[kodablah]

I have just become a first-time cord cutter, if you can even call it that, with YouTube TV's recent opt-in inclusion of the RedZone channel. I still got way more (admittedly obscure) sports with my cable package, but this finally reached enough parity to move on.

The real reason that sports fans should remain with their traditional bundle is the UX. With cable, if I want to flip between a dozen college football games, no prob. The lack of a traditional remote and the channel-changing latency is a big problem with these new services. Also, they don't make it easy to record past the end just to be sure the game doesn't go long (granted they try to "catch up" by later learning it went long, but I hear it's often later and not when you want).

There is one feature I do appreciate, time-synced stats. You don't get spoilers on recorded games you're watching with their stat info in the app, it remains in sync w/ the progress. Granted, I don't see in-game stats as a killer feature anyways.

[curiousllama]

> The lack of a traditional remote and the channel-changing latency is a big problem with these new services

I may be in the minority here, but I really like the chromecast UX. So much easier to search on my phone - a familiar interface - than fiddle with a remote that I constantly lose, or is out of batteries, or lags with the TV, or makes it hard to scroll, or or or

[jdminhbg]

> The real reason that sports fans should remain with their traditional bundle is the UX. With cable, if I want to flip between a dozen college football games, no prob.

What's most frustrating is being able to glimpse a better future and realizing that it's only business concerns that keep it from you. If you use the ESPN app on AppleTV (and probably other platforms, but I don't have any of them), you can easily swipe up to see what else is going at any one time, change between them, and even set up to four streams at once on your screen. It's awesome! Unless one of the games you care about is on Fox or CBS.

[scarface74]

YouTube TV, Hulu Live TV, and the like are not what I would call “cord cutting”. They are using the same business model as cable and you still have a bundle of channels you don’t want.

Am I really a cord cutter with Hulu Live TV just because my TVs get TV streamed over an Ethernet cable (all of my TVs are connected to Ethernet directly or via a set top box) instead of coax?