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Spectrum - TV Essentials 60
I was offered this package the other day for $20/month (they claim this is the base price with no discounts). It has no local channels, so no $21 broadcast surcharge in addition. The total addition to my Spectrum bill was $21, 20 for the service and a dollar of tax. When I dialed this into the Channels DVR software, these are the working channels:
Comedy Central MTV VH1 CMTV BET TVLand Paramount Logo Nick Jr A&E TV History FYI Lifetime Sundance AMC BBCA IFC We TV Hallmark Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Hallmark Drama OWN Discovery Food Animal Planet HGTV TLC Travel ID DIY (now Magnolia) Cooking Channel Science AHC Destination America Discovery Life Motor Trend FXW (Fox Weather) BUZZR Comet Charge ConTV REVN TBD Dove NASA NBCNEWS (NBCNN) Cheddar ETLive NEWSMAX CBSSportsHQ CBSNEWS ABCNews Bloomberg NHKWorld Court TV DW (DWEUR) CMC USA CMC Weather Nation (WTHRNHD) PBS Kids FSTV AMGTV LX (news) RETRO TV Heartland Positiv Tastemade NEWSY EWTN EPLUS TV Global News AccuWeather (a bunch of shopping networks that I won't list) (a bunch of non-local news affiliates, for major cities) |
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Amazing how ALL THE REST OF CABLE of so inexpensive when the ESPN/Disney family is not included.
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And when most high-level sports is omitted.
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i7-6700 server with about 10tb of space currently SageTV v9 (64bit) Ceton InfiniTV ETH 6 cable card tuner (Spectrum cable) OpenDCT HD-300 HD Extenders (hooked to my whole-house A/V system for synched playback on multiple TVs - great during a Superbowl party) Amazon Firestick 4k and Nvidia Shield using the MiniClient Using CQC to control it all |
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Channels DVR does something very similar to SageTV, as a standalone product. It's fairly well polished in many areas, but is still a work in progress in many other areas. The key advantage to Channels DVR is that it brings TV Everywhere (TVE) into the picture, which is basically a virtual tuner for the move that broadcast television is making to Internet streaming. Channels DVR has a recurring monthly fee of $8 or an $80 yearly fee, for which the user gets guide data and fairly decent technical support from the 3 or 4 developers involved. You can spend time in the Channels DVR forum to better understand their product, abilities and limitations:
https://community.getchannels.com/ Channels DVR also has a very good remote viewing experience, like from your phone while you're away from home, or with a Firestick at a hotel for example. SageTV has been doing this for years with Placeshifter, and now with the SageTV Android Client to some degree. The other guys here in the forum have since figured out how to use Channels DVR's TVE capability as a generic tuner in SageTV, which brings TVE capability into SageTV, and does it surprisingly well. Here's the thread that works through the integration: https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66804 Last edited by KryptoNyte; 08-10-2022 at 05:43 PM. |
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Thanks for the reply. That really helps me understand the options out there!
I think we are getting closer and closer to ditching OEM cable and this streaming option seems like a good fit.
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i7-6700 server with about 10tb of space currently SageTV v9 (64bit) Ceton InfiniTV ETH 6 cable card tuner (Spectrum cable) OpenDCT HD-300 HD Extenders (hooked to my whole-house A/V system for synched playback on multiple TVs - great during a Superbowl party) Amazon Firestick 4k and Nvidia Shield using the MiniClient Using CQC to control it all Last edited by sic0048; 08-11-2022 at 02:14 PM. |
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Channels DVR appears to work with TV Everywhere - this a way of watching your cable TV streamed through a web browser or phone app, kind of like Netflix. So you don't need a tuner like a HDHR or HDPVR or whatever as the software is capturing the stream over the internet.
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One can't discount SageTV's abilities and customizations, virtually unmatched by any other software, and just because I'm not fond of all the Channels DVR features or lack there of doesn't mean those developers aren't doing something special in their own right.
For those of you who haven't been following TV Everywhere (TVE), it's good to know what it is going in to Channels DVR. The cable channels that you subscribe to, or whatever service you subscribe to (list in the link): https://community.getchannels.com/t/...r-topics/20256 many of your subscribed channels are available by going directly to that network's website and logging in with your subscription login to watch live TV. For example, if you are a Spectrum cable subscriber and Hallmark is part of your subscription package, you should be able to go here: https://www.watchhallmarktv.com/signin.html and click on the Spectrum link, login with your Spectrum credentials, and watch Hallmark channels live, streaming. Imagine all the different channels and networks involved, and how you would have to visit each channel's website independently to login and watch live TV - pretty ugly. Now, if a person could assemble an EPG for all your subscribed channels that are available via TVE, and then write a program to automatic the login process and capture the stream for each channel, then you'd have something - Channels DVR. Because the TVE logins and streaming is a moving target, it requires developer intervention monthly, weekly, sometime daily, so the Channels DVR guys chase this constantly when required, so their monthly or yearly fee (mentioned later) seems insignificant, at least for me it's well worth it. It's important to note that you may not get all channels that you subscribe to via TVE, Bally's for example is not an option for this kind of system because it's encrypted. Additionally, some local affiliates don't offer access via TVE streams (you have to be able to go to their website, login, and stream live linear television, like the local ABC news affiliate for example), so I've found that an antenna works great to capture the local stuff via HDHR and OTA. There are some local affiliates available via TVE, your location's results may vary. Recently some of the folks here at SageTV, that are also Channels DVR subscribers (at $8/month or $80/year), can leverage the ability to capture those dynamic streams, and even import the EPG data, so that SageTV can now receive streaming channels. Ultimately, you can set up a virtual tuner in SageTV that can use a single stream from any of your subscribed channels. Then you can set up a second, third, etc... virtual tuner that will allow you to potentially use numerous streams simultaneously in Sage. It looks and acts just like any other Sage system, just without the hardware (except maybe the HDHR if you need it for local OTA channels like I did). |
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