09-09-2019, 02:43 PM
Now that the preview is over and I started to sign up for PAC-12 with Sling, I find that Sling has upped the price of their Sports Extra package from $5 and is now at $10/month if you want to watch PAC-12 channel. Sigh... (And if you want ESPN, you have to have the Orange package as well.)
For WVB away games, only 7 will be on PAC-12. 2 on ESPN-something, 2 on BigTen, 2 not available. (11 of 11 home games will be on PAC-12)
For WSOC away games, only 4 will be on PAC-12, 4 unavailable. (6 of 6 home games will be on PAC-12)
I recorded the Texas-Stanford WVB game on Sling (Cloud DVR: $5/month extra fee, does not work for all content). Compared to TiVo (recording Xfinity broadcast), the deficiencies include:
(1) I couldn't remotely tell the recording to extend because the match ran long
(2) The UI for Rewind sucks. Just a capability to jump backward/forward 10 or some sorta indeterminate multiple of 30 seconds.
(3) No slow motion capability
(4) After I accidentally hit a button that jumped back to TV, when I got back to the recording, I found it resumed at an earlier position just before the previously-shown Sling-inserted commercials (they stream their own commercials (with somewhat louder audio) rather than the commercials shown in the broadcast). So then I had to search forward to where I had last seen the game. (I didn't test whether this jumping back occurs each time you get out of the playback.)
The video doesn't appear to be full quality HD, but I'd want to determine whether that is the fault of the content (perhaps the PAC-12 channel is degraded) vs the fault of an intentionally lossy recording/playback, or whether I'm just wrong.
Sigh...
For WVB away games, only 7 will be on PAC-12. 2 on ESPN-something, 2 on BigTen, 2 not available. (11 of 11 home games will be on PAC-12)
For WSOC away games, only 4 will be on PAC-12, 4 unavailable. (6 of 6 home games will be on PAC-12)
I recorded the Texas-Stanford WVB game on Sling (Cloud DVR: $5/month extra fee, does not work for all content). Compared to TiVo (recording Xfinity broadcast), the deficiencies include:
(1) I couldn't remotely tell the recording to extend because the match ran long
(2) The UI for Rewind sucks. Just a capability to jump backward/forward 10 or some sorta indeterminate multiple of 30 seconds.
(3) No slow motion capability
(4) After I accidentally hit a button that jumped back to TV, when I got back to the recording, I found it resumed at an earlier position just before the previously-shown Sling-inserted commercials (they stream their own commercials (with somewhat louder audio) rather than the commercials shown in the broadcast). So then I had to search forward to where I had last seen the game. (I didn't test whether this jumping back occurs each time you get out of the playback.)
The video doesn't appear to be full quality HD, but I'd want to determine whether that is the fault of the content (perhaps the PAC-12 channel is degraded) vs the fault of an intentionally lossy recording/playback, or whether I'm just wrong.
Sigh...