With over 100 channels, YouTube TV offers more of the most popular channels than its competitors. By CNET’s count, out of the top 100 networks, YouTube TV offers the most channels, 78, of any streaming service.
YouTube TV enables you to watch your local ABC, CBS, Fox, PBS, and NBC channels in most areas. That means, of course, you can easily watch the Super Bowl on the service with its lowest-priced plan, the YouTube TV Base Plan, for $82.99 a month.
Spanish speakers, however, must pay $14.99 per month for the “Spanish Plus” add-on package to get FOX Deportes along with several other Spanish-language channels, such as ESPN Deportes, Discovery en Español, and CNN en Español. Or, if your family’s first language is Spanish and you can live without English shows, YouTube TV also offers a standalone Spanish-language plan for $34.99 per month, which includes FOX Deportes and over 28 other Spanish-language channels, but without English streaming services.
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YouTube TV also offers a new feature that can make watching the game more enjoyable. All TV broadcasts come with delays between the live action and what you see on your TV. As you may know, live broadcast delays on streaming services are longer than OTA’s delays. They can range from six to 60 seconds. This latency is due to transmission slowdowns between the cameras and your screen.
Now, some YouTube TV apps come with the option of reducing this delay,
The new option is available in the YouTube TV app under the “More” menu > “Broadcast Delay”. You can choose between “Default” and “Decrease for 48 hours.” If you choose to decrease, you’ll see the game a few seconds faster. But, Google warns, “The lower the broadcast delay, the less buffer the video player will have. With a lower broadcast delay, you’re more likely to experience playback interruption.”
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That means the game may freeze at times, or you may experience choppy video. I fear the big game’s load on the internet makes it more likely than not that you’ll see a lot of bad playback. The choice is yours. Personally, I plan to try it because if the video goes south, I can always switch back to Default.
YouTube TV also has unlimited cloud storage, and you get six accounts to share with your household. You can use this service on three screens at once. Super Bowl watchers can also watch the game in 4K, but you must pay an additional $9.99 for 4K Plus to get that resolution. Therefore, the total monthly cost for YouTube TV with 4K streaming is $92.98.