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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:I've considered that. The problem is that I can't get both WPIX (cw) and NBC with the same antenna position so every in Tuesdays I record parks and Rec and Wednesdays in have to tune in Arrow. Get a different antenna? get a rotator? Setup dual antennas?
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BigFactory posted:Parks and Rec hasn't been good for like 3 seasons, and Arrow is a comic book TV show, right? I think "read a book" is the correct solution to your problem. I thought this thread was how to watch TV, not read a book.
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Have you seen my apex seals? I seem to have lost them.
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Aeka 2.0 posted:I thought this thread was how to watch TV, not read a book. no, but you see he doesn't want to watch the right TV and it's very important that everyone know that
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Cyrano4747 posted:no, but you see he doesn't want to watch the right TV and it's very important that everyone know that Cutting cable is about making sacrifices. The easiest sacrifice is giving up watching bad network TV when it airs.
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BigFactory posted:Cutting cable is about making sacrifices. The easiest sacrifice is giving up watching bad network TV when it airs. *laughtrack*
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BigFactory posted:Parks and Rec hasn't been good for like 3 seasons, and Arrow is a comic book TV show, right? I think "read a book" is the correct solution to your problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fA9sJ3LBwg
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Just got my sling tv invite, the stream quality is very good. I'm just waiting patiently for a fire tv application, you cannot sideload the android app.
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Photex posted:Just got my sling tv invite, the stream quality is very good. I'm just waiting patiently for a fire tv application, you cannot sideload the android app. I'm sitting on my invite until the app gets released. I want to test the full 7 days before putting down 
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Just got my invite as well. So far so good, but it will be interesting to see if we tolerate commercials for live TV again.
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Has it ever been said whether you had to pay for the sling tv if you already have a DISH account? Could this be used as a replacement for another set top box/DVR?
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Has it ever been said whether you had to pay for the sling tv if you already have a DISH account? Could this be used as a replacement for another set top box/DVR? I'm pretty sure you'd have to pay for it. You could use this as a replacement, but wouldn't it be cheaper to get a Joey or another DVR, pay the $7 month fee and get more channels if you plan on keeping Dish?
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Has it ever been said whether you had to pay for the sling tv if you already have a DISH account? Could this be used as a replacement for another set top box/DVR? It's a standalone service.
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Call Me Charlie posted:It's a standalone service. Gotcha. If they offered it for free in connection with a Dish account, I could use my Roku and all of its channels in addition to this and I would be able to lower equipment fees.
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My 7 days is almost up and I am cancelling. I just can't get over the fact I'm paying almost 3 times as DirecTV on a per channel basis. 15 channels for $20 is nuts. Maybe for 15 channels I watch the most of but there is maybe 4 that I would watch with any regularity and that includes Disney for the kids.
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jabro posted:My 7 days is almost up and I am cancelling. I just can't get over the fact I'm paying almost 3 times as DirecTV on a per channel basis. 15 channels for $20 is nuts. Maybe for 15 channels I watch the most of but there is maybe 4 that I would watch with any regularity and that includes Disney for the kids. The price really isn't that bad for what you get. They are basically giving you the most expensive channels. ESPN + ESPN2 alone costs around $7 a sub This highlights a legit problem with a la carte tv and the general public. They think ohh 400 channels divided by $100 a month is how much it will cost per channel, then they pick the channels they want and its still $20 or $30/m Don Lapre fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Don Lapre posted:The price really isn't that bad for what you get. They are basically giving you the most expensive channels. ESPN + ESPN2 alone costs around $7 a sub So you agree with me that $20 for 15 channels I would actually watch isn't bad.
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Don Lapre posted:This highlights a legit problem with a la carte tv and the general public. They think ohh 400 channels divided by $100 a month is how much it will cost per channel, then they pick the channels they want and its still $20 or $30/m Well if you take it a step farther, when people see the cost of their favorite channels and decide to skip them that would put pressure to lower the channel price. As it stands, ESPN can charge whatever they think they can get away with people people don't have a clue.
