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UMBC is getting better and better pretty fast. Like everywhere else...all ships rise when the top is restricted. I am glad of the Virginia options, but it's no less stressful. Kid #1 is a rising senior in NoVa, and kid #2 is a rising junior. HERE IT COMES! Virginia is tough because their top 2 publics have kept student body numbers way way low when the rest of the country let their flagships and land grant schools get bigger and bigger. UVa has 16.5k undergrads total. I had an English 101 class at UT with more students! William and Mary has 6,300 undergrads! That makes it tough in Virginia. VTech has 27k, but they are busting at the seems and are housing freshman in hotels and offering cash to defer. WTF is early admission?!? I thought I was unregarded and knew a thing or two about helping the kids get into colleges, but had never heard of this. Was this around in the 90s? Also, the application clearinghouses...so different. But that makes it so much easier to apply to more schools, adding to the craziness that is college admissions. My boy is smart...AP classes and scores, good SAT, good extras...book smart. But then he came up to me with his phone, said he wanted to go for early admission at Stanford, but said he couldn't find the out-of-state cost. So much work to do. Apparently the boy isn't even reading the first line of the Wikipedia pages on these schools. Sigh. After months/years of research, visiting campuses, etc., his top 5 list looks exactly like every other Virginia kid's top 5. Such a regionally focused game. MD-CP is closer to us than any school he will apply to, but Virginians just don't cross that river! And it's 5x more out-of-state. The boy had hopes for UT, and I took him for a visit...but that's nearly impossible from out-of-state. And add me as one more that would not even sniff UT acceptance now and enjoyed auto admit back in the day.
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The Verge: PBS will stream live for the first time with YouTube TV. Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk
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Cut the cord and subscribe to this thread!!
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GRAMMAR FIGHT!!!!!!
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In my area, I get 8 main local broadcast (over the air) channels...NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CW, Univision, etc. But if you add up all the redundancy and subchannels, and if I had a nice pair of rabbit ears, I could get 101 channels. All those other channels are the "rando OTA" channels. Random Over The Air channels. Anyone, like me, that's never had an OTA antennae, has never had many of those channels, and are barely aware of their existence, as no cable/sat provider will pay the retransmission fees to broadcast them.
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I'm not aware of any cable/sat/OTT service that provides all the over-the-air subs, but there could be one. Maybe some of the streaming services on Android TV have all of them. YTTV has three channels that are subs in the DC area...POP, Cozi, Comet TV.
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I still can't believe we have a Spurs off-season thread. This feels...weird. I was happy/sad that we looked decent without Eriksen. I also enjoyed being able to understand Poch more than I understood Kane after the match. Ha!
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I think Kline is in the Upside Down...and he'll survive, because he now knows how to avoid the ROUSes.
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waaaaaay better than bubbles!
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You should not let us influence your pick. That said, you gotta go with Tottenham Hotspurs!!! (-: Consider a London team if you ever intend to travel for games...just a bit easier...and there a pant load of teams in that one city. An entire NFL division worth of teams are all in London. And sometimes more depending on relegation and promotion. But you'll find more passion, and bigger more American-like stadiums in other less cosmopolitan cities. I started watching EPL regularly in 2013, the year Comcast/NBC started airing. They went over the top with some great content on how to pick your team and had great vignettes on the history of the league and on each team. That really helped and you should seek those out on YouTube. They still do this for the newly promoted teams. Because of that, I know more about Swansea City than I do the San Diego Chargers. I did NOT want to pick a team. My thought was no matter what, it would be bandwagon pick, and I didn't want to be like the legions of American kids that liked Man U just because they had a great run at that moment in history. And I thought the real, true, EPL fans that grew up in neighborhoods blocks from their clubs would (and probably do) loathe all the bandwagon American fans. I spent one season consciously not picking a team and just watching the whole league. And let me say, NBC Sports and their team, including Men In Blazers, do a fantastic job. You'll grow to bow before the Queen of Dragons every Sat and Sun. But I got pulled in despite my plan not to. My number one criterion was that I didn't want to follow the obvious teams...the recent winners or the teams that everyone loved...just didn't want to be that