Anyone using Playstation Vue?

[Lockbody]

*Moved this from the Outer Circle

 

We hardly watch broadcast TV any longer, but I can't ditch Directv quite yet because I'm a college football junkie and a good number of games are either on ESPN or the SEC Network.

We have a PS-4 and it's Vue streaming service has piqued my interest. For $45 a month (vs $125/mo for Directv) you get 100 channels with most of the major and regional sports networks. Live "network" tv isn't available in my area, but I've got a decent enough HD antenna.

Does anyone have Vue and can speak to the quality and the cloud DVR service? I've got 60mb Charter internet, so bandwidth shouldn't be an issue.

[murkat]

I tried it. it works very well. But, we have basic + internet comcast and Roku. No need to coin up what already have.

[mrjamiam]

I have a friend who just started using it (via an app, I believe) so that he and his family could watch the Olympics after cable-cutting earlier this year.  His first reports are positive.  If you have specific questions, I'd be glad to relay them.

[Lockbody]

13 hours ago, mrjamiam said:

I have a friend who just started using it (via an app, I believe) so that he and his family could watch the Olympics after cable-cutting earlier this year.  His first reports are positive.  If you have specific questions, I'd be glad to relay them.

Nothing really specific yet, but thanks. Looking more at their forums, whether or not you'll have a good experience with it seems to depend on what platform and your location.  Hopefully, having a PS4 and living in a smaller area will mean good things.

[Lockbody]

Well here's a downside - Last night I signed up for the seven day free trial, and as we were watching the Olympics, Charter internet took a multi-state dive.

It was funny because just a few minutes earlier the wife and I were talking about how that could be a downside, and she said, and I quote "Well, just often does the internet go down? Hardly ever, right?"

Ten minutes later...

But I have to say, up until that point I was impressed with the quality of PS Vue and was ready to call Directv right then and cancel my service. I'm going to have to think about it now.

[mrjamiam]

Few things have made me as happy as dumping DirecTV.  And trashing their weekly "please take us back" mailers.

[cynic]

I get nearly as much trash from AT&T/DirecTV as I do from AARP, and that's really saying something.

I can't speak to Vue but I really like that plans are starting to be offered that stream broadcast content "live".

The next big step needs to be per-channel subscription streaming services.  At $0.50 per channel I could have everything I want for under $10 a month.

[Lockbody]

On 8/12/2016 at 5:26 PM, mrjamiam said:

Few things have made me as happy as dumping DirecTV.  And trashing their weekly "please take us back" mailers.

I just now kicked DirecTV to the curb.

I bought this antenna at my local Wally World for my local channels https://www.walmart.com/ip/GE-UltraPro-Stealth-HD-Antenna/52170375 mounted on my roof where it can't be seen (unlike my DTV dish), and pointed it towards town. I can pickup all the local networks, and in some cases can pick between the same network on a few different affiliates. All-in-all about 17 channels, which isn't bad for my rural suburb.

"But what about Vue?" you ask. We dig it.The picture is crystal clear, the package we got has almost all the channels we did watch on DirecTV, and the only time we ran into any buffering issues was watching a program was something On Demand. Live TV has been issue free other than the one time Charter internet took a header, and that was fixed as soon as I put (and left) Google's DNS servers in my home router. Using a PS-4 controller for a remote blows, but they have a remote for $20 at Best Buy that will control everything including my Sony TV and home theater.

Between the 100 channel package we got, the OTA HD antenna, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and AppleTV, I don't think we'll be missing DirecTV. The only thing I will miss is all the DVR recordings we lose and the ability to DVR any OTA programs without buying a third-party DRV.

With the monthly savings, now it's time for a new 4K TV!