Best live TV streaming services for cord-cutters in 2020
Sling TV, YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV and others let you ditch your cable company but keep the live channels and DVR. Here's how the services stack up.
Ty Pendlebury David Katzmaier February 5, 2020 6:00 AM PST
If you want to cut the cable TV cord but still want to keep live TV, the future is in streaming. Live TV streaming services like YouTube TV and Sling TV let you watch most, if not all of your favorite TV channels — from ABC to NBC to ESPN to CNN to Nickelodeon to Fox News — streamed live over the internet. And they probably cost far less than you're paying the cable company for TV.
Prices start at $15 a month with no extra fees or contracts. In place of a cable box and the monthly fee to rent it, you'll use an app on your smart TV, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV or game console. And you can watch at home or on the go via a tablet, phone, other mobile device or even a web browser.
These services have plenty of benefits — no more cable fees, no more contracts, yay! — but the savings can be outweighed by other downsides including internet fees, DVR restrictions, buffering and a lack of things to watch, including live sports. And just like cable TV, the cost of these services just keeps going up. AT&T raised the price of its AT&T TV Now service packages, Hulu with Live TV increased by $10 last December, while Sling raised its price by $5 across the board. The landscape is in constant flux, and this can also mean competition is squeezed out — PlayStation Vue was among our top picks for premium options, but Sony shuttered its streaming service in January.
The entire article, written by an Ty Pendlebury and David Katzmaier, can be read on Cnet.com.
As you can see by the image above, Cnet has rated the streaming services by categories, from best overall to best TV and HBO combo. However, they failed to mention one streaming media service, NuMedia, which includes all of the typical USA channels plus HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, all the major news channels, sports channels (including NLF Network and NLF Red Zone, MLB Network, NBA TV, Golf Channel and a plethora of soccer channels), International channels and ten thousand plus video and demand movies.
NuMedia offers a free trial along with a referral program where you can get your service for free, or earn money by sharing the service with others. Become a member and refer NuMedia to five (5) people, who signup for the sevice, and get yours for free, or just pay the low cost of $49.95 (USD) per month to enjoy the TV shows, movies, sports or news that you want to watch.
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Article posted on Markethive by Jeffrey Sloe