlier than 9 months. If you're a stickler waiting for the exact day; it may go a day earlier or a day later. Some programs like The Simpsons you got channels rerunning all the episodes all the time like FXX or Freeform so It keeps a tab of all the recordings. And you can see it by season. And generally you get all the recordings of all the episodes. So that's one show where I can get every single episode to replay. At one point NBC released on demand edited versions of past episodes between 1988 tll a few years ago. But maybe due to them moving the SNL stuff to Peacock that might have ended. But at the time I was watching on demand reruns. Of note here's one big thing. If you put an ad on and then take it away there goes your recordings. If the actual UKposts TV gets rid of a channel there goes your recordings as well. And if you pause the service, you can't use it to watch your recordings. Plus since you paused then it will not record the shows that you have set up. So please bear in mind that as long as you have an active account it will work.

​​​ I had replied to you but I don't know where the reply went. Could be that the next time I look at this the thread it appears. I was explaining you how the UKposts DVR works. I will explain it again. You get unlimited storage but after 9 months everything you record is erased. If you're a stickler and expected to actually be an exactly 9 months you could be mistaken and it may have gone a day or a week earlier the recording or could be around a day or two more. You can never be too sure. In essence you got all the space to record and you can record anything that you have subscribed to but after 9 months they'll be gone. Also if a channel is removed by either UKposts TV or you have downgraded an add-on or something similar where you no longer have the channel in question then the recordings are also erased. I also mentioned that with movies it'll record different versions if they keep replaying the movie and each one starts a brand new 9 months. If you have too many versions of the movie you can see all the different versions. Then I mentioned that The Simpsons has three channels running it. So I was able to get on demand every single episode of the show. You also get on demand content If a channel has anything. With TCM for example it gave me some movies to watch. Same with MGM Plus.

Get my tv service I offer all cable TV channels plus vod for as low as $25 a monrh

I agree. I’m frustrated every Christmas that I can’t find the colorized version of Miracle On 34th Street that used to air on network tv. All I can find is black and white. The colorized version isn’t anywhere to be found - Not on network tv, not on streaming tv.

@@jabariarneaud3129what tv service u have?

@@itstimmer I bet I could find it in 5 minutes as a t orrent though.

That's happened to me before. Sometimes the movie is not even available to rent.

I'm with you.

Yes the random ads. I do think some services have gotten better with this over time.

@@MichaelSaves Maybe, but some have gotten worse like Pluto TV

@@CommodoreFan64Wasn't Pluto always an ad-based service? So, yeah, I imagine if you were getting 20 minutes of ads per hour, you might be getting 25 now.

@@bikeny when Pluto TV first came out it was not even 20 minutes of ads unless you count the logo bumpers of the Astronaut floating around, but once Paramount took it over, the ad rate nearly doubled in length.

@@bikeny Also something else I should mention about Pluto TV after Paramount took over is how heavy the app got on both Roku, and Android TV causing UI lags, the apps outright crashing, or even causing the streaming box to freeze up resulting in a hard reset being needed, and only now that's getting fixed, but now when you switch to another channel feed it often won't load unless you restart the app. I like Pluto TV for the content, but otherwise it's a big mess!!!

Question regarding those 2 channels: do their logos appear on the screen during the actual content? And if you had any of their ad-free versions in prior days, what about at those times? For me, paying anything for channel, I would not want to see any logo during the actual content, but especially if the claim to be ad-free. Thx.

@@bikeny I've only had the ad-supported versions of Hulu and Peacock. Peacock doesn't have logos on screen, but Hulu will show the logo of the broadcast network the show airs on (for example, FOX for Bob's Burgers). I find it annoying, but oddly there is no logo for Hulu content if you watch through Disney+. But you need to have a Hulu/Disney+ bundle to watch Hulu content through Disney+.

Ah, another person like me who remembers the good ol' days of regulated ad-time for tv. Prior to 1978, it was 5 minutes per 30 minutes. So, Star Trek had 50 minutes, All In The Family had 25. After deregulation it slowly increased to the point where you get 10 and 20. I remember watching The Sopranos on HBO. What glorious ad-free experience that was. When they said they are syndicating it, we all wondered, ok, you can dub all the curse words, and if you're gonna cut some scenes down, ok, but you're gonna stop the action to stick in an ad and make folks wait 4 minutes to find out what's happening? Yeah, not good. I have no idea how good or bad the syndication deal turned out for whatever channel had it.

That’s true and I was going to mention it, but some VCR timers were not reliable.

@@MichaelSaves I think a good chunk of that, and more so in the 90's when it got even easier to do, was just people not knowing how, or willing to learn how to properly set their VCR up to record something.

Not that I watched news shows with any regularity when I had a directv account, but when I watch a clip these days, all I see are the huge snipes and crawls on the screen along with their logos and then the logo of say, a car maker or computer maker or something. Very annoying, especially when they are showing a video of something, those things are blocking said video.

Nope, I don't consider you to be privileged at all. I agree with you 100 percent, and I have the same mentality. I refuse to pay for any streaming service with ads. If I want ads, I would resort to TUBI or PLUTO, or live broadcast TV.

Prime Video has an ad-free tier.

@@jeremyf9124 It does. Unfortunately much of their content is under the "Freevee" rubric, which means even if I pay for that ad free tier there will still be ads. And the rest of their stuff is readily available on other platforms.

