Sling TV

[Man Called X]

Don't know if everyone has seen this. It's called Sling TV, but it's basically Internet TV. Has ESPN, TNT, and about 15 other channels for $20 a month. Get a free month trial if you have an Xbox One. I'm pleasantly surprised so far. Would like to see the viacom channels like Comedy Central make their appearance, but I'm sure that will come in time.

Obviously you've got Playstation Vue at $50 a month in a few select cities and it's got more channels + locals, but no ESPN.

And Apple has their service coming out soon, but nothing official on channel lineups etc.

I'm streaming from my LTE connection, haven't had any issues over the past couple hours watching TV. You still have commercials, but at $50 cheaper and only missing 3 channels I actually watch, it's a game changer for me.

 

[gourimoko]

Yeah there is a thread about it I think. @Rob seems to be pretty knowledgeable as well.

But, before you buy it, if you've got a PS4, Sony just dropped the killer app in Playstation Vue. Apparently it shits on all things everywhere; the only channel it doesn't have is ESPN. But there's word you can watch all the local games and March Madness on Vue so, that's pretty dope.

And AFAIK you can get ESPN through Roku, and with Ballstreams it's like, who gives a fuck about ESPN?

I'm probably going to get Vue next month.. The only reason I even have cable is for my wife so she can watch foreign language programming.

 

[gourimoko]

Btw, you particularly might be interested in looking into getting an IKS box and saying fuck everything.. Get all of Dish TV for next to nothing.

But that's another conversation (and you'd need to be able to use a dish, and I think we talked about that previously).

 

[Man Called X]

Yeah there is a thread about it I think. @Rob seems to be pretty knowledgeable as well.

But, before you buy it, if you've got a PS4, Sony just dropped the killer app in Playstation Vue. Apparently it shits on all things everywhere; the only channel it doesn't have is ESPN. But there's word you can watch all the local games and March Madness on Vue so, that's pretty dope.

And AFAIK you can get ESPN through Roku, and with Ballstreams it's like, who gives a fuck about ESPN?

I'm probably going to get Vue next month.. The only reason I even have cable is for my wife so she can watch foreign language programming.

To get ESPN through Roku, you have to have a subscriber email to login with. And as for Playstation Vue, it's only in 3 markets right now, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York. And it's $50 a month, doesn't have ESPN, and still has a shitload of channels I don't want.

 

[gourimoko]

To get ESPN through Roku, you have to have a subscriber email to login with. And as for Playstation Vue, it's only in 3 markets right now, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York. And it's $50 a month, doesn't have ESPN, and still has a shitload of channels I don't want.

Indeed... didn't realize it was only in limited markets.

But to be honest, I don't watch ESPN for shit... like FUCK ESPN.

I just wish I could get the fucking foreign channels and I'd cut the cable out entirely. Amazon/Hulu/Netflix + Roku/Plex is working great for me..

 

[Ohio]

I only care to have ESPN for live sports.

And ya there was a discussion about Sling in the HBONOW thread.

Definitely getting it, soon.

Vue is $50 additional though? I already pay $50 for PS+

 

[Man Called X]

I only care to have ESPN for live sports.

And ya there was a discussion about Sling in the HBONOW thread.

Definitely getting it, soon.

Vue is $50 additional though? I already pay $50 for PS+

Starts out at $50 additional. Up to $70 I think.

 

[Man Called X]

Indeed... didn't realize it was only in limited markets.

But to be honest, I don't watch ESPN for shit... like FUCK ESPN.

I just wish I could get the fucking foreign channels and I'd cut the cable out entirely. Amazon/Hulu/Netflix + Roku/Plex is working great for me..

This with Comedy Central, History/Learning Channel + Plex/Ballstreams is all I need. I'm just running out of storage space without upgrading. It's to the point that I'm redownloading smaller file size version of 100+ TV series I have. I don't feel like reencoding myself.

 

[Ohio]

Ya, fuck that then.

Sling ftw

 

[Walter White]

I saw Vue is for download, and I don't live in one of the select cities so I don't get the point of that.

P.S., someone give me their HBO password please (yea, I'm still fishing for one, sorry).

 

[Walter White]

In 10-20 years, cable might not even exist anymore (at least "shows" on cable). All of the programming might be put directly on streaming programs. The only people that I know have cable are older. I bet a large number of people from the 18-30 range don't have cable.

 

[Man Called X]

Fuck. Didn't realize Viacom/Discovery and Fox/ABC/CBS made deals with Apple TV.

 

[gourimoko]

This with Comedy Central, History/Learning Channel + Plex/Ballstreams is all I need.

I feel that.

I'm just running out of storage space without upgrading. It's to the point that I'm redownloading smaller file size version of 100+ TV series I have.

Disks are cheap these days. If you're pretty settled in to where you live, it might be worth it to repurpose an old beat up PC and turn it into a FreeNAS server.

If it's all media, and you could give two shits about redundancy, you could just put everything in a JBOD or RAID-0 SoftRAID array (easily done automatically by the installer).

If you go with JBOD, you can just add disks as you please and files will span volumes. Makes organization a fucking breeze and removes the bullshit limitations of an NTFS filesystem.

I don't feel like reencoding myself.

Yeah.. totally understand. It might be worth it though. If you set it up in a virtual machine with a single core and just run ffmpeg over your local smb share you can more or less just let it run forever.

It'll constantly return disk space to you.

I think SickBeard does this automatically for you, I'm not sure though, I haven't used it in years. But yeah, running FreeNAS and ffmpeg in a background/forked task (with low priority) would be my solution.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ThwRCPN0NPs--vQqvFcznxoCft7w_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[Man Called X]

I feel that.



Disks are cheap these days. If you're pretty settled in to where you live, it might be worth it to repurpose an old beat up PC and turn it into a FreeNAS server.

If it's all media, and you could give two shits about redundancy, you could just put everything in a JBOD or RAID-0 SoftRAID array (easily done automatically by the installer).

If you go with JBOD, you can just add disks as you please and files will span volumes. Makes organization a fucking breeze and removes the bullshit limitations of an NTFS filesystem.



Yeah.. totally understand. It might be worth it though. If you set it up in a virtual machine with a single core and just run ffmpeg over your local smb share you can more or less just let it run forever.

It'll constantly return disk space to you.

I think SickBeard does this automatically for you, I'm not sure though, I haven't used it in years. But yeah, running FreeNAS and ffmpeg in a background/forked task (with low priority) would be my solution.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136874&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-All Desktop Hard Drives-_-N82E16822136874&gclid=CjwKEAjw56moBRD8_4-AgoOqhV4SJADWWVCc_02qaC1qFvX26-InAZ0UThwRCPN0NPs--vQqvFcznxoCft7w_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

I don't have any extra old PCs to turn into anything. I have what I'm using now and that's it. And 7 different external portable hard drives.

 

[gourimoko]

I don't have any extra old PCs to turn into anything. I have what I'm using now and that's it. And 7 different external portable hard drives.

That sounds very unwieldy...

http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi
http://raspberry-at-home.com/tag/freenas/

$35 dollar solution right there.. Quad-core, 1gb ram, ARM7, toss FreeNAS right on that bitch and use rTorrent for all you downloading and ffmpeg for all your reencoding.

But for $65 more, you can get a used Intel NUC with a Celeron or an Atom.

I would do this myself, as I want to build a portable media server that I can put away in my luggage; but I'm trying to find a way to do it and still get a 3D graphically capable HTPC.