I have been doing a lot of research on this lately as my DT contract is about to be up. A lot of it is going to depend on what you want to watch and how you watch it. If you watch live or want to watch from a DVR. If you care about described content or not. Here is what I have found so far, some of this might also be controlled by local stations and what they are required to provide.
Spectrum TV This seems to work well for watching live TV. It’s easy to access both on the IPhone and Apple TV. It seems to provide SAP on most of the channels in my area that provide it. No DVR, however you can watch “on Demand”, but have to deal with ads and no SAP there. you can pair this with a traditional cable box and via that watch DVR, but you can’t via the app. DirectV Now App on the IPhone works well, but on Apple TV you have to really work hard to get any useful info out of the guide. Someone recently answered a question I had here about that and they responded that the FireTV works better for the guide, however you can browse via network and swith to the channel that way. DTN gives you 20 hours of a cloud DVR. You can access that quite easily and it works pretty well both on the IPhone and ATV. It allows you to skip commercials and such. I have yet to figure out if SAP is available. In the settings I have “English Descriptive” as the language, but don’t get anything there. YouTube TV It was about a month ago I played with this one, so might not be correctly anymore. This one did allow for SAP when you were watching the live feed, or the DVR recording within a couple of hours of the actual broadcast. After a short period the recordings seemed to swap to the “On Demand” version, and once that happened you couldn’t skip commercials or get the SAP anymore. The interface on the IPhone whas better than on the ATV, but again this was back in Dec. so that might have changed. Hulu Also tried this with the live channels. Didn’t spend a lot of time with this because the interface is still not the best. So, I got rid of it. Most of these start around $40/month, eccept for the Spectrum TV which you can get for about $25, but you are only supposed to get your locals and 10 channels you choose. For some reason I was only limited on the cable box and via the app had access to all channels. A call to Spectrum said that the system would eventually sync that up. I’d suggest that you download the apps and give them a whirl. Most of them will give you 7 days free to try. Hope this helps. Sent from my IPhome. > On Feb 5, 2019, at 1:06 PM, Conrad Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is the best streaming TV app for iPhone and Apple TV with voiceover? > Please help > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone 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 V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://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 V iPhone 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 V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
