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The Offer
- YouTube TV is offering a 3 week free trial.
The Fine Print
- This YouTube TV 21 day trial promotion is open to participants in the United States that live in markets where YouTube TV is available between September 5, 2019 and September 8, 2019.
- This promotion is only open to participants who are new users and have not had a YouTube TV free trial before and is available to participants on select devices.
- This offer includes premium networks except STARZ and SHOWTIME.
- Offer must be redeemed by September 8th, 2019.
- Valid form of payment required at sign-up but will not be charged until the trial period expires.
- At the end of the trial period, you will be automatically charged the standard subscription price, currently $49.99USD per month.
- You can cancel your trial at no charge at any time before the trial is over.
- Offer requires a Google account.
Our Verdict
This auto enrolls you in a recurring subscription that costs $49.99 per month, so make sure to cancel before the free period ends to avoid any unwanted charges. Normally the free trial is 5 days, so this is an extra 16 days more than normal. When it first launched they offered the first month free and if you paid for the second month you got a free Chromecast, but that was two years ago so I doubt we will see a similar deal again. $49.99 for cord cutting seems kind of expensive, but the free trial might be worth doing.
Signed up – Bummer not a simple way to use with Amazon Fire Stick –
Bought one Prime Day this year – I’ve used Roku’s for years. But Fire Stick control’s sound bar- and I can use BT headphones/BOOM speakers with Firestick. Mixed emotions about the firestick overall – think that Roku – is more ‘Applesque’ and is easier to navigate in the dark.
I digress.
For those who asked about the DVR, it’s both awesome and disappointing. You get unlimited storage, and can seem to record many many programs simultaneously (you’re not limited to just 3 or 4 at a time). It keeps the recordings on Youtube’s servers, so a slow connection won’t result in lousy recordings. And if you stop watching, you can resume where you left off on an entirely different device. Eg, I can start watching on my ROKU tv at home, then pick it up on my laptop or phone at work (during break time). The bad part is that you can’t tell it to record only new programs – you pick the show, and it’ll record every episode on every channel. It’s rather annoying because then you have to sort through the old and the new instead of the DVR doing it automatically. You also can’t delete episodes you’ve watched. You have to delete the entire show, and even then it’ll keep it around until it “expires”. And it doesn’t make it super clear what’s newly recorded and what’s not, though there are some clues once you get used to it. When I first got it, on Sunday morning I wanted to see the 2 shows I had recorded on Saturday night – I was met with 62 shows recorded, because as I said it records every show on every channel in my to-be-recorded list, even repeats. But hey, I’m about to enter my 3rd month, so I must like it more than I dislike it. But it’d be so easy for them to make it so much better.
I cut the cord and started using YouTube TV about six months ago and love it. I pay via Google Play GC’s that I buy at a discount. We really like that we get our local channels, plus the unlimited DVR is awesome. We have very few complaints, though we’d really like to get PBS and wish that they offered a package with fewer channels for a lower price.
Where/how are you able to get the discounted google play GC’s?
Good feedback, what are the clues that you refer to?
“And it doesn’t make it super clear what’s newly recorded and what’s not, though there are some clues once you get used to it. “
Not strictly churning, but I highly recommend Cobra Kai.
I’m based in the US. Planning to go to Europe next week. If I sign up for a trial, can I use YouTube tv for every channel? I want to watch football lol.
So YouTube TV is kinda like Sling Blue and Orange package + DVR + Hulu and Can share with 6 Accounts – Seems like I could ditch Hulu and Sling and do occasional CBS all access for STD & Picard fix.
I would imagine that one could also load/pay Google play store acct with Play store GC discounted from Costco or MR 5X at OD/OM/Staples with Ink Cash.
IS DVR as clean and simple as Sling ?
Also how does this compare with Hulu LIve TV?
Can you Cast it from a S8+,~Note 9 to LED TV or Monitor? Or via DEX with HDMI?
If I wanted to stream via T-mobile One (Unlimited)
TIA
Not 100% sure on using Google Play balance to pay for the bill, as I’m not the one paying it, but I would lean towards no.
I haven’t used Sling in a while, but the DVR is clean.
You can cast in the same ways you can cast YouTube, I mainly use the app in a Roku TV and my phone.
Give it a try for 3 weeks!
Thanks!
Re: GC for Play Store & YouTube TV
I found a post in cordcutters and you can you Google Play GC to pay for it . IIRC Google by default uses any balance as primary payment. (Shame you can’t use iTunes GC cause you can get those discounted and on sale all the time by Play store GC only a few times or < a year. But 5X UR at the least.
Seems like overall it covers most of the bases, we have streaming with Prime and Netflix $2 w/T-Mo so as long as we can stay under 1TB data with Xfinity should be good.
The best part of YouTube TV is you can share with 5 others, bringing the cost down to <$10/month. They state only 3 screens at a time, but we've never ran into an issue (wonder if it could be 3 screens per Google account?).
Do you share your email address to share the account?
Yes, they need to be added to your Google ‘family.’
Interesting, good point.
Do you share your email address to share the account?
Never trialed YouTube TV before – seems like this would be ideal. Will it still stack with this offer?:
“Get 4 months of ad-free YouTube on us” I purchased the Samsung Note10+ from Samsung with $600 trade in earlier this week also 6 mo Spottily Prem (had been on the fence, but wanted the wide angle for Capetown and Safari trip in December – Used Amex Gold which has Tier 3 purchase protection 120 days theft, loss or non-recoverable, damage up to $10K (same as Plat, Aspire, Brilliant, Reserve but lower AF and overall better card and ROI than Pers Pt).
Is YouTube TV a single device or also works with mobile?
TIA
What you got from the purchase is for Youtube Premium which includes ad-free videos and youtube music etc.
Youtube TV is more like Hulu TV, ATT direct or Xfinity and much more expensive.
Since they are different products, they should stack.
Thanks, Bummer, not sure how I missed that – its like YouTube Red I think that is what it was/is called. Would have been nice if it was the Live TV
Yes, Youtube Red has been replaced by (~renamed to) Youtube Premium last year.
I still can’t believe they thought “red” was an appropriate name for their premium service given the adult connotations of red and the similarity to names of adult sites.
Mobile works great! You have access to your DVR, takes data to stream it, of course. You can also share with 5 others.