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tk posted:Not with all providers. I have Comcast internet only and have happily been using ESPN3 for a couple years. I believe Time Warner requires some sort of subscription that includes ESPN though. Local blackout can be a real motherfucker with online sports streaming, especially college football. An antenna can fill most of those holes, but ever once in a while some local cable outfit has the rights that week.
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:I kinda like "it just works". Welcome to Cord Cutting/HTPCs. It doesn't do that.
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Jun 27, 2012 15:59
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LeeMajors posted:I was looking at the PlayOn Premium plan, and it lists ESPN and ESPN3 as available channels. You're gonna need a login.
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Jul 24, 2012 23:25
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 With the exception of Monday Night Football (ESPN) and the later-season Thursday night game (NFL Network), the only NFL games you get on TV come through channels you can get with an antenna. This only changes if you have DirecTV and NFL Sunday Ticket. This odd bit of pay-tv exclusivity makes me think the NFL is more likely than people think to come out with a streaming option for boxes. The NFL would really like to be making ALL the money off of broadcasts of their games.
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toe knee hand posted:So is it better in any way than getting a nice computer monitor and using that through my laptop as a dual monitor? It just seems to me that the whole "cutting cable" thing is only economical compared to other alternatives if you already have a TV. If you don't... People who have TVs are the vast, vast majority. Do you understand what we mean by "cable" here?
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As a non-cable-haver I find that Hulu Plus is worth the 8 bucks a month to me and my wife, despite the fact that it has ads. We catch what we can live with the antenna and use Hulu Plus as a de-facto DVR. Gets us all our broadcast shows minus CBS (gently caress CBS who cares) and some cable stuff like @Midnight in a decent enough form. If I was already paying for cable and all those boxes and poo poo I probably wouldn't bother.
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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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Feb 6, 2015 02:07
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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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Feb 9, 2015 20:12
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I set up the week trial for Sling TV and after 2 days, I cancelled. The video quality was fine. The biggest issue I had was the fact that I had forgotten how much crap is on tv. TNT was showing the 3 Matrix movies. tBS had 4 hours of Friends. hGTV was property bros after property bros. Food Network had 4 episodes of Guy Fieri shows in a row. This happened to me. So much of it is just poo poo to have running in the background of whatever you're doing on a random Saturday, and of course most of it has dirt-cheap rerun rights so it's on Netflix anyway. I didn't cancel cable just because of how much it cost, I disliked the whole thing. Still gonna get it for ESPN when college football comes back.
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Feb 22, 2015 22:07
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Jakcson posted:This is what I get for taking acid and not disconnecting my computer from the internet. Were you on acid when you asked if it had ever occurred anyone in the Cutting Cable thread that broadcast TV can be received with an antenna?
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Feb 26, 2015 22:01
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loquacius posted:So, I've decided to give this cord-cutting thing a try (non-coincidentally, the weekend after the Verge's cost calculator thing got posted) and am looking into cancelling my Comcast TV service. I found a pretty sweet Internet-only deal on their website, but when I try to go through the process of signing up for it it's not clear from the website's word choice whether I'm replacing my current deal with it or just adding it. (For the record, this is what I see there.) Would signing up for this negate my TV service, or would it just "upgrade" my Internet service and keep the TV service active? If it's the latter and I have to call them, do I have a good shot at convincing them to let me use this promo pricing, or would I have to settle for something less awesome slash more expensive? You should probably just call them.
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Cashed in my free month of SlingTV on the Xbox One. Between on-and-off picture quality, a bad interface on the Xbox, the PC, and Android, no Chromecast support (seriously??), weird programming blackouts, and a pretty sudden realization that ESPN was the only thing worth watching, I'm definitely not putting money down for it. If they put out a Disney-only tier where I'm basically paying $15-20 a month for the ESPNs and the associated online streaming services, I'll put up with the jank, but I'm not dropping $25 a month for that and a bunch of other crap I skip over every time. Basically it's cheaper cable still sadled with a bunch of poo poo that pisses me off about cable. The XBox One is adding an OTA tuner with OneGuide support, though, so that's nice. I wish it would just use my HDHomerun that way and record but hey, baby steps.
