Man, I wish they would get the RSN's available here in Denver. Crazy that AT&T Sportsnet isn't on DTVN and AT&T owns DTVN.
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That might be the issue. When I ran streaming apps via an Xbox 360 I had similar issues. However, when I moved to using an AppleTV those issues went away. There may have been a volume control internal to the Xbox that I just could not find but I have since upgraded to an Xbox One and added the AppleTV. Maybe this will be helpful if you have a Samsung TV: https://www.reddit.com/r/DirecTVNow/comments/8nssq9/issues_with_volume/
It’s an Insignia. But that’s a good idea I’ll try to hook up my Apple TV to that TV tonight and see if it helps. It would be a shame to have to switch to an Apple TV on a smart tv. I actually like the built in Roku software
You need DirecTV to get Sunday Ticket (via that app). But unfortunately the rights for NFL Sunday Ticket are still exclusive to DTV, and not allowed with DTVN. If I was a student, or lived in a big apartment building I'd be eligible to get streaming only, but I'm not either.
I've had Sunday Ticket since 2002. This will be my first year without. We'll see if change is good. I know the NFL won't really care if they make big profits once again.
We have a TCL Roku Smart TV in one bedroom and honestly the DTVN app on it would make me think DTVN sucks. Poor responsiveness, lots of buffering. Volume is fine though. Its maybe 3 years old and I think the Roku engine in that TV is simply way underpowered. An ATV4K on a different TV, further from the wireless router, rocks with no lag.
Watching the ATL Braves on the latter (ATV4K) the TV is at about 1/5th volume and the audio is fine.
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I own both. My smart tv is Insignia though and it’s really fast. My only problem is the volume issue. I might ultimately end up just getting an Apple TV. My only annoyance with Apple TV is that there’s no power button for the tv on the remote. There’s a volume button but no power button. The Roku remote is all in one.
It’s not obvious and it doesn’t work on every tv, but the ATV4K will power on / power off the tv via the HDMI when you wake or sleep (hold tv button a few seconds). Works with both a 2008 Samsung and a 2016 Vizio. Doesn’t turn on an old Panasonic but will turn it off.
right. the only way to get live pause/rewind is to click play on the live recording. directv should automatically switch to this mode when it starts recording.
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nothing wrong with my equipment. it's a service issue. just because it works for you doesn't mean it's fine.
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You said it was working good. I'm saying it's FAR from good. "Perfect" was an exaggeration.
I'm not only talking about DVR, DVR is one of the pain points.
Apple TV:
- Sometimes I launch DIRECTV NOW and it asks me to relogin. It did this for several days straight one week. It is so painful to grab my iPhone from my bed room, launch 1Password, then paste in my password into DIRECTV NOW. It is so bad.
- Sometimes it doesn't remember that I gone through the mini "tutorial" on my Apple TV. So each time I launch the app, I see this little mini tutorial where it fades out my stream to darkness to show that I can swipe to change the channel
- Sometimes when I press menu to make the menu appear, the "What's on now" is outdated. So when I click on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, it takes me to the show page. It doesn't switch the channel to MSNBC because "All In" show already ended and "The Rachel Maddow Show" is now airing, but there's no way to force refresh the "What's on now". So I have to manually navigate to the guide, scroll all the way to MSNBC, scroll to the Rachel Maddow Show, and click on that.
- Sometimes the guide remains blank. I have to tap menu, then tap Guide again to force refresh
- Sometimes I swipe to switch channels, but it indefinitely loads the channel. I have to swipe back, and swipe again to force refresh.
there are a lot of smaller issues with it, but the ones above are the issues I experience every week.
Before you blame my hardware, I tried Youtube TV and it worked FLAWLESSLY technically wise. It's nothing wrong with my hardware. The problem with Youtube TV deals more with logistics. Some channels don't get 60 FPS, I can't skip ads on many of the shows while watching DVR, and I don't get free data streaming over LTE.
Additional local channels means that AT&T allocated more budget to the content instead of hiring better engineers.
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I just received an HD antenna today that I purchased to get CBS (and of course I now read and see DTVN added it today). I tried it and it got 39 channels. Great quality, but no CBS, mostly Spanish language channels. I see PBS and NBC and CW XETV (it's off air right now though, I'm thinking it's the spanish language CW?). I haven't tried rotating the antenna yet though.
I'm in south SEH area of SD, btw. Not sure if the surrounding hills affect my antenna reception, first time I've tried an HD antenna since over air HD was first a thing. On a positive note, Cox Gigablast service just was made available and turned on for me today
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Folks here can only go by the written word. Say what you mean.
In either event we're talking subjective assessments.
Has never happened to me. I've seen mention of it so you're not alone, but again I've never seen that occur.
Wow, that sounds absolutely awful. I don't know how you can stand it.
I've seen the first one on occasion, seems to occur when the app has updated; maybe once a month? Really hasn't bothered me. As for the whats on now I seldom use that part, I usually know what I want to watch and go straight to the channel using the edge scroll to quickly move down the channel list.
Haven't ever seen the blank guide or indefinite channel load -- except a couple times when my ISP was ***** up... which is hardly DTVN's fault since AT&T isn't my ISP.
