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Listerine posted:After having my cable bill jump for the second time since Covid started, I was looking to switch over to a live streaming TV service and was looking at Hulu until I found this thread and read the past few pages. I'm using an LG CX but I had a couple quick questions. quote:The Youtube TV FAQ page says that I get 6 accounts to share with members of my household. Does that mean everyone has to be at the same address? I'm in CA, can I give my parents on the east coast an account so they can watch TV when they're at their vacation home? Is Youtube checking to the geographical location of the streams? As for geographical location. I live in SoCal with family in CO. They are able to use the YTTV for 30 days without needing to "login from home location." Basically they VPN in to a location near me, watch a couple minutes online and then they have 30 days w/o issues again. Hulu uses "profiles" on your account. They absolutely will lock your out of the profile all together if you aren't logging in from a local geofenced IP. No 30 day wait, nothing, just locked straight out. However, this lockout is not a problem on accounts without Live TV if you're looking to share. quote:I know nothing about Nvidia Shield, chromecast, FireTV, etc as I've always just watched cable straight to my TV. Is there any reason for me to look into any other devices? Like what do these products do that would be an improvement over just opening the app on my LG TV?
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My dad is in Central Ca and I’m in SoCal and YTTV geofenced us. I can still use the YouTube log in for all the apps though so not all is lost.
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Listerine posted:
The LG CX has great apps and a good interface (love the wiimote). The only negative is a few apps are missing, but if you are not missing them this is not a negative. So you don’t need a box.
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Looks like NBC and YouTube TV are fighting. The NBC stations have a scroll across their channels to go to a website to tell YTTV how awful they are.
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jabro posted:Looks like NBC and YouTube TV are fighting. The NBC stations have a scroll across their channels to go to a website to tell YTTV how awful they are. Yeah, I noticed that tonight too. gently caress 'em. I hope google lets them walk. Hell, they don't even have hockey this season.
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Not to double post but Google/Youtube responded to NBC/Comcast. https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-tv-and-nbc-programming-update/ quote:If NBCU offers us equitable terms, we’ll renew our agreement with them. However, if we are unable to reach a deal by Thursday, the NBCU lineup of channels will no longer be available on YouTube TV and we will decrease our monthly price by $10, from $64.99 to $54.99 (while this content remains off our platform). I have never rooted for a loss a channels so much in my lifetime.
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Sep 27, 2021 13:45
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Apparently, Comcast is demanding YouTube TV bundle peacock. I guess that's one way to try to increase subscriber numbers of your dying streaming service.
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Peacock suppose to have Sam Esmail's BSG, but I am starting to believe we will never see it.
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Sep 27, 2021 16:59
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I’ll take the $10 off a month.
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they already give out peacock for free to xfinity subscribers but I guess they need to goose up their numbers still You'd think during the Olympics they could really flex the power of peacock and their umbrella of content but instead peacock coverage sucked and it continues to be that one service you need if you want The Office.
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WhyteRyce posted:they already give out peacock for free to xfinity subscribers but I guess they need to goose up their numbers still I can’t believe how difficult NBC made it to watch the Olympics.
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Normally we watch the opening ceremony. I didn’t bother to record it because I forgot but figured we could just open Peacock and start watching. But stupid me, the ceremony was in progress on live tv so I had to wait until next day to watch from the beginning At least all those unsolved mysteries episodes are cool
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Sep 28, 2021 07:09
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If peacock would do next day streaming for all NBCU properties, I would be all in for a ad free sub, but they don't. Even Resident Alien was on like a month delay. Others don't show up at all I was hoping it was just a streaming rights thing and new stuff would start going straight there, but NOOPE. For example SurrealEstate. Not there. Doubt the Chucky series would show up either. I just want to watch stuff ad free in higher quality than what cable/linear cable streaming can do. I am willing to subscribe to a reasonably priced service to do so, but if you are going to make that difficult I'll just either wait for stuff to show up on the services I do have, buy seasons individually, or just move on to something else.
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Sep 28, 2021 16:00
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jabro posted:I’ll take the $10 off a month. I guess the only broadcast I would miss would be Sunday night football, but yeah I would take that $10 off too.
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bull3964 posted:If peacock would do next day streaming for all NBCU properties, I would be all in for a ad free sub, but they don't. Even Resident Alien was on like a month delay. Others don't show up at all
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Sep 28, 2021 17:51
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I don't even care about local broadcast at that point. Give me Syfy and USA programming a day later. It feels like this should be a no brainer at this point.
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frosteh posted:I guess the only broadcast I would miss would be Sunday night football, but yeah I would take that $10 off too. You can watch it on the NFL mobile app I believe.
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When I cancel my cable TV, what would be the smartest way to do this that saves my time? Can I just walk into the Spectrum store with the set top box and remote control or should I be calling in or what?