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edit: none of what follows should be construed as a recommendation that people pirate content, but it's silly as poo poo not to at least acknowledge the role that it's playing in shaping the post-cable industry. Please don't probate me for simply observing that something exists. On the other hand I'd happily pay $5 or even $10 a month for a channel I watch waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before I'll pay $20-30/month for 400 channels of which I watch maybe 3 or 4. $15 a month for an ESPN only package (let's assume for the sake of arguing it's ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU) would actually be pretty in line with what a lot of the single sports are charging for online access to games. I forget the exact amounts right now, but we pay something like $120/yr for MLB.tv and I remember paying something similar-ish to get a good package of college basketball during a year we spent in Germany. Sports are pretty much where they're going to have to make their money when it comes to actual a la carte channels. At this point it's damned near the only thing that people have a compelling reason to watch live any more, barring (maybe) news channels - and even those are pretty well duplicated by news websites. The rough reality (for broadcasters at least) is that in a world with the infrastructure and technical capability for on-demand streaming (not to mention almost trivially easy to find and acquire  ) curated channels that broadcast on a fixed schedule are dying and really don't have a compelling argument to exist any more. All the various powers that be that profit from that model are going to kick and scream but the quicker they figure out how to monetize on-demand in a way that is cheap and easy enough for people to not just pirate the content, the more money they will make in the long term. We aren't there yet. It took about a decade for the music industry to realize that easily downloadable (and later streamable) audio wasn't going to go away no matter how much they wished it was, but here we are now. When is the last time most casual music consumers even saw a full physical album? TV will sort itself out eventually. Right now we're really just in the late 'iPod era' to further extend my music analogy. if you don't give two shits about IP rights, piracy, DRM, etc. it's pretty trivial to live 100% cable free as long as you aren't huge into sports. The fact that the current $20/month package includes ESPN is huge, because it tears down that final, last barrier and without having to deal with the annoyances of shady 3rd party streaming of live broadcasts. If you're willing to play fast and loose with copywright law it's now trivial to go totally cable free without missing anything. The next move is for content providers to find a way to sell their products cheap enough that people won't take the free albeit illegal route. I'm optimistic about it because we're starting to see that. HBO's seems to finally have seen the writing on the wall, probably because it's shows routinely generate the largest, fastest growing torrents over on the end of the universe. To my mind the real question is how the various content providers are going to monetize this. On demand online might be a near inevitability at this stage, but how it's executed certainly isn't.
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I hate cable. I'm looking at a $215 bill now after my first year.. phone and 30mb internet (work from home) and the massive tv package with hbo/showtime/cinemax in there as well. I just talked with someone about cutting that down. If the TV pack went down to standard instead of the jacked up one I have, I 'lose my promotional rate' and the price actually goes UP. If I cut tv entirely, internet goes up to 85 bucks, phone to 48, and with taxes and poo poo my bill goes down to about 146.. seriously? I'm thinking it's unfortunately my only internet option, so I might have to deal with 85 for that, maybe 20ish for a vonage or similar alternative for the phone, and then hulu/netflix/sling+disney would be um.. 45 bucks there.. Jesus I'm still looking at 150 bucks  I hate cable.
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glug posted:I hate cable. just get a google voice number and use hangouts for phone
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Thwomp posted:But this isn't possible without completely blowing up the current studio system, right? Nah, the studios would be fine. poo poo, they'd probably come out ahead. What is really challenged by all this is the current distribution system. Comcast et al make a poo poo ton of money right now by being the middle man that brings you the content. They're the ones that really need to rethink how they're going to be making money in the next 50 years. It's part of the reason why they're so hot on bundling internet and cable subscriptions - the last thing they want is just to become a glorified utility provider, selling you the bandwidth that you use to get your entertainment directly from the contend producers.
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Well, I signed up for a Sling TV trial, and there's no way it could actually replace cable for me unless they can beef up their on demand content, or make a cloud based DVR or something. There is nothing we actually watch live, it's all DVRd or downloaded. If buying season passes on iTunes/Amazon would actually save me money for the shows I care about, I'd do that instead, but right now cable is cheaper. Thwomp posted:Here's an interesting thought: in Ars' review of SlingTV, the review said this: Yeah, pretty much this I guess. Maneki Neko fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Sling TV really seems to be aimed at college students that want a cheap way to watch live channels over a true replacement for cable/satellite. I can't see it being competitive until they allow, at least, 2 streams at the same time. (But I'm hoping they get TCM eventually)
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This is great, BBCA and IFC are also mentioned.
