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IuniusBrutus posted:I wish there were an Android TV option that didn't blow. I'd love to have something with full Chromecast integration that I could still use my Harmony remote with. ShieldTV. Not sure about an IR Harmony remote, but I know the Harmony Hub connects via BT with no issues. Though I did have to add "Mac PC" profile so I could get a "menu" button since the Nvidia profile only has a "Home" and "Back" function which matches the Shield Remote.
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nate fisher posted:Yep the only way to get Jeopardy for me is from the local NBC affiliate which I pick-up OTA since not on Vue. Gotcha. I can figure out the OTA, but is there an easy way to DVR that or not? It sounds terrible to say, but literally Jeopardy with DVR can be a deal breaker. We watch it every day, and we both work till 7-8pm. I have cameras, Nest Thermostat, I have the Philips lights, etc, but I haven't been willing to get an Echo or google home. In part I don't think it would hook up right with my Sonos system, and in part it just doesn't appeal to me. I also never, ever use Siri on my phone.
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Duckman2008 posted:Gotcha. I can figure out the OTA, but is there an easy way to DVR that or not? It sounds terrible to say, but literally Jeopardy with DVR can be a deal breaker. We watch it every day, and we both work till 7-8pm. Plex DVR will do it, but you're paying for PlexPass (5bux a month). Kodi can do it too, but it's a lot more work to get the PVR working with guide data. If you want to just spend all the money you'll have to spend in one hit, a Tivo Roamio with a lifetime subscription tends to go on sale fairly often.
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Trip Report: Now a full 6 months out, and DTVN is goddamn amazing on Roku. I can see why they delayed the app to make it less lovely than the awful FireTV implementation, and/or the service itself has drastically improved its streaming capability. All the On Demand stuff works flawlessly without any hiccups, the streams are excellent with legit surround sound and while it doesn't have DVR stuff down it's not a feature either myself or my fiancee miss at all, but then again she's a casual (albeit avid) watcher and I'm mostly in it for the On Demand for current shows and the cheap as gently caress HBO access. It's frankly ridiculous that we're only paying $40 a month for it.
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Duckman2008 posted:Gotcha. I can figure out the OTA, but is there an easy way to DVR that or not? It sounds terrible to say, but literally Jeopardy with DVR can be a deal breaker. We watch it every day, and we both work till 7-8pm. They make cheap OTA DVRs that you can just plug a portable hard drive into.
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Fuzz posted:Trip Report: Yeah, the service got way better after launch and the AppleTV app has been rock solid. The FireTV app was just awful and I think it was a mistake to launch with such a buggy app in the first place. I use a mix of AppleTV and Roku apps in my house and am very pleased with the performance.
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IuniusBrutus posted:I have a Roku Premiere+ and the YouTube app is a giant buggy piece of poo poo. This is one of my two primary methods of media consumption so this is unacceptable. Googling indicates that I am not the only one with the issue. Has anyone else had this issue and managed to fix it? If not, am I stuck going to an Apple TV? I have an older Roku 2 XS and YouTube worked flawlessly for a few years but once YouTube/Alphabet (Google) started pumping out more and more awful/ghastly ads it started crashing/freezing reliably every single day.
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FCKGW posted:Yeah, the service got way better after launch and the AppleTV app has been rock solid. The FireTV app was just awful and I think it was a mistake to launch with such a buggy app in the first place. Unfortunately the Vue app is the opposite. Much better on FireTV. I also still use my AppleTV 4 (I moved it to my bedroom). Fingers crossed for a new AppleTV soon with 4K. Once that happens I'm giving the FireTV to my daughter.
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TheScott2K posted:Plex DVR will do it, but you're paying for PlexPass (5bux a month). Kodi can do it too, but it's a lot more work to get the PVR working with guide data. If you want to just spend all the money you'll have to spend in one hit, a Tivo Roamio with a lifetime subscription tends to go on sale fairly often. What's the best way to catch the Tivo deals? Just keep an eye on their site/get on their mailing list or are they through third parties? We're ditching cable soon and the Tivo DVR is what I"m going to miss the most.
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If you want it soon, probably not through their mailing list because their month-long (I think?) sale ended last Friday. Don’t think they had OTAs on sale, though.
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Undeclared Eggplant posted:What's the best way to catch the Tivo deals? Just keep an eye on their site/get on their mailing list or are they through third parties? We're ditching cable soon and the Tivo DVR is what I"m going to miss the most. r/cordcutters tends to make some noise when the TiVo boxen are up for sale.
