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I can't get Directvnow.com to work in a web browser. With adblocker disabled, cache cleared, dtv sends me to an att.com site to login which I do, but then I get a never-ending loop of dtv and att redirecting back and forth. It is working fine on my phone and atv though. edit: cleared cookies for directv/now, att, inq, and quickplay. Now it works. phosdex fucked around with this message at 23:06 on May 15, 2018 |
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phosdex posted:I can't get Directvnow.com to work in a web browser. With adblocker disabled, cache cleared, dtv sends me to an att.com site to login which I do, but then I get a never-ending loop of dtv and att redirecting back and forth. This happened to me when I had uBlock origin running, but you said it's not. I'm not sure what to tell you. Try a different browser?
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May 15, 2018 22:09
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Matt Zerella posted:Does the guide roll around to the beginning yet? If it doesn't then its still garbage. It did in the DVR beta. My normal fire stick dtvnow app hasn't updated yet though, so can't say if that UI change made it into the new version. I really hope it did because that was a major annoyance for me too with the normal app.
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May 15, 2018 22:32
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Did anyone else have their Youtube app removed from their Roku? When I go to reinstall it I get an FBI warning and a message that Roku removed it for copyright infringements. edit: never mind, Roku answered on Reddit "We are aware of a technical glitch affecting YouTube and Netflix channels. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to have the issue resolved shortly." Grant DaNasty fucked around with this message at 00:03 on May 16, 2018 |
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May 15, 2018 23:12
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Dang so I'm recording the hockey game on dtv and it's in either a lower res or bit rate and not in 60fps. Yttv wins here. edit: ok so I chatted with DTV Now about the dvr issue and supposedly they are going to issue me a $10 credit. phosdex fucked around with this message at 23:12 on May 16, 2018 |
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May 16, 2018 01:48
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Nm I’m dumb
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May 16, 2018 08:19
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The fx now android app updated and now I can't figure out how to get the Simpsons to play in 4:3.
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May 17, 2018 04:06
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I’m gonna place a dollar on ‘you cant’.
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May 17, 2018 05:57
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ATT/DirecTV is releasing another streaming service for some reason. It appears this will be the same as the regular DirecTV satellite lineup but online instead and requires a company-provided streaming box. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Launching-New-Streaming-Version-of-DirecTV-141840 They also plan to have 5 competing online streaming TV services by 2019 
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May 18, 2018 18:46
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Would that let them give customers a workaround for networks that have stuff that can't be streamed? Like I notice Animal Planet gives me messages that I can't stream a "live" show once in awhile on DTV Now. Or PBS.
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May 18, 2018 19:03
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phosdex posted:Would that let them give customers a workaround for networks that have stuff that can't be streamed? Like I notice Animal Planet gives me messages that I can't stream a "live" show once in awhile on DTV Now. Or PBS. Is that using a device like an AppleTV or FireTV that’s typically connected to a television? There are some weird issues in regards to streaming rights for certain shows/channels where a provider can stream to a portable device or computer, but not to a device hooked up to a television. It’s weird, but I think it’s an artifact of old business models. FCKGW posted:ATT/DirecTV is releasing another streaming service for some reason. It appears this will be the same as the regular DirecTV satellite lineup but online instead and requires a company-provided streaming box. This is probably a combination of throwing poo poo against a wall because they don’t quite get it, and trying to have a product that competes directly with Xfinity’s streaming service.
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May 18, 2018 21:09
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Proteus Jones posted:Is that using a device like an AppleTV or FireTV that’s typically connected to a television? There are some weird issues in regards to streaming rights for certain shows/channels where a provider can stream to a portable device or computer, but not to a device hooked up to a television. It’s weird, but I think it’s an artifact of old business models. Yeah, on my Apple TV is when I've noticed it.
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May 18, 2018 22:05
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See also: NFL games can't be viewed on mobile unless you're on Verizon.
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RZA Encryption posted:See also: NFL games can't be viewed on mobile unless you're on Verizon. IIRC, that contract is up.
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FCKGW posted:ATT/DirecTV is releasing another streaming service for some reason. It appears this will be the same as the regular DirecTV satellite lineup but online instead and requires a company-provided streaming box. I imagine a big driver for this is having a place to take UVerse IPTV customers. AT&T's signaled their desire to kill that service, but considering a lot of people signed up for UVerse because they didn't want a dish, there's been no really good path out of it yet.
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So I was planning on getting a Roku stick and mooching off of my brother's YoutubeTv account. I ended up signing up for that DirecttvNow deal where they send you a Roku if you pay for the first month of service up front (35 bucks). I'm going to try out both, but anyone have opinions between the two, or if I should go with another service altogether? My friend says PS Vue is good... Thankfully I'm not doing 4k since my internet does have a data cap.
