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jibsey said:
Thanks, this makes a lot of sense but as a practical matter having these wires running all through the house would be tough especially with an attic and second floor above the main tv. It would be a monumental wiring job to get it to the other sets too without being conspicuous. Believe me I hate Comcast but may have to return if this gets to be too much of a problem. I also heard that the more households in the area that have the service can affect it. As years go by some of this stuff may get resolved with new tech.
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You could also use power line adapters in rooms that don't have Ethernet run to them. One caveat being that if you plug it into a wall outlet that is on the same electrical circuit as your fridge or ac unit, the connection may drop for a moment whenever those appliances kick on throughout the day. I use a couple of them for a room upstairs that has no Ethernet jacks in the wall so that I can hardwire my PC and my PS4.
 
Rico444 said:
If you like football, then PS Vue definitely since it comes with NFL network and has an option for red zone for $10 a month. If you don't care too much about that, then YoutubeTV is a similar price point and gets all the UConn channels you'll need (I think it's about $5 cheaper per month than PS Vue).
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But what about when UConn plays on ESPN 3?
 
scuba lou said:
But what about when UConn plays on ESPN 3?
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I now that if you have PS Vue, you can download the ESPN app, enter your PS Vue login information, and watch anything on ESPN 3 through that app. Not sure if that works through Youtube TV.
 
Just realized that YT TV doesn't carry NFL Network. Luckily the TNF games are now on network TV, because that's the most unreasonable omission on their lineup. They literally rock the Tennis channel(no hate meant)...
 
Rico444 said:
I now that if you have PS Vue, you can download the ESPN app, enter your PS Vue login information, and watch anything on ESPN 3 through that app. Not sure if that works through Youtube TV.
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YT TV you can actually "follow the UConn Men's Basketball team" and it records every live and classic game that is on any channel, including ESPN3 I believe
 
HuskyFich said:
YT TV you can actually "follow the UConn Men's Basketball team" and it records every live and classic game that is on any channel, including ESPN3 I believe
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Not sure about ESPN3, but it does record very nicely and if the game goes past it allotted time it will still record all of it.
 
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Minicoop69 said:
Not sure about ESPN3, but it does record very nicely and if the game goes past it allotted time it will still record all of it.
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Yeah, I’m guessing on ESPN3, but I cannot honestly remember one game I couldn’t watch last year...and I live in the Charlotte NC...

Not entirely sure how much credit I need to give to uconnhuskygames.com as well tho lol
 
There was a 3 year special promotion for Disney+ for $140 recently and unfortunately ended last week which I believe includes ESPN+. So now I have free ad enabled Hulu (from Sprint) and Disney+.

I guess when November rolls around I'll have to start calling to get all these accounts merged into 1.
 
Can people who have done this comment on pausing/rewinding/FF live TV? I know there are lots of DVR-like options for OTA. I want to know what works for non-OTA. What services allow this, or a form of it, and what receivers support it? For example, what can and can't be done with Hulu on Fire Cube or Hulu on Roku Ultra or YouTube on Fire Stick and so on.
 
ZenConn said:
There was a 3 year special promotion for Disney+ for $140 recently and unfortunately ended last week which I believe includes ESPN+. So now I have free ad enabled Hulu (from Sprint) and Disney+.

I guess when November rolls around I'll have to start calling to get all these accounts merged into 1.
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Nope, the Disney+ deal was only for the Disney+ piece. It was for 3 years. I did it because I have 2 young girls. But it doesn't include anything else I don't believe.
 
Engineer90 said:
Can people who have done this comment on pausing/rewinding/FF live TV? I know there are lots of DVR-like options for OTA. I want to know what works for non-OTA. What services allow this, or a form of it, and what receivers support it? For example, what can and can't be done with Hulu on Fire Cube or Hulu on Roku Ultra or YouTube on Fire Stick and so on.
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I have a Roku streaming stick on every TV in my house. I have YoutubeTV, Amazon prime, Hulu, Netflix, and HBO. Regarding DVR, with Youtubetv using a Roku, you can do whatever you want basically. Pause, rewind, fast forward through commercials. Anything you do with an old school TiVo, you can do with the Roku.
 
Minicoop69 said:
I have a Roku streaming stick on every TV in my house. I have YoutubeTV, Amazon prime, Hulu, Netflix, and HBO. Regarding DVR, with Youtubetv using a Roku, you can do whatever you want basically. Pause, rewind, fast forward through commercials. Anything you do with an old school TiVo, you can do with the Roku.
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Awesome, thanks! So Roku plus YT is a thumbs up. How about Hulu with Roku?
 
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Engineer90 said:
Awesome, thanks! So Roku plus YT is a thumbs up. How about Hulu with Roku?
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I don't have Hulu live, so I don't know that. But regular Hulu works well. There haven't been any issue with it at all.
 
