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Ixian posted:Wasn't babbling about it, merely referencing it as it was relevant to the discussion of Microwave + Internet - but then, you'd know that. Like you'd also know that at 10GHz and above weather becomes a significant factor with signal attenuation. In any case this debate has gone beyond ridiculous because most people aren't buying a wireless link for their house to replace cable for streaming Netflix anytime soon whether it works perfectly or not. 3.65 LTE works fine if you have a wireless ISP that supplies that service. Nobody provides service on 10ghz. You are ridiculous for sure
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Nitr0 posted:3.65 LTE works fine if you have a wireless ISP that supplies that service. Nobody provides service on 10ghz. loving hell find me a LTE provider that offers a service with uncapped downloads in the states, that was already covered, you are debating now to be a smug prick, I'm done. Congrads, you win at the internet.
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Anyone who is arguing that any sort of wireless internet in the US is going to have speeds and data caps that allow for a reasonable streaming-as-primary-source setup is full of poo poo.
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TheScott2K posted:Anyone who is arguing that any sort of wireless internet in the US is going to have speeds and data caps that allow for a reasonable streaming-as-primary-source setup is full of poo poo. It's not LTE or through the cellular but it can be done. http://ranchwireless.com/residential-internet-plans/
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blugu64 posted:It's not LTE or through the cellular but it can be done. $90 a month for 6 megabits with a 150-gig cap is loving terrible.
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TheScott2K posted:$90 a month for 6 megabits with a 150-gig cap is loving terrible. +$30 for a public ip
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TheScott2K posted:$90 a month for 6 megabits with a 150-gig cap is loving terrible. TheScott2K posted:Anyone who is arguing that any sort of wireless internet in the US is going to have speeds and data caps that allow for a reasonable streaming-as-primary-source setup is full of poo poo. It can be done, and between that and dial up is a no brainier
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blugu64 posted:It can be done, and between that and dial up is a no brainier The original question was in reference to how to "get away from cable companies for Internet too." Yea, I guess if you live in the middle of goddamn nowhere and have no other choice, this poo poo tier internet with a garbage cap that costs way too much is a viable option. If there's cable in your neighborhood, though, this thing isn't going to get you off of it.
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As bad as Ranch Wireless might seem it's still miles ahead of satellite, so I'm sure there are a number of people who are glad it exists. It may not be the best value for money around but if you choose to live in the middle of nowhere sparse infrastructure is just a way of life.
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Ixian posted:loving hell find me a LTE provider that offers a service with uncapped downloads in the states, that was already covered, you are debating now to be a smug prick, I'm done. Congrads, you win at the internet. Says the guy who loves to name call. You're so salty when you talk poo poo it's crazy. There's lots of providers in major cities that offer unlimited licensed wireless. You keep flip flopping around like a retarded fish, the original comment I was replying to was you saying microwave is poo poo no matter what and ask any office who has one. I told you you're wrong and you go off about data caps and nobody has that and residential service. Blech. Keep your tech "knowledge" to yourself next time.
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I'll be honest, I know little to nothing about the new media streaming technologies. The extent of my experience goes as far as: Netflix Streaming, MLB.TV, and Twitch, Yup. Anyway I just saw a posting on Craiglist about a local company modding one of these media players. They say it comes with over 100,000 movies and tv shows (I'm guessing it's like they combined netflix, amazon, etc into one database), and you can even watch live sports. I get the physical hardware aspect of it, I'm just wondering about the software. Anyway, if anyone has some more information on exactly what I would be buying that would be awesome! craigslist posted:Our Quad Core Jailbroken Media Players are brand new with a 1 year warranty, and come fully loaded with the latest add-ons for your endless hours of entertainment.
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10bux posted:I'll be honest, I know little to nothing about the new media streaming technologies. The extent of my experience goes as far as: Netflix Streaming, MLB.TV, and Twitch, Yup. It's almost guaranteed to be a Kodi box with a handful of 3rd party addons for (probably illegal) streaming.
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Nerdrock posted:It's almost guaranteed to be a Kodi box with a handful of 3rd party addons for (probably illegal) streaming. I'd lay money on it. Or, more to the point, I wouldn't. Schemes like this are one of the reasons, if not the reason, the XBMC foundation changed the name to Kodi, so they could at least try to control the copyright around it. Too many shady operators doing poo poo like this - taking a cheap knock off Android box sourced from Taiwan or China (or just China, if you are the Chinese government), loading it up with various pirate stream plugins of dubious quality, and charging a premium for the service. All of what I know about the latter is that even bringing them up on the official Kodi site these days is a fast way to get banned there. The irony is Kodi got kicked off the Amazon app store and yet you can buy these same knock off boxes - pre-loaded with Kodi and the addons - right off Amazon shopping no problem. 10Bux I'd avoid it. God knows what else they put on it.
