The problem with sling is that if I am watching a channel offered through this service on one television another individual in my home could not watch a different channel at the same time. According to them this is something that they are working on to improve or change.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 18, 2015, at 5:23 PM, Fred Olver <goodfo...@charter.net> wrote: > > You may or may not be able to reduce your cable subscription to cable. The > problem is that in order to receive several of the channels offered on the > Apple TV one must be able to get those channels presently on their cable. > Suggest you think about getting an app called Sling TV for your phone, see > information below. > > below... > Imagine everything you liked about cable. You probably enjoyed surfing the > channels, watching the shows people were talking about when they aired > instead of months after. And, if you were lucky enough to own boxes of a > certain caliber, pausing and rewinding said TV shows in real time. > Now, imagine everything you hated: the costly bill at the end of the month, > the bulky, expensive equipment that marred the side of your house and > entertainment center. Not to mention the service contract that never seemed > to end. > But what if you could get everything you loved about TV without any of those > gripes? > That, in a nutshell, is Sling TV. > It's live TV streaming whenever and wherever. No contracts, no equipment and > no costly statement. > Sling TV? Is it the same thing as a Slingbox?While there are some concepts > borrowed from Slingbox, Sling TV is in a different league when it comes to > cutting the cord. > Sling TV is a US-only service offered from DISH that allows you to watch the > channels you'd typically find on basic cable for $20 a month without a > contract, subscription to DISH or any pesky cable equipment on your roof or > in your living room. > What devices can I use to watch it?Create an account on DISH's website and > use that info to login to the app on iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV and Amazon > Fire TV Stick, Google's Nexus Player, Xbox One and Roku TV. The service will > also work on select LG and Samsung smart TVs, and on Macs and PCs via a > website portal. The service is expected to come to Google Chromecastlater > this year. > > > The system is more eloquent than apps like TWC TV or Xfinity, and while the > latter is almost universally available, trying to remember whose name and > email you use to login can ruin a session before it even starts. > What channels are included?So far, channels on the basic, $20-per-month plan > include ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS, HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Travel > Channel, CNN, Cartoon Network, ABC Family, Disney Channel, AMC, IFC and, most > recently, A&E, History, H2, Lifetime, Bloomberg and most recently, Polaris+. > The biggest change to this roster is HBO. Starting April 12 for the premiere > of the new season of Game of Thrones, Sling TV will offer live HBO for $15 a > month to current "Best of Live TV" subscribers. Also new is the addition of > DishWorld multi-lingual content to Sling TV. > In addition to the base subscription, seven add-on packages are available for > $5 apiece each month: > a.. Kids Extra, with Disney Jr, Disney XD, Boomerang, Duck TV, and Baby TV. > b.. Sports Extra, which includes the SEC Network, ESPNEWS, ESPNU, Universal > Sports, Univision Deportes, beIN Sports, ESPN Buzzer Beater, ESPN Bases > Loaded and ESPN Goal Line. > c.. Lifestyle extra, with Cooking Channel, DIY, truTV, WE tv, FYI, and LMN. > d.. Hollywood Extra, which includes live and video-on-demand content from > EPIX, EPIX2, EPIX3, EPIX Drive-In, Sundance TV and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) > e.. World News Extra, with HLN, News 18 India, Euronews, NDTV 24x7, France24 > and RT. > f.. Deportes Extra includes Azteca, beIN Español, beIN HD (English), > Univison, Univision Deportes and UniMás. > g.. Películas & Novelas Extra includes Azteca Corazon, Cinelatino, De > Película, De Película Clasico, Pasiones, Univision tlnovelas, Univision and > UniMás. > FunctionalityNow, remember when you asked about Slingbox? Well, it's true, > Sling TV and Slingbox share a few similarities beyond the first syllable. > Sling TV allows you to pause, rewind and fast-forward live TV on some > channels (note the word "some" there), and the ability to watch shows a few > days after they've aired. > > > Also similar to Slingbox, Sling TV lets you watch its service on most mobile > devices anywhere in the world. That is, as long as you can establish and > maintain a bitrate of about 1.5 Mbps for high-quality streams, 0.8Mbps for > medium resolution, and 0.5 Mbps for low-quality. > Sling TV on Roku TechRadar was given two platforms to test Sling TV. One was > Roku (specifically on a Roku 3) and the other was iOS, which we'll get to in > a minute. > By and large, the experience on Roku was