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Listerine posted:When I cancel my cable TV, what would be the smartest way to do this that saves my time? Can I just walk into the Spectrum store with the set top box and remote control or should I be calling in or what? Just go return your equipment and do it there since you'll have to do that anyway
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YTTV and NBC have agreed on a "short extension" i.e. NBC is finding some way to salvage their dignity after getting peacock shoved back in their face
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NBC is moving their content to a streaming service and wondering why cable providers don't want to pay the same price to carry, well nothing.
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Elephanthead posted:NBC is moving their content to a streaming service and wondering why cable providers don't want to pay the same price to carry, well nothing. Does USA have good originals anymore
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WhyteRyce posted:Does USA have good originals anymore I assumed that ended with Mr. Robot.
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WhyteRyce posted:Does USA have good originals anymore The Chucky series is coming up soon! Shared with SyFy though.
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Looks like NBC and YTTV have reached a full deal so... whatever. While I like YTTV's live streaming better than Hulu's, man I loving love's Hulu's graphic design so much. It's just so pretty and sleek and their algorithm and collections just seem nice and relevant. Not so much the website, but the app on my Roku TV is just so pretty.
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I actually hate the Hulu GUI it’s like someone fired up a PlayStation 3 and thought that was the pinnacle
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WhyteRyce posted:I actually hate the Hulu GUI it’s like someone fired up a PlayStation 3 and thought that was the pinnacle Huh. Mine seems nice and well designed. I find their thumbnails to be well thought out and backgrounds nice and non-intrusive. The colors, my crappy phone pics aside, are nice and lush too.   edit: some non-phone pics   
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Yeah I’ve got some minor issues with it but the Hulu/Hulu Live ui is miles beyond anything else I use. It’s really nice and minimal.
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Part of my annoyance is how Hulu tries to just blend Live TV, DVR, and VOD into a single library/view. It's a feature not a bug, but to me it feels like I'm doing way too many clicks to get to what I want. Opening the app, going to a live game for one of my subscribed teams and starting at the beginning of the recording seemed like an annoying amount of clicks compared to YTTV. Granted, YTTV is just Live TV so it's not having to juggle VOD stuff. I didn't like how it handled live TV and the TV guide either but it's been awhile and I don't recall the specifics. Also it was sluggish. Not Motorola cable box sluggish but something is choking my PS3 in the background that that laptop HDD is still catching up sluggish. It made having to do things like switching users or trying to hurry to find what I'm looking for a pain. This was a Shield too, which maybe they didn't bother to optimize for or put much work in to. But that's my other problem with it.
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Yeah I can't speak to that, I use YTTV for Live TV (and the guide is pretty straightforward, no non-sense) and Hulu just as a supplemental sub so I don't encounter all of that.
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Decided to try out Fubo.tv this nfl season, Fubo has a multi-channel view in their AppleTV app. It's pretty cool.
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How are Sling and Philo? I had Google for Internet/TV but now they only do Internet, and those two are much cheaper. Are they cheaper because they're worse or what? Edit: I'm currently trying out YTTV currently (as of 5 minutes ago) pik_d fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Oct 3, 2021 |
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Sling is the cheapest but you certainly feel every penny pinched. I gave up 5 minutes into my trial when I couldn’t pause a live NBA game on TNT
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phosdex posted:Decided to try out Fubo.tv this nfl season, Fubo has a multi-channel view in their AppleTV app. It's pretty cool. Oh poo poo I might have to check this out. It’s the one thing I can’t stand not having with the other services and I can’t quite figure out why they aren’t doing it.
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All the Fox NFL games are 4K on Fubo as well.
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pik_d posted:How are Sling and Philo? I had Google for Internet/TV but now they only do Internet, and those two are much cheaper. Are they cheaper because they're worse or what? On the plus side, Philo secretly has the best DVR in the game (unlimited recordings for 1 year!), and it doesn't have any of that Sling nonsense where channels can't be paused (absolute dealbreaker IMO). So if you genuinely don't care about sports or local channels it's a fantastic value well worth considering. My reccomendation for YTTV is always that it's way expensive, but you get what you pay for. I think it's the only service with absolutely no playback restrictions on commercials (outside of VOD stuff that hasn't been formally "saved" to DVR).
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Mods please change title to "Cable 2"
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Couldn’t get “Cable With Buffering” to catch on, eh?
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FCKGW posted:Couldn’t get “Cable With Buffering” to catch on, eh? It doesn't really buffer much anymore
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WhyteRyce posted:Sling is the cheapest but you certainly feel every penny pinched. I gave up 5 minutes into my trial when I couldn’t pause a live NBA game on TNT Minidust posted:Philo absolutely feels like a downgrade coming from YTTV, so it really comes down to whether you feel that's worth the ~$40/month discount. There's a general jankiness there (I always seem to be met by an old "media playback failed" type of message when I launch the app on Apple TV) and it feels less slick than the more expensive options (no "tray" to view recent channels, no background playback when you go back to the guide, just a cold stop while you're browsing). Ads for a lot of channels can't be skipped if you've paused during the broadcast. Thanks, I'll probably just stick with YTTV for now then
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