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10bux posted:I'll be honest, I know little to nothing about the new media streaming technologies. The extent of my experience goes as far as: Netflix Streaming, MLB.TV, and Twitch, Yup. Like others said, it's probably a $40-60 generic Chinese Android box that they downloaded Kodi onto along with every illicit add-on they could get their hands on. And I'd bet they're selling it at 2-3x markup despite it taking them 5-10 minutes to flash the image on it. Pretty good racket if you have zero morals and don't mind running the risk of getting arrested. (There's two arrests going on with piracy right now. The owner/staff of torrent sites and idiots selling preflashed piracy boxes on Craigslist/Ebay)
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Hahaha okay, I probably should have been more clear that I wasn't seriously considering purchasing it. I'm a sports nut with lovely wifi, so I don't expect to drop cable anytime soon. I was extremely curious though! I did expect whatever they are doing to be illegal, but I thought they were at least doing some time consuming modding or something. Here's the website: http://www.blvkbox.com And if Call Me Charlie's numbers are correct, he predicted the markup accurately (asking price $200). I know no one doubted it was legit, but after looking at their website, this is a pretty good guarantee they're shady as gently caress: quote:We are currently looking for others who want to become Craigslist Sellers in their respective cities. The Blvk Box sells itself and 10bux fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Aug 31, 2015 |
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10bux posted:Hahaha okay, I probably should have been more clear that I wasn't seriously considering purchasing it. I'm a sports nut with lovely wifi, so I don't expect to drop cable anytime soon. I was extremely curious though! I did expect whatever they are doing to be illegal, but I thought they were at least doing some time consuming modding or something. Haha. I'm having trouble finding the exact box they're selling but here's one with identical specs for $53 shipped direct from China http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...1861567274.html and you can get them even cheaper if you buy in bulk from Alibaba. And I'm doubting these assholes did any time consuming modding but, even if they did, they'd only have to do it once. After that, it's just pushing the system image to new boxes.
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I'll be at a wedding on Saturday night, and would like to record a college football game from my hotel room. Things I have: Laptop (no HDMI input), Antenna, (probably) a reliable signal, external 1TB HD if needed Things I doubt I'll have: access to play around with the room's TV/cables How do I get this game onto a laptop/hard drive in the form of a recording? Simple TV seemed like it might've been a solution, but the reviews on Amazon are nearly universally negative. So I am looking for a Simple TV alternative I guess? Any ideas? Not having much luck trawling the internet for an answer.
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Arkane posted:I'll be at a wedding on Saturday night, and would like to record a college football game from my hotel room. Get an HDHomerun, a router (can be local network, you don't need Internet) and use that with PVR software. There might be another quicker solution (USB antenna?), but that's just off the top of my head. Edit: There is a Hauppage 1191 USB HDTV tuner on Amazon for $75. Never used it but that's probably simpler. Silly Burrito fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Sep 1, 2015 |
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Hauppage looks perfect, thanks man...any recommendations on software?
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Arkane posted:Hauppage looks perfect, thanks man...any recommendations on software? I think it comes with basic software for playback and recording, but if you wanted to go further, you could try setting it up with Windows Media Center, Kodi, or something else like GB-PVR.
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Arkane posted:Hauppage looks perfect, thanks man...any recommendations on software? For what you are doing the software it comes with, crappy as it is (I think it is still some variant of WinTV) will probably do. Don't expect a Tivo-like experience. Do expect a lot of fiddling. In fact you are probably in for a lot more work then you think you are for a one-off setup in a hotel unless you have done this before. Kodi is a great front end but requires a server backend - GB-PVR works with it. It is not quite an out of the box experience setting it all up though. If you have Windows 7 or 8 Pro/Ultimate on your laptop and can access Windows Media Center that is probably your best bet - easiest to set up with the USB tuner, comes with a guide that still provides free data, will auto-scan channels, etc. With that you might have a shot getting it set up and setting the game to record before you leave, and actually having it on your laptop to watch when you get back 
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Silly Burrito posted:I think it comes with basic software for playback and recording, but if you wanted to go further, you could try setting it up with Windows Media Center, Kodi, or something else like GB-PVR. Back in ye olden days of video capture, dropped frames were a huge problem. Is that still an issue? I want to be able to record video at a higher rate than my cheapo DVD recorders.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Back in ye olden days of video capture, dropped frames were a huge problem. Is that still an issue? I want to be able to record video at a higher rate than my cheapo DVD recorders. What we're talking about here isn't video capture per se but recording a stream off an actual ATSC tuner. There are also devices that will capture the video/audio output of another device, such as a cable box (game consoles are the most popular though, pre-Twitch integration). The technology has improved but a lot of factors go in to the experience. In general if you are using a decent, recent, well supported tuner/capture device, a good back end (GB-PVR, TVHeadEnd, etc.) and a good front end (Kodi, Emby, etc.) and your source is decent....you'll be mostly ok. I used to do TV capture off my cable boxes for years with XBMC and a couple HDPVRs, it was a total pain in the rear end at times. It was a 95% thing - 95% of the time it worked perfectly well, but 5% problems is enough to be really loving annoying. These days I just don't watch as much Live TV. I watch OTA when it's on and am trying Sling TV out still. Ditched cable.
