Sony's 'PlayStation Vue' Live Streaming TV Service Shutting Down January 30, 2020

This is not ideal, as I just cancelled ATT TV this month and realized Vue was the only option that really integrated the DVR and Connected Apps with AppleTV. It’s was listed on Apple TV app website until very recently along with Spectrum and DirecTVNow. Hulu has a good DVR but I found out the hard way that there is no integration with Apple TV app and Up Next.

All of the current services have problems, channel availability problems, bad DVRs. Seems like only Apple can fix this.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Vue/comments/b5hfub
 
Relentless Power said:
Not Surprising. I’m pretty satisfied with YouTube TV at the moment with the channel selection, DVR service, Pause/Rewind capability, Plus, I can stream anywhere with my iPads. Vue didn’t have enough notoriety and didn’t seem competitive enough.
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We’re on YouTube tv as well but I only see the prices going up later with them as well. Outside of locals I don’t really use it much. Might just get an antenna.
 
Personally I love Hulu live tv service. It’s not inexpensive imo but has everything I need: a good interface and lots of channels and content. I gave up on renting ugly boxes years ago. They couldn’t give them to me.
 
furbzv1 said:
with the amount of subscribers jumping from att tv now... they might be next.
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No, AT&T is slowly replacing U-Verse and DirecTV with AT&T TV Now. Soon it will be the norm and back to cable prices. The networks will say "Hey, AT&T is giving us more money! YTTV, Hulu, Fubo, and Sling, Give us More Money!" Prices go up and we're back to where it was before cutting the cord. The only gain from this will be we get to watch Live TV on our phones.
 
Pman17 said:
No, AT&T is slowly replacing U-Verse and DirecTV with AT&T TV Now. Soon it will be the norm and back to cable prices. The networks will say "Hey, AT&T is giving us more money! YTTV, Hulu, Fubo, and Sling, Give us More Money!" Prices go up and we're back to where it was before cutting the cord. The only gain from this will be we get to watch Live TV on our phones.
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Mark my words - 10 years from now, having all of your content in one place again (i.e. cable) without subscribing to 8 services to get all of the content you want.. will make cable look like a good deal again.

Cable is being reinvented via Sling. The linear programming exists for the live TV feel, or you can click on the channel and watch anything on demand that is on that particular network. I think this if Cable reinvents itself in this way, it will start to look like a really good deal compared to shelling out 5$ - 15$ a month on multiple subscriptions, when you can just turn one box on and all of the content is right in front of you.

So far Sling is the best bang fo the buck - funny to think its origins are Blockbuster Video... lmao.
 
magicschoolbus said:
Mark my words - 10 years from now, having all of your content in one place again (i.e. cable) without subscribing to 8 services to get all of the content you want.. will make cable look like a good deal again.
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OK, got it scheduled ...


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Sony's track record with abandoning platform's continues. For me it started with the Vita and those dumb 🤬 UMD discs they insisted on that weren't usable anywhere else. Whether it's betamax to whatever, relying on Sony to go long haul just isn't a good bet.

It didn't help that for me, the audio would often go out of sync with their streams, so I backed out before the free trial ended. Only to see Sony raise the advertise monthly price the next month.

I'm just grateful the PS series has been so profitable that they have to maintain it.
 
What I find curious is--didn't Sony JUST get some kind of a carriage discount for Disney channels for PS VUE (ABC, ESPN, Disney, etc..) in their negotiations over the Spider-Man film rights?

If so....yikes. Guess that wasn't too worth it, wasn't it?
 
Still won't cut the cord here. We watch some channels not available on any streaming service, plus local regional sports.
 
Crazy... Apple is clearly going the correct way in the tv streaming service... by trying to offer original content but becoming a hub.
 
lostczech said:
Crap. This is terrible news. I preferred their DVR to pretty much everyone else out there (You can skip commercials)

Anyone out here in MR-land have any recommendations for a lost Vue soul?
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YouTube TV. I prefer it over Vue and all the others.
 
nutmac said:
Networks are just digging their own graves.

To millennials, watching TV means Amazon Prime Video, HBO Now, Hulu, Netflix, YouTube and the likes.

