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Re: Live TV on Plex

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Post by Fogest »

>To summarize, we’ve just made Plex an even more awesome choice for the aspiring cord-cutter

I think it's a pretty neat feature for people who still find it hard to get away from TV for reasons like the live channels (sports). They can still make use of DVR features and watch stuff on Plex like they don't even have a tv subscription. Except in this case they still get the big bill every month and lovely commercials.

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Post by jonknee »

Fogest wrote: post #2

>To summarize, we’ve just made Plex an even more awesome choice for the aspiring cord-cutter I think it's a pretty neat feature for people who still find it hard to get away from TV for reasons like the live channels (sports). They can still make use of DVR features and watch stuff on Plex like they don't even have a tv subscription. Except in this case they still get the big bill every month and lovely commercials.

Except sports channels are not over the air and thus won't work with this...

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Post by mrrsm »

jonknee wrote: post #3
Fogest wrote: post #2

>To summarize, we’ve just made Plex an even more awesome choice for the aspiring cord-cutter I think it's a pretty neat feature for people who still find it hard to get away from TV for reasons like the live channels (sports). They can still make use of DVR features and watch stuff on Plex like they don't even have a tv subscription. Except in this case they still get the big bill every month and lovely commercials.

Except sports channels are not over the air and thus won't work with this...

There are some games on the broadcast network channels. So while you may not be seeing a majority of the games you will still be able to watch a handful of them.

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Post by rockdiesel »

jonknee wrote: post #3
Fogest wrote: post #2

>To summarize, we’ve just made Plex an even more awesome choice for the aspiring cord-cutter I think it's a pretty neat feature for people who still find it hard to get away from TV for reasons like the live channels (sports). They can still make use of DVR features and watch stuff on Plex like they don't even have a tv subscription. Except in this case they still get the big bill every month and lovely commercials.

Except sports channels are not over the air and thus won't work with this...

OP is not talking about dedicated sports channels.

They are talking about OTA channels that play sporting events.

ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox all broadcast live sporting events of some sort.

Re: Live TV on Plex

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Post by colek42 »

Fogest wrote: post #2

>To summarize, we’ve just made Plex an even more awesome choice for the aspiring cord-cutter I think it's a pretty neat feature for people who still find it hard to get away from TV for reasons like the live channels (sports). They can still make use of DVR features and watch stuff on Plex like they don't even have a tv subscription. Except in this case they still get the big bill every month and lovely commercials.

I don't think a cable subscriber is the intended customer here. Most of the cable providers encrypt everything now. I think this is more aimed at OTA.
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