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Thwomp posted:Here's an interesting thought: in Ars' review of SlingTV, the review said this: Except for the model now where it costs like $50 for a season of shows. If you watch a handful of shows regularly that's a ridiculous cost. I watch maybe seven shows regularly, that'd be $350 for one season of programming and only that programming. Maybe I'm trying to cheap out here, but that's not a good value.
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Except for the model now where it costs like $50 for a season of shows. If you watch a handful of shows regularly that's a ridiculous cost. I watch maybe seven shows regularly, that'd be $350 for one season of programming and only that programming. Maybe I'm trying to cheap out here, but that's not a good value. Well the current pricing scheme is poo poo. We only made it work because a number of our shows could all be watched on Hulu. The iTunes option was a last resort. But still, how much do you pay for a cable package a month (plus equipment, fees, and DVRs)? You probably come out ahead given that you could probably get a season pass or two a month for the same cost as your monthly cable bill.
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Thwomp posted:Well the current pricing scheme is poo poo. We only made it work because a number of our shows could all be watched on Hulu. The iTunes option was a last resort. I don't have cable. I only have internet, Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. I use Bing Rewards to get my Hulu monthly subs. I also have an antenna and a DVR, so I can pretty much watch whatever I want. I have pretty much everything I need, since I don't watch sports. That setup does pretty well, since I can get everything I want.
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If they get this thing into the XBox One OneGuide (and MS adds support for the HDHomerun somewhere other than Media Player), I'm basically all set. Hell, I'd get it if they just added Chromecast support.
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:I don't have cable. I only have internet, Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. I use Bing Rewards to get my Hulu monthly subs. I also have an antenna and a DVR, so I can pretty much watch whatever I want. I have pretty much everything I need, since I don't watch sports. That setup does pretty well, since I can get everything I want. Also rocking a similar setup, with a Plex server thrown in for good measure. I also subscribe to NHL Gamecenter Live and NFL Gamepass, since those are the only two sports I care about anyway.
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sanchez posted:This is great, BBCA and IFC are also mentioned. Oh wow, ok. I think its time I give Dish a call, and tell them to suck it. edit: wait i've read you can't pause or rewind? Also how the hell do you watch it on PC? I'm at work and don't see a way. This trial may be a short one. Aeka 2.0 fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Aeka 2.0 posted:Oh wow, ok. I think its time I give Dish a call, and tell them to suck it. There is an app to download I'm guessing the app has some DRM prevent rebroadcasting
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Changing the subject a bit, does anyone have a recommendation for live-tv (pause and 30 second skip) capable DVR ... without a monthly fee? I'm trying to avoid trading cable fees for TIVO fees.
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gaj70 posted:Changing the subject a bit, does anyone have a recommendation for live-tv (pause and 30 second skip) capable DVR ... without a monthly fee? I'm trying to avoid trading cable fees for TIVO fees. Windows pc with a tv tuner.
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Don Lapre posted:Windows pc with a tv tuner. Is there a reason a WMC won't pick up the same channels a TV plugged into the same coax drop picks up fine? I have cable internet and someone may have forgotten to put a filter on my drop... Coworkers with the same cableco internet-only get locals and that's it.
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PuTTY riot posted:Is there a reason a WMC won't pick up the same channels a TV plugged into the same coax drop picks up fine? I have cable internet and someone may have forgotten to put a filter on my drop... Coworkers with the same cableco internet-only get locals and that's it. It should pickup the same channels
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hmm ok, thanks. may need to look into a new card. The one I've got was $25 in 2007ish on woot. Remember when woot had cool poo poo?
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PuTTY riot posted:hmm ok, thanks. may need to look into a new card. The one I've got was $25 in 2007ish on woot. Remember when woot had cool poo poo? Get an hdhomerun
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Don Lapre posted:Get an hdhomerun This is the right answer.
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