11/4/2022 0 Comments Sling tv on apple tv 3![]() ![]() I don't know if all cable boxes are as bad as my Spectrum box is about this, but I always hated scanning through anything on cable, because it would always drop you down many moments after you click play to stop the rewinding or fast-forwarding. Then, when I was trying to fast-forward around, I noticed that the new Sling app is just as bad as cable TV. ![]() And maybe that's good for some live events, but I'm watching TV (mostly) for a narrative, and context is king. On the Apple TV 4K and on Chromecast, on the old Sling TV app, you don't have the DVR section, which makes it harder to jump to the start of an episode of live TV - it simply tries to throw you into the middle of the episode. The second and third frustrating parts about Sling TV came when I wanted to rewind and fast-forward live content. YouTube TV was also "behind" cable, but by less than half as much time, with a range of a 20 to 30-second delay. This might not sound like a lot to some, especially if you don't keep up in the live chatter with others, but it's an annoyance for me. When I got out my stopwatch, I found out that Sling TV was up to 70 seconds behind live TV. Smith of Laptop Mag was notably ahead of me. And as I watched Monday Night Raw, my friend and colleague Sherri L. As I've noted in the previous editions of this series, I will watch some live events and talk about them in the moment with friends on a Discord and on social media. My biggest issue with Sling, though, the fact that it felt like its live TV isn't as live as cable or even YouTube TV. And this is something that I hit on the Chromecast with Google TV as well, and it's just a sign of why Sling is moving away from this app to the new app launching platform-by-platform, starting with Fire TV and the Roku Ultra. Scrolling through the Guide menu, which organizes everything chronologically, like a traditional cable box, the Sling TV app on the new Apple TV 4K was slow as heck to load the guide if I scrolled with any decent speed. My first hiccup with Sling TV is one that will be a thing of the past in due time. Where Sling fails against cable (and YouTube TV) YouTube TV merely presents a single column stack of what's live right now channels.Īlso, Sling TV (like Hulu and Spectrum) offers picture-in-picture support on iOS, which YouTube TV doesn't. Hulu's offering is similar, as is Spectrum's. Sling's mobile app also better than YouTube TV at showing you what's off in the near-future, as the guide view lets you scroll days ahead into the future. While Sling Blue only offers around 40+ channels, its $35-per-month rate is far more palatable than the $127 we're spending for cable right now. I could even start from the beginning (more on where Sling fails to offer that below).Īside from that, Sling TV's biggest win against cable comes at the bottom line. So when I found myself two levels below the street on a NYC subway platform, as a pleasant night out was winding down, I was able to tune into the live broadcast of All Elite Wrestling's Wednesday Night Dynamite program on my iPhone. Sling TV on the other hand, has no such limitations. Its iPhone app only lets you watch select channels live if you're out of the house. You can't always be home to watch things live, which is one of the many reasons I am walking away from Spectrum. But that's not as likely, as they're big Yankees fans and the YES Network is stuck on DirecTV Stream, formerly known as AT&T TV. Maybe I can find the set of channels they want in a service we like. My goal is that somewhere in this experiment I convince them it's time for all of us to wave goodbye to cable. I'll even offer to let them share my account with me. ![]() So I'm planning on getting rid of my cable box, and telling them that their $127 per month cable bill is their problem. To recap how I got here, I want to cut the cord because of the cable box's archaic nature, but my roommates don't want to give up their specific channels. Hulu with Live TV, for example, didn't prove stable enough for my liking. Unfortunately, not all of its competitors can say that much. Sling's major competition for my dollar is YouTube TV, which impressed with a snappy and responsive app that works as it should. Navigating live programming, and rewinding and fast forwarding, seemed as bad (or worse) than cable, depending on which version of the Sling app I was testing (their new version is available on Roku Ultra and Fire TV, while Apple tvOS and other platforms and devices are still on the old one). That's because while Sling TV may be almost-perfect for my channels-to-price needs, it's not exactly stellar as an app. DVR: 50 hours (or 200 hours for an extra $5 per month) ![]()
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