Engineer90 said:
You can pause, rewind and FF?
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Yeah, but it works better with the higher priced Hulu because there aren't commercials. With the lower tier you can't fast forward through commercials. Because everything on Hulu has already aired thats why you are able to do all of that. Hulu Live is Live TV and fast forwarding live TV doesn't work.
 
Minicoop69 said:
There have been reports that with Youtubetv, ESPN3 is not working anymore. I haven't tried for myself, but people are reporting it.
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Other than youtube tv which of those others gets all the local channels live?
 
Minicoop69 said:
Yeah, but it works better with the higher priced Hulu because there aren't commercials. With the lower tier you can't fast forward through commercials. Because everything on Hulu has already aired thats why you are able to do all of that. Hulu Live is Live TV and fast forwarding live TV doesn't work.
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It is live TV I am most interested in. We like to be able to pause, grab dinner or whatever come back to resume watching and, ideally, fast forward through the commercials until we get back to the live TV point.
 
Minicoop69 said:
Nope, the Disney+ deal was only for the Disney+ piece. It was for 3 years. I did it because I have 2 young girls. But it doesn't include anything else I don't believe.
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Yeah I think you are right. According to what I'm reading, the entire bundle (Hulu, ESPN+ and Disney+) will be $12.99 a month. If you already have Disney+, we may have to call and ask for the bundle with the discounts :). Anyhow, we'll see come November.
 
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Engineer90 said:
It is live TV I am most interested in. We like to be able to pause, grab dinner or whatever come back to resume watching and, ideally, fast forward through the commercials until we get back to the live TV point.
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Yes, then that would work. I thought you wanted to fast forward through actual Live TV instead of pausing it. But why don't you just record the show and then replay it when you get back home.
 
Minicoop69 said:
Yes, then that would work. I thought you wanted to fast forward through actual Live TV instead of pausing it. But why don't you just record the show and then replay it when you get back home.
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We do that too. Just, sometimes, you need to grab a snack or poop and you don't want to miss anything from a live broadcast. Then ideally, you also use FF to skip the commercials as you work your way back to current time.
 
ZenConn said:
Yeah I think you are right. According to what I'm reading, the entire bundle (Hulu, ESPN+ and Disney+) will be $12.99 a month. If you already have Disney+, we may have to call and ask for the bundle with the discounts :). Anyhow, we'll see come November.
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That would be an ok deal, but that price is through Hulu and it only allows you to have 2 streams playing concurrently and Disney+ only allows for 1 stream, I think. Thats through Hulu, but the deal that they had for $140 for 3 years with just Disney+ allows at least 4 streams at once.
 
For me, it looks like Hulu and YouTube are the best options. My challenge will be convincing my wife to give up Comedy Central and, to a lesser extent, DIY.
 
3rdbass said:
I like sling for ability to downgrade to lower costs when I don't need both Orange and Blue. Though I'm having issues with buffering. PSVue I never had issues but the keep raising their prices and there was some buffering. I found Fubo TV the best quality that I used. I only had it for a week so I could watch a Liverpool game until I bought an Atenna to see it on NBC. Too bad Fubo TV doesn't have ESPN in the their price or I would choose it as it is the best service in my opinion but it is too expensive.
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Which is better for streaming UConn games if I live in California? YouTubeTV or Sling?
 
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Shine33 said:
Which is better for streaming UConn games if I live in California? YouTubeTV or Sling?
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You will want Youtube TV $50 as Sling TV ($55 with DVR, Blue and Orange and extra sports pack for Orange) doesn't care CBSSN even on their additional sports packages. Youtube TV should carry everything else but there has been reports that you can't access ESPN3 through the ESPNWatch app through your Youtube TV login. I personally will go with either Hulu TV $45 and has everything I need except AMC or PSVUE $55 and has everything. It really won't matter where you are located as all the games are either on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNNEWS, CBS, CBSSN and ESPN3. CBS broadcast is dependent on your region and really is a roll of the dice if you will get it living in Cali. I know living in Georgia we normally get it unless there is an competing SEC game.
 
3rdbass said:
You will want Youtube TV $50 as Sling TV ($55 with DVR, Blue and Orange and extra sports pack for Orange) doesn't care CBSSN even on their additional sports packages. Youtube TV should carry everything else but there has been reports that you can't access ESPN3 through the ESPNWatch app through your Youtube TV login. I personally will go with either Hulu TV $45 and has everything I need except AMC or PSVUE $55 and has everything. It really won't matter where you are located as all the games are either on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNNEWS, CBS, CBSSN and ESPN3. CBS broadcast is dependent on your region and really is a roll of the dice if you will get it living in Cali. I know living in Georgia we normally get it unless there is an competing SEC game.
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Watched ESPN3 via ESPN app on my Roku streaming stick this weekend. It is linked to my YouTube TV account.
 
Wait so why is ESPN trying to move everything to ESPN3 when these cord cutting TV services have those chann- oh wait ITS ALL OF THE MONEY
 
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