Talk me into or out of it.
Currently have DirecTV, Amazon Prime and Netflix.
Is there anything DirecTV can do that Vue can't?
What about for sports? Or less popular TV shows on cable (Better Call Saul, for example).Sling is frustrating. They couldn't handle peak broadcasting, it'd lag out and stutter, if say, watching the peak moment of a broadcast. Game of Thrones going live each week, for example, would cripple their HBO channel, meanwhile, you could stream direct from HBO w/ no issue (which is why I went HBO Go instead of adding it on through Sling).
It's been about 6 months since I've used them, personally, I'd try Vue if you had options.
It's different streaming content instead of having a cable box, see if it's for you.
I can't access it at work, but go on sling's site and find the option that gives local sports channels. Enter your address and it will tell you exactly what channels you'd get.What about vue vs sling?
Now that I research, vue does not have Hallmark which is a dealbreaker. It's the only channel my wife watches.
I'm in the Pittsburgh sports market. Can I get Cleve sports in this market? Or can you get only the local sports in your area?
What about for sports? Or less popular TV shows on cable (Better Call Saul, for example).
Unfortunately TWC has a monopoly in the area I live so I can't get the yearly promotion. Therefore was planning on paying $40/month for the Sling Orange + Blue deal in a few months when my contract expires. That comes with every cable channel I watch, including FSO. Then would just be an antenna for the ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX channels.
I can't access it at work, but go on sling's site and find the option that gives local sports channels. Enter your address and it will tell you exactly what channels you'd get.
Hmm well I'd be watching through the app on Xbox One or Roku so hopefully I wouldn't encounter those windows problems...Less contentious shows worked pretty well. One of the biggest boons I found was using the Sling credentials as passport services and streaming direct from the source. Example, I can use my slingtv credentials for watchespn. I don't have to use the SlingTV app, I can use native ESPN apps or website. That doens't, unfortunately, work w/ all accounts they offer service to.
If you have a friend who has Time Warner / Spectrum, as an example, they can generalize their password and share it w/ you. If you have that, you can watch virtually anything you want by just going to their site and using those credentials to gain access to their live stream.
Back to Sling, the Windows app had a lot of issues. You'd start it and get nothing. Sign out, sign back in, sometimes it'd work again, sometimes it took a reboot. Lots of buffering moments. I like watching History channel, and it buffered a lot, go straight to History's site and stream, I have no issues.
To get all the sports I wanted, I found myself subscribing to extras, which drive up the bill. I truly couldn't get everything I wanted w/o supplementing w/ a friend who had a TW account. W/ that, I could stream from FSOH directly for all Cavs / Tribe games, etc. Without it, Sling wasn't meeting those needs.
As for Vue, it didn't seem to let me watch on the PC (which is huge for me). TW ended up giving me a cable package that was equal to what I was spending on Sling an HBO, so I picked up a Cable box (and stream using the livetv app anything on cable).