I have the tivo OTA box. It's great! I ended up having to spend another couple hundred bucks on a rooftop antenna though. I also got the tivo mini box for the living room (main box in the bedroom) to share the DVRed stuff. They even have common apps on the box too like netflix, hulu, etc. I rarely if ever have to switch off of the tivo.
That's the part that stops me getting one of these. In the end I'll feel like I'm just paying another device fee and for really only a handful of OTA channels (vs. a cable box that can record any channel). I agree if it worked with Sling it would make a ton more sense but I got a hard time believing something like that would be a reality anytime soon.
Yeah especially since you can just get Hulu+ and it will have almost all the OTA stuff anyways unless you're trying to record OTA sports or something
Are you sure? Sling is 20$ a month. How many seasons of shows could you outright buyeach monthon what it would cost you to have a DVR enabled system with you local cable provider?
I think Slings BIG selling feature is ESPN and live sports, moreso than the rest of their channels. Hulu does nothing for that.
Curious what the future is going to being after the big hiccup earlier in the month about the media and especially how they targeted ESPN in many of the articles about having lost share etc...
I'd have zero TV services if it weren't for live sports.
I dunno, the popularity of amc shows (walking dead, Saul) may also have something to do with it. Also don't discount a channel like hgtv, which my wife and others I know watch all the time and wasn't streaming anywhere before sling.
HGTV shows can just be streamed straight off their website after they air, can't they? That's how my mom watches all that shit now that they cut their cable way back to the basics. Food Network shows too. Mind you, this is in Canada off of their .ca sites, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't the same from .com.
To stream HGTV live off their website or watch the newest stuff you need a subscription to a cable provider. With Sling you are paying for convenience of duplicating (somewhat) the cable tv environment without paying a crazy high cable bill. Their selling point is you want to watch the channels they offer live (like ESPN). I can see them adding DVR functionality as a higher price tier in order to appease the channel providers.
Must just be a socialist Canadian thing then. No login required here, which is nice because there's some pretty decent shows to watch.
It is indeed a capitalist (not socialist) Canadian thing. We can't access most content up here without a subscription to either cable or satellite, which is why I VPN to the States for my TV. Win-win, since most Canadian TV is garbage anyway.
Are you just VPN'ing for American Netflix? Or is there some other awesome shit I should know about?