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May 20, 2018 05:24
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At least on my Roku TV, the DTV Now app is pretty mediocre. Their beta app is even worse, months behind the corresponding iOS/Android/FireTV apps in terms of quality.
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May 20, 2018 05:38
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I'm probably replacing the bedroom roku with an Apple TV because the DTVN is way better on ATV. I'm still baffled as to why they don't have RedZone yet. It would be perfect for me if they did.
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May 20, 2018 05:43
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:So I was planning on getting a Roku stick and mooching off of my brother's YoutubeTv account. I ended up signing up for that DirecttvNow deal where they send you a Roku if you pay for the first month of service up front (35 bucks). I'm going to try out both, but anyone have opinions between the two, or if I should go with another service altogether? My friend says PS Vue is good... Thankfully I'm not doing 4k since my internet does have a data cap. I have both Directv Now and Youtube TV. I'm on the grandfathered $35/mo price with yttv since I've been using them for about 6 months now. Signed up with the $35/mo Live a Little plan on DTV a month ago just for the Apple TV promo. As it stands right now, for me, I will not be continuing with DTV when my 3 months is up unless I can get the reps to give me a bunch of free stuff. But the first thing you need to determine is what you want. Locals and Regional Sports Networks on the streaming services can be a little weird. Make sure the service has the locals/rsns you want specifically for your zipcode, not just city. They can get really wonky if you live on the edge of a city and are used to locals/rsns from a neighboring one. I should state I watch using an Apple TV most of the time, but I do watch in chrome on my macbook sometimes. The yttv website just works, dtv gives me problems logging in much of the time. DTV just rolled out their DVR service to everyone last week. It's still beta though and the dvr'd version is not necessarily at the same quality of the broadcast. A few posts back you'll see me complaining that the nhl playoff games are recorded at 720@30fps. But they were broadcast 1080@60. If you've ever watched hockey at 30fps you'll know it's ugly. Yttv dvr is miles better imo, but it's a little different than what most people are used to in a dvr. You set a show to record, there is no 'only record new' or 'record all' options. There is no deleting watched episodes. It will just continuously record that show. So take The Americans for instance, episode 8 aired last Wed. FX has rebroadcast it 3 times since. My dvr for the ep has a little arrow that expands to show 3 extra copies. Back during the regular season of hockey, I recorded games of my local team. The rsn would rebroadcast the game later that night or the next day in an abbreviated format. My dvr for the game would show both. Also if a network puts out a vod of an episode, that'll show up too and most networks now force you to watch a vod over dvr. UI-wise, I prefer Yttv. The DTV one is much better than it used to be though. Yttv lets you completely edit the guide, like hide channels and rearrange them in any order. DTV just lets you favorite. One thing I highly dislike about dtv though is that in non-guide screens it shows stuff from networks your package does not have. Like it displays all sorts of shows from HBO which I don't have. Channel wise is where they diverge a lot. Yttv does not have Scripps networks, ie Discovery, HGTV, Food Network. And it doesn't have Viacom, ie MTV, Comedy Central, Nick. But at the $35ish/mo price point, DTV doesn't have rsns, espns beyond 2, sec/btn/college network. Picture quality wise, some say DTV is better and I mostly agree. It's a really trivial difference imo. But I feel like I see far more random artifacting on dtv.
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May 20, 2018 05:57
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Is YTTV ever getting Food network
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Thanks for the responses, and drat having the recording be a different quality from the broadcast sounds terrible. Anyone have any experience with Playstation Vue?
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Empress Brosephine posted:Is YTTV ever getting Food network Probably not at its current price point. Yttv will have to go to different package tiers like dtv or increase their price if the business analysts are correct. Supposedly Yttv is losing upwards of $5 per subscriber as it is. Adding the scripps networks would just increase that more. I think that's why Youtube is starting to make a push with better shows on Youtube Red like Cobra Kai and next months Impulse. (you get Youtube Red originals free as part of yttv). Just a few days ago they added 2 new channels that originated from Youtube, Tastemade and The Young Turks. These give Youtube more of the ad money, so I guess if this type of stuff can take off successfully they would be able to offset the cost of other providers network fees with a larger portion of the ad money from their home grown stuff.
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Ok thanks. It’s weird they don’t Atleast have food network. That’s my gfs favorite channel 
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Philo fills a lot of the channel gaps the others have. It's a good complement to Hulu with Live tv since it gets you Viacom, AMC, and Scripps stuff.
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May 20, 2018 22:25
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I can’t stand Hulu lives UI it doesn’t have a real guide does it
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bull3964 posted:Philo fills a lot of the channel gaps the others have. It's a good complement to Hulu with Live tv since it gets you Viacom, AMC, and Scripps stuff. If they would just get an Android TV app....
