Posted on 10/12/2018 7:47:37 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
SlingTV has the Pac12 network.
If I can ask, what’s involved with signing up for the Hallmark Channel?
I watch Fox Business all day (I keep in on with the sound muted). Can you get that on Roku or YoutubeTV?
The markets it’s available in are currently limited...Content licensing issues, not because of technology.
Since I’m employed by the company that now owns L3TV and live in an area where it’s not available, I can tie my box address to a warehouse address in a market where it is available (Los Angeles).
I’m super happy with it. I get to watch some channels in 4K. :) I can’t wait until we can offer it nationally.
I haven’t had cable in years. I do get sling for 4 months during college football season, then drop it. That’s the only subscription service I use (ie no Amazon, no Hulu, no Netflix). I have a Rocky box but don’t really watch any of those offerings.
Since I can’t stand “reality” shows and am not interested in sitcoms, there isn’t much on American TV that interests me. Between YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo and other free online websites I’m able to download a ton of BBC and PBS, etc documentaries which I save on external hard drives to watch at my leisure. What I can’t get from those websites, I can download with torrents. For example, I’m currently watching Breaking Bad, Turn: Washington’s Spies, Time Team, and Poldark along with documentaries on a variety of different topics. When I’ve watched a program, I just delete it from the hard drive.
It’s all completely FREE and with NO COMMERCIALS. I watch on MY schedule, not anybody else’s. Cable can’t compete with that.
It uses HEVC (High Efficiency Video Codec) most other internet video services are still using mpeg-4 (H.265)
Broadcast television using the ATSC-1.0 standard is mpeg-2.
Typically an HD signal on broadcast is about 10mpbs, which is roughly equivalent to 5Mbps on mpeg-4 and roughly equivalent to 2.5 Mbps on HEVC.
The next-gen TV broadcast standard, ATSC 3.0, will use HEVC video codec.
I am considering this. I can get gigabit internet access here for $59 a month. My Comcast is $190 for channels and 350 MB speed. I rarely watch channels. I do have hulu and netflix, along with Amazon prime.
I changed from SlingTV (Blue) to DTVN ~ 5 months ago - primarily to get FOX Business.
Although the first 2-3 months the technology was a bit lacking (at times loading channels took forever), it seems to be MUCH better the last month or so.
I do use ROKU (Premier+) which offers a LOT of free content, movies, etc.
Overall, I would recommend DTN over SlingTV.
Finally, I HIGHLY recommend using quality 4K HDMI cables - especially Silver-Plated for higher resolution and more vivid colors vs cables with copper conductors. Silver is a higher conductor than copper and a better (and faster) transmitter of digital signals.
Hope that helps...
I’m aware. I did Sling, and it was OK. There was too much overlap with Hulu, and Hulu’s movie selection, ESPECIALLY CLASSIC MOVIES, is very, very good. In the Classics, nobody beats them so far. Especially not Netflix or Amazon.
I have Amazon too, and only use them occasionally. It was date nite at my house and had to rent 1408. It was OK. I was looking for scary. It wasn’t scary.
That’s correct, sir.
We (T-Mobile) may eventually deliver L3TV over 4G, but our 5G launch will line up nicely with the national availability of the service.
We are offering it in about 6 metropolitan markets now, but are growing as fast as content licensing can be negotiated.
I’m extremely please with the quality of the video, the data usage, and the channel lineup so far. The box itself is missing a few features I’d like (commercial skipping and channel filters) but is otherwise very intuitive and polished.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what the lab guys are able to add to the box software between now and the national launch. :)
Yes on YouTube TV
Still? Don't you mean 'yet'?
SlingTV is similar. And it is an app on the ROKU and many other devices.
I was skeptical but it's amazing what is there to stream.
We DVR almost everything we watch and thought that was a big detractor of streaming. Not so.
Pickup where you left off, go back to the beginning, fast forward, etc. No need for a DVR.
When my special price for Direct TV expires and the price jumps to near $200/mo, it's gonna be Bye-bye.
Thinking of dumping ATT altogether and going with a minimum Spectrum pkg.
Sadly my most used e-mail ad is ATT. Had it for years. That's gonna be a problem.
bfl
Welcome to the brave new world of non-cable and non satellite TV.
We “cut the cord” on November 30, 2016, the first day that DirecTV Now became available. It provides basically all the normal Cable channels over the internet for $40 a month. We use Amazon Fire TV adapters.
We did it because we have two houses. (We have been renovating one house for a couple of years and getting the other ready for a sale.) So we get internet only at both of them for $40 a month at each house, and can watch all the cable channels we like including FOX news, OAN news, TCM and HBO for an additional $40. Because we were early adopters and beta testers we get more channels for less money, but the plan currently available that costs what we pay still has all the channels that we typically watch anyway.
We had Netflix over the internet for years before DirecTV Now became available. So we were surprised at how much worse the service was to begin with. But we stuck with it anyway. The service went through some ups and downs especially at first. There used to be frequent pauses and other problems while the videos were loading up. Not very frequent these days.
I tried to get my parents to use it, but it can be a little difficult for people who are not tech savvy to get used to, even though they were fine with normal satellite DirecTV previously.
We especially like the DVR feature that we got to Beta test for the last year which is now a standard feature. We have tried some of the other services that provide Cable TV stations but they have not provided as much content for the money.
Also with a strong electronics background I researched out the most sensitive long range digital only tv rig without frequency holes I could get and mounted 6 foot yagi directional with an ultra low noise mast amplifier to ferret out me some over the air stations.
When I put it up couple of years ago I was able to catch 33 channels of anything. After dropping all the Spanish and Chinese channels along with the auction channels I ended up with 13 decent stations.
Three years later my channels dwindled to 8 so I rescanned the TV. I now have 34 good channels. With 64 raw captured.
My farthest strong stations with no dropouts are at around 95 miles away.
This antenna is setup to be non rotational as I live on the backside of the mountain.
I am here only 2 weeks to two months a year, most of the time I am in hotels across the country. Having watched every cable provider out there across the Nation I can tell you that Over the air TV is just as good as cable EXCEPT no CNN and Fox News, (I miss Fox News). However I dont have to wade through infomercials and foreign language stations.
I tried PS Vue but we just moved to Germany. Can’t do it here. I’d like to try Hulu but I need a VPN to the states for that. I can’t; i have German internet and I don’t think I can VPN out of the country
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