What Are You Watching Now

Dashrender

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Watching Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:

@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Watching Now:

Keep meaning to catch up on GoT but things keep coming up that get in the way.

Guy in NC keeps killing me with spoilers... Like how last week DT:MoD;BoC;yadayada killed JS:KotN and ate his heart...

Ughhhhhh I know enough to think that JS is John Snow, King of the North? So now I know he's dead

Dang, I need to catch up from season 2... figuring out how to do that legally may be an issue tho

not really, subscribe to HBO Go.

Obsolesce

Just watched the last episode of Better Call Saul last night. Great show.

I did that instead of Duolingo... can't do it all!

DustinB3403

Hell I totally forgot about GOT on Sunday night, was busy renovating my house.

I'm going to have to watch it.

DustinB3403

@QuixoticJeremy just get a SlingTV account, you can have HBO and like 45 other good channels for ~$35/month

NerdyDad

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@QuixoticJeremy just get a SlingTV account, you can have HBO and like 45 other good channels for ~$35/month

I just subscribed to SlingTV and I am not too entirely impressed with it. I've watched on my laptop, my phone, and the TV. Phone and TV still has some problems. I have not really watched it a lot on the laptop, so I can't tell if that is affected as well. I generally see mono-audio and grainy video until it fully buffers. That is when the stereo and video really kicks into gear. That generally takes about 30 seconds. However, between shows, it will start a new buffer. So, if you watch one channel for a few hours, then you will see when the shows break because it will fall back from stereo to mono and the video will suffer as it tries to rebuffer the new show. Plus, the DVR is not capable on all channels. Some channels you can pause and rewind, but not all of them. Shows that you have recorded? Sure, but not all that you are capable of watching.

One major downside is that the stream will just cut out for no reason at all and the show will just drop. Could be an application issue.

Plus, some markets are missing CBS (DFW) and all markets are missing ABC. Bear those in mind as well.

On paper, it is a great service, but in practice, they still have some work to do to really get this service to where it needs to be, either in networking services or in app development.

Dashrender

@nerdydad said in What Are You Watching Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@QuixoticJeremy just get a SlingTV account, you can have HBO and like 45 other good channels for ~$35/month

I just subscribed to SlingTV and I am not too entirely impressed with it. I've watched on my laptop, my phone, and the TV. Phone and TV still has some problems. I have not really watched it a lot on the laptop, so I can't tell if that is affected as well. I generally see mono-audio and grainy video until it fully buffers. That is when the stereo and video really kicks into gear. That generally takes about 30 seconds. However, between shows, it will start a new buffer. So, if you watch one channel for a few hours, then you will see when the shows break because it will fall back from stereo to mono and the video will suffer as it tries to rebuffer the new show. Plus, the DVR is not capable on all channels. Some channels you can pause and rewind, but not all of them. Shows that you have recorded? Sure, but not all that you are capable of watching.

One major downside is that the stream will just cut out for no reason at all and the show will just drop. Could be an application issue.

Plus, some markets are missing CBS (DFW) and all markets are missing ABC. Bear those in mind as well.

On paper, it is a great service, but in practice, they still have some work to do to really get this service to where it needs to be, either in networking services or in app development.

These are similar issues I've found.

DustinB3403

@nerdydad I've had the application just drop out on me (channel master dvr+) but have never had quality issues. I attribute this to the fiber internet service I have at my residence.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

Just started Season 3 of Cheers

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name....

NerdyDad

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@nerdydad I've had the application just drop out on me (channel master dvr+) but have never had quality issues. I attribute this to the fiber internet service I have at my residence.

I have 100/7.5 cable and have no issues at all with Netflix, either on the TV or the phone. So, I'm thinking this is more of Sling than my ISP.