YouTube TV expands multiview past sports activities — however you continue to can’t customise it

Having the ability to watch a number of issues on TV on the similar time is clearly an enormous comfort for sports activities fanatics. So it is smart that YouTube TV centered completely on sports activities when launching its multiview function. It’s been a number of months since then, and at the moment, the corporate says it’s (slowly) increasing multiview to additionally function information, enterprise, and climate programming. That’s the excellent news.

The unhealthy information is that for now, one irritating catch stays: you’re restricted to the preselected multiview groupings that YouTube TV chooses itself and may’t but customise any of this your self.

So you’ll be able to watch a bunch of stuff unexpectedly, however you don’t have management over what’s included. A part of this comes right down to the way in which YouTube TV constructed multiview; all the pieces is dealt with on the backend and streamed to you rather than requiring your system to juggle a number of concurrent reside streams.

Okay. Certain. However I’m nonetheless at a loss for what’s taking a $72.99-per-month service so lengthy so as to add extra flexibility to multiview. PlayStation Vue (RIP) did this simply high-quality again in 2017. I’m beginning to marvel if there are bizarre licensing restrictions at play. Prospects are already replying to the above tweet asking for the apparent: they need to have the ability to choose what channels to mix right into a multiview session. Make these 4 rectangles customizable. Why is that this so exhausting?

Sadly, it appears like nothing’s going to alter within the speedy future: YouTube TV buyer assist tweeted that these new multiview groupings can be rolling out “steadily this summer time” after a check section with a small group of shoppers. Additionally value remembering is that multiview at present stays accessible solely on lounge units and never telephones or tablets. However hey, a minimum of it’ll be primed and able to go for Sunday Ticket in a number of months.

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