Alright, welcome back, everybody.
Craig here, and I am here talking again about YouTube TV.
This is one where we've talked about it in the past,
a couple times actually,
and we keep getting lots of comments about it,
a lot of frequently asked questions you might say.
So I wanted to address a few of those today.
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YouTube TV is now in almost a hundred markets
across the country, and it covers 98% of the population.
So it is nationwide.
There are a few pockets still missing.
If you are at all concerned
that you might be one of those pockets
just go to tv.youtube.com, enter your five-digit zip code,
and they'll tell you not only whether it works there
but which channels you get.
Well, it comes with a lot of them.
It is missing a few key ones,
and we'll get to those later,
but it has a few that its competitors may be missing
like AMC, BBC America.
They've got NBA TV.
They also have YouTube originals
which can be a big deal for you.
It is missing a few channels that may concern you,
Discovery, History, HGTV, and all of the Viacom channels.
So that's MTV, BET, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon.
Those are Viacom channels.
Those are all out.
You can get those on other services,
like Philo is a good add-on for 16 bucks
to kind of supplement the channel count here on YouTube.
Yes, it does.
Actually, that's one reason why YouTube TV,
a couple of years ago, had kind of a slow rollout,
because they were concerned about getting
as many local channels for every area as they could,
and so they wouldn't expand to a metro area
unless they could get all those local channels.
So, if it's available in your area,
there's a good chance that most
or all of your local channels will be on there.
Works on a ton of different devices,
your phone, your tablet, streaming devices, of course.
What you need to watch out for is Amazon Fire,
the Amazon Fire TV devices or the Fire TV smart TVs.
Those do not run a YouTube TV app,
so you won't be able to use it there.
It's also not available on the PlayStation 4
because they have PlayStation Vue
that they wanna push you toward.
Each subscription gets six separate accounts.
That is not the same thing as simultaneous streams though.
You get three simultaneous streams.
So six accounts can be streaming three things at once.
No.
Storage on the DVR is unlimited.
However, we did just recently do a video,
kinda, talking about this specifically
because it's a great selling point for YouTube TV.
It just comes with a few caveats.
So if you haven't watched our video on
how the YouTube TV DVR works, make sure you check it out.
Obviously if you're watching live TV,
you cannot fast forward.
If you are watching a recorded show, maybe.
If it is a recorded show that is not available On Demand
then it will be your recording
that you can fast forward through.
Sometimes though, if you recorded a show
that is available On Demand, they'll shovel you over
toward that and that one will make you watch commercials,
the On Demand version.
Yes, some services like Sling TV have restrictions
on certain channels, and you can't record 'em,
not so on YouTube TV.
YouTube TV is a live TV streaming service.
YouTube Premium is a premium version of YouTube.com.
So, YouTube Premium does no commercials
and that sort of thing on YouTube videos.
YouTube TV is completely separate.
One of my favorite features about YouTube TV
is that you can arrange the channels in any order you want,
and so if you find yourself watching the same 10
over and over again,
you can put those in the top of your guide
and customize it that way,
one of my favorite things about it.
One last note before we go
is that if there are problems with your YouTube TV stream,
it's possible, especially if you're using a browser
on your computer or your laptop or whatever,
that your browser may be out of date.
So make sure you update that,
put it to the latest version possible,
and that should help out.
Alright, hopefully that answers some questions for you.
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and we'll try to answer them there.
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