Sports was probably the only thing that kept people from leaving entirely.
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I dunno. This is purely anecdotal, but I'm a millennial and so are the vast majority of the people I spend time with. All of us have cable, and most of us only subscribe to Netflix (and maybe Prime Video because it's already included). The siloing off of content with these services (You can't watch Star Trek without CBS All Access, Star Wars and Marvel without Disney+, Titans and Young Justice without DC Unlimited, etc) means that to get most content I'd have to subscribe to so many services I might as well just have cable. That doesn't even include sports.
 
TV is really the Wild West of the tech world. There’s so much different content, from so many different companies. I think YouTube TV will be the eventual winner due to the youngest gen and their attachment to YouTube.

Cable is dead in the water in 10 - 15 years. Not one of the smaller kids in my extended family is interested in cable. Even the teens. It’ll be interesting to see this play out over the next 10 - 20 years. Times they are changin’.
 
PS Vue is probably the best streaming option at the moment when it comes to the number/variety of channels (including local channels), features and quality. When I first heard that Sony was shopping Vue around, I was hoping Apple or Roku would buy it. The number of older customers dropping their cable TV service would explode if a company many of them trust (at least more than Sony) would acquire their own basic cable TV streaming service. Maybe Roku is more likely to enter the basic cable streaming market which could be integrated into their Roku Channel app.
 
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locovaca said:
Having used both Sling and PS Vue, PS Vue was the best by far. Apple TV app supported 4 simultaneous streams. 60 FPS on every channel. And they had web streaming with 60 FPS long before anyone else did. 60fps makes a huge difference in quality for sports. I don’t know what I’ll do but we’ll have to figure out who has the regional sports channels I need.
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Fubo
 
Wow. This is really surprising news to me. I had looked into them awhile back and am really thankful that I didn’t sign up with them now.
 
shinji said:
Too bad. Last thing consumers need is less competition here.
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That’s why a company like Roku should get into basic cable streaming. They dominate the streaming hardware side so why not make it easier for their older customers to drop their cable TV service from the greedy cable companies?
 
I know chances were pretty much never, but I had a tiny amount of hope that this service would expand into other regions (like Canada). Welp, the networks win again. :/
 
Really sad to hear this! I have been using them for years, now I guess I will try Sling or YouTube TV.

Anyone have any other ecommendations? I already have Hulu and Netflix, but would like to still have Live TV.
 
Relentless Power said:
Not Surprising. I’m pretty satisfied with YouTube TV at the moment with the channel selection, DVR service, Pause/Rewind capability.
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I’m with YTTV and I think it’s the best among the streaming services. It’s way better than DTVN, which is what I came from when ATT raised prices in 2018.

nutmac said:
To millennials, watching TV means Amazon Prime Video, HBO Now, Hulu, Netflix, YouTube and the likes.
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True, but I’d wager very few actually subscribe to all of those concurrently. I sure don’t. But I’m one of those “old” millennials in their mid 30s.

avanpelt said:
As an AT&T TV Now customer since day one of DIRECTV Now nearly three years ago, I wish YouTube TV could completely match AT&T TV Now’s channel lineup.

I’d switch to YouTube TV immediately — even if it meant a price increase — if I could get all the channels that I have on my grandfathered “Go Big” plan with AT&T Now. I want one streaming service that gives me all the channels I want. Right now, the only service that can do that is AT&T Now, unfortunately. AT&T seemingly doesn’t intend to make any marked improvements to AT&T TV Now, which is really unfortunate since the DVR experience is absolutely awful.
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Most of their packages are filled with junk channels. With the exception of History channel and Nickelodeon, I think YTTV offers pretty much everything and then some. They’re pretty similar. And YTTV’s UI is much better, in my opinion.

_Refurbished_ said:
Cable is dead in the water in 10 - 15 years. Not one of the smaller kids in my extended family is interested in cable. Even the teens. It’ll be interesting to see this play out over the next 10 - 20 years. Times they are changin’.
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I was hearing cable would be dead today, 5 years ago. :)

Also, your kids ain’t paying the bills... yet. They’ll change their minds about cable once they’re on their own and they have to pay separate bills for 5-6 services to get all their favorite shows.
 
So THIS story makes the front page on Mac Rumors, yet not one single mention about the new Nvidia Shield TVs released yesterday..........
 
I tried both PS Vue and FuboTV and decided to keep FuboTV as it was waaaay better. I have zero complaints with FuboTV, hopefully they won’t shut down anytime soon.
 
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