YouTube To Offer Subscription Service This Week 189
jfruh writes "According to an email from a Google spokesman, YouTube will be offering a $1.99/month subscription service as early as this week. This service will 'bring even more great content to YouTube for our users to enjoy and provide our creators with another vehicle to generate revenue from their content,' though there was no indication of what content will be offered through the service exactly. YouTube has offered rentals for specific videos before but this is the first time the service would go head-to-head with subscription services like Netflix."
Re:Ads (Score:4, Informative)
I'd definitely pay $2/month to remove the damn ads
Or just use AdBlock.
Re:Great Content (Score:5, Informative)
If you know where to look, there's lots of great content on YouTube. Personally, I enjoy watching Matt Chat [youtube.com], Lazy Game Reviews [youtube.com], and Classic Game Room HD [youtube.com], more than anything on TV. If you're a smart person who wants to share your passion with the world, YouTube is a much better place to do that than any television network.
Youtube streaming sucks. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Of course not (Score:5, Informative)
What exactly would this "Premium Content" be?
Videos that are more expensive to produce than advertisers alone are willing to pay for.
Re:Youtube streaming sucks. (Score:5, Informative)
How to stop ISPs sucking at Youtube [mitchribar.com]
Try different DNS settings (Score:3, Informative)
A common trick used by content providers is to have the same DNS entry resolve to different IP addresses in different parts of the internet so that you'll get content from a sever close to you.
This doesn't seem to be working out for you.
I suggest trying a different DNS provider and see what happens. Try using google's own DNS if you're not (set your DNS to 8.8.8.8) or, if you are, try using the ISPs.
You'll probably need to flush your DNS in the operating system and probably restart your browser to clear its own DNS caches before this has any effect (on a mac you can flush your dns cache with the sudo dscacheutil -flushcache command from the terminal)
Wrong (Score:5, Informative)
This seemed fishy considering the market, so I did some poking around and, surprise!: not only does the summary totally mangle the facts of the rumor - Youtube is supposedly going to start offering premium CHANNELS for 1.99/month EACH, not a Hulu or Netflix-type broad subscription - but it's only a rumor that google has neither confirmed nor denied.
http://consumerist.com/2013/05/06/report-youtube-introducing-paid-subscription-channels-soon/ [consumerist.com]
Good job.
Re:Ads (Score:5, Informative)
Use the Firefox version. The Chrome version lacks several important features - the most significant one being that the Firefox version actually stops the blocked content from being downloaded, while the Chrome one only stops it from being displayed, due to Chrome not supporting that level of control in an extension. I would not be surprised if blocking video ads was also beyond the ability of the Chrome version.
Re:Ads (Score:3, Informative)
What I do is when my show starts, I just take click toward the end of the show, after the last commercial but before the end. (Don't let it hit the very end.)
A commercial will play, then put I'll it back at the beginning. Enjoy a commercial free show from that point forward.
Hitting reload resets and you have to start over. I use Opera but I imagine it works with any browser.