>Another option is to cablecut. If Comcast don't want you using their service, then don't.

Comcast always tries to give you free devices, cable boxes, streaming sticks etc., even when you have just internet service from them. Aside from all these issues, there's another downside to "free cable", which is that they tack on various fees (HD fee, technology fee, etc.) even if the base price of internet + cable may seem the same as just internet. So, never get get cable.

It will be years before I have the same experience watching sports on a streaming service as on digital cable.

And for no technical reason, it's just monopolized broadcast rights to the games I want to watch.

You should really check if YouTube TV includes the channels you care about. My FIL loves sports and gets everything he wants.

I'm honestly not shilling, just... Fuck Comcast.

YouTube TV is more expensive once factoring in the premium sports and cable networks I subscribe to. And they don't even bundle internet access with it /s

> It will be years before I have the same experience watching sports on a streaming service as on digital cable

The experience watching sports on a streaming service is much better. You can see all games, you can make choices (commentary on/off) in how you see them. I watch a few different football (soccer) leagues, and by far the best experience is Ligue 1 on Amazon Prime. All the others it's a crapshoot if the broadcaster has chosen to broadcast the particular match I'm interested in, and in some cases the commentators are just painfully dumb and I'd love to be able to listen the game's noise without theirs.

The quality of Thursday night football on prime video was amazing this year. But like I said the problem isn't technical. I can't watch the games I want to watch on streaming services.

hilariously just so you know YouTube TV also uses this exact DRM technology if you were to try to screen record or screen grab while watching in Chrome

It works in Linux, though.

Comcast is literally a monopoly in the majority of the western US. You cannot cablecut if you need internet access.

xfinity TV over docsis in my area costs $111/mo ($70 TV, $28.35 Broadcast TV Fee, $13.40 Regional Sports Fee) for 125 channels (no Disney Channel) - quite a bit over the cost of YTTV at $65/mo if you can live without channels like Bloomberg Television and Gem Shopping Network. But you do get both Cartoon Network and the Disney network of channels on YTTV, when it's $20 extra on Xfinity.

People rarely factor in those fees or the HD technology fee or fee for equipment rental that most people get conned into getting.