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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: Cartierfor3 on May 23, 2011, 06:42:19 PM
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Here's the deal:
I have cable, Time Warner with DVR, but I'm starting to think Netflix and Hulu are a better option. I'd be perfectly content to not watch any TV live and just use the online services. My only fear is not being able to watch live sporting events. Do any of you do this and do you like using ESPN3 etc? Also would need a plan to watch Royals games.
Advice?
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You could get mlb.tv for the Royals games. It's a little pricey but you can watch like any game and you can even watch them on your phone.
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does mlb.tv blackout games?
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I did this last football season. I was able to watch every game through antenna, ESPN3, or some other streaming sites that may or may not be around. I think one game wasn't online and I went to a bar.
mlb.tv is a great option for baseball fans. You can watch any game, with any home or away announcer.
If you're looking for a set top box, get the Roku box. It's the only one that will do both netflix and hulu. Best option is HTPC, though (sorry SD).
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Also, if the Big XII gets its act together and streams all games, it would be amazing. And don't worry about basketball. I was able to watch almost every game online.
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I did this last football season. I was able to watch every game through antenna, ESPN3, or some other streaming sites that may or may not be around. I think one game wasn't online and I went to a bar.
mlb.tv is a great option for baseball fans. You can watch any game, with any home or away announcer.
If you're looking for a set top box, get the Roku box. It's the only one that will do both netflix and hulu. Best option is HTPC, though (sorry SD).
what about the mlb.tv blackout stuff?
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does mlb.tv blackout games?
Blacked me out in NY from all the yankees and mets games. You can set a "home" team but it has to be different than whatever market you reside in.
Also, had major issues with stream quality. It would fall in and out of HD and Standard on its own. This was 2009 though. The internets have gotten a bit better.
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atdhe.me is the best site for watching live sports events. It's how I watch everything that's not on ESPN3.
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Royals will be blacked out in Kansas or Missouri.
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Didn't realize they blacked games out. (I only watch Twins games on it.) That's pretty rough ridin' stupid.
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has anyone messed with PlayOn HD (http://www.playonhd.com/en/)? I've been looking at this very thing recently. I don't think it requires a service or anything, and you can even throw in a hard-drive to use it as a DVR. From what I understand - anyway.... I'm just at the beginning of researching and I haven't really looked into all of the details yet.
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has anyone messed with PlayOn HD (http://www.playonhd.com/en/)? I've been looking at this very thing recently. I don't think it requires a service or anything, and you can even throw in a hard-drive to use it as a DVR. From what I understand - anyway.... I'm just at the beginning of researching and I haven't really looked into all of the details yet.
$300 for not much, IMO. What are you wanting to do with it?
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I think you're looking at the wrong thing there - perhaps the price you saw was in euros? The most expensive one you can buy for the Americas is $179. Basically wouldn't be doing anything that a dedicated computer set up as a media station wouldn't do - it would just be more convenient. Stream HD content from Hulu / netflix & all of the natgeo/espn/cbs/whatev that the basic playOn player streams to xbox360/ps3/wii/etc but also be able to throw in TB drive & use it as a dvr. What I'm curious about is if this thing would be able to DVR over the air programming coming from an antenna? The whole using my computer as a DVR to capture on-air programming via antenna just seems like a tremendous pain in the ass.
Why would I want to DVR on-air stuff you may ask? Mrs. Heinballz and I only get a chance to watch TV after the little Heinball-ets are in bed and I don't like watching Biggest loser on Wednesday when I could be watching it at 9:00pm Tuesday.
I'm not even considering popping on this thing yet - just looking at all of the options out there. I don't even know if that thing gets ESPN3, even though PlayOn does through my wii - which is really shitty video quality for anything not Hulu or ESPN3 - but it beats paying Cox crap-tons of $$ a month when I could get nearly 95% of the stuff we watch for free by antenna or streaming.
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I think you're looking at the wrong thing there - perhaps the price you saw was in euros? The most expensive one you can buy for the Americas is $179. Basically wouldn't be doing anything that a dedicated computer set up as a media station wouldn't do - it would just be more convenient. Stream HD content from Hulu / netflix & all of the natgeo/espn/cbs/whatev that the basic playOn player streams to xbox360/ps3/wii/etc but also be able to throw in TB drive & use it as a dvr. What I'm curious about is if this thing would be able to DVR over the air programming coming from an antenna? The whole using my computer as a DVR to capture on-air programming via antenna just seems like a tremendous pain in the ass.
Why would I want to DVR on-air stuff you may ask? Mrs. Heinballz and I only get a chance to watch TV after the little Heinball-ets are in bed and I don't like watching Biggest loser on Wednesday when I could be watching it at 9:00pm Tuesday.
I'm not even considering popping on this thing yet - just looking at all of the options out there. I don't even know if that thing gets ESPN3, even though PlayOn does through my wii - which is really shitty video quality for anything not Hulu or ESPN3 - but it beats paying Cox crap-tons of $$ a month when I could get nearly 95% of the stuff we watch for free by antenna or streaming.
I did a google shopping search, but all of those have over priced hard drives included. I'm not really familiar with its capabilities, but that website sucks for info. Let me know what you find out about OTA DVR capabilities.
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make, like, a tiny bit more money and just have both :dunno:
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make, like, a tiny bit more money and just have both :dunno:
To me its more of the principal of supporting a worthless sack of crap company like Time Warner. Their prices (especially internet) are absurd and their service sucks.
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make, like, a tiny bit more money and just have both :dunno:
To me its more of the principal of supporting a worthless sack of crap company like Time Warner. Their prices (especially internet) are absurd and their service sucks.
sounds like something a poor person would say :dubious:
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yeah. Life would be easier if I had more money no doubt. FWIW, I would have more money if it wasn't for the wife & kids :shakesfist:
I guess what I'm saying is, don't have kids SD
DON'T DO IT :shakesfist:
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For real though, I would rather have my kids than expensive cable.
