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Published: Jul 4, 2015
Author: sneakypete
Post Date: 2015-07-04 20:44:05 by sneakypete
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www.sling.com

Above is the link to the homepage of sling tv,and below is a review by CNET magazine.

www.cnet.com/news/sling-t...rything-you-need-to-know/

Anybody else at LF trying this streaming tv service? 1st week is free,and after that it is 20 bucks a month and you get AMC and TNT,among other stations.

HBO is another $15 per month.

There are also free movies for your basic monthy subscription,as well as pay movies.

My Direct TV account was 70 bucks per month,but is creeping back up to a little over 100 bucks a month again,so I am looking for options.

I subscribed and hook up to it using my ROKU player,but you can also do both on your PC,or even on your smart phone.

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Just subscribed a couple hours ago,and have mixed feelings about it. A lot of the programs I would watch on it can also be watched on my Netflix and my Amazon Prime account for free,but not all. RIght now I have am/have been watching the History Channel on it,and the History Channel is also available on Netflix. Haven't checked to see if the programming is identical yet,though.

Frankly,AMC and TNT are big draws for me and why I am looking into it.

So far MY opinion is that it works as advertised,but there are a couple of negatives. The 2 big negatives is I don't see any way to record programs there yet,and the programming is hard to figure out. Frankly,I am spoiled by my Dish Network and Direct TV DVR's and their ability to check upcoming shows and record them instantly as well as VOD shows. Trying to find and view a program in episode order is at best "clunky" for me.

I may just decide at the end of the 7 days that it's worth another 80 bucks a month to have the convenience of recording and an excellent search engine from Dish or Direct. My time may not be worth much dollar wise,but it is worth something to me and I would rather spend it watching shows than trying to find them and remember when they come on.

What say yee?

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#80. To: Pericles, A K A Stone, TooConservative, GrandIsland, Fred Mertz, misterwhite, jeremiad, All, *Science and technology* (#0) (Edited)

Ok,here is an update.

Yesterday I opened and viewed a small part of the first torrent I downloaded yesterday,right after downloading Bit Comet,just to make sure everything worked.

It was episode 1 of season 3 of Homeland. That was one of my favorite shows,and I lost it when I cut back on my sat subscription. There are 12 episodes per season.

I downloaded season 4 last night,and Bit Comet was no quicker than Torrent downloading it,and a lot trickier to get to the download than Torrent was.Primarily because I never could figure out how to get Bit Comet to go to a URL address and Lime Torrents wasn't in their list of "Top Torrent Sites".

Took around 8 hours to download a 12 episode season both times.

I never was able to figure out how to make Lime Torrents a bookmark in Bit Comet but managed to download season 4 of Homeland from there anyhow.Not sure what I did or how I did it,though.

The bonus is/was that the Bit Comet player works great!

I may keep Torrents to use for downloading files,and Bit Comet for viewing and organizing them.

BTW,WTH are "peers" and "trackers"?

sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-07   9:20:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#96. To: sneakypete, A K A Stone, Pericles (#80)

Took around 8 hours to download a 12 episode season both times.

That's not bad.

Flash drives are starting to be cheap enough to store old TV shows on. Or you can burn DVDs if you want to save up these shows. Or just store them on a 1TB backup drive.

Most TV shows come in 350MB versions. You could store 350 42-minute 350MB standard resolution TV shows on a $50 1TB USB3 drive, for instance. If you want HD shows at 720p, it takes more.

For what you guys are after, maybe TorrenTv would make sense. It's like a specialized upgraded Popcorn Time. It also has instant torrent streaming (like Netflix) and it is built for viewing torrents on your TV in the quickest and easiest way possible.

TorrentFreak: TorrenTV Instantly Streams Movie Torrents to Apple TV

BGR: Pirate paradise: New app streams movie torrents to Apple TV and Roku

http://torrentv.github.io/

I haven't tried it yet though. It's still in beta and the author is taking $1 donations. It started streaming only to AppleTV devices but they've added Roku (a special Roku channel) and Chromecast support. I know it has gotten good reviews from many websites and it is open-source.

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#98. To: TooConservative (#96)

Flash drives are starting to be cheap enough to store old TV shows on. Or you can burn DVDs if you want to save up these shows. Or just store them on a 1TB backup drive.

I almost never save tv shows or movies anymore. I watch them and then delete them. Anytime I want to watch them again they are always out there somewhere to be found and viewed.

I do have a 1TB as well as a 2TB and a smaller portable HDd'S,though. Mostly because I record stuff and then wait until I have the time to watch them. I also record a lot of stuff on my Channel Master for later viewing,and you pretty much have to have a portable HDD if you use one of them because they don't have squat for file storage.

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