If the month-to-month value for all of those streaming TV providers goes to maintain going up, the least they’ll do is throw in some new options and higher video high quality, proper? That’s what YouTube says you may quickly anticipate from YouTube TV; right now, the company announced that within the coming weeks, the service will “introduce a brand new add-on bundle with 4K streaming, offline viewing, and limitless concurrent streams at residence.”
Sadly, a YouTube TV spokesperson didn’t have a lot else to share past the top-level information of those upcoming additions. It’s not clear whether or not there might be any limits on what channels or reveals assist offline downloads, neither is YouTube giving any examples of what content material might be obtainable in 4K. One would hope for some sporting occasions. At the moment, prospects have a most of three concurrent streams, but it surely looks as if YouTube might be eradicating any such constraints as long as you’re viewing from residence.
Offline viewing is fairly uncommon among the many streaming TV apps. Hulu permits you to obtain on-demand TV reveals and films to observe offline, however this doesn’t apply to recordings from its reside TV service. Sling TV provides no such performance, nor does AT&T TV.
The “add-on bundle” language suggests you’ll need to pay greater than the usual $65 month-to-month subscription to entry these options. YouTube TV raised its base subscription to that final June. However the firm nonetheless advertises that, whilst the price will increase, YouTube TV nonetheless doesn’t include any hidden charges and provides limitless cloud DVR house. The service has over 3 million prospects.