yeah, the b*tch of it is my roku device is hardwired into my router.
thanks for listening to my rant. I b*tch to my wife about it and she couldn't care less.
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thanks for listening to my rant. I b*tch to my wife about it and she couldn't care less.
Yes. YouTubeTV has an unlimited cloud-based DVR. Recordings are saved for nine months. If you add Iowa State football to your library, it should offer option to record all NCAA football, which I do because why not?
Record or remove programs
- Go to YouTube TV.
- Next to a show, sports team or event you want to record, tap Add
. All current and upcoming airings will be recorded and added to your Library.
- If you add a program to your library while an episode is in progress, your recording will start from the time you added the program. If a rerun of the episode airs, your partial recording will be replaced by a full episode.
- Next to a show, sports team or event you want to remove, tap Remove. All current and upcoming airings will be removed. Your recorded programs will be available until they expire.
I still have Mediacom TiVo. Interesting that they are going away from that.
Absolutely. I love the DVR. I have it set to "record" all college basketball, college football, and NFL games. Literally ALL games. This allows me to easily find any game at any time and watch (or re-watch them), from any device. I have Apple TV devices all over the house but we also watch a lot remotely on our phones or iPads when traveling. Easily pause a game on your phone and easily "resume from last watch" when you get back home to the coach.
Haha I'm here for you! That is weird that it's hardwired and not performing well. I'm stumped. Maybe your ISP is throttling it or something.
Roku - easiest to use, light interface so always snappy
Firetv - lots of content and options, gets a little confusing sometimes
Google / Android TV - great for casting por....i mean sports from your android phone to watch on the TV.
I've decided I really don't like FireTV. They try to push too much content on you and the interface is too busy. It works fine, but I don't like it. I'd put Chromecast app only mode pretty darn close to Roku. The remote isn't great but there's a new one coming (may already be available.)
Apple TV. The hardware is great but I don't know why anyone buys them. For the price of one Apple TV box, you could have a Roku (or other device) on every TV in your house.
Wow...blast from the past there...haven't heard that use of "stories" since my grandmothers were alive! Love it!
IMHO - the Apple TV box is far and away the best device to have. I have 7 of them in the house, after years of fumbling through crappy Roku, Fire TV devices, sticks, Google TV, etc. I’d pay double if I had to.
They work flawlessly. I never have issues in any apps. Multi-tasking (app switcher) works great. We all have iPhones in the house and quickly use our phones (or Apple Watches) as a TV remote often. I have the ‘Action Button’ on my iPhone setup as the Apple TV remote, and it’s awesome, allowing me to quickly connect to any of the TVs in the house.
Again, just one person’s opinion - Apple TV by a mile and the overall functionality and user experience is elite.
To add - you typically purchase the 32GB 4k devices when they go on sale, often for $80 - $100 (and way less sometimes for refurbished ones).
Another consideration for determining best streaming platform between YTTV, Hulu and FUBOTV.
I have Verizon WIFI based ISP. Great service for me as I just stream/surf and price is great at $50/month.
But WIFI based ISP's (I've experience with both Verizon & T-Mobile) create different user steaming service experiences because Verizon/T-Mobile's connection will use servers outside where I live (Dubuque). With Verizon, I typically connect to servers in Milwaukee or Omaha. With T-Mobile the connection is typically Minneapolis.
Here my experiences with the big 3 steaming platforms:
I have Verizon WIFI based ISP. Great service for me as I just stream/surf and price is great at $50/month.
But WIFI based ISP's (I've experience with both Verizon & T-Mobile) create different user steaming service experiences because Verizon/T-Mobile's connection will use servers outside where I live (Dubuque). With Verizon, I typically connect to servers in Milwaukee or Omaha. With T-Mobile the connection is typically Minneapolis.
Here my experiences with the big 3 steaming platforms:
- YouTube TV allows user to specify their "home" zip code. This creates seamless access to local broadcast channels. This is nice if local news is important. But it also comes into play with NFL games.
- FUBO TV looks at ISP servers location to determine local channels. So getting local broadcast channels was the exception. But if getting local broadcast isn't important, no big deal and FUBO TV offers Marquee as part of their Regional Sports Package in Iowa (Cubs TV territory).
- Hulu is not compatible with WIFI ISP's IMO. Every time Verizon changes my ISP server (which seems like every couple days), Hulu's software thinks I am trying to watch TV outside my previous "home" location. When Hulu's software indicates I am watching away from home, it blocks live TV access! No linear TV access, whether thats ABC, NBC, etc or linear channels like ESPN, FS1 or Halmark. That sucks. And Hulu only allows 4 such "home location" changes through the TV remote interface. The fix after 4 changes is to call Hulu customer service and they can re-set the home location ISP to give access to live TV, but I run through 4 "home location" changes in less than 2 weeks. HULU's solution is for me to call Verizon to see if they can "fix locate" my ISP server location. My fix is to change to YTTV or FUBO after less than a month with Hulu.
Apple is great technology, for sure, but I've never had any performance issues with "crappy" Roku, Fire or Google devices. Cnet rates the $30 Roku Express and Google Chromecast better than the $125 Apple TV. So do Wired and others.
To me, as with most Apple devices, it's not worth the extra cost. If you're happy to pay it, to each his or her own and happy streaming.
Yep, totally appreciate others have different needs and use cases. IMHO, the others are not nearly as good of an experience as Apple TV, and again, they often go on sale for far less than $125.
Edit: Reading through the CNET review, I would definitely consider myself a power user and thus why I am all-in on Apple TV.
The FireTV 4k sticks were a game changer. My original FireStick would lag and buffer a lot but Once I upgraded to the 4k sticks things have been great. Black Friday is a great time to upgrade, Amazing usually has these for $25.
I got an Apple TV free a while back when Sling ran a promo for doing 3 months of service. I think I paid $90 for 3 months plus got the box free. Those were the days.
But anyways. Even with that being several years old, the Apple is still the fastest device I have. The Chrome cast and Roku are nice that they are hidden, but they haven’t lasted nearly as long. Our Roku Premieres have run out of memory and I have to delete the apps they randomly auto install to keep it from having to reload the channel lineup each time.
I’m a Hulu user. I can’t stand the menu/channel listing, but other than that, it’s been pretty good. I’ve never used YTTV, so can’t do much of a direct compare, but one thing I’ve seen being a positive for YTTV is unlimited DVR. Hulu has that too, so I’m not thinking there is a competitive advantage for YTTV there.
Similar…while not streaming service related, I saw a post saying a user of AppleTV can turn their phone into a remote. Roku also has that functionality.
Similar…while not streaming service related, I saw a post saying a user of AppleTV can turn their phone into a remote. Roku also has that functionality.
Kind of serious, might hard reset the Roku. Even it's doing a more crap behind the scenes than other devices (i.e. collecting data) it would be nothing compared to the bandwidth of streaming.
