Pull Shows Off FiOS DVR
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@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Hulu now has a commercial free option now...
For only $11.99/Month it seems worth it to at least try.
oh cool, that's barely more than we pay now, might be easily worth it.
that price is fine - and a few ads, not the 15 mins per 45 of show is even OK, assuming that that helps offset my cost. But the fact that shows are 24 hours behind broadcast just sucks! What used to be next day conversations around the water cooler is now you just being excluded because you haven't seen it yet, and by the time you do, the talk is over.
You talk about shows at the watercooler? I don't keep track of shows I generally binge watch seasons at a time when they are available online.
I've never worked in a place that did that. But he works with exceptionally non-technical people. No one I've worked with in a very long time would talk about shows regularly or have traditional television as their means of watching them. So it really could not come up in that way.
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Water cooler - well no, but you get my point. Two to three days a week I'll have a 5 min conversation with coworkers about the shows of the week. Though I have to admit that hasn't been much of a thing lately. Maybe I should just try it and see if I end up caring at all.
I love binge watching shows! The bad thing about that is you loose a bit of personal connection with others because you're not bound together by your pent up angst waiting for the next episode.
As frustrating as that is, I consider is a good thing for society at large, a way to relate. -
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller Yeah I have both of those. But new TV isn't on those services.
Some of the stations, like CBS do have online streaming - so now I need to find a good way to get that on my TV.
Roku + CBS All Access (Something like $5 a month, I think, I don't actually use it, but I know it is on the Roku)
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If you have an Android based device, or a Roku (not sure what else it supports), SlingTV isn't a terrible option. It's like $25 a month for a few channels... (ESPN, 2 x History Channels, Food Network, TBS, and a few others)... They're all live channels. You can't fast forward through commercials, etc.
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@dafyre said:
If you have an Android based device, or a Roku (not sure what else it supports), SlingTV isn't a terrible option. It's like $25 a month for a few channels... (ESPN, 2 x History Channels, Food Network, TBS, and a few others)... They're all live channels. You can't fast forward through commercials, etc.
Yeah - not looking for live streams - definitely want VOD.
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@Jason said:
@Dashrender said:
I wish IP TV was further along than it is. I don't mind paying for content, but I want to pick and choose the content that I actually want, not prop up stations I never watch.
Hell I'd like to get my $15/month back for the crap sports stations I never watch.
There is SlingTV
SlingTV sucks. Badly. I was a customer for 3 months, daily outages, poor picture quality, channels wouldn't load even if there was no outage. I would never recommend it to anybody, unless it was completely free.
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@marcinozga said:
SlingTV sucks. Badly. I was a customer for 3 months, daily outages, poor picture quality, channels wouldn't load even if there was no outage. I would never recommend it to anybody, unless it was completely free.
Works fine for me. I watch it every day on my Roku
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@marcinozga said:
@Jason said:
@Dashrender said:
I wish IP TV was further along than it is. I don't mind paying for content, but I want to pick and choose the content that I actually want, not prop up stations I never watch.
Hell I'd like to get my $15/month back for the crap sports stations I never watch.
There is SlingTV
SlingTV sucks. Badly. I was a customer for 3 months, daily outages, poor picture quality, channels wouldn't load even if there was no outage. I would never recommend it to anybody, unless it was completely free.
Wow. Totally opposite here. It works great for us most of the time. They do have issues sometimes, but by and large, it has been worth it for us.
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@Jason AMC or Epix channels in the evening would hardly ever load for me. And I also watched it Roku, FireTV stick, iPad and iMac. It made no difference. And customer support was clueless, all they did was to give me a ticket number, no resolution, no compensation, nothing. In the end I switched to PS Vue.
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@dafyre said:
@marcinozga said:
@Jason said:
@Dashrender said:
I wish IP TV was further along than it is. I don't mind paying for content, but I want to pick and choose the content that I actually want, not prop up stations I never watch.
Hell I'd like to get my $15/month back for the crap sports stations I never watch.
There is SlingTV
SlingTV sucks. Badly. I was a customer for 3 months, daily outages, poor picture quality, channels wouldn't load even if there was no outage. I would never recommend it to anybody, unless it was completely free.
Wow. Totally opposite here. It works great for us most of the time. They do have issues sometimes, but by and large, it has been worth it for us.
Same here.
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@marcinozga said:
Pretty funny that the website there doesn't list the value numbers. Like in single people with outages, or tens of thousands....
If it's 5 people... can that really be helped?
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@DustinB3403 said:
@marcinozga said:
Pretty funny that the website there doesn't list the value numbers. Like in single people with outages, or tens of thousands....
