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Re: Live TV on Plex

#11

Post by hendersoon »

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.

Yep, the addition of liveTV trick-play essentially makes Plex a full-featured DVR. And since you can buy a reasonably priced lifetime subscription, it's a much better deal than competitors like TabloTV or TiVo.

Re: Live TV on Plex

#12

Post by ajflkjasdf777 »

sergiotapia wrote: post #7

Does anyone know where I can find a list of what channels I would be able to get? Is it dependent on what state you're in?

They discuss TV tuner cards they support.

Suggests this is means local over air TV. So whatever you get by just plugging antenna into your TV directly.

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#13

Post by rory096 »

sergiotapia wrote: post #7

Does anyone know where I can find a list of what channels I would be able to get? Is it dependent on what state you're in?

It works with a TV tuner, so it's dependent on the channels broadcasting in your area. You can use TVFool[0] to see estimated channel strength in your specific location.

[0] http://tvfool.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29

Re: Live TV on Plex

#17

Post by jonknee »

rockdiesel wrote: post #5
jonknee wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

OP said it was for people who "find it hard to get away from TV for reasons like the live channels (sports)"...

To me that doesn't mean the free over the air channels that occasionally show sports. But hey, that's me.

Re: Live TV on Plex

#18

Post by bubbabojangles »

I've been using a Ceton Infinitv tuner with WMC and ServerWMC for the last 5 years. I use Kodi as a PVR interface and my interface for TV shows/ Movies on my file server. I don't see any advantage to Plex, you need to pay for the service and it's a PIA to setup and configure. Once configured, don't plan on using the computer you setup the Media server on as it is always busy/ bogged down scanning files and transcoding video.

Re: Live TV on Plex

#19

Post by jonknee »

hendersoon wrote: post #11
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.

Yep, the addition of liveTV trick-play essentially makes Plex a full-featured DVR. And since you can buy a reasonably priced lifetime subscription, it's a much better deal than competitors like TabloTV or TiVo.

A live DVR for a handful of broadcast networks... So it's nothing like an actual DVR like TiVo.

Re: Live TV on Plex

#20

Post by dsr_ »

hendersoon wrote: post #11
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.

Yep, the addition of liveTV trick-play essentially makes Plex a full-featured DVR. And since you can buy a reasonably priced lifetime subscription, it's a much better deal than competitors like TabloTV or TiVo.

TiVo is clearly the major competition here. TiVo has really good UI engineers and pretty good hardware, but their subscription prices are relatively high.

In open source land, MythTV already does everything better except UI and install/setup. Those are very large exceptions to random consumers.

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