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Kind of curious, has anybody else become incapable of watching commercials years after cord cutting? I cannot look directly at a TV playing a commercial for more than 5-10 seconds before something short-circuits in my head and makes me look away, I've been wondering whether this is just me.
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:Kind of curious, has anybody else become incapable of watching commercials years after cord cutting? I cannot look directly at a TV playing a commercial for more than 5-10 seconds before something short-circuits in my head and makes me look away, I've been wondering whether this is just me. Same here. If I am watching actual TV somewhere, I'll either turn it off, or change the channel soon as one comes on. Was at my parents house recently when they were watching The Walking Dead.. I simply cannot believe how much there is now. Out of curiosity I timed it. There were just over 3.5 minutes of show then followed by 5 minutes of commercials. The next segment lasted slightly over 4 minutes, before yet another 5 minutes of commercials. With the sheer amount of commercials the episode itself couldn't have been more than 40 minutes long. They live in a only slightly rural area, but have no broadband access whatsoever. So its either satellite TV or nothing.
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I put on Colbert as there was a guest on I wanted to see, and I timed the commercials as it seemed insane. In 14 minutes of airtime, there was just under 2 minutes of actual content.
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Iirc, a half hour TV show is 21 minutes long, an hour show is 42.
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IuniusBrutus posted:I have a Roku Premiere+ and the YouTube app is a giant buggy piece of poo poo. This is one of my two primary methods of media consumption so this is unacceptable. Googling indicates that I am not the only one with the issue. Has anyone else had this issue and managed to fix it? If not, am I stuck going to an Apple TV? The YouTube client on AppleTV sucks. If YouTube is important to you, go with Edit: I was thinking you said Tivo, not Roku. I've never had problems with the YouTube client on my Roku 3. CygnusTM fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Jul 5, 2017 |
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CygnusTM posted:The YouTube client on AppleTV sucks. If YouTube is important to you, go with What's so bad about it in your opinion? I use it loads, and while there's a few things I'd change, it's never felt that bad. I used to have a version with extra features that disappeared which was a shame, had the ability to manage playlists and things, not sure what happened there.
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CygnusTM posted:The YouTube client on AppleTV sucks. If YouTube is important to you, go with Roku or FireTV. IIRC, the Youtube "app" on Roku is just a wrapper around youtube.com/tv. And combined with Roku's anemic hardware compared to other platforms, it makes for a craptacular experience. Its also important to note that the FireTV "app" is also a wrapper for youtube.com/tv, however it seems to be a bit more stable and faster compared to Roku. (well at least it used to be, it's been awhile since I used the FireTV platform) Out of all the ones I've used, I still say the AndroidTV Youtube client as used on the Shield and other Android TV boxen is the least lovely of all of them. It is the Android YouTube app with the "leanback" interface. Not just a wrapper for a website. The Youtube For AndroidTV app can also be sideloaded onto the FireTV, but I believe it requires root and all that.. I am a huge Youtube nerd, so I ended up going for all Android TV boxes. 1 Shield and 2 Nexus Players.
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You guys have sold me on DTVNOW. We have a Roku 3 in the bedroom and I'll pick up a premier+ for the living room and cancel cable. Plex, Amazon, Netflix, DTVN. All set.
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EL BROMANCE posted:What's so bad about it in your opinion? I use it loads, and while there's a few things I'd change, it's never felt that bad. I used to have a version with extra features that disappeared which was a shame, had the ability to manage playlists and things, not sure what happened there. stevewm posted:IIRC, the Youtube "app" on Roku is just a wrapper around youtube.com/tv. And combined with Roku's anemic hardware compared to other platforms, it makes for a craptacular experience. I remember the leanback mode, but now youtube.com/leanback redirects to youtube.com/tv.
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Matt Zerella posted:You guys have sold me on DTVNOW. We have a Roku 3 in the bedroom and I'll pick up a premier+ for the living room and cancel cable. If you sign for 2 months DTV will give you Roku Premiere https://www.directvnow.com/rokunow
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FCKGW posted:If you sign for 2 months DTV will give you Roku Premiere Welp, looks like I'll be upgrading the 3 in the bedroom! I need the premier plus for HDR/ethernet in the living room, but this is a sweet bonus and I can give my 3 to mom and dad.