If it's 5 people... can that really be helped?
You can go through history. Most outages start at around 6PM. And these are just people that reported the outage there, most probably don't.
The values are probably individual people. And it doesn't matter if it's 5 people or 5 thousand, if you're one of the people having issues. -
@marcinozga said:
@DustinB3403 said:
@marcinozga said:
Pretty funny that the website there doesn't list the value numbers. Like in single people with outages, or tens of thousands....
If it's 5 people... can that really be helped?
You can go through history. Most outages start at around 6PM. And these are just people that reported the outage there, most probably don't.
I watch it every night starting around 5:15pm when I get home until 9PM with no issues. Wouldn't be surprised if it's ISP Peering issues not SlingTV themselves.
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@Jason said:
@marcinozga said:
@DustinB3403 said:
@marcinozga said:
Pretty funny that the website there doesn't list the value numbers. Like in single people with outages, or tens of thousands....
If it's 5 people... can that really be helped?
You can go through history. Most outages start at around 6PM. And these are just people that reported the outage there, most probably don't.
I watch it every night starting around 5:15pm when I get home until 9PM with no issues. Wouldn't be surprised if it's ISP Peering issues not SlingTV themselves.
Then Sling should take care of that. Netfix had these peering issues, but they were able to work these out.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I wish IP TV was further along than it is. I don't mind paying for content, but I want to pick and choose the content that I actually want, not prop up stations I never watch.
Hell I'd like to get my $15/month back for the crap sports stations I never watch.
The idea of IP TV doesn't make much sense. Because TV as a format is generally bad. It's designed around limitations that no longer exist with IP. Once you go IP, why not go 100% on demand except for things that need to be live? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. have already replaced IP TV.
The cable company I worked for in FL was IP TV. It was terrible. It was even FTTH with an ONT in the house. They got tiling and skipping pictures a lot. However, a lot of that could be the awful boxes they were given, but then again there aren't that many that make IP TV boxes.
And it could have been the NOC. They used Calix equipment and we always had issues. ONTs would lose provisioning and the ONT IP addresses would need to be reset manually a lot also.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I wish IP TV was further along than it is. I don't mind paying for content, but I want to pick and choose the content that I actually want, not prop up stations I never watch.
Hell I'd like to get my $15/month back for the crap sports stations I never watch.
The idea of IP TV doesn't make much sense. Because TV as a format is generally bad. It's designed around limitations that no longer exist with IP. Once you go IP, why not go 100% on demand except for things that need to be live? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. have already replaced IP TV.
The cable company I worked for in FL was IP TV. It was terrible. It was even FTTH with an ONT in the house. They got tiling and skipping pictures a lot. However, a lot of that could be the awful boxes they were given, but then again there aren't that many that make IP TV boxes.
And it could have been the NOC. They used Calix equipment and we always had issues. ONTs would lose provisioning and the ONT IP addresses would need to be reset manually a lot also.
A local telecom company does IPTV which works fairly well. FiOS IPTV works well aside from it's slow to change channels.
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@Jason said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I wish IP TV was further along than it is. I don't mind paying for content, but I want to pick and choose the content that I actually want, not prop up stations I never watch.
Hell I'd like to get my $15/month back for the crap sports stations I never watch.
The idea of IP TV doesn't make much sense. Because TV as a format is generally bad. It's designed around limitations that no longer exist with IP. Once you go IP, why not go 100% on demand except for things that need to be live? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. have already replaced IP TV.
The cable company I worked for in FL was IP TV. It was terrible. It was even FTTH with an ONT in the house. They got tiling and skipping pictures a lot. However, a lot of that could be the awful boxes they were given, but then again there aren't that many that make IP TV boxes.
And it could have been the NOC. They used Calix equipment and we always had issues. ONTs would lose provisioning and the ONT IP addresses would need to be reset manually a lot also.
A local telecom company does IPTV which works fairly well. FiOS IPTV works well aside from it's slow to change channels.
Our local telcom spent a crazy amount of money getting into the IPTV game... It hasn't gone well for them or their customers.
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in answer to the original question, most DVR's have a hardware decoder built in and use proprietary codecs specifically to prevent the simple copy out of the files (usually a linux box on the back end ) and actually being able to play them back
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I guess I'll have to do some binge watching over the holidays.
And also record everything on the DVR that has my kids in it to my phone! (Only one show, not so terrible, LOL.)
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@BRRABill said:
I guess I'll have to do some binge watching over the holidays.
And also record everything on the DVR that has my kids in it to my phone! (Only one show, not so terrible, LOL.)
You weren't planning to do this already?
