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Henchman of Santa posted:YouTube TV remains by far the best college football option even though it goes up every year. They don't seem to be having their annual dispute with Disney either. poo poo, $75 a month. I may as well have cable at that point.
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I mean it is cable. It’s local channels + ESPN and 200 other channels you’ll never watch
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Aug 30, 2023 16:03
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Unlimited DVR as well.
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Aug 30, 2023 16:04
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It’s weird, PS Vue had fully customizable multi view like 6 years ago.
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PostNouveau posted:poo poo, $75 a month. I may as well have cable at that point. It’s wildly better than cable just by virtue of the interface and being able to have it on a streaming stick or your laptop at work or a phone as opposed to being anchored to a giant DVR tuner.
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Aug 30, 2023 16:25
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Cable also has the downside of lots of fees tacked on. So the sticker price is usually not the real cost. I don't think that applies to streaming sites like YTTV.
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General Dog posted:It’s weird, PS Vue had fully customizable multi view like 6 years ago. Goddamn I miss PS Vue
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General Dog posted:It’s weird, PS Vue had fully customizable multi view like 6 years ago. PSVue rules so hard
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I had PSVue too and loved it, I was so bummed they got rid of it
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Goddamn I miss PS Vue Same here, every year football starts and I miss it desperately. Adun posted:That’s the same kind of wishful thinking that got the pac to where it is. They would get involved if there’s an actual super conference that guarantees a monopoly on college football eyeballs on Saturday but they’re not going to pay up for what will be at best the third best conference Komet posted:I think it's a tremendous mistake to move away from traditional over antenna networks and channels you can get on cable/DirectTV/streaming on YouTube/Sling/Hulu/whatever to a streaming-only platform like Apple or Amazon. A substantial portion of rural, college football watching America doesn't have broadband access (about 30% according to Pew: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/08/19/some-digital-divides-persist-between-rural-urban-and-suburban-america/). My parents have DSL in WV but it's throttled so badly every evening that streaming Netflix buffers pretty frequently due to lack of infrastructural capacity. You cut a deal with a streaming platform and you lose a massive number of eyeballs. It's bad enough that some Big Ten games are cherry picked to go on Peacock only. Oh my point earlier was more that the economics of cable have been terrible for a while but we're finally reaching the tipping point where it's about to collapse or at least shift to being delivered via streaming first with terrestrial an also ran. ESPN for instance is either being set up for a sale or to shift to primarily digital, AMC is desperately trying to switch to digital, etc. That being the case, it wouldn't surprise me if some of the other big players in streaming start bidding on college football airing rights in an increasingly serious way in the near/mid term. Idk that it'll ever be solely streaming but it does seem like we're finally at cable's last few years here.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Goddamn I miss PS Vue It was truly the best streaming tv interface and service. I wish Sony would license some of that tech of spin it off because every other streaming UI is absolute poo poo.
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Neil Armbong posted:It was truly the best streaming tv interface and service. I wish Sony would license some of that tech of spin it off because every other streaming UI is absolute poo poo. Oh god this. Hulu live TV UI is awful. Though once it learns what you like the recommendations are spot on, so I barely interact with it anymore. The voice commands on an Apple TV work great too.
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drunk leprechaun posted:Oh god this. Hulu live TV UI is awful. Though once it learns what you like the recommendations are spot on, so I barely interact with it anymore. The voice commands on an Apple TV work great too. Yeah, it is pretty cool firing up Hulu and the exact sporting event I want to watch is always listed in the primary position. Otherwise Hulu sucks poo poo
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drunk leprechaun posted:Oh god this. Hulu live TV UI is awful. Beyond terrible. It looks and works like a UI designed by executives rather than UX engineers.
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I had PS Vue for a long time too, but YouTube TV is a tremendously better interface with more/better DVR options. YouTube TV also works on all my devices and in my desktop web browser, and PS Vue only worked on my TV on Roku. Sometimes I watch games on my computer in my office when my wife wants to watch something in the living room. I couldn't do that before. One of the downsides to YouTubeTV is that you can't stream it overseas, even with a VPN. I was all set up to watch games a year ago in Poland with NordVPN, but YouTube detected I was on a VPN and I was blacked out. Fortunately, the ESPN and CBS sports websites were too dumb to recognize this, and I was able to watch via logging in through my YouTubeTV Google account. It's pretty standard to get blacked out from any streaming service overseas, but in the earliest days of the Big Ten Network streaming (before Fox took over), there were no restrictions whatsoever.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Beyond terrible. It looks and works like a UI designed by executives rather than UX engineers. It's an app designed by a Digital Art intern that submitted it as their internship project.
