Returning customers pay more than new ones. That's the line in this year's NFL streaming maths I keep coming back to, because the estimate to watch every game is $737.83 for a new YouTube TV plus Sunday Ticket customer and $920.83 for someone who has been paying them for years. Loyalty is a surcharge now and nobody even pretends otherwise.
The per-team numbers are the interesting part though. Fans of the Packers, Rams, Broncos, Bears, Bills and 49ers are looking at $147.88 to catch every premium game, while Cardinals, Raiders, Dolphins, Jets and Titans fans have no premium games at all and can watch their whole season without adding a thing. Browns fans get off with one game on Prime Video at $59.96. That spread is not a subscription problem, it's a schedule lottery, and it's decided before anyone opens a wallet.
Overall 44 of 272 regular season games are exclusive to a premium platform, about 16 percent, down from 47 last year but up on 41 the year before. The distribution is what makes it feel worse than the count: 16 on Prime Video, 22 on the ESPN app, five on Netflix, one on Peacock.
What bugs me from a picture quality angle is that those are four different encoders, four different frame handling philosophies and four different apps on the same TV. Anyone here actually watched the same team across all four this year and noticed which one looks worst?
The per-team numbers are the interesting part though. Fans of the Packers, Rams, Broncos, Bears, Bills and 49ers are looking at $147.88 to catch every premium game, while Cardinals, Raiders, Dolphins, Jets and Titans fans have no premium games at all and can watch their whole season without adding a thing. Browns fans get off with one game on Prime Video at $59.96. That spread is not a subscription problem, it's a schedule lottery, and it's decided before anyone opens a wallet.
Overall 44 of 272 regular season games are exclusive to a premium platform, about 16 percent, down from 47 last year but up on 41 the year before. The distribution is what makes it feel worse than the count: 16 on Prime Video, 22 on the ESPN app, five on Netflix, one on Peacock.
What bugs me from a picture quality angle is that those are four different encoders, four different frame handling philosophies and four different apps on the same TV. Anyone here actually watched the same team across all four this year and noticed which one looks worst?