bandwagon. So at the time, that meant no Man U, no Chelsea, no Man City. I wanted to pick a team that when I told others they were my team, they knew it was genuine and not just another red jersey with a Chevy symbol on it. I always liked Fulham because of the American players and an American owner. But they didn't pull me in. I liked Everton because of American players. I liked Arsenal because of RvP. I liked Liverpool because they had major history but had been down a long while. But those factors mostly shifted and were no longer the case...or they got relegated...or it just didn't take. Here's how and why I picked the Spurs...and some of my reasons turned out to be wrong, but I don't care now. 1 - At the time, Spurs had HP as a sponsor, so I thought. Hey...American sponsor. superficial reason...check. (They switched sponsors the very next season...now irrelevant) 2 - During this time, Under Armor was their kit sponsor. Hey...American sponsor. Superficial reason...check. (Totally oblivious to the fact Nike and even New Balance also sponsor EPL teams...The Spurs changed to Nike soon thereafter) 3 - They signed the (much lesser) Pulisic of the day...the up and coming American, DeAndre Yedlin. (He was loaned away immediately and is not with the team now) 4 - This is the team, and the new stadium (nothing more American than a big new stadium) where all NFL games in London will be played. I figured if they were courting Americans so blatantly, I'd give them some love. 5 - They had Americans in the ownership group. (This was just dead wrong...not really sure where or how I got this impression, maybe I misread it from Liverpool...but there you go) 6 - This was not a big factor, but I liked that I had no problems understanding their coach's English during press conferences. (this was immediately taken away when they fired that coach after that one season and replaced with a genius saint with an Argentine accent) 7 - At this moment in time, they were NOT great, although clearly in the top 6 ish..barely. At that exact moment, I was picking an underdog among the top clubs (I know this is an oxymoron, but it makes sense in EPL terms). They were always punching up and struggling to beat the big boys, but did so with a style of play that was fun to watch. Like Texas football, Spurs fans expect them not only to win, but to win with some style and good attacking play. My cup of tea. So at this point, I intellectually knew the list was long in support of the Spurs, but I was still reluctant to manufacture my way onto a fake bandwagon. Then... The video/s above. The Sudeikis videos sealed the deal for me. Any big time team that would allow a spoof video on their actual training grounds and make fun of soccer while making fun of Americans' understanding of football was perfect. I loved it. Watching this now, you see their big name players in the background. Bale in in that video. I couldn't imagine any NFL team or the league, or any NBA team or league allowing the same with their big name players in the background...maybe they'd let some bench players do it...maybe. A team with this sense of humor and sense of marketing genius (although I am sure that genius was from the EPL and/or NBC), they are the team for me. And of course, I got REAL lucky...I picked them at the exact moment they started (because of a brilliant coaching hire) a rapid upward trajectory, and while they don't have any silverware yet, they are a very good team doing great things in England and in Europe. AND they did it all with no signings! TL;DR - COME ON YOU SPURS! Come on with me and support the Fightin' Chickens of London!!! P.S. I never saw that article until recently..and it's interesting to read now as that article, like my reasons above, have been overtaken by much change in the table over the years. Also, EABODs, Potch is staying!!! Yee haw! Even now, with a CL final appearance, the Spurs are usually listed last among the six...one of the reasons I picked them/love them.
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ESPN App green pixels/buffering issues? Anyone else have issue with the ESPN App? I have an NVIDIA Sheild/Android TV with dozens of apps installed. HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, PBS, Pluto TV, YouTube TV, etc. I have virtually zero buffering issues at all on all of these apps...except ESPN. The ESPN App, which I use for ESPN+ and LHN (just got LNH creds from a buddy yesterday). I watched Big 12 Media Days and some SEC Media Days and the buffering was bad. Constantly pixelating and the whole screen being taken over by green pixels for a few seconds while it tries to catch up. It's bad enough that I won't be able to watch any sports on it. Anyone have any suggestions to tweak? Settings? Reinstall? forget the TV and watch on a tablet? The Intertubes universally crap on the ESPN App. And it seems much worse than the old WatchESPN App (although I never had that app on my TV, but would Chromecast it to the TV with much better results than ESPN App). I don't seem to have the issue with everything on ESPN App. Copa America games didn't seem to have buffering issues. Other random live streaming events do buffer a lot. Anyone have the secret sauce or insights on this? Strange to me that the Mouse would have the worst streaming app back end just before they launch D+. And strange that it would differ depending on what I was watching (all usually around the same time of day).