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Just wanted to chime in, I bought a TCL 5-series smart TV and it's super cool. You can plug in a 16GB flash drive, which I did and it gives you up to 90 minutes of pause on live TV. You can rewind and everything up to where you started that channel. Pretty drat sweet, I didn't even know it could do that when I bought it. Just a nice bonus.
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Croatoan posted:Just wanted to chime in, I bought a TCL 5-series smart TV and it's super cool. You can plug in a 16GB flash drive, which I did and it gives you up to 90 minutes of pause on live TV. You can rewind and everything up to where you started that channel. Pretty drat sweet, I didn't even know it could do that when I bought it. Just a nice bonus. In a world where Vizio won't even give you a goddamn tuner that's pretty rad.
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TheScott2K posted:In a world where Vizio won't even give you a goddamn tuner that's pretty rad. It also has a built in guide. I guess it gets the data over the internet because there's tons more info than what you'd get just OTA. The only downside I've had with this thing is that I can't seem to delete channels so I'm stuck with the religious and telemarketing channels. When I research it the only instructions I get for "deleting channels on a roku smart tv" is how to delete apps.
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Empress Brosephine posted:I can’t stand Hulu lives UI it doesn’t have a real guide does it They just added a “Live TV” header, but I haven’t used it too much. The UI is horseshit.
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I've gotten pretty lucky with "off-brand" TVs... Bought a 50" Sceptre branded TV from a friend a while ago.. I swear this thing has the best drat panel I have ever seen in a TV. Contrast is fantastic, colors pop, etc... I also just bought a TCL branded 55" 4k Roku TV (last years model) from the same friend over the weekend. (he is a gadget fiend, always buying new TVs, phones, etc...) Its non-HDR, and only 60hz panel... but its great. Perfectly even backlight, excellent contrast, colors where almost over-saturated; reminded me a bit of my OLED phone.. Had to turn them down a bit. Both of the no-name TVs are better in every way than the much more expensive Vizio's my parents just bought a year ago. Both of them look like Vizio used the shittest TN panel they could find; terrible contrast and backlight bleed like a laptop from 1995.
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To be fair, TCL has gotten a lot of accolades lately. I'm pretty sure they're the recommendation for Wirecutters budget pick.
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TCL is the third largest TV manufacturer behind Samsung and LG. The TCL P-series TV is considered the best non-OLED TV on the market and is also one of the cheapest. They're good TVs!
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TCL are the last large TV manufacturer just trying to sell functional screens instead of app ecosystems and postprocessing tech so the nerd crowd of course loves them and they're not wrong to.
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One more for the TCL lovefest. I got a 49" 4K TCL Roku TV from Costco for $320 a few months ago for my home office. It's been great. It's on sale again now for the same price, through the end of June. https://www.costco.com/TCL-49-Class-48.5-Diag.-4K-Ultra-HD-Roku-LED-LCD-TV.product.100340002.html I'm guessing this one is last year's model, but the price is right. My only gripe is I wish it had just one more HDMI input.
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Yeah that’s been in my Amazon wishlist for ages, but I succumbed to that HiSense 49” 4K/HDR screen at Walmart that’s $220 right now. Which is insane. I can use an existing Roku with it to supply everything I need (the inbuilt one of the TCL is a cool feature tho) so all I care about is the panel being generally well liked, and the sound not sucking so much I need to add speakers. It’s just a bedroom set so not expecting or needing miracles. But jeez, it probably costs less than the 20” CRT in my bedroom growing up when adjusting for inflation.
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EL BROMANCE posted:But jeez, it probably costs less than the 20” CRT in my bedroom growing up when adjusting for inflation. Hell, I was outright elated to get a 32", relatively no-name (remember Olevia?), 720p LCD TV for $500 as a Black Friday doorbuster in 2006.
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I'm in the market for an OTA antenna, and I looked up the best-selling TV antennas on Amazon to see if there's anything new out there. Most of the Top 10 antennas are all generic Chinese antennas that you can buy in bulk or on eBay for around $2.00 each. Amazon's selling them for around $30 and have listed them as "Amazon's Choice" selections. What a loving racket.
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Go to solidsignal.com. they have s thing you can fill out and they will recommend one.
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Don Lapre posted:Go to solidsignal.com. they have s thing you can fill out and they will recommend one. I'm not the guy who asked but I look forward to seeing what they say. I currently have a HW-27UV with a Winegard LNA-200 Boost XT. I get some channels when it's aimed at one tower but I lose signal for the other towers. I'm curious to see if there's a better option as I live in the foothills of the Appalachians in a very wooded area. Also, I should point out it's the link at the top that says "NEED TV ANTENNA HELP? Ask our experts!", it took me a few minutes to realize where you were referring to on their site.
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