I did try Sling a while back, but at that time for the channels I wanted it was more expensive, and the apps weren’t very accessible.. that might have changed now ...
Sent from my IPhome. > On Feb 5, 2019, at 3:51 PM, Laury, Shawnese (LARA) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Yes this does help. I too have been trying to research them and so far I have > tried direct tv now and sling. I have noticed some difficulty with both of > these. I will try the others and see which one I'm willing to deal with in > regards to accessibility issues. > Thanks > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Peter > Logan > Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 3:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Best streaming TV app > > 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. 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