DCLonghorn

Visually powerful. Way too many of the coolest elements of the book and older movie/miniseries left out. I was hoping part 2 would rectify that but it didn't. I rewatched 80s Dune and there was more story in the intro expositions and opening scene than 2 DV movies. But like he said, he was making a love story. But like mentioned above, DV has me rereading the book. I was absolutely shocked to learn that there are now over 20 Dune books. The son and Kevin Anderson (wrote some popular Star Wars novels) have been prolific.

Main circuit board failed... Keep those old analog appliances!

@Vic Mackey☝️☝️

MLB.tv free for the season via T-Mobile is available in the T-Mo Tuesday app now [mention=1398]Vic_Mackey[/mention]. It's only through the season, so heads up next year... No preseason ball.

Apologies @Vic Mackey, it's not in T-Mo Tuesday today. Went back to an email and it says starting March 28-April 3.

Totally unrelated/related, but the announcers in last night's Japan v Mexico World Baseball Classic said that 63m people watched the Japan v Korea game...in Japan alone. That's a serious wow stat... And mildly relevant comparatively as huge dollars are thrown around for rights to CFB games that get 7-10m viewers.

MLB.tv will be in the T-Mo Tuesday app...on...Tuesday.

Another NVM detail. Hulu Live only allows two concurrent streams and doesn't allow watching in a different location, and limits how many times you can change your home location. (If anyone knows of a workaround, let me know). This blows up Mom in Houston and kids in college using the family YTTV. Another low key advantage for YTTV. Sling Blue pretty limited too, but Blue+Orange allows three streams. Anyone know how Sling works in two locations? Home network locals shown in second location? Mom gotta have here Marvin Zindler local news. RIP.

It made me realize just how many stops and commerical breaks there is in NCAA tourney hoops. It tried to take a picture of the four streams and waited until all four games were showing. I never saw four games on at once, and rarely three. I gave up and took a photo of commercials. It is very cool though.

To exemplify how fractured streaming and cable is, I have a damn spreadsheet to track all the various services, the cost, and the discounts. I knew that if YTTV upped the price and Hulu didn't match, that for the first time, Hulu with Live TV, which includes the full Disney bundle, would be cheaper for me than YTTV and the Disney bundle even with the various discounts, which seems to collectively be slowly going away. The Disney bundle has become cheaper straight out than the various piecemeal discounts and freebies from cell providers. Hulu Live TV with all bundles (with ads) is $69.99, and YTTV+D bundle will soon be $85.98. $75.98 with T-Mo discount. Since I really only watch sports on YTTV, might as well jump to Hulu despite their crappier DVR and UI. EXCEPT... I just noticed that my local ABC channel is not offered on Hulu Live. Damn. I realize Mouse doesn't own their own affiliates, but it's perverse that I can't switch to Mouse for streaming TV bc they don't offer Mouse ABC in my market. And fucking around with an antenna for one channel, albeit a very important channel for \m/ football to save $6 a month isn't worth it to me...yet. or the $10 a month over Sling+Blue+Orange+Sports+antenna. Yet. They got us sports fans. I have to have a full cable/cable replacement and three additional streaming services to watch my two sportsball teams that are must watch. Oh well. Take my money fuckers. They fully knew this before the price increase, but YTTV really is still the best for sports and the price while so much higher than in the recent past, is still a comparable or better deal. Fuckers. Still *way better than the $165.65 from DirecTV circa 2018.

YTTV said they will eventually let us pick the channels, but not yet.

MLB channel requires a cable provider log in to watch on MLB.tv, so no if you have YTTV. But I never noticed that since I just fire up the game I want. I don't live in my MLB teams market so I've never run into blackouts.

American Express Blue Cash card...nice cash back on all purchases... Up to 5% on some. Minimum 1% on all. If you'll use it for travel, look at travel points cards.

T-Mo gives MLB.tv for free and $10 off a month for YTTV, if that's enough to switch. They also give one year of Paramount+ for free (champions league) and free Netflix if on the higher plans. Free Hulu for old Sprint people instead of Netflix.

This now pushes YTTV well past Hulu with Live TV added to Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle. It was within a couple of bucks now, but that is with a $10 discount from cell phone. Hulu already cheaper without the discount, now $8/month more for YTTV. I love the YTTV DVR, and the UI. But not that much. And like above, I pretty much only watch sports on YTTV, so can deal with slightly less quality with Hulu. But I'll wait a bit to see if Hulu follows suit and raises prices. I need one or the other for sports. Fubo and Sling don't have all the needed channels for the price.