I know it’s probably because there’s money to be made.

I just wish there was a good place to discuss IPTV providers that wasn’t full of sketchy resellers over promising and under delivering. You’d think they could at least sort out their EPGs as most I have used are like 80% complete at best.

Not asking for provider recommendations, not sure if that’s allowed here. Just wondering if y’all know of a place where that shit can be discussed in a neutral and honest environment?

  • kevincox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    7 days ago

    If you don’t need to watch Jeopardy live it is pretty readily available via torrents. Probably in better quality and without ads.

    Sports are much harder to find. There are trackers but they are much harder to get into and I can’t attest to the completeness (I’m not really into sports) and watching it live is probably more relevant.

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      Why not an aerial for Jeopardy? It’s usually on local broadcast, so you could plumb together a DVR setup if you want it within a unified experience.

      • the_doktor@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7·
        7 days ago

        For me, ever since we went to digital I can’t get shit here. Tried the fanciest, best, etc, digital receivers and fucking nothing. We didn’t get the clearest analog signal in the world, but at least we got something watchable. Everyone just says “get aerial” for local channels and haha, nope, sorry.

        • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          Yeah I remember we couldn’t get CBC anymore so we couldn’t watch the Leafs games anymore. We tried digital but we got very few channels, even less than analog. That’s when we got satellite TV.

      • Banzai51@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Lots of TV stations in the US are moving to the new broadcast standard, ATSC 3.0, encrypting the channel, and stopping their ATSC 1.0 broadcasts. This makes an antenna useless. And the only digital boxes that are allowed are ones that have to be plugged into the TV directly with HDMI. This means you’d have to have an antenna and expensive converter box for EACH TV.

        Basically, broadcast TV is an unreliable mess now.

        • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          ATSC 3.0 is usable. I have a HDHomerun sitting on my LAN with a couple 3.0 tuners.

          The big problem is:

          • the 3.0 broadcasts are still mostly tests, so you get mostly a respin of a 1.0 channel

          • the audio is AC-4 and a lot of software doesn’t support it. There was stuff for Windows but when I looked, the usual suspects (VLC, mpv) on Linux didn’t support it