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Call Me Charlie posted:Sling's $20 a month. The only ESPNs that come with the $20 package are 1 and 2. The rest come for an extra $5. So in the $20 package I'm paying for TNT, TBS, HGTV, and a bunch of other stuff I don't want. Its the same bundling problem as cable, just at a smaller scale. I'd be okay with it if they at least broke it up by media cartel - I can only get ESPN if I take Disney Channel, for instance. With the Time Warner and Scripps channels in the basic package, though, what's the point for me? And the UI on Android is the same on the Xbox and PC, and they haven't bothered making it work on Android TV, so clearly it is what it is for the time being. TheScott2K fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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I got the OTA tuner for the Xbox One. It's nice having one box that turns the TV on and off and adjusts the volume, gives live TV a guide, does Hulu, does Netflix, and has a really good Plex app (other than Channels). Basically I finally have The One True Box.
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May 22, 2015 03:03
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Glass of Milk posted:DVR is really only for broadcast sports, basically. I could go full streaming if I didn't care about watching NFL games. That's basically how I feel. Hopefully they'll add DVR by the time football starts.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Also a couple days ago the Bing Rewards Hulu card went up in price, from (I think) 420 points for a month to 680. Their resistance only makes my bot Bing harder
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Jul 9, 2015 13:40
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God drat it we're not all cancelling cable because what we really want is Cable With Buffering
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Jul 13, 2015 19:20
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Cyrano4747 posted:Pretty trivial for me to send what is on my tablet or laptop to my tv Screen/tab casting is garbage for idiots
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Jul 27, 2015 14:32
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SlingTV is a thing now. It's basic cable with buffering and is kind of a huge piece of poo poo, but it gets you WatchESPN and the even-more-sports package gets you the rest of the ESPNs. SlingTV's own UI is basically like if someone sat down and said "how do I make the worst channel guide possible?" You get Disneys, Turners, Food/HGTV/Travel, and AMC/IFC for $20. Ondemand selection sucks and sometimes shows or movies end up getting blacked out for reasons of legal streaming rights. Playstation Vue has even more channels and costs $50 and isn't available everywhere. It is also basically cable with buffering, which still sucks. Apple keeps threatening to make the ultimate Cable With Buffering that includes your local stations, but most reports indicate that CBS, the only network left that acts like a network, is playing hardball. So they don't really have any reason to put out a new AppleTV yet. Somewhere at Apple there's an engineer who wanted to include MPEG2 decoding in the AppleTV that they probably should have listened to. You can plug an antenna into an XBox One now and you get a pause/rewind window of 30 minutes. DVR capability coming in 2016. That'll basically make it the One True Box for cordcutters, since it will have the magic combo of live TV/DVR and the streaming services, but of course CONSOLE WARS so a large segment of the population will refuse to buy it. AndroidTV has had mixed results - the ShieldTV is great hardware for streaming and actually supports 4K video, but despite AndroidTV's pretty-good Live Channels guide app being there it has no MPEG2 support, so your HDHomeRun won't work with it unless it's a lovely transcode model whose picture looks like garbage. The Nexus Player supports MPEG2 but only in the Android M Developer Preview, and every time they fix something they break something else. The Nexus Player is kind of a piece of poo poo. If your wife likes E! you still need cable. There, you're caught up.
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Ixian posted:That...is pretty much what I said? The ESPN feed on Sling is just the WatchESPN stream run through their 2nd round of artifacing. SlingTV is loving creaky rear end poo poo and is destined to be a historical footnote. Still gonna pay for it to use the ESPN app during college football season, though.
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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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Aug 30, 2015 13:55
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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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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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Aug 30, 2015 15:40
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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. Is this game on a broadcast channel, or ESPN? If it's ESPN the best you're going to do in a hotel room is a lovely standard-def recording. And even being able to get that depends a lot on how weird your hotel's TV system is.
