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(02-12-2018 08:58 PM)Justanodufan Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 01:51 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 01:07 PM)bit_9 Wrote:  That's really one of the bigger drawbacks to the streaming services. It adds variables to reliable experiences. Each person could have x device, y, connection, x.2 firmware. You could be using a iPad, Iphone, Android, Mac, Windows 7 desktop, Roku, etc. You could have a user with no space left on their device and not quite enough memory so it's jittery at best. You could have another program running eating up memory causing the stream to read/write to the hard drive for swap space and causing a bad experience. That's where TV was better. It just worked. We'll be shunning a decent size of the population that still wants that, or better yet needs that, as they don't have the know how or drive to figure it all out.

Case in point: I tried to watch the Middle Tennessee game on the Facebook video app on my Samsung TV. Unwatchable. On my cell phone it was choppy, and on my laptop it was almost flawless. It's difficult to cast from an Apple device without Apple TV — there is an app, Video Cast I think it's called, that lets you cast if it can pick up the stream, but that's hit or miss.

Might break down and cut the cord to get Direct TV Now, since it apparently comes with a free current-gen Apple TV.

I use chrome cast with my iPhone all the time. Picture quality is unbelievable