Absolutely

Think again. I'm one of those folks in the older generation and I can't stand all the ads. I got so fed up over the years of more and more ads, that even using the VCR with the FF button became a PITA. I loved signing up with netflix back in 2006 for the dvds and then their streaming. No ads, no on-screen logo crap. I am not a sports person (I stopped caring and watching about the NY Mets after the 1994 strike), so I couldn't care any less about the RSNs and their problems. I still have the ad-free netflix, but I haven't watched amazon prime since I moved a few months ago, so I haven't made a decision about their ad stuff. I also have paramount+, ad-free. That's it as far streamers. As others have said, as did Michael, some of these streamers aren't jamming tons of ads down our throats. That's how they start. I'm sure in a not-so-long-time, those 2 or 3 minutes of ads per hour, they are going to go to 4 or 5. Sorta like, gee, if 3 minutes is good, 4 is better, and 5 is awesome.

I say this in the same vein as the emojis: if you're peeing that often, please see a doctor.

Yes

Agree with that number

One ad is too many@@MichaelSaves

Actually sir the tennis channel was gone for a year and then they made a deal to bring it back but it returned on the sports package. However I know what you're talking about because there was a Spanish channel that was on the base package that in 2023 moved to the Spanish package. NBC Universo. That's one example.

@@alanvallazza9781 I know it was gone but when it came back I searched what they offered and they showed the Tennis Channel as part of the base package. I did not check until I saw a video that said they moved this to the Sports package. I did not get youtube TV then since I do not watch much TV anymore and probably haven't watched any in a couple of months.

I think what’s more likely is incentives to not cancel rather than punishments if you do. The addition of sports to some of these services is an example. They’re trying to make it a must-have. Churn is a huge issue. But I don’t believe the younger generation has a tolerance for a 2-year TV contract and the media companies know they can’t go back to that model. They will evolve it somehow. I just don’t think they’ve figured it out quite yet.

@@MichaelSaves I hope you’re right. Right, now I’m bingeing by streamer, one or two months on Netflix, then one or two months on Max, etc. I guess, as you say, everyone’s trying to figure things out. Thanks again.

@@Nylgk Thats a cool way to do it!!!

Despite the changes, few people are going back to cable. I hope you enjoy streaming and are saving a little money.

Thanks I need to check that out!

Thanks for watching. Yeah, I personally have a fairly decent ad tolerance. But I certainly understand why some people avoid ads and are finding it more challenging to do so!

This video should help ukposts.info/have/v-deo/fI-YqHqOr2p-s4U.htmlsi=u9EZzJItfuwjQ4Zl

They can't keep 4K as a premium feature forever, right? It eventually will need to become standard. Just don't know how many years out that will be.

I would hope so!

Yeah for sure. Peacock is a mess.

You can monitor usage from T-Mobile's app. Hopefully, you stay under 1.2 TB.

I haven’t heard any update. Did you have them?

@@MichaelSaves No, but they seemed to have a very good channel lineup, and I had been considering trying them for a month. I heard that they were looking for funding.

Yeah, they reserve it for the most expensive plans. Good point!

One reason I have Hulu + Live TV. 4K and Atmos are included.

Hmmm not sure. I do think YTTV is buggier with my Apple TV compared to Roku. I wouldn’t say that about most apps.

I mentioned it a little bit in the video. Seems like everyone is cracking down on it. I understand why, but I don't know if it's going to work out well for every service the way it has for Netflix.

@@MichaelSaves You know, my BJ's club membership (and I believe Costco) allows me to give a 'family' member their own membership card. If Netflix had said, ok, you can have one adult profile in addition to yours as part of your membership at no additional cost, would that have worked? I have the ad-free option, so I don't know how they are doing all the crackdown stuff.

Netflix does offer that -- it's just not free. You can add extra members depending on your plan: help.netflix.com/en/node/123279@@bikeny

You should watch Louis Rossmann's video on his experience signing up for netflix's premium package. To say he tore them a new one, well, that would be an understatement.

@@bikeny I’ve had Netflix before in the past. I know what there streaming quality is like, I also have a high-end TV and really good Internet speed. Streaming will never compare to native. The problem is a lot of people are willing to sacrifice higher quality for convenience. So streaming is unfortunately more popular than buying movies. (But then again most people don’t realize how much better a Blu-ray looks in streaming)

First, an antenna. Although you don't watch much sports, the networks you mentioned carry a ton of sports (specifically the NFL). That's why it's so expensive to get them without an antenna. There is no streaming services with just local stations. So you would be stuck with an expensive bundle that's $75/month. You can get CBS with Paramount+ with SHOWTIME and NBC with Peacock Premium Plus, but that would not help with ABC.

@@MichaelSaves thank you

Regional sports networks? Those are mostly on DIRECTV STREAM and Fubo.

Producing content is not cheap. I think we will see fewer shows/movies going forward. But as I explained in the video, it's a lot more about sports.

I think you’re right

@MichaelSaves Anything Still better than cable, laugh out loud.

Agree with you, but this is also because of the leagues. The only way prices go down for consumers is if the next big sports deal isn't so big. It won't be the NFL -- too much interest -- but maybe another professional sport.

On the ones with adds I'm watching the same add every show 5 times a show and it get old quickly

Sign up for a month then cancel it!!!

But yes it is getting bad go back to cable

Yes and let’s not forget athletes since the media companies really pay up for sports.

I think the cable TV bundle was not a bad value for sports fans -- but it's been a terrible value for people who don't consume a lot of sports.

Oh, I agree I am a huge sports fan for me the cable TV bundles not a bad deal because I like my local regional sports network the only two options to get it is cable or fubo TV is the only streaming service that offers my RSN there’s really not that much difference between cable and fubo TV so I just stick with cable

This is possible and we are kind of seeing that with Max's B/R Sports Add-on (which is currently free). But with the pay TV bundle the business model has worked because *everyone* paid for ESPN, not just those who watch it.

Yes, this is 100% true. But the reason the cost of the local channels has gone up is largely due to sports (particularly the NFL).