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Old 12-28-2014, 09:33 AM   #571
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Agreed on the UI the font is too small for my eyes.
Whew! Thanks. Thought it might have been my eyes just getting worse! I've got a fairly small TV anyway, but I don't remember having as much trouble reading the menus on my Roku3. I'll have to fire it back up and compare.
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Whew! Thanks. Thought it might have been my eyes just getting worse! I've got a fairly small TV anyway, but I don't remember having as much trouble reading the menus on my Roku3. I'll have to fire it back up and compare.
I have no problem with Roku's font but I have to squint something fierce to see the Fire Stick menus.
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I have no problem with Roku's font but I have to squint something fierce to see the Fire Stick menus.
Agreed. It seems their contrast or sharpness or both need to be worked on. I can read other things that small, but the Fire Stick fonts seems a bit blurred.

The good news is that Amazon had said their 2nd new deliverly date was Jan 19, but then they came up with a 3rd date of

Christmas Eve (Dec 25.)
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Old 12-29-2014, 05:48 AM   #574
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The good news is that Amazon had said their 2nd new deliverly date was Jan 19, but then they came up with a 3rd date of

Christmas Eve (Dec 25.)
In my part of the world we call Dec 25th "Christmas Day", rather than "Christmas Eve".
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We do here as well. I just misspoke. (... in too much of a hurry, I guess.)
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The Stick just got a whole lot more interesting, especially for travelers:
http://www.cnet.com/news/dish-launch...s-espn-disney/

Dish now offers a package of live TV channels that includes ESPN.
No CSPAN, so no Book TV. But they are promising more channels to come.

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The $20 Sling TV base package includes ESPN, ESPN2, Disney Channel, ABC Family, Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, TNT, CNN, TBS, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and the "best of Internet video" with Maker Studios. Add-on packs with additional kids and news programming will be available for $5 each.
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Old 01-06-2015, 12:14 PM   #578
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Now that's getting intriguing. Sports are arguably the biggest thing keeping people on cable. I'm no millenial, but I ditched cable years ago, and sports are one of the things I miss. I wind up listening to games on the radio, because the cable packages have become ridiculous. Add the Big Ten Network to that list, and it would be quite a package. I don't know that I would want this all year, I'd probably drop it after basketball season, and pick it up again for football season. If this included ESPN3, I'd be highly tempted.

I have the Fire TV box, but if I got this package, I'd be tempted to buy a Stick just to make this portable. Then I could bring my Stick to a friend's house to watch the game.

Here's another thing that could be an opportunity: Most colleges have a package where you can watch games online. Mostly it is for games that aren't covered by cable channels, such as the "minor" sports. You can hook your computer up to the TV set, but that is a pain. If instead, you could just have a Fire TV app, that would make these packages much more enticing.
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Old 01-06-2015, 12:19 PM   #579
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The Stick just got a whole lot more interesting, especially for travelers:
http://www.cnet.com/news/dish-launch...s-espn-disney/

Dish now offers a package of live TV channels that includes ESPN.
No CSPAN, so no Book TV. But they are promising more channels to come.
Oh I would love to have ESPN I couldn't watch NASCAR Chase last year because it was on ESPN. I miss HGTV and ABC Family but I got to wonder how much bandwidth live TV would take up compare to on demand video?
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but I got to wonder how much bandwidth live TV would take up compare to on demand video?
Why should it being live stream or VOD make any difference at all to bandwidth requirements?
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That is what I was asking? Does it? I know on Netflix you can set the quality of streaming.
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That is what I was asking? Does it? I know on Netflix you can set the quality of streaming.
It would depend on the app.
Most streaming apps do dynamic quality depending on available bandwidth but some are much better at it than others.
My experiences with live streaming ESPN on XBOX are indistinguishable from the cable feed (720p), while MLB.TV on XBOX sacrifices a bit of video quality (slightly lower frame rate) to maintain resolution. Given that they are doing on-the-fly conversion of fast motion 1080i video it is understandable and not annoying. Just a bit odd-looking...

The CBS app on the Fire Stick should give you an idea of what ESPN should aspire to on it: very good live video with no noticeable frame rate degradation.
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Now that's getting intriguing. Sports are arguably the biggest thing keeping people on cable.
I've read that the industry's big secret is that while the popularity of sports and ESPN are well known, there are a huge number of Americans who don't care about sports, and would drop the sports channels and their high fees if they were given the opportunity!
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Why should it being live stream or VOD make any difference at all to bandwidth requirements?
With live streaming, the packets are only sent out once (in theory) and listened to by as many people who are 'tuned in'. With On-Demand, each listener initiates a download of the media. While it's possible that the packets could be cached nearby, that is not likely.

If you want to look into this, compare unicast to multicast.
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