Hulu Live and blackouts and thoughts...

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Anyone have experience with Hulu Live? Looks to be the answer to cutting the cord but worried about local sports being blacked out? Over all what are your thoughts?
 
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coffeevol said:
Anyone have experience with Hulu Live? Looks to be the answer to cutting the cord but worried about local sports being blacked out? Over all what are your thoughts?
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Had hulu severals months and love it. Watch all Tennessee sports, griss, pred etc and never had a blackout.
Be sure to get a good antenna for local channels though. Some will pick up through hulu but not all.
 
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I switched to PSVue from Sling a year or so ago. (Too many quality issues). I have compared to Hulu live and Youtube live, but their DVR functions seem suspect and not worth the change for my use.. I live in the Raleigh, NC market so the blackouts don't effect me.
 
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Thanks, we just tried the feel week trial and picture is great, channels are awesome. When we put the preds game into record it said may be subject to blackout, I can imagine them not having local games.
 
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TennesseeTarheel said:
I switched to PSVue from Sling a year or so ago. (Too many quality issues). I have compared to Hulu live and Youtube live, but their DVR functions seem suspect and not worth the change for my use.. I live in the Raleigh, NC market so the blackouts don't effect me.
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I really dont see the need to use thier dvr functions. You can watch anything at anytime.
 
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I have tried most everything available, sling, hulu, psvue, droidstream, and now youtube tv. with droidstream there is an almost unlimited amount to watch, and you own the device. You need at least 25 mbps to keep it from buffering a lot, but it loses connection a lot. Psvue was the better in my opinion between sling, hulu, with more channels available. I now use youtubetv and it has all the local channels without having to have an outside antennae. You don't need anything more than a modem and an android cell phone to use it, it has SEC network, ESPN, Fox sports, USA, FX, all the major news networks. It's only $35.00 per month, my internet is through AT&TUverse and it's only 18mbps and works fine. Just my opinion, and a little info for anyone interested.
 
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bigorangepoppa said:
I have tried most everything available, sling, hulu, psvue, droidstream, and now youtube tv. with droidstream there is an almost unlimited amount to watch, and you own the device. You need at least 25 mbps to keep it from buffering a lot, but it loses connection a lot. Psvue was the better in my opinion between sling, hulu, with more channels available. I now use youtubetv and it has all the local channels without having to have an outside antennae. You don't need anything more than a modem and an android cell phone to use it, it has SEC network, ESPN, Fox sports, USA, FX, all the major news networks. It's only $35.00 per month, my internet is through AT&TUverse and it's only 18mbps and works fine. Just my opinion, and a little info for anyone interested.
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I've noticed that YouTube is more stable in general than other streaming services. Is it that way with their TV too?
 
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I've been on DirecTV Now for two months and it's worked just fine.
 
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I tried Hulu live TV for two months. Streaming live sports from SEC Network (and everywhere else) was ridiculously poor. Super Bowl stream ceased to exist for final 4 minutes. All live TV was constantly skipping, jumping back an forth, dropping and jitter. Virtually unwatchable. YouTube TV proved to be far more stable. Hulu is not ready to handle live TV rebroadcast. I dropped Hulu last month. YouTube (Google) has a far more sufficient network infrastructure to handle the demands of Live TV rebroadcast.
 
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Old Geezer said:
I tried Hulu live TV for two months. Streaming live sports from SEC Network (and everywhere else) was ridiculously poor. Super Bowl stream ceased to exist for final 4 minutes. All live TV was constantly skipping, jumping back an forth, dropping and jitter. Virtually unwatchable. YouTube TV proved to be far more stable. Hulu is not ready to handle live TV rebroadcast. I dropped Hulu last month. YouTube (Google) has a far more sufficient network infrastructure to handle the demands of Live TV rebroadcast.
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I am on the verge of cord cutting myself. An article I read did indicate the Chromecast device is better than using Chromecast that might be built in to your SmartTV.

Can anyone add to this?
 
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WinginFlorida said:
I am on the verge of cord cutting myself. An article I read did indicate the Chromecast device is better than using Chromecast that might be built in to your SmartTV.

Can anyone add to this?
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I've had Hulu with Live TV for about 9 months, and we like it. The feeds are very jittery when live. Not so much when re-watching via on-demand or "DVR" though.
 
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I've been using hulu TV for 2 months, but I'd add the that I have fiber internet which I feel makes a huge difference with streaming.
 
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PSVue is awesome and the way to go, imo. I made the switch before football season last year and still have it.
 
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I believe the consensus on internet TV is if you want the best out there it's PS Vue. Their beefy channel lineup is as good as it gets. The video quality is the best. Their $45 a month package is the bomb.

The cheapest with the best college sports lineup is Sling TV. For 25 bucks you can get everything the SEC has to offer. That includes getting your favorite college basketball team on TV when even the SEC Network doesn't carry it. The ESPN3 app has it all.
 
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TUSKtimes said:
I believe the consensus on internet TV is if you want the best out there it's PS Vue. Their beefy channel lineup is as good as it gets. The video quality is the best. Their $45 a month package is the bomb.

The cheapest with the best college sports lineup is Sling TV. For 25 bucks you can get everything the SEC has to offer. That includes getting your favorite college basketball team on TV when even the SEC Network doesn't carry it. The ESPN3 app has it all.
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This, I have the $45 package with PSVue. Every SEC sporting event through ESPN and CBS. I use the WatchESPN app for ABC games.
 
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I used Hulu Live but it wasn’t very workable for us because my wife wanted to watch shows live on ABC, and Hulu Live only had ABC on demand in our area (available next day). So, we had to use the digital antenna but couldn’t record the shows or pause, and the weather would interfere with the signal. $40 per month.

We recently switched to YouTube TV and love it. All three major local channels stream live, unlimited DVR storage, and all the sports channels. Very good, and still $40 per month. The Plus of Hulu Live is you get Hulu with it, but you could do just fine with YouTube TV’s on demand content. It’s been my impression and understanding that if it airs on the channel, you can access it later (could be wrong through).

The live streaming of local channels was the deciding factor for us. So far, I’ve only had one game blacked out—Braves on MLB network, but it was available on the Fox Sports South channel.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
$85 in my area. I only have one provider to choose from.

Don't get me started on that..
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So you pay $85 + $45?

I only pay $120 a month for Spectrum and that includes internet, cable with HBO, Showtime, SEC, etc...

I’m still not sure this whole cord cutting thing is worth the hassle.
 
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TUSKtimes said:
I believe the consensus on internet TV is if you want the best out there it's PS Vue. Their beefy channel lineup is as good as it gets. The video quality is the best. Their $45 a month package is the bomb.

The cheapest with the best college sports lineup is Sling TV. For 25 bucks you can get everything the SEC has to offer. That includes getting your favorite college basketball team on TV when even the SEC Network doesn't carry it. The ESPN3 app has it all.
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Really? I tried PSVue and absolutely hated it.
 
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VolAllen said:
So you pay $85 + $45?

I only pay $120 a month for Spectrum and that includes internet, cable with HBO, Showtime, SEC, etc...

I’m still not sure this whole cord cutting thing is worth the hassle.
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I think their point is it would be cheaper if they had more options, but the $85 internet IS the only option for them.

It's totally worth it for the savings.

I had Comcast internet+TV and now have fiber internet and Hulu+Live and I saved like $30-40.
 
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