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Whether or not DVR is a useful feature at all sort of depends on how many tuners it has. The XBOX One doesn't have a tuner built-in, as it is just an overlay of what you're getting from your cable/satellite box. Hauppage makes an antenna tuner dongle, but it is only one tuner as far as I'm aware. DVR feature is pretty worthless for most people if it can only record one thing at a time or you can only watch what you're currently recording. Unless of course they release another sort of tuner dongle, or whatever. But of course CONSOLE WARS
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Doctor Butts posted:Whether or not DVR is a useful feature at all sort of depends on how many tuners it has. The XBOX One doesn't have a tuner built-in, as it is just an overlay of what you're getting from your cable/satellite box. Hauppage makes an antenna tuner dongle, but it is only one tuner as far as I'm aware. Its really too bad they didn't pair up with Silicondust and make the xbone hdhomerun compatible.
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Hulu just announced a new "No Commercials" plan. The normal plan is $8 a month. For $12 a month, you get to watch almost everything (there are about six shows as exceptions) with no ads at all. Damned tempting. I get the argument "We shouldn't have to pay more for this", but that's just how Hulu works. The unskippable commercials are easily the most annoying thing about Hulu (skipping around a Monday Night Raw can get painful at times). I might just bite the bullet and give it a shot for 4 more bucks.
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Netflix is $8, Prime works out to around $8. Hulu really has no excuse
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Silly Burrito posted:Hulu just announced a new "No Commercials" plan. The normal plan is $8 a month. For $12 a month, you get to watch almost everything (there are about six shows as exceptions) with no ads at all. I think it's still a pretty good deal at $12 considering the fairly current content, but I'll be sticking with my $8 (free with Bing Rewards for most part) just because I'm used to it. Honestly the commercials are fairly short and at least they are tailored to me enough to where I actually go "oh hey that looks interesting" once in a blue moon. That being said though there are some commercials on there I hate with a passion. What I hate most is if you just get done watching a commercial and are back to the show, if you skip ahead, it'll usually play the same drat commercial again. Not a huge deal, but drat is it annoying especially if you're only trying to skip ahead a minute or two.
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Tyson Tomko posted:What I hate most is if you just get done watching a commercial and are back to the show, if you skip ahead, it'll usually play the same drat commercial again. Not a huge deal, but drat is it annoying especially if you're only trying to skip ahead a minute or two. Amen to that. I can't stand watching the exact same commercial over and over. That might be one of the best arguments for upgrading: reduce all annoyances and just watch TV the way I want to.
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I think the excuse is that you don't have to wait 8-12 months for new episodes.
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I mean it's not really up to Hulu. Partially it is, but it's also largely those networks holding them over the barrel for licensing costs. Hopefully if Netflix keeps putting out great original content it'll force them to lower licensing prices to come in line with the other services. Narcos is better than anything Hulu has currently.
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AlmightyBob posted:Hulu is owned by those networks that's not a real excuse Networks don't own most of the shows they air. There is a lot to go into licensing a show for streaming. You have to get the network who has broadcasting rights and the actual owners of the show plus probably more people that we have no clue to. If there is music on the show that was only licensed for on-air broadcast that is another hurdle. It's not like a streaming service gets a signature from the CEO of CBS and magically all the content that has aired on their station is available to stream.
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jabro posted:If there is music on the show that was only licensed for on-air broadcast that is another hurdle. See HouseMD
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If Hulu NoAds gives me all the content that requires a cable sub with out one I'd be happy to pay the $12. Now I just turn on Hulu during the TV seasons, and I freeze it all summer.
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I couldn't get into hulu since I couldnt binge watch. For example sometimes I only saw the back half of a season listed.
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Anyone who's ever bitched about ads on hulu drat well better put up the extra $48 a year the no commercial option costs. There's no clearer way to drive home the message that ads suck and are ruining everything.
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AlmightyBob posted:the clearest message would be to not pay until ad free is $8 a month because paying for ads is bullshit Yeah, that's not the way things work. You pay for cable too and see ads, this is a OnDemand version of that. Not paying for it at all sends the message "People aren't interesting in streaming content next day under a subscription model" and nothing more.
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