Or at least enough for you to justify getting rid of a cable subscription, which is what SlingTV is aiming for. Your wife, husband, parents, kids, in-laws, guests, whoever might be watching TV at your residence who either don't have the background to figure out which app has which shows, or simply don't care because they just want to watch TV the way most people in the US have been watching it for decades - those people may like it a great deal. The point is to make SlingTV set-it-and-forget-it. And, if you really want to take integration all the way, pay options for HBO and other premium channels on top of that, though you can of course already get those outside of SlingTV With this, you could get all your locals (or at least all the locals you can get with an antenna) plus SlingTV's decent selection of curated mid-tier "cable" programming like AMC, History, TNT, CNN, etc. This is a box that, once set up, puts your locals inside the SlingTV interface. Plenty of people have figured out ways to get a mish-mash of "cable tv without a cable tv box and all you must eat cost" together using Sling, Live Channels, HDHR, etc. The point of this is all in one ease of use. Pinkerton":10ev4unj]> Just this week, Sling TV announced that for an extra $20 a month, Not all cities have this (rural) problem, but it would be nice if the technology were allowed to adapt so people still have access to the networks. Only one network has added an additional translator in the population center, so they have a lock on the growing cordcutter market. Like some others here, we cannot receive all the networks over the air due to antennas that were placed for optimal analog signal performance. I would definitely love to see local channels. One could pay for both, but I don't know who would to only gain a couple channels. They are calling it the "best of live tv beta multistream". The alternate package is not an additional $20. I switched to the new Sling TV package two days ago to gain access to local market hockey and baseball. > and would get Fox Sports, FX, and National Geographic channels. > customers could stream channels to three devices simultaneously > Just this week, Sling TV announced that for an extra $20 a month, I'm in my 60's and don't travel these days, but not so many years ago I would connect to my Mac here and if bandwidth was OK I could operate everything and watch from my hotel.īut times have changed. I haven't owned a TV is well over 10 years, BTW. ![]() I stop for a while to let it buffer a station for maybe 10 minutes and then watch the morning "local news" - That way I can scroll through the commercials. When EyeTV isn't recording it buffers - So, in the morning I fire it up and check a few locals for weather and who/what in the way of typical "local" stuff. I just record it and the EyeTV software has an editor built-in so afterwards I cut out the commercials and save it to disk. In general the locals suck, but sometimes there's some good stuff. And, of course, it records programs so I can keep them here on a drive using Turbo.264 HD software to convert the EyeTV file (essentially. HDHomerun > 2012 iMac > EyeTV applicationĮyeTV software lets me schedule shows and for OTA has a program guide. Roku-XR (1080p component) > EyeTV HD box > 2012 iMac > EyeTV application Oh - And a Netflix account which I access through my old Roku > EyeTV - I record what I want to watch later (VLC, folks). To top it off, I live between 2 cities each with stations/towers so I get about 33 channels, including 3 different PBS channels and THEIR sub-channels (which all carry different programming - weird). ![]() Topped off with a roof top antenna running to an HDHomerun (twin tuners). I have an old Roku-XR which does 1080p component out. Also have an old EyeTV box which does 1080P via USB. Mac Person - I use EyeTV software from Elgato (works as a DVR) and have for years.
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