It's time again, cutting the cord options?

[stanger89]

So I've got Sling and DTVN right now. I kind of think I'm going to cancel DTVN, it's just not a great experience. No DVR (right now), VOD selection is terrible, seems to be at least a few weeks behind, and tons of commercials.

So far, Sling is better, the VOD selection seems to cover most of my needs. But we'll have to see, seems there are a decent number of commercials here too...

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by stanger89

So I've got Sling and DTVN right now. I kind of think I'm going to cancel DTVN, it's just not a great experience. No DVR (right now), VOD selection is terrible, seems to be at least a few weeks behind, and tons of commercials.

So far, Sling is better, the VOD selection seems to cover most of my needs. But we'll have to see, seems there are a decent number of commercials here too...

I'm really liking the way Sling works. The lack of local channels isn't a big deal since SageTV is picking up that slack for me.

The $110 per month I'm saving is worth it. My DTV equipment was starting to act up and I just want a working solution. Very happy.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

I'm really liking the way Sling works.

We'll see how it goes, the commercials in VOD (that so far I've been unable to fast forward through) are really annoying. I'm going to try the DVR more and see how that goes.

The $110 per month I'm saving is worth it. My DTV equipment was starting to act up and I just want a working solution. Very happy.

Yeah, we'll have to see, I'm going to have to call my cable provider and see what sort of a deal they can set me up with again. Right now it's looking like I need Sling Blue+DVR and probably Philo on top of it (I'll have to see about the later), which gets me over $50/mo for streaming. My cable bill isn't a ton more than that, I'd only be saving maybe $25-30/mo. Not sure that's worth giving up having everything under my control and commercial skipped.

[stanger89]

So, I see F1 TV got announced, F1, and it being locked to NBCSN and "live" TV was really the only thing I actually still wanted linear TV for....

Wonder if there's an even better deal if I don't care about live stuff at all...

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by stanger89

So, I see F1 TV got announced, F1, and it being locked to NBCSN and "live" TV was really the only thing I actually still wanted linear TV for....

Wonder if there's an even better deal if I don't care about live stuff at all...

I saw this too. Does this mean F1 will not be on NBCSN at all? I'm confused.

[stanger89]

I assume it will still be on local networks, sounds like they're just providing an OTT service as well. I assume something like MLB, which I believe has OTT streaming, but they still show the games on linear TV too.

There are details I need to know before I get too excited, like can I watch a race after the fact? I mean, I like F1, but I'm not staying up all night to watch the Asian races live. Hopefully F1TV lets you watch the race later.

[Tiki]

I thought nbcsn lost the rights to F1 in the US after last season and it was moving to ABC (or one of their affiliates) for 2018. Didn’t they say Hobbs, Machete, and Diffey were all moving on to other things?

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by Tiki

I thought nbcsn lost the rights to F1 in the US after last season and it was moving to ABC (or one of their affiliates) for 2018. Didn’t they say Hobbs, Machete, and Diffey were all moving on to other things?

Yes, in 2018 the races will be on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2. Lots of changes under Liberty Media.

[thopkin1]

I'm using DirecTV Now with SageTV. See my thread here https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64304 I'm saving over $75 a month over my Dish network package and my WAF is very high! All the benefits of Sage!

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Yes, in 2018 the races will be on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2. Lots of changes under Liberty Media.

Whoa, I've been out of the loop apparently.

OT - According to this, ABC/ESPN are using Sky's coverage:
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f...c-sky-1004720/

Originally Posted by thopkin1

I'm using DirecTV Now with SageTV. See my thread here https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64304 I'm saving over $75 a month over my Dish network package and my WAF is very high! All the benefits of Sage!

I'll have to take a look. So far I've not been very impressed with DTVN.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by stanger89

We'll see how it goes, the commercials in VOD (that so far I've been unable to fast forward through) are really annoying. I'm going to try the DVR more and see how that goes.



Yeah, we'll have to see, I'm going to have to call my cable provider and see what sort of a deal they can set me up with again. Right now it's looking like I need Sling Blue+DVR and probably Philo on top of it (I'll have to see about the later), which gets me over $50/mo for streaming. My cable bill isn't a ton more than that, I'd only be saving maybe $25-30/mo. Not sure that's worth giving up having everything under my control and commercial skipped.

When you have to double up your streaming services the savings over traditional disappear quickly. I'm lucky that I've got everything I need with orange plus DVR and the $10 add on package.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by stanger89

OT - According to this, ABC/ESPN are using Sky's coverage:
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f...c-sky-1004720/

Formula1 is never OT

I can live with this. Sky has good coverage and an experience commentating crew.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Formula1 is never OT

I can live with this. Sky has good coverage and an experience commentating crew.

I must say though, the revelation that F1 isn't on NBC anymore sort of changes the calculus, it basically rules out Sling, since they don't have it, and none of the "cheap" supplements do either.

So it's basically PS Vue or DTVN and DTVN doesn't have a DVR and has terrible VOD. Though DTVN plus HDMI encoders is interesting, but seems somewhat like a Rube Goldberg machine and I think being limited to 2 recordings at a time could be a problem.

[stanger89]

Hm, looks like Youtube TV filled in some of the important voids in my lineup. I might have to give that a try since it sounds like they've got the best DVR functionality out there.

[bigbill]

I put one of these http://amzn.to/2oUNIfP on the roof back in 2010, mainly to record San Diego channels but I also get LA channels from approx 100 miles away. I occasionally watch the LA channels real time as I have never figured out how to get two zipcode at the same time into the EPG on SageTV simultaneously. I record the San Diego channels. Would love to get both LA and SD channels into the EPG...

I also have two of these on the same pole: http://amzn.to/2FsUuDP so I can get channels from all three transmitter locations for San Diego. Each is about 90 degrees from the other. Used a splitter in reverse like this one: http://amzn.to/2oU6gwG. Digital TV is awesome.. I was amazed the splitter worked to "mux" all the channels onto one wire.

I fill in with Amazon Prime and other services on an adhoc purchase and Playon. Although Playon keeps removing Channels/Websites willynilly lately with no explanation till you ask them what happened, then they say its to difficult for them to keep those working so they removed them.




-Bill

[wayner]

It doesn't find the LA channels when you do a channel scan?

Even if that doesn't work then I am pretty sure that you can manually add channels into SageTV. The trickiest part with that might be finding the Station ID but you could likely find that from Schedules Direct.

[bigbill]

Yes, the channel scan works, that's how i found out that antenna could see them. I will have to look into adding them into the guide again. Do you know if there is a how-to or thread on adding channels from a second zipcode?

Thanks, Bill

[wayner]

Do these channels show up in the channel lineup, except have no data? I thought that as long as you had a valid station ID that SageTV will pull the guide data from SD, but I could be wrong.

[bigbill]

Had to go back and revisit it. It had been years since I gave up on getting those in the epg. I have enabled KCOP again. Waited till the guide did its update and am attaching a couple of screen shots. One of the channel setup for 13-1 and the corresponding Epg shot. I seem to remember the epg saying No Data years ago, but its just blank now. I waited a bit longer, and its still blank like the screen shot.
It seems to have the channel ID in the channel setup. But I am not a tv guru....

Let me know if you have any idea how to get the show info into the guide from that other city..

Thanks, Bill

[wayner]

In the Station ID field you need a five digit number rather than the "5" that you have right now - for example my local NBC affiliate is WGRZ-DT and it is station ID 31507. You need to find those ID numbers - hopefully someone else will chime in with the info. Or you could try setting up another ID in Schedules Direct and see if you can do a download of guide data to a text file and you may be able to find them.