YouTube TV and the game

Just sign up for sling pass.

I'm still rolling with Directv so I have no issues, but I wonder how difficult it would be to use these little pirate boxes people suggest. We have 3 TVs at the house we'd want to watch games on.

Disney ran into a company where live television is a rounding error of their business so they can afford to burn the MFer down to prove a point. Disney is probably going to get hurt by this more than Google and Google knows it.

Same

We just bought an antenna for inside the house to get over-the-air stations (ABC). Works great. Ordered it Wednesday off Amazon, got here at 4:15 a.m. Thursday morning. I'm not bowing to Disney and their shenanigans. They want people to move to HULU and FUBO which they own. I'm sticking with YTTV.

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Yep, there are several articles out there that explain how this is going to hurt Disney waaaay more than Google. It is in Disney's best interest to settle some deal with YTTV rather than nothing at all.

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Cool. Good to know I had the right read on it. Dawned on me when it got to Monday Night Football and no deal was reached by the next day. CFB never moves the meter with the cable providers like NFL.

People think of Disney and Google are peers when Google probably has the cash on hand top purchase Disney outright. Disney's market capitalization is ~6% of Alphabet/Google's.

As long as YTTV has Sunday Ticket, this isn't an existential crisis for their product. They can take the hit on subscriber bleed in the short term because their product is superior to Fubo or Hulu live TV options. They're going to break the mouse and I'm sure Comcast, Charter, and Cox are delighting in this greatly ("damn I wish that was me.").

Ironically, I'm not far from the towers, that are in mainly the downtown areas of Birmingham,. The problem is that my house sits in somewhat of a valley "over the mountain ".

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I'm still rolling with Directv so I have no issues, but I wonder how difficult it would be to use these little pirate boxes people suggest. We have 3 TVs at the house we'd want to watch games on.

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If you're looking to get a vsee box, there's a couple people here that have recommended them. But having done some basic research on Reddit, people who issue are recommended to contact their reseller, and a lot of posts asking for good resellers. So it sounds like you want to be careful where you're buying it from. Maybe some guys here can steer you to someone reliable.

But I just don't see the point in paying $350 for a $50 box with software preloaded. Free sports feeds are easy to find. But I pay $3-4/month for a bootleg cable deal (technically, all digital cable, legal like YouTube TV or pirated, is called an IPTV).

I think it's worth it setup your own box. You save hundreds per box, and I'm at the point I can set one up in 20-30 minutes.

Things also get shut down. These boxes aren't going to work forever. I've lost count of the number of websites, apps, and IPTV services I've seen shut down over the last couple of decades. And if the word is out on something, it inevitably becomes a target. The smart ones disappear before they get raided.

For 3 TVs, you could get 3 solid devices, lifetime use of best IPTV player on up to 5 devices, and a year on an IPTV for like $250 instead of $1000. And you can stream every movie or TV show made on them for another $40-50/year. But, you can still just get a $50 box and install free apps. But the pay ones are usually higher quality. But I've also seen great free feeds too.

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I don’t think the Sling Day Pass includes local channels (ABC, Fox, CBS, NBC).

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If you get something that includes ESPN 3, then you're good.