Comment by iambateman
7 months ago
It’s an odd “in between” between classic TV and YouTube itself.
If you want to watch “the most likely thing you would want to watch” (NFL, Olympics main feed), YouTubeTV is great.
But as soon as you want to find something off the top few recommendations, it gets much harder. Compare that to regular TV, when I could just remember 27 is Discovery Channel and get there instantly.
The answer is pretty obvious. They don't want people remembering the content producers. Same reason they've worked so hard to kill the subscription feed on YouTube. They want you to rely on their recommendation engine.