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TheScott2K posted:Plex DVR will do it, but you're paying for PlexPass (5bux a month). Kodi can do it too, but it's a lot more work to get the PVR working with guide data. If you want to just spend all the money you'll have to spend in one hit, a Tivo Roamio with a lifetime subscription tends to go on sale fairly often. For anyone out there waffling on Kodi with whatever backend/frontend combo and getting the EPG somehow vs. plex. Plex is dead easy to setup and use. I have used TVheadend to NextPVR to trying mythTV (backend/frontend on separate devices) and getting everything to work right was a 12 - 18 hour project each time, and each time always a giant pain. PlexDVR - worked like a champ and the easiest thing to set up of everything I have tried. If you are hesitating on the cost of plexpass - at $35/year subscription, it is only $10 more than a year subscription to SchedulesDirect and gets you the same information. The ease of setup is well worth the increased cost. The DVR works great and has not randomly died on me like NextPVR started doing. PlexDVR also provides suggestions on things you are trying to record, which is actually pretty nice. My only issue is the limited tuner options - I would like to be able to mix and match the tuner types - but I'll survive in the meantime.
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CygnusTM posted:The dealbreaker for me is that there is no way to tell it to refresh its lists. Yeah if I was to have listed the little things that bugged me, that would've been high on the list. At least you can double tap Home, close, and relaunch it quickly enough but it shouldn't need that.
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Proteus Jones posted:ShieldTV. I'm using my shield with an IR remote (logitech 300) and it works really well.
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drat I just got an email Vue is going up $10 in 3 months.
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nate fisher posted:drat I just got an email Vue is going up $10 in 3 months. Is that because you're getting locals, or is that just a general price increase?
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Silly Burrito posted:Is that because you're getting locals, or is that just a general price increase?
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It's the elimination of Slim packages. So if you live in an area that had live locals, your price hasn't changed. I imagine they're consolidating things as they seem to have locked down more and more regional network agreements. It sucks rear end that it appears that people where locals weren't negotiated are going to be stuck with the higher rate. Even though I'm in an area that has live local networks, this is edging me closer to killing my sub and only activating it during college football season (the multichannel view on the PS4 seriously rocks for sports).
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Vue keeps dropping channels and increasing its price. Makes me edge ever closer to canceling.
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So it looks like I'm gonna un-cut the cord  3 weeks ago my DSL went weird and now my ping is anywhere from 300-800ms and my D/L is around 3Mbps but will shoot up to 15 Mbps. I've had 2 techs come out multiple times and the last time the dude said "Well we only guarantee UP TO that speed..." because the dude can't figure out what it is. I mean admittedly it sucks to not be able to figure it out right off the bat but to tell me that basically I was hosed was annoying. Dude said he'd be back out yesterday but never showed and told me on the phone today he wasn't gonna come out anymore so... Windstream up to 24Mbps or Xfinity up to 75 with 10 channels (basically what I get with my OTA antenna) are the same price. gently caress I hate Comcast. Then again, if it's really 3 times as fast I guess it'll be alright. I'm just not stoked about the 1TB cap.
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I assume you have DSL? I had a similar problem, the wires were apparently soaked with water and the whole line had to be replaced. I had to cancel service, it took months after I and a bunch of my neighbors did the same to actually get it fixed. Semi-related, they just installed AT&T Fiber in my house so I changed all my account and now have Unlimited Plus cell with Fiber 1000 which means I justified that to myself by getting DirecTV Now with HBO for $10 a month. It's OK, I mean I spend 3 days a week here but as far as I can tell the only way to log into HBO is the DirecTV Now app and the show selection seems to be limited, am I missing something?
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Three Olives posted:I assume you have DSL? I had a similar problem, the wires were apparently soaked with water and the whole line had to be replaced. I had to cancel service, it took months after I and a bunch of my neighbors did the same to actually get it fixed. You should be able to log into HBO GO with your DTVnow credentials.
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gret posted:Vue keeps dropping channels and increasing its price. Makes me edge ever closer to canceling. Same here. I was planning on upping my plan to Core once football season started so I could get RedZone again, but I think I'm gonna seriously consider my options because losing the viacom channels and only getting one local channel is not worth an extra 15 bucks a month for me.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:If you want it soon, probably not through their mailing list because their month-long (I think?) sale ended last Friday. Don’t think they had OTAs on sale, though. Yes, they did, but only briefly. The TiVo Roamio OTA was on sale over a weekend in late June for $300 (no monthly fees). I follow TiVo on Facebook and they posted about all the sales.
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