The home screen is constantly putting Olympics stuff in the main box, and I don't think I've watched any (or much at all) Olympics on YouTube TV so far. It's not exactly figured out what I want to watch. This isn't necessarily something cable gets right, or even tries to do, but it's something I don't like about YouTube TV. That said, I've encountered buffering issues on live streams from Spectrum, which I didn't get on YouTube TV. Its app is flawed in that you can't see every channel when you're on cellular and not Wi-Fi, but Spectrum does give you picture-in-picture, while YouTube TV cuts out when you leave the app. My Spectrum cable service is also better, sometimes, on my iPhone. I haven't hit a wall with this yet, but it's the kind of control I do like having. And while that sounds like nothing, you do lose the ability to set specific episode recordings, and do little things like set custom start and end times for a show or special. YouTube TV says it will intelligently adjust the end time for an event, for either one minute (for most shows) and 30 minutes for live sports. YouTube TV ditches the idea of recording shows in exchange for the concept of adding shows to your Library.
There aren't many other places where YouTube TV isn't as good, and the other I've noticed so far may be more about how I think about TV more than anything else. You do lose the ability to set specific episode recordings, and do little things like set custom start and end times. If I cared about the show I'd watch it in those nine months, right? That said, I've saved shows in my DVR to watch "some day" once I got bored of them, including Rick and Morty. Yes, it has a cloud-based DVR, but recordings there expire after nine months. The recordings on my cable box DVR stay there forever, and the same isn't actually true with YouTube TV. On YouTube TV, I just dragged the progress marker right to the spot on the timeline where I thought I wanted to be, and wiggled it to the left and right until I was on the right moment. On my cable box, I had to choose between 1-4x speed fast forwarding, which never really ends on the right spot of the timeline. Not only does the app boot up faster than my cable box, but fast-forwarding to the specific part of a feature-length program is much easier, and you've got a lot more control. Which brings me to the best part of YouTube TV vs cable. Not only does this mean I won't have to think about deleting stuff ever, but because there's that moment in every cable customer's life when their cable box is moving super-slow - when you're forced to delete stuff to improve performance. I also like that YouTube TV has no DVR capacity limit. And I really care about scrolling back to the live moment, as I tend to watch stuff like this in synchronicity with friends on a Discord audio and folks on social media. I rarely rewound live broadcasts on cable, partially because of a weird skipping/stuttering visual you'd get when trying to get back to the present moment.īut I had to rewind while watching a live episode of AEW Dynamite last week, to laugh at the weird synergy of a Domino's Pizza ad airing with picture-in-picture view of Nick Gage slicing Chris Jericho's forehead with a pizza-cutter. With YouTube TV, I just fast-forward/drag the timeline progress all the way to the right, and the little red LIVE box lights up. I also enjoy how YouTube TV deals with being "live" better than my Spectrum cable box. That means I could watch most things on the iPad, but not any local networks. This might be a bug related to the iPadOS 15 beta, I'm looking into it to figure out what's wrong. I couldn't get its Location Settings permissions to work on any of my iPads. I encountered one odd bug while using YouTube TV.
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