Originally Posted by
Jim Becker
Wade, I urge caution with streaming via DSL unless you're really close to the CO and have the maximum available speed attainable at your address. You usually can by Internet only from your cable provider which will provide substantially better performance than DSL in almost every market.
I also caution you about YouTubeTV...it's primarily focused at mobile devices and has extremely limited support for actual TVs via a very short list of interface devices. Streaming requires either a SmartTV with the appropriate apps to support the streaming services you want to use or an external box, such as Roku, AppleTV or a DVD BlueRay player that has streaming app capabilities.
One other option to consider is drop your cable TV to just "Local Only" for OTA stations and use one of the streaming services for the TLC. That's what I did a few months ago and it cut our $212 monthly bill from Verizon FiOS to nearly half since no set top box rentals are required for Local TV (reduces a lot of cost) and they can no longer charge some of the over-the-top fees that come with the "cable" bundles, such as the regional sports fee and the broadcast programing fee.