I'll be going with a FireTV when my contract ends. I'm paying $230/month now for Cox cable. 100 Mbps internet / 220 channels + HBO + Sports package [basically every sports channel for another $7/mo] and telephone. I am forced to pay $50/mo for the telephone alone, part of the bundle, even though I've never used it, never connected a phone to the box, fucking pointless. I got locked into this 2 year contract and had to bundle the phone as I was moving into a new place and refused to not have cable/internet until they offered a bundle without the phone
nobody should feel bad for me, but I am using a xfinity hotspot as internet. Works great. Been using MLB.tv for months. Now, all of a sudden, it says I am in the blackout zone due to location services and shit. Any troubleshooting this?
Late to the party, but sportsdevil actually worked better for me than normal. Make sure it's up to date.
Cool, I'll check it out tonight. I know its hit or miss with some streams, but I just feel like lately I've had zero luck finding a working stream.
If you are using it on a mobile device, you can use a GPS spoofer app and set your location to a spot that would be outside the blackout zone. I assume those apps exist on iOS but I have no clue.
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I used the firstrowsports.eu links and they did fairly well for me. Usually doesn't so I was quite surprised.
YouTube TV now available in Austin. Final step will be getting fiber internet at my ace then pulling plug on Uverse.
waiting for us to get it. i don't need it to watch anything but i will get it for a few months to have dvr capabilities for champions league games
I signed up for YouTube TV a few months ago just by using a VPN when signing up. Set my location to New York and it worked. Not sure if that still works or not.
Smoothstreams has been great for me. Watched CFB and NFL without any issues. Been using it for basic cable channels as well.
Feel free to connect me to a different thread but I searched and couldn't find one. I am moving in 2 months and finally looking to have the TV setup I have always wanted. Going to have a roughly 12x14 second bedroom that I will be making into an entertainment room. My wish is the wall mount 2 of the same TV right next to each other to have 2 games on at once while also looking nice. I have started researching for the 2 TVs (would like 65 but fear it could be a bit big for the space) but was wondering if anyone has done a similar setup and has any advice on what worked and what didn't.
Thanks for posting this. Been paying $20/mo for Google Fiber TV that just has national TV channels + some locals.
Google's version of sling/PS Vue/DirecTV Now etc Online only/cord cutting TV service. You still need to buy internet service. $38/month after taxes. 14 day free trial. I pay $140 for cable and internet (24mbps) now. If I make the full switch, I'll save $50-$60 a month. Only network of significance I would lose is Bein and maybe another fringe sports channels, such as LHN. I attend all Texas home games, so LHN isn't even a draw to me.
I was trying to figure out what Vein was for ten seconds. Thought it was a gay porn channel at first. Turns out it is, one that I miss as well.
ive been researching a desktop computer so i can hook it up to my tv and enjoy that on the big screen
I have it on my fire tv, but I'm being greedy and want to watch more than one game at a time. On a computer you access multi view
Gears is another program you can run on a fire stick for $15/month. Private program so there are limited people watching it. Use PayPal, we watched the fights and everything else on it with no issue.
Oh yay, another streaming service https://www.recode.net/2017/9/25/16...etflix-amazon-the-americans-oj-american-crime
This is incredibly stupid on Fox's part. Why pull shows from the streaming services when FX+ is only available to Comcast Xfinity customers? Even if I wanted to be a Comcast customer, lol at the notion of that, I couldn't because Comcast isn't even an option for me.
With all these channels wanting to take all their stuff off Netflix and the like and onto their own platform, everyone loses. It's becoming increasingly wasteful to maintain a regular subscription with any of the three main streaming sites - Netflix, Amazon, Hulu. HBO is likely the only channel that has a streaming service potentially worth maintaining a subscription to. So now you are looking at signing up for one place for a month or two at the time, canceling, going to another one for a month or two, canceling, rinse and repeat. Everyone loses. Customer has to go through so many hoops to get what they want, none of the streaming services or networks get a consistent cash flow, except Amazon since I assume nearly everyone with Prime signs up for the whole year instead of the monthly plan.
I think Netflix should be on par with HBO. Quality consistent content. But I hear what you are saying. I am using Vue now and I don't have HBO this month because nothing I watch is on and if I want to binge something I buy it until I am done.
Well yeah but I don't consider Netflix a channel. I would consider dropping it as a regular subscription if I wasn't splitting the cost with two others. At $3.33 a month each it's not worth the trouble of canceling and resubscribing. I do that with Hulu now though. Amazon Prime I pay for the whole year since I shop there a lot. Everything else I am just going to take it a month at a time.
We knew it would start to go this way. In a few years, cable or SAT will be the cheaper option if you want lots of content, other than using Kodi or something like that. It's all by design
Truth. Way back in the day, before ESPN2 was standard on basic cable packages, I was paying $5 a month for ESPN2. Could have added several other channels for a few bucks a month as well. Only difference is that you had to commit to it for a year, unlike now with the streaming stuff you can sign up for a month then cancel. Once this whole a la carte cable TV train started, I told people who wanted cable to be all a la carte that it would end up being more expensive, but no one wanted to listen. Being able to subscribe/cancel on a month-by-month basis to streaming stuff makes it a bit more palatable though. I think a lot of people are just going to change how they watch their favorite shows instead of going back to the costly model that they left. Instead of trying to keep up with your shows on a weekly basis, subscribe to the streaming service that gets the season of the show you want to watch and watch it all in a chunk or a few chunks over a couple to a few weeks. And if you need your sports, just subscribe to basic cable. As far as I'm aware, ESPN, ESPN2, Fox Sports, and probably NBC Sports are part of nearly every basic sports package. That along with your local channels should have you covered for most of what you want unless your team is frequently on SEC Network or some random channel like American Sports Network
Watchespn is shit way too much. Gigabit connection and trying to watch Monday night football you would have thought I was on dial up.
All the sports streaming products are crap. I’ll try to find an illegal stream first. Sadly they’re usually more reliable / less choppy
I used watchespn for years and literally never had any problems with it until last year, when it was heavily advertised.