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Do you mean live TV, or just having cable at all? I don't think I've watched live TV in 10 years. I'm looking to cut my cord, but the problem is that nothing l
by __david__ 12y ago
Do you mean live TV, or just having cable at all? I don't think I've watched live TV in 10 years.
I'm looking to cut my cord, but the problem is that nothing legit is as convenient as the cable+DVR setup. With those 2 things I have access to practically every TV show on the air (minus Netflix exclusive stuff).
To have access to that wide of a library without cable I need Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, iTunes (and Pirate Bay for the stuff that's just impossible to get). There is not a single (non-computer) device that can play those all on my TV. So it's a bit of a hassle, screwing around to find what service on what device has what show and then remembering when the new ones come out.
Compare that to the stupid, but venerable, DVR where every show I want from whatever random channel just shows up when it comes out in one clean interface.
I want to kill it so bad but from a UX perspective, it's just so much better.
Really, the only thing that gets close to that experience at all is flexget[1] + a private torrent tracker. How sad is that? It really should be a huge kick in the nuts to all the legit streaming services, but I doubt that they even care... DRM just ruins everything. Sigh.
[1] https://github.com/Flexget/Flexget https://github.com/Flexget/Flexget