everything I've come to love about a > cable box: simple functionality, clean layout and crisp picture. Installing > the app was as easy as going to Roku channel store, finding the Sling TV app > and pushing it to my Roku 3. > Coming from the home screen, Sling TV's interface loads up In a matter of > seconds. The time it takes to get from home screen to live TV is astonishing > - it's leagues faster than the time it takes my DirecTV cable box to boot up. > Once loaded, the stream was crisp and clear. (This obviously is a YMMV > situation, as my home setup isn't identical - or even necessarily in the same > ballpark - as everyone else.) A quick test of my network showed I was pulling > around 26Mbps over Wi-Fi, which worked fairly well at high-quality 1080p 99% > of the time. > > > The only stark contrast to traditional cable, at this point at least, is the > amount of content available on Sling TV. > Comparatively, the 40-or-so channels offered on Sling TV are just a drop in > the bucket compared to the over-800 I have available on DirecTV. And because > you aren't able to record a show like you can on TiVo, you're limited to > watching whatever's on or whatever's been on in the past few days. > Sling TV on iOSSling TV on iOS is a vastly different experience. Not only are > you trading down to a smaller screen size, but you're also losing connection > stability and clean interface of the set-top app. > Using an iPhone 5S for testing, I took Sling TV with me for a gauntlet of > daily errands. As you might expect, over LTE the stream was nearly flawless. > Dropping down to 3G, however, presented real problems as seconds slipped away > to buffering screens. > > > Problematically, when you return home, continuing what you were watching on > your phone isn't as simple as starting up your Roku. You'll need to go into > the menu, find the show you were watching and rewind it manually. > DISH is clearly (and rightfully) afraid of the account-sharing trap that has > befallen HBO Go and Netflix, and doesn't allow two devices using the same > account to run the service simultaneously. > Trying to use both a phone and a Roku at the same time won't work either. > DISH is clearly (and rightfully) afraid of the account-sharing trap that has > befallen HBO Go and Netflix, and doesn't allow two devices using the same > account to run the service simultaneously. > Overall, I found the iOS experience less enjoyable than the set-top app, but > still impressive. Being able to take TV figuratively anywhere is an > appealing, practical proposition for morning commuters or long-distance > travelers. > Sling TV on Amazon Fire TVSling TV made a splash this week by offering a a > free Fire TV Stick to new subscribers. To activate your subscription on your > new device, check out Sling TV on the "featured app" section of the > storefront, start the download, enter in your account info and soon you'll > have live TV on your favorite Amazon device. > The interface on Amazon Fire TV looks almost identical to the service on > Roku, which is to say clean and convenient. Pressing the "list" button on > Fire TV remotes brings up a channel listing while the three media control > buttons do their things on playback-enabled channels. > The service looks a little clearer than it did on Roku - Sling probably set > the highest visual quality as a default on Amazon devices - but it does seem > to hit a few more snags. The system was stuck in buffering for such a long > time at one point that it completely shutoff. Whether this was a one-time > fluke or a persistent problem remains to be seen... > > > Sling TV on Xbox OneWhen I heard Sling was shooting for five platforms in > five months, I had my doubts it could keep up with the development pace. Yet > here we are just two months later talking about the fourth version of the > system, XboxOne. > If you've used the service on any of the set-top boxes so far, you'll > probably know what to expect here. > The channel interface is brought up with a flick of the stick in any > direction, while the menu button (formerly known as start) opens up a menu > for video-on-demand movies. Last but not least is the share button (again, > formerly known as back) that brings up a menu that filters channels by > category. > One major change worth noting is that Sling - unlike some apps on Xbox One - > actually utilizes the Kinect to take in voice commands and allows you to pin > both video-on-demand and specific channels to your home screen. > During testing I noticed a fair bit of latency (38ms compared to 30 on my > tablet), which caused the service to stop and stutter multiple times. This > occurred with a 4.24Mbps download speed and could be a worrying sign for > potential Xbox One users. > Fred OlverOverall the service looks great and is functionally stable on Xbox > One, but its performance - as users have noted in the comments - will > definitely vary depending on your connection speed. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laury-Johnson, Shawnese (LARA)" > <laury-johns...