re: So I cut the cord on cable and need help.

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How does it do for older TV shows and such?

My biggest reason for going with Hulu is my wife watches off the library of shows. It's basically a lot like netflix, with a different selection. Plus, they have their own shows.

And you can get that library commercial free for $13 without the live TV, which is what I do in the offseason. Going to Live takes the price up to $45. But it's really only about a $30 increase.

If a TV show comes on tonight, you can usually watch it on Hulu the next day or 2 without commercials. She likes those singing shows and we don't even need to pay for live TV, unless you just really have to watch them the night before.

When I tried the trail last year, I didn't really see stuff like that. All I saw was live TV.

But you mention all those old sporting events all neatly categorized and all that and you have gotten my attention.

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Well, it is a bit different than Hulu+. It's strictly cable, so, it doesn't have a large catalog of stuff like Hulu or Netflix.

However, if the old show is syndicated somewhere, all you have to do is hit the "+" button on it and it will record every time that show comes on and then categorize it under the show.........and in 3-4 weeks you'll have the entire series laid out by season and episode.

Example - Wife and I have wanted to watch Modern Family for years, but it was never on Netflix/Hulu and I wasn't buying season of it. We got YouTubeTV and I added it as one of my shows. Within about 2 months we had the entire series (plus new eiposes that came on) neatly show up under the show in our shows and we watched it all the way through, all because it is syndicated and 3-4 episodes of it come on a night on USA. It was incredibly easy.

The stuff that is current and you want to watch later is easy - you just add the show to your shows like on Comcast or something, it automatically DVRs it and you can watch whenever you want. And, like Comcast, it's just a recording (not OnDemand), so you can fast forward through the commercials.