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PBS has announced they will have more and more of their content on streaming services in the future. They are working on it now. They are just really slow to the game, and have a trickier time as they have to negotiate with each station. I have Android TV/NVIDIA Shield and have the PBS app downloaded. It has a good bit, but not a huge amount of VOD stuff for the kiddies...Super Why, etc. And you can watch shows that air on Big PBS an hour or so after it airs...The wife was hitting refresh like a feind for The Crown. We get just enough PBS content on the app to be content.
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LHN IPTV?? Still loving YTTV...truly love it. So great to pop on a World Cup game on my NVIDIA Shield at home, the pick it up on my phone on the way to work, then on my work PC. I love that on the browser at work I can open multiple windows and they all stream glitchless. But the inevitable eye twitching is starting since I don't get LHN. Anyone running Android TV or NVIDIA Shield have a good IPTV service for LHN they recommend? I still can't believe it took me so long to punt DirectTV. I don't care about the price jump...still a great service at a way better price.
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Imma: Thanks for all the hard work man... It's such a great place for the surly to hang out. I've been having a Tapa issue lately on multiple Android devices. Whenever I try to go to Timeline or Unread in Tapa, I get a memory allocation error. I also get the same error when I try to search the board for posts on this...searched "memory error" and got a memory error. Brilliant troll! I'll reply to this with a screen grab...device hopping.
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Kane was onsides!
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Had my mom check. She she's my local stations. So depending on how long it works before Google shuts it down, you can sign up for YTTV in Austin, and then ad you family or friends elsewhere to see local stations.
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I think it's 6 unique accounts but only 3 devices can be streaming at the same time on YTTV. Just as a test, I added my mom in Houston as one of the unique accounts, and it let her stream from Houston while I was streaming from Virginia. I'm sure at some point a lock that down, or maybe there's some triggers we haven't hit yet, but to start we were able to stream in two different locations.
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You asked more about DirecTV Now than YouTube TV in your post, but you can do what you need for your wife on YouTube TV. You just tell it to record a specific show, and it grabs them all new, reruns, video on demand, all of it. I just wanted to grab the New year's special episode of Doctor Who. But since it was like a five-day marathon, I now have almost every episode of that show recorded. The downside is, you can't go in and delete a specific episode like you can on a traditional DVR. But since YouTube TV is unlimited DVR, it doesn't really matter, beyond vaguely offending my OCD sensibilities of liking to keep a DVR clear. YouTube TV DVR is unlimited recording, and it holds the recordings for 9 months. I'm new to this, so I don't know what that means. I don't know if it's a rolling 9 months, or it resets what you've asked to record every nine months. The upside, is if you just tell it to record Seinfeld or friends, since they're on heavy rotation on TBS or whatnot, you have the entire catalog of that show really really quickly. As a side note, I absolutely love that I got to unplug all these random DirecTV things that are plugged in all over my house from over the years. Swm devices, decas, genies, DVRs, coax cable out the yin yang. All gone. Just my Wi-Fi, and my Android TV box. We use Chromecast or Xboxes on the other TVs.
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It's not the cooking channel, but YouTube TV has one random cooking channel I've never heard of. The Mrs has tuned in a few times. And Pluto TV has a bunch of Gordon Ramsey episodes for free.
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Correction: ESPN app on NVIDIA box let's me pause... Can't pause on tablet app casting. YES!
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Suck it Russian! COYS!! ESPN+ needs that pause feature.
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Vito: I just fired up WatchESPN on my tablet to see if it worked and curious how my wifi would handle streaming it twice at the same time. No problems at all.
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I haven't had it that long, and we don't watch much broadcast TV, but so far, no issues with local channels. I don't get all of them, but I get the big 4 plus one or two UHF locals. No PBS, no CW.
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No issues at all (so far) on YouTube TV.
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