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Apps How to watch live TV on the Apple TV
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I'm so thankful to have to have this needful content as I was planning to hit a purchase on Apple TV and I have no idea about how to watch live TV on the apple.
Disagree. OTA is all about Live TV for me - local news, sports.. who wants to DVR those. After a show has aired - it can usually be streamed from a variety of sources. So there is a very little need to "record" it myself.
I will take an ability pause/rewind live TV, before DVR.
DVR for SPorts is the best. I can start watching 30 minutes into the game and skip so many commercials. 4 HOURS to watch an NFL Game. 3 Hours to watch an NBA Game. I can watch twice as many games with a DVR, if not 3 times as many if you really speed through. And then you catch up to the end and watch it live. It saves so much time!
These guys from "channels" app should come up with their own DVR service/app , it will be Mac only and a server on the Mac will be needed
Silicondust is taking forever and whatever they come up with won't be as good on the Mac compared to Windows/android
Silicondust is taking forever and whatever they come up with won't be as good on the Mac compared to Windows/android
channels 1.4 released
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Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that version 1.4 of Channels just landed on the App Store. It's a big release that includes a full buffer while watching live TV.
This means you can pause, rewind, and fast forward! You can find out more and see what the new UI looks like on the site: http://getchannels.com.
Thanks so much to everyone on this sub that's helped us make it a better product. It's really helped! Here's a full list of what's new in 1.4:
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Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that version 1.4 of Channels just landed on the App Store. It's a big release that includes a full buffer while watching live TV.
This means you can pause, rewind, and fast forward! You can find out more and see what the new UI looks like on the site: http://getchannels.com.
Thanks so much to everyone on this sub that's helped us make it a better product. It's really helped! Here's a full list of what's new in 1.4:
- New - Channels now lets you pause, rewind, and fast forward live TV!
- New - Info Bar provides a quick Favorites Guide and language options while you're watching TV.
- New - Favorites Guide tells you what's on your favorite channels and lets you jump right to them.
- New - Switch between audio tracks while watching a program.
- New - Enable and disable closed captioning while watching a program.
- New - HDHomeRun EXTEND owners can now pick a transcoding profile on the Settings tab.
- New - Channels can detect airplay speakers to keep audio in sync.
- Improved - Previous channel is remembered when leaving the video player.
- Improved - Better video quality and de-interlacing.
- Improved - Video player pauses while using Siri.
- Fixed - Top Shelf sometimes did not actually display what is currently on.
Channels is the best and most refined app in the tvOS store. You do need a SiliconDust tuner... OTA or CableCard.
Live TV with Pause/Rew/FF. Kind of mini DVR for live tv. Favorites and Channel Surfing, etc.
So much better than cableco STB and you only pay one time, not month after month, year after year.
Live TV with Pause/Rew/FF. Kind of mini DVR for live tv. Favorites and Channel Surfing, etc.
So much better than cableco STB and you only pay one time, not month after month, year after year.
I wanted to add more to your comments but decided to just say, Yes, I agree with these comments
I want to get an HDHomeRun for Channels, but i'm not sure which version i'd need...
i'm going to keep verizon for now, but return my cable boxes that i have to pay $30 a month for. Do i have to get the version with a cable card?
how do figure out what channels have DRM?
i'm going to keep verizon for now, but return my cable boxes that i have to pay $30 a month for. Do i have to get the version with a cable card?
how do figure out what channels have DRM?
I have Version FIOS and I have 2x HDHomeRun Prime which supports 3 Turners. I then pay Verizon $4.95 per month for each CableCard and I have the Preferred Service. The only DRM (at least in my area) is the Fox Channels (like Fox Business, Fox News and Fox Sports etc. - not the regular Fox Channel). I should also add the probably the Premium Channels like HBO but I buy then via iTunes. When I need to watch Fox News I use my iPad Pro with FIOS Mobile. If you want more then just the OTA type channels you need the Prime with a CableCard. If you want a smaller subset you can use one of the others (Connect or Extend) and just connect to the wall using ClearQAM (at least for now). Or you can drop TV from FIOS and get an OTA Antenna. I ended up buying 2x Prime's and 2x CableCard because I wanted 6 Channels instead of 3 mainly for the upcoming DVR Service which takes away tuners.
Thanks, dude. Sounds a bit cost prohibitive at this point then. Although, never having access to Fox News sounds like a great benefit.
I don't have a cable provider. I just have a new Apple TV and a Netflix subscription. How do I go about getting some Otha channels. What am I suppose to buy or connect. I really just want to be able to watch the super bowl through my Apple TV. Cbs will be broadcasting it. Do I need to pay the cbs all access to watch it live through there or no? I read an article awhile back that you won't be able to view nfl games on the cbs game. Any help would be appreciated.
Wait... why is the Prime SD only over WiFi?
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Super Bowl will be free to stream through the CBS Sports app.
No, you can use an OTA antenna.
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Super Bowl will be free to stream through the CBS Sports app.
No, you can use an OTA antenna.
I thought you were return $30 / month in STB. I returned $67 worth. Whole Home Service with 2x DVR and 2x STB. ROIis pretty quick not to mention a better experience.
Yeah, but I don't think the DVR service is comparable yet + having to watch in SD.
I understand the DVR Service but not the SD. I disabled all of my SD Channels and only watch HD Channels. Most of the SD Channels have a HD Channel and if not I probably would not want to watch it anyway.
The Apple TV Channels App is starting the "beta" DVR Integration in a few weeks. I would expect in a couple months we might have something very nice. Requires a lot of playing around to use the DVR Service now and not worth it to most I would guess.
In the mean time I have found that 60+% of what I record is on Hulu. So I choose to subscribe to the No Commercial Option and for the the fall season it has worked very well. But for CBS and a few others I do use the DVR Beta Service for that. I was using CBS All Access but hate commercials.
I also have Netflix and HBO Now and Showtime. So I have a lot of entertainment options.
My son is on TWC and has pretty much my setup but only choose the TWC Starter TV Package just to get the main OTA type channels. He is doing without the DVR because he does not have the patience to deal with it. Also, two kids under 5 keeps him busy. But once the Channels App is completed he will add a NAS to the mix for DVR Support. The advantage is at one time he did have 1 DVR on one of the TV's. But with this solution he will have access to everything on three TV's. In my case 8 instead of 4 before. In the long run I believe we may not need DVR's in the future. Streaming options with FULL On Demand without commercials is the future (I hope). But could take years.
On the SD website, it says the Prime can only stream in SD, which seems like a weird omission.
That is from a year ago. The Prime has always been able to stream in HD, via 3rd party S/W. However, SiliconDust View (SD's S/W) could only stream reliably in SD. They have since upgraded.
Thanks!
Also, for anyone who hasn't bought it, Channels is going up to $24.99 after next Sunday.
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