bowl_actually
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I live in a rural area with limited choices for TV, but do have high speed internet. I've had satellite for years, it works, but the companies are terrible. Continually increasing costs for long term customers while giving new subscribers lower cost options. It's whacky, why does a company punish their good customers and give new customers all the perks? But I digress. Bottom line, I despise all these companies and would gladly ditch them.
Since I have high speed internet, I have been on a mission to find a suitable streaming platform that can replace traditional offerings. It's so bizarre to me that there are so many things that need to improve with streaming platforms. Yea, they are great for searching and finding a movie, or a TV series, etc. Those things are great and better than traditional TV. But there are many little things that they just don't seem to care about or address, mostly to do with live TV which is mostly sporting events. I'm currently using hulu for live TV and use disney+, tubi, and a bunch of others for other things. All of them on the latest roku ultra. Here are some things that I think are shortcomings of all the streaming platforms I've used.
- Pause live TV, DVR. On hulu, when you pause a live TV show, like a golf tourney. After some time, maybe it's 30 min, it completely stops and goes to live with no ability to rewind. On every traditional service I've had, when you run out of the live tv time, say it's an hour, then it just starts playing from an hour back. So you aren't live, you're at the DVR time limit in the past and can choose to fast forward if you wish. Also, on traditional platforms, if you have a live show delayed, you can FF through the commercials. Not so with streaming, they all force you to watch the commercials.
- Multi view with DVR. On traditional services, there are multiple tuners and a jump feature to flip between them. During fall football season (or basketball, hockey, baseball, olympics, etc.), you can keep up with two or more games. Watch one game, when a commercial comes on, flip to the other game, flip back and if you've missed a few seconds/minutes of the original one, you can rewind the DVR. You can also skip commercials. Most of the traditional services also have a "multi view" screen, where you can watch 2 or 4 or more games at once with split screens. All of them with DVR attached, you can focus on one game and enlarge it to full screen, rewind, FF, etc. Nothing even close to that sophisticated exists in streaming.
- DVRs in general. Not only does my traditional service have a 2000+ hour DVR, but it also allows me to save shows for eternity (or as long as I have the service and hardware), and I can organize shows in folders. I like concerts, when I find a concert I like and record it, I sort it into the "concerts" folder. I have over 50 of them and I keep them for long times.
These are just a few of the things I use all the time on traditional services. They've evolved over many years. You would think the streaming platforms would at least look at those features that have evolved, mostly due to user demand, and try to offer some of those.
All streaming platforms are essentially computer software, making it really easy to adapt and offer services that are far superior to traditional TV. But they all seem to have the attitude of "this is the new way, we'll not learn anything from the past, and you will like it." And it's costing them subscribers, even if it's just one, me!
Since I have high speed internet, I have been on a mission to find a suitable streaming platform that can replace traditional offerings. It's so bizarre to me that there are so many things that need to improve with streaming platforms. Yea, they are great for searching and finding a movie, or a TV series, etc. Those things are great and better than traditional TV. But there are many little things that they just don't seem to care about or address, mostly to do with live TV which is mostly sporting events. I'm currently using hulu for live TV and use disney+, tubi, and a bunch of others for other things. All of them on the latest roku ultra. Here are some things that I think are shortcomings of all the streaming platforms I've used.
- Pause live TV, DVR. On hulu, when you pause a live TV show, like a golf tourney. After some time, maybe it's 30 min, it completely stops and goes to live with no ability to rewind. On every traditional service I've had, when you run out of the live tv time, say it's an hour, then it just starts playing from an hour back. So you aren't live, you're at the DVR time limit in the past and can choose to fast forward if you wish. Also, on traditional platforms, if you have a live show delayed, you can FF through the commercials. Not so with streaming, they all force you to watch the commercials.
- Multi view with DVR. On traditional services, there are multiple tuners and a jump feature to flip between them. During fall football season (or basketball, hockey, baseball, olympics, etc.), you can keep up with two or more games. Watch one game, when a commercial comes on, flip to the other game, flip back and if you've missed a few seconds/minutes of the original one, you can rewind the DVR. You can also skip commercials. Most of the traditional services also have a "multi view" screen, where you can watch 2 or 4 or more games at once with split screens. All of them with DVR attached, you can focus on one game and enlarge it to full screen, rewind, FF, etc. Nothing even close to that sophisticated exists in streaming.
- DVRs in general. Not only does my traditional service have a 2000+ hour DVR, but it also allows me to save shows for eternity (or as long as I have the service and hardware), and I can organize shows in folders. I like concerts, when I find a concert I like and record it, I sort it into the "concerts" folder. I have over 50 of them and I keep them for long times.
These are just a few of the things I use all the time on traditional services. They've evolved over many years. You would think the streaming platforms would at least look at those features that have evolved, mostly due to user demand, and try to offer some of those.
All streaming platforms are essentially computer software, making it really easy to adapt and offer services that are far superior to traditional TV. But they all seem to have the attitude of "this is the new way, we'll not learn anything from the past, and you will like it." And it's costing them subscribers, even if it's just one, me!
