I finally decided on a replacement for Frontier Cable TV. I’ve been using YouTube TV for about 2 1/2 months. It’s pretty responsive compared to Hulu TV. It’s fairly flexible in recording content. It supports multiple profiles with separate recording of programs. It’s still slow compared to cable TV in starting up, changing channels, or starting a recorded program.

You lose all the cable boxes in favor of an Apple TV, Android TV, Roku or Samsung Smart TV. I already had a 4th generation Apple TV, a Roku Tv and a Sony Bravia Android TV. I needed no new devices.

It lack access to Scripps Networks and Discovery Communications programming like HGTV, Travel Channel, Discovery, TLC and Food Network. Hopefully this can be corrected by YouTube coming to and agreement with the content owners. Right now it leaves something of a hole in their programming. We work around it by using the HGTV and Food Network apps to catch at least some of their shows.

Sports and News offerings are more rounded than the lifestyle offerings. Plenty of ESPN and cable news networks are available.

All in all it wasn’t as clean of a transition as I wanted, but we do get most of what we want and have saved money compared to the the TV service from Frontier or Comcast. We do still use Frontier FIOS to support it.

Let’s hope the FCC’s recent decision to gut network neutrality rules doesn’t mean my internet carrier will slow my YouTube TV service just because they can’t extort additional payments from consumers to make up for their horrible business model collapsing under its own weight. It does mean they can and the question becomes when will they?