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Arkane posted:Great Success! Hauppage tuner gets a great HD signal right to my laptop. HDTV is basically a bigass MPEG2. You're gonna see big file sizes. NTFS's maximum file size is something bonkers like 200 TB, so I wouldn't worry about it. It's just writing the transport stream to the hard drive, the entire recording isn't staying in memory or anything like that.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I wish I knew when the next Roku is coming out. I have thought about an Apple TV but if the Roku 4 comes out soon, I will wait for that. Only buy an AppleTV if it's the only streaming box you've ever owned. Otherwise the amount of poo poo it can't do will frustrate the gently caress out of you.
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Oh hey, there's a Win8/10 app for WatchESPN. Beats the poo poo out of using flash.
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Considering how God drat long it took to shift from analog SD broadcast to MPEG2 ATSC I wouldn't buy anything with OTA 4K in mind for at least a decade. TV broadcast formats don't change like home video formats.
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Bumming Your Scene posted:Is 1080 even the majority of broadcasts yet? Or is upscaled 720 still a big thing? In countries that have been to the moon, it basically comes down to the network choosing either 1080i or 720p. Some go with 720p instead of 1080i for reasons of sports, since they can have a true 60 fps progressive picture without having to devote their entire signal to pushing 1080p60 (a lot of local broadcasters run OTA subchannels). Most modern TVs have a good enough deinterlacer that 1080i channels showing sports don't suffer much at all, though. Most scripted content runs at 24 fps, and you aren't really going to see a difference between 720p and 1080i despite the difference in resolution just because a lot of broadcasters don't give a 1080i signal the bitrate to really shine, and that's not even accounting for the horseshit compression cable companies subject those feeds to as well.
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Oct 8, 2015 01:57
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Is this thread about providing tech support for someone with cable now?
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Oct 11, 2015 02:33
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tk posted:I mostly use it for a login to ESPN for college football/Monday Night Football, and most of the time that works, but it's shaky enough that I'll cancel after football season. This is literally the only reason to use SlingTV
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nickutz posted:It's closer to double of that. But ESPN sees the writing on the wall with cable subs being on a decline. They are cutting $200 million from the budget over the next two years. And Disney's CEO said everything but confirm ESPN will have to go over-the-top like HBO NOW in less than five years. I'd go year round with ESPN if you got all of the ESPN for a reasonable price, say $15 or less. I'm paying Sling $25 for that and I'm only keeping it until January.
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Cable with Buffering seems to be catching on. Hooraaaaaaaay
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diremonk posted:What is the go to for PVR/DVR software? I'm currently using Windows Media Center but I don't need all that since I use Plex for all my video needs. I just want a simple program that will record a couple shows from my OTA antenna and HDHomerun box. I've tried running MythTV in a VM but wasn't happy with it since it couldn't find any stations even though WMC and the Homerun app report everything being fine. If your computer has WMC just use that. There's even a Plex extension that'll tap into it called PlexWMC that lets you sort-of reliably play Live TV and watch/schedule recordings from Plex.
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Don Lapre posted:Thats the one all the xboners bought. I'm sure they'll be available real cheap when MS turns on DVR in 2016
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Call Me Charlie posted:I think it can view Amazon Video stuff through a web browser (or at least I think that's what Shield owners have told me) That's gotta be fun to control with a remote.
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:I have a Harmony Remote, there's a button on it for "COMPUTER". Wife presses it, and then the keyboard/touchpad takes over, and the remote just does volume. It's passed the wife test, my parents (that are computer illiterate) and my baby sitter. It could not be easier. Honestly at this point the only real rear end in a top hat streaming service is Amazon and if you have a game console, problem solved.
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Martytoof posted:If you run Plex, take a look at http://hdhrviewer.zynine.net -- I can vouch for the v2 version. I'm using it right now to watch OTA from my HDHR on my AppleTV via plex. Owns so much. Wow, that thing looks like it's improved a lot since that horrible weekend I spent a year ago getting it to work on the name of "Chromecast is the one true box!"
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