@michigan.gov> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 10:26 AM > Subject: RE: Apple Tv > > > Thank you so much. I'm definitely going to wait. I'm thinking of reducing my > current cable subscription down tremendously after getting the apple tv. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 11:12 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Apple Tv > > Nobody knows which if any of the new features will be supported by the third > generation Apple TV. It is likely that one of the big features will be an app > store for the Apple TV which allows you to install apps which third party > developers will make. These could be anything from games to apps from > organisations like CNN or BBC to apps from music services like Spotify, > Deezer and so on. This will hugely enhance the functionality and usefulness > of the Apple TV since it of course is logical that you may want to play > content from a music service or news organization via your TV or sound system > the Apple TV is attached to. Of course the app store may be supported by the > third gen Apple TV, but nobody can say for sure. > Another expected enhancement to the Apple TV is SIRI integration and control. > My guess is that you will be able to talk to the Apple TV via the remote and > tell it to open a certain app or play something etc. I highly doubt that the > third gen Apple TV which is already 3-year old hardware will be able to > support this. > Next is the upcoming offering of a subscription based TV service. Once again, > maybe this will be supported or maybe not. > One should keep in mind that while the second gen Apple TV still can play > Netflix and a bunch of the existing channels, it does not even have Youtube > support any more. This quietly disappeared a few months ago. > Lastly there is the expected integration and support of many connected home > automation devices like thermostats, lights, locks and so on. You may not > have these now, but such devices will be the norm rather than the exception > in the coming years. > > I think in general that it is simply a bad idea to rush out and buy an Apple > TV now even though it may only be $50 especially because we already know from > rumours that a new Apple TV maybe announced as soon as September 9. That is > only 3 weeks away and within another week or so we probably know for sure if > Apple is sending out invites for a September 9 event or if it will be held a > week later. Why not wait these few weeks and see what happens, if no Apple TV > is forthcoming you can still spend your $50 in 3 weeks, but what you can > currently do with the Apple TV will not replace your existing cable > subscription. > I would give the same advice to somebody who wants to buy a new iPhone > although that is a bit different because iPhones are updated annually whereas > the last Apple TV update was 3 years ago. It is my guess that while a new > Apple TV will probably cost more than $50, it will not be hundreds of Dollars > simply because it is in Apple's interest to keep the price low so people get > it and then subscribe to channels, consume paid iTunes content or buy apps > from the new Apple TV app store which of course will generate a new source of > income for Apple. > > > > Best regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Laury-Johnson, Shawnese (LARA) > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 4:53 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Apple Tv > > I have another question about the apple tv with regards to getting it now or > waiting for the new version to be released. If I get it now and they do come > out with a new version will I be able to update what I have or will I have to > purchase something additional? > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Brian Fischler > Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 4:59 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Apple Tv > > If you have the extra money why wait for the new Apple TV which we do not > know when it will be coming, you can buy an Apple TV on Amazon currently for > $50, totally worth it. And on another note you do not need a TV to connect it > to if you have a receiver or Sound Bar as I hooked mine up without a TV via > optical cable $5 bucks for the cable on Amazon. Good luck. >> On Aug 17, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Chuck Dean <chuckd...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> I just replaced my Roku box with an Apple TV. The AppleTV is very >> accessible, and easy to use. The Roku box has absolutely no excess ability >> whatsoever, and was almost impossible for me to see what was on the screen. >> >> I plan to wait and see what the new AppleTV brings, I may buy it and replace >> my current Apple TV box, which I bought about a month ago. >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at >> caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - 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