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Aug 30, 2023 19:04
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I had to correct my father the other day and tell him that there being some Big 12 games paywalled online is Godless CAPITALISM, because a communist TV structure wouldn’t discriminate between schools.
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Komet posted:I had PS Vue for a long time too, If PSVue were still around today it could probably stream from the future 
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youtubetv isn't good, it's just the only viable option. streaming is in bad shape right now ...
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Sling Blue + the College Sports package has covered me p well for about 95% of the CFB I want to stream and thats about 50 a month and I don't have a million channels i'll never want to watch, just like a couple dozen. Sling's actual app is just kinda spotty on occasion I feel like as a streaming option I have more delivery issues with their content than I've seen on others (PPV quality being poo poo, a stream not loading, and its always about a min behind any other broadcast). I do get every Pac 12 network so thats where they are lol
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Lady Radia posted:youtubetv isn't good, it's just the only viable option. streaming is in bad shape right now ... Youtube TV is better than any conventional cable or streaming cable experience I've ever had.
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Hulu UI is so bad it almost seems like a prank.
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Do the SWAC and/or MEAC have national television deals? If not, it seems like it'd be smart for a service like ALLBLK or BET+ to invest since it'd fit right in with part of your core cultural programming and shouldn't be too expensive to acquire the rights. My D-III Radio TV Film department is able to produce multiple sports broadcasts per week with a fairly meagre budget, so this seems like a low risk proposition for those services.
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D.N. Nation posted:Hulu UI is so bad it almost seems like a prank. I could save a few bucks going with Hulu Live with Disney bundle we already have, but the UI was so bad I switched back to YouTube TV in less than a month. I do like that the YouTube DVR will automatically extend if a game runs long. Maybe it's better now but back when I had cable I had to tell it to record long and if something went to overtime then oh well. I'm also with others lamenting the loss of PSVue, it really was the best for sports.
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Yeah I'm just gonna watch whatever I can get on the over-the-air antenna and pirate the rest on my computer
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General Dog posted:Youtube TV is better than any conventional cable or streaming cable experience I've ever had. the ux is objectively unintuitive multiple passes just don't work sometimes, it's weird (this might be a skill issue for me i dont think so tho) it has audio lag if you don't use their bespoke chrome browser they offer a 4k option that applies to literally 3-4 channels lol it's wild it costs a lot the experience of dvring poo poo you like is nice. i'll give that one up, i guess. so it has 1 thing in its favor.
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah I'm just gonna watch whatever I can get on the over-the-air antenna and pirate the rest on my computer OTA owns, I watched half the Michigan games last season on it, getting 720p over the loving AIR rules
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah I'm just gonna watch whatever I can get on the over-the-air antenna and pirate the rest on my computer Same. I watch what I can on OTA, ISU games I find whatever source I can. They had a couple games on ESPN+ last year which I had at least.
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I moved from Spectrum to YouTube TV and it is amazing. I can’t believe I didn’t do it earlier. Saving like $50/month just on not paying for cable boxes
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Looks like we got Utes vs. Gators tomorrow night. Almost time to resubscribe to Youtube TV
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Dirac Fourier posted:Looks like we got Utes vs. Gators tomorrow night. Almost time to resubscribe to Youtube TV  gators
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Ehud posted:No Cam Rising We had no business beating them last year either so who even knows. Having said that Graham Mertz doesn’t fill me with confidence.
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Damnit I wanted utter Gator annihilation. Where’s the game at anyway?
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You may still get it. It’s in Utah.
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LeeMajors posted:You may still get it. It’s in Utah. That does help. Idk I have no faith in backup qbs so this one could get real interesting
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It’s a weird game. It was Utah -10.5 and now it’s -4.5. I don’t think anyone has a good feel for it.
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Lady Radia posted:the ux is objectively unintuitive *shrug* it works perfectly for me in Firefox in Linux. It's one of the reasons YouTube TV was so much better since it didn't require proprietary plugins and didn't check your user agent to block you out. The UX basically functions like a cable channel or DirecTV guide, which was better than PSVue could do, on Roku, at least. I wish we had some Wednesday night MACtion to kick things off. Komet fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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