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Convince Me NOT to Get YouTube TV for Football

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dtgreg said:
If you have a ROKU tv, get used to clearing the cache. Hit the home button. then:
Hit Home button five times, up button once. reverse twice. fast forward twice.

This will cause it to seize up and hard reboot. You want this. Better than even unpluging the set and replugging in; also, it's quicker.

<Snip> Thank me later.
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Did it. Thanks!

I wondered why nothing was happening ... considered following your instructions again ... then it rebooted.
 
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gvilleBAMA said:
ESPN has a new streaming service starting the 21st. I think its about $29 and includes all live espn channels and all ABC college football games. So you won't get as much non sec games as you would with youtube tv, but you'll get all the sec games for quite a bit less.
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I was all set to go with YouTubeTV ... then I read your post.

As my wife is a North Dakota girl, we're also fans of the NDSU Bison. Their football games are available mostly on ESPN+. Now we can watch them instead of just listening on live radio.

Thank you!
 
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Special K said:
Our family has a collection of Roku and FireTV devices scattered around, but my main streaming device and by far the best one I've ever used is the Nvidia Shield Pro. Can't recommend it highly enough. I used to be deep into my own custom build HTPC, with IP cable tuner (HDHomerun), madvr for HDR rendering etc. Got fatigued from constantly chasing Windows updates and broken services as a result, and bit the bullet to switch to the Shield. Best decision I ever made. It just works. I still have a media server full of show episodes, ripped movies (many 4K), etc. and use Emby through the Shield for all of it. It's awesome.
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Did I write this? This is literally me.
 
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dtgreg said:
If you have a ROKU tv, get used to clearing the cache. Hit the home button. then:
Hit Home button five times, up button once. reverse twice. fast forward twice.

This will cause it to seize up and hard reboot. You want this. Better than even unpluging the set and replugging in; also, it's quicker. Then select YouTubeTV or whatever.

Your streaming will not buffer or if it does, it will not be because you needed to clear your cache. Do this WAY before you are about to watch something important. At least 10-15 minutes before, if not more.

Thank me later.
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OK, school me on this.

Why is this important/what's the purpose?

You recommending this before watching ball games OR just doing this occasionally?
 
Special K said:
Our family has a collection of Roku and FireTV devices scattered around, but my main streaming device and by far the best one I've ever used is the Nvidia Shield Pro. Can't recommend it highly enough. I used to be deep into my own custom build HTPC, with IP cable tuner (HDHomerun), madvr for HDR rendering etc. Got fatigued from constantly chasing Windows updates and broken services as a result, and bit the bullet to switch to the Shield. Best decision I ever made. It just works. I still have a media server full of show episodes, ripped movies (many 4K), etc. and use Emby through the Shield for all of it. It's awesome.
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I have a Shield and when it gives up the ghost, I'm promptly buying another one. I still keep my Roku connected because my wife prefers its simpler interface and I prefer not being dragged into the room just to help her navigate the apps. It's a win/win for us both.
 
I have a Roku on each of the TVs... I think most of them are about 5 years old and rarely have any problems. Every now and then an app requires a reload, but nothing major.
 
CrimsonJazz said:
I have a Shield and when it gives up the ghost, I'm promptly buying another one. I still keep my Roku connected because my wife prefers its simpler interface and I prefer not being dragged into the room just to help her navigate the apps. It's a win/win for us both.
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Yeah the Roku and FireTV devices are decidely cheaper (vs Shield Pro especially) and a little simpler, but Shield Pro is the gold standard as far as I'm concerned. Worth every penny. Some argue the HDR rendering can be a little soft, but I've not noticed much difference compared to my old HTPC running madvr rendering. And it's exopnentially lower on the headache scale.
 
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Bamabuzzard said:
It looks like YTTV is about to lose the Fox networks as well. They lost MLB Network a few years ago, and that ticked me off. Now it appears they're about to no longer carry Fox. So there goes another entire set of sports content they don't offer. I may be ending my relationship with them soon.
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Same here. I'm no Auburn fan, but I want to watch the game Friday. So they have 'til about 10 minutes before kick off to get this fixed, or I am on to something else (or at least starting a free trial for something).
 
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Bamabuzzard said:
It looks like YTTV is about to lose the Fox networks as well. They lost MLB Network a few years ago, and that ticked me off. Now it appears they're about to no longer carry Fox. So there goes another entire set of sports content they don't offer. I may be ending my relationship with them soon.
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I caught that this morning. I've already sent my complaint.


And here is the link for contacting Youtube to express your anger:

 
gvilleBAMA said:
ESPN has a new streaming service starting the 21st....
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Not sure if this is a case of causation -- or merely correlation -- but ever since I signed-up for this ESPN/Disney+ package(2 days ago) it's seemed as if Disney has ... possessed our TVs.
:oops: :eek: :oops:
Disney took-over the wallpaper. (I was able to change it back in Settings.)
✔
Disney/ESPN/Star Wars/LucasFilms/ABC commercials seem to suddenly dominate our Roku ... no matter which app we're using at the time.
:confused:
Suddenly, with Roku, I cannot "trick" other apps into cutting the commercials. (On Tubi and Fawesome, for example) I used to be able to see we were watching the 1st of 6 commercials ... press the Back button then immediately press Select again. The commercials would switch to we were watching the 1st of TWO. YEA!!! This trick no longer works.)
☹
 
MikeInBama said:
They've agreed to a short-term that will keep fox games through at least labor day weekend, maybe the whole season it isn't really clear.
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A deal will be done before the NFL starts next Thursday. Spectrum did it with ABC/ESPN a couple of years ago and missed 1 or 2 Bama games but miraculously the day before the NFL was to start a deal was struck IIRC.
 
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