FOR REAL :shakesfist:
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:shakesfist: <--- easily my favorite emoticon
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yeah. Life would be easier if I had more money no doubt. FWIW, I would have more money if it wasn't for the wife & kids :shakesfist:
I guess what I'm saying is, don't have kids SD
DON'T DO IT :shakesfist:
ok
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Yeah, Time Warner blows. Get DirecTV and Netflix.
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I think you guys watch more tv than i do.
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I have a Roku and its pretty good for what it is.
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I have a Roku and its pretty good for what it is.
was curious about this as well, but I want to be able to stream Hulu without paying for Hulu's premium service.
Also, do you get ESPN3 on Roku?
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I have a Roku and its pretty good for what it is.
was curious about this as well, but I want to be able to stream Hulu without paying for Hulu's premium service.
Also, do you get ESPN3 on Roku?
Hulu plus is worth it to me. No espn3 at this point in time, but you get Amazon. I get great picture quality.
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i've been underwhelmed by netflix streaming. tv shows are pretty good, but not much in terms of movies. hopefully that gets better.
quality is hit and miss. hd tv/movies look pretty good, but sometimes you'll get one that is somewhat pixelated, or stutters/drops frames. not due to bandwidth, just that particular movie encoding.
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i've been underwhelmed by netflix streaming. tv shows are pretty good, but not much in terms of movies. hopefully that gets better.
quality is hit and miss. hd tv/movies look pretty good, but sometimes you'll get one that is somewhat pixelated, or stutters/drops frames. not due to bandwidth, just that particular movie encoding.
Netflix streaming is worth it just for TV shows.
I do not know why they don't put any good movies on streaming, but I'm sure someone here knows.
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costs more. the tv stuff they stream was, before netflix, pretty dead. so it was really cheap to get the rights owners to allow them to stream that stuff.
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Some jackass companies refuse to put their content on Netflix streaming. I do not support those companies.
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Some jackass companies refuse to put their content on Netflix streaming. I do not support those companies.
Even the ones that rely heavily on subscriptions like HBO?
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We ditched our cable about a month and a half ago, and just built a cheap (around 300) HTPC. Between Hulu, Netflix, and Playon we can watch just about anything we wanted to, and local channels still come through the internet cable just fine. the few network shows that can't be found online (ie criminal minds) we just set up to record off the cable feed. Haven't watched sports yet (nothings on now, don't care for baseball, and no time to watch NBA playoffs) but espn3 should cover just about everything.
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As someone that's been streaming netflix for about 2 years now; the selection has quadrupled in the last year. It really sucked to begin with, but it's been getting better. It's forced us to watch some movies that I would never have even heard of, which has been both good & bad.
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As someone that's been streaming netflix for about 2 years now; the selection has quadrupled in the last year. It really sucked to begin with, but it's been getting better. It's forced us to watch some movies that I would never have even heard of, which has been both good & bad.
Netflix usually does a pretty good job of recommending me movies, so I haven't really been burned too many times on watching movies I haven't heard of. It's a great service, much better than any paid subscription to a movie channel.
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watching season 2 of Friday Night Lights on netflix as I type. Next up: Psych. Don't know how I lived without 'flix, streams right to my beautiful 55" vizio LED. :cheers:
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how you people live your lives watching this amount of tv/movies is beyond me. you could be message boarding that entire time.
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watching season 2 of Friday Night Lights on netflix as I type. Next up: Psych. Don't know how I lived without 'flix, streams right to my beautiful 55" vizio LED. :cheers:
Psych is great.
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watching season 2 of Friday Night Lights on netflix as I type. Next up: Psych. Don't know how I lived without 'flix, streams right to my beautiful 55" vizio LED. :cheers:
Psych is great.
maybe one of the funniest shows ever. not exaggerating
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thinking about google tv for watching espn3. anyone done it or know of something better? (that isn't cable)
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thinking about google tv for watching espn3. anyone done it or know of something better? (that isn't cable)
espn blocked streaming to Google tv devices.
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thinking about google tv for watching espn3. anyone done it or know of something better? (that isn't cable)
espn blocked streaming to Google tv devices.
link?
not even through the browser? is xbox360 the only thing that works? I know you would at least have espn3 and netflix.
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thinking about google tv for watching espn3. anyone done it or know of something better? (that isn't cable)
espn blocked streaming to Google tv devices.
link?
not even through the browser? is xbox360 the only thing that works? I know you would at least have espn3 and netflix.
Are they even selling Google TV anymore? I'm currently paying the price of being an early adopter, back when Google was supposedly rolling it out early and going to be adding ways to add apps etc. Never happened. Very expensive Netflix player.
And espn3 is blocked on it.
It's also incredibly underpowered for the price. You're better off buying a cheap lap/desktop and going the wireless mouse/keyboard route. Best way I've found to get around site restrictions on Google tv and other similar devices.
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thinking about google tv for watching espn3. anyone done it or know of something better? (that isn't cable)
espn blocked streaming to Google tv devices.
link?
not even through the browser? is xbox360 the only thing that works? I know you would at least have espn3 and netflix.
Are they even selling Google TV anymore? I'm currently paying the price of being an early adopter, back when Google was supposedly rolling it out early and going to be adding ways to add apps etc. Never happened. Very expensive Netflix player.
And espn3 is blocked on it.
It's also incredibly underpowered for the price. You're better off buying a cheap lap/desktop and going the wireless mouse/keyboard route. Best way I've found to get around site restrictions on Google tv and other similar devices.
:lol: at you buying one of those. What were you thinking?