Back to the first point - subjective assessments. I find it's working fine for me; no it's not perfect and it has room for improvement. Which they've seemed to be steadily making over the months. You're welcome to hold a different opinion.
ive been watching direct tv now only since the world cup, i think ill cut cable fully here soon. It needs improvement but im happy with it since it will only get better.
DirecTV Now has absolutely nothing to do with the old satellite DirecTv. Its a streaming service, and a great one at that.
Of course, but I don't get why you have to *shrug* at my opinion. Judging by the ratings and reviews of DIRECTVNOW on the App Store, overall opinion of the app is that it doesn't work "good" for most people.
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Do I really need to explain what a shrug means? It was an expression that I possess a different opinion.
As for the app store reviews -- the reviews are interesting. Not many actually referencing DTVN on the Apple TV which is what I was talking about. A blind guy upset the ios app doesn't do voiceover. Another person pissed that it doesn't support chromecast. several others having trouble "casting" their show from their phone to their tv, various IOS app problems, people upset they see commercials, etc.
I wonder how many people who are reasonably happy with it ever bother to write a review. Personally I tend to only bother with it if I'm unhappy about something with an app.
Anyway, Iif the app store reviews help you to feel validated in your opinion, it'd good you found them.
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When you shrug at a comment, it usually means you're annoyed in some way by that comment. It's fine to be annoyed, but you also say you welcome a different opinion which is a bit contradicting. That's why I found it confusing. If you welcomed an different opinion, you wouldn't shrug at my first comment. If you meant something else, then alright, that's fine.
I've already screenshotted 7 out of the 30-ish reviews I scrolled through that specifically mentioned Apple TV. I would say there's a large number of people talking specifically about Apple TV's app, though I can't be bothered reading through thousands of reviews to confirm this thought.
If you look at the reviews of Youtube TV (not Youtube) on Google Play and Apple's App Store, it's generally positive and has more reviews than DIRECTVNOW. So your statement about not reviewing an app because it works fine doesn't really jive with what a lot of other customers are doing with YoutubeTV. It's not like Youtube customers generally enjoy reviewing apps much more than DIRECTVNOW. That doesn't make sense.
I've tried Youtube TV and I'd consider that "good", not "DIRECTVNOW".
Yeah I noticed that last night when watching something. Also, for whatever reason, sometimes it allows you to skip forward 15 seconds and sometime it doesn't when you push the right edge of the remote. Not sure if that's an DTVN app issue or something to do with the Apple TV but it's annoying as hell not having it work all the time.
My guess is there may be inconsistent policies between different content providers, with some disallowing forward-skip and some allowing full control. I don't use the DVR function a whole lot so haven't really tried to connect the dots.
I was talking about when you first replied. It was ambigious. *shrug*
@pjwal you were dead on. LOL
But I’m glad we both understand my point about DIRECTV NOW not performing “good” since you only replied about the shrugging comment. It shows that one person’s experience doesn’t speak for all.
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So was I. My point stands.
Yes, because the rest didn't merit response. I had initially written a response, but it wasn't anything positive so I deleted it on the basis that it didn't add anything to the thread.
Since you do insist on a response:
You are expending a great deal of effort to justify/validate your opinion. It's as if you lack sufficient self-confidence and thus need to drive others into agreeing with you. Whatever the reason for your dogged efforts to "be right", we're talking about subjective opinions based on individual usage characteristics and tolerances. Your opinion is yours to hold as you see fit, I have no interest in changing it.
Yep, glad you understand that concept even if you haven't really acted like you think it's true.
And yet again, it wasn't clear from your first reply. You needed to clarify at a later reply which proves my point that it was ambiguous. Probably need change your point there.
Sounds like you don't understand it still. I'll redirect you to your original reply:
That's like someone saying: "*shrug* iOS 12 beta 3 worked good for me". Great. But that absolutely helps no one, especially those experiencing beta 3 issues. Again, one person’s experience doesn’t speak for all.
So instead of continuing the discussion about the quality of the DIRECTV NOW service, you're pivoting the discussion to talk about the reasoning of "my efforts" to carry this conversation forward. That tells me that you're unable to continue to back up your stance on this issue. I'll end the discussion here since it sounds like you're just going to continue going off topic.
Feel free to reply, but I won't be reading anymore off-topic statements from you.
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Sure, you misunderstood. I clarified. Unsure why you can't let it go, but you do you.
You're the only one of us feeling the need to discuss that to death. Have fun with it.
Whatever gets your rocks off I guess. I find DTVN works good [fine] for my usage. You don't feel the same. Okay. Great. We've each expressed subjective assessments. I don't feel any need to "back up my stance" like some middle school playground pontificator. You're free to disagree, everyone else is free to disagree. If there's any meaning to draw from this, it is simply that I don't care whether you agree or disagree.
#1 - such declarations are usually bullisht since most folks making them actually do go back to see. Then they get to stew in whether to get the last work or show themselves up as liars. Enjoy that dilemma.
#2 - I will respond to folks putting words in my mouth.
#3 - I bet everyone else is *really* hoping you're done.