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Time Warner Cable to Launch Live TV Streaming iPad App [Update: Now Available]
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Dish Network has the ability to stream your TV to your device and it is not limited to being on WiFi or having to get your internet service from them.
This is cool. Hopefully Directv comes up with something similar. Will allow me to watch more basketball without having to negotiate with my wife. And is better than the NBA app blackout garbage.
This post reminds me of this post that was made on macrumors when the ipod was announced:
Why would I watch TV on a 7 inch or 10 inch tablet when my 55'' HDTV is just right there in the living room??
Maybe perhaps Time Warner is thinking of us watching porn on the tablet from their service secretly in our bedroom?? That's the only reason I can think of for utilizing this app/service. LOL
Ya, now you will finally be able to watch porn on your internet enabled device.
Why would I watch TV on a 7 inch or 10 inch tablet when my 55'' HDTV is just right there in the living room??
Maybe perhaps Time Warner is thinking of us watching porn on the tablet from their service secretly in our bedroom?? That's the only reason I can think of for utilizing this app/service. LOL
Because your wife is watching her soap opera on your 55" HDTV. And when she finishes, the kids want to watch Barney. And besides, you're not even in the living room right now anyway. You're in the garage, on the porch, the back deck, front lawn, by the pool, the bedroom, the bathroom, or some other location in and around the house without a tv. Plus TV looks better on your iPad a couple feet away from your face than on your other TVs 10-15 feet away from you. And using Airplay, you can send the 5.1 sound to any one of your surround sound receivers but your TV only does stereo.
I take it you don't own an iPad?
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I'm dumping TimeWarner Cable after using it for about 10 years straight. I think they charge too much and the TV channel quality on certain stations is damn lousy. I can't stand the crappy SA PVR, either. Internet upload speeds also suck. A Verizon FiOS truck was on my block for the past week working on the optical cables. Those cables had been sitting in rolls on the poles for about a year and I thought they'd never get to them. As soon as those Verizon dudes get finished hooking up my block I'm leaving TimeWarner for good. Since I'm still a holdout using a Verizon landline, I'll get everything through Verizon. I think there was a special Verizon iPhone offer for consumers getting triple play service and I'm going that route. Goodbye to TimeWarner Cable.
If I want any streaming to my iPad, I'll just hook up my old Slingbox Pro to a Verizon PVR and content myself with that. That's the method I use now to wirelessly watch TV on all my home computers.
If I want any streaming to my iPad, I'll just hook up my old Slingbox Pro to a Verizon PVR and content myself with that. That's the method I use now to wirelessly watch TV on all my home computers.
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Since it's streaming, there ought to be an option to pay per channel. At least to non current customers. In fact, that would be a great pitch for an 
tv app (whenever that rolls out).
tv app (whenever that rolls out).What about if you have DVR? You should be able to watch your DVR thru it. Seems like an easier feature to implement than live TV for several channels.
Wow... Welcome to the World of the Mac TWC.... It just took you how many decades?
I have hopes for this but from being a paying TWC customer for well over a decade now and seeing how ignorant reps and techs have been when I tell them I have a Mac set up, I know the reality of this.
When I first got RoadRunner back in 2000, the tech came over with the modem and just about dropped a deuce when he saw my PowerMac 6500. He instantly started himming and hawing that it wasn't going to work. I told him to run the cable to the office and plug the modem in and I would show him how to do it. After connecting the ethernet to my Mac and setting the DHCP the internet came alive in Explorer (remember the year people). He looked dumb-founded at me and said that this was the easiest set up he had ever done.
Flash forward to about 3 years ago... I had a problem with my RoadRunner where the signal wasn't strong enough to the modem so they came out and reran some wire. When that tech saw my PowerMac G5 he had almost the exact same response as the tech from 7 years prior. When I showed him that it was automatically seeing the connection once the modem was turned back on he stated almost word for word what the other tech had said, "This has to be the easiest [repair] he had ever done."
The thing that bothers me the most is that these big cheeses won't commit to the iPad/iPhone... they keep mentioning "other platforms and devices".... So let's just waste money creating 10 different Android versions of this app and a Windows Mobile version instead of pouring your resources into the iOS and perfecting it before spreading yourself too thin!
I have hopes for this but from being a paying TWC customer for well over a decade now and seeing how ignorant reps and techs have been when I tell them I have a Mac set up, I know the reality of this.
When I first got RoadRunner back in 2000, the tech came over with the modem and just about dropped a deuce when he saw my PowerMac 6500. He instantly started himming and hawing that it wasn't going to work. I told him to run the cable to the office and plug the modem in and I would show him how to do it. After connecting the ethernet to my Mac and setting the DHCP the internet came alive in Explorer (remember the year people). He looked dumb-founded at me and said that this was the easiest set up he had ever done.
Flash forward to about 3 years ago... I had a problem with my RoadRunner where the signal wasn't strong enough to the modem so they came out and reran some wire. When that tech saw my PowerMac G5 he had almost the exact same response as the tech from 7 years prior. When I showed him that it was automatically seeing the connection once the modem was turned back on he stated almost word for word what the other tech had said, "This has to be the easiest [repair] he had ever done."
The thing that bothers me the most is that these big cheeses won't commit to the iPad/iPhone... they keep mentioning "other platforms and devices".... So let's just waste money creating 10 different Android versions of this app and a Windows Mobile version instead of pouring your resources into the iOS and perfecting it before spreading yourself too thin!
They have this on PC's (DirecTV2PC) or some crap like that. I'm not sure if they are waiting for the Tivo integration into their DVR platform so they can just use Tivo2Go for their solution. The DirecTV2PC software is a 3rd party platform and is runs nicely but has no support for Macs and is still a pain in the neck to get configured correctly.
I'm hopeful Directv will have something out soon because on their iPad app now it says "Watch on TV now" and it looks like there is room in the column for another button which could be "Watch on iPad". Who knows, but if Dish has it, Directv will be forced to compete.
Seriously, isn't that why they invented a pause button? If you don't have TiVo or DVR so you can pause live TV while taking a bio-break, go get it. If you are seriously using your iPad while sitting on the toilet just don't get the white one and maybe pickup some sanitizing wipes for your iPad.
Am I missing something here? Are folks planning on buying some kind of wall mount for their iPad? Am I strange for thinking that a person should put down their iPad for long enough to use the toilet?
On a similar note, I went out to dinner the other night and walked in the restroom to find one guy using the urinal while he surfed the web on his iPhone and another guy was having a conversation on his phone while using the stall -- seriously -- whoever it is, call them back. I was waiting to spot the camera man and the guy with the Windows Phone device saying how its the phone to save us from our phones.
This is exactly what I want from Time Warner - the ability to control my DVR remotely and watch what I've already recorded.
unless you use Time Warner Cable for internet, and then you'll be cringing at that .2 Mb/s upload speed
The video(s) of the meeting needs a serious edit. I feel like I'm sitting there with them. And I want to take a running leap out the window.
At least the first half they have already. If you register for My Services, you can view a web-based TV listing and set recordings on the DVR.
I have TiVo, and just found the TiVo Premiere control app. Looking forward to getting off work to try it.
I've tried that and didn't like it too much - at least not on the iPhone. But it's been a while, so I may give it another try.
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Can't speak for Comcast, but it says this will only work over your home wi-fi network - provided said network is through Time Warner. So the on-the-road solution you speak of is not available here - although it would be nice.