Satellite tv question

It's satellite tv. Works in the same manner as your home tv. No internet required for streaming. it's all done through the dish. You'd need a mobile antannae to record while your moving. Although I"m not sure how well it would work if your moving. Specially in the rocky mountains.

A cheaper alternative and wouldn't require an antannae is internet streaming tv. There's probably some type of app for hockey. You'd watch your games ON DEMAND.

DVR itself is starting to be a dieing technology. With people doing what's called cord cutting. No more cable or satellite tv. ON DEMAND is the new thing.

There are services called psvue, directvnow, sling owned by dishnetwork, youtube tv. The most popular in terms of conventional tv. And a few others. Just about every station has an app. You can watch all these services on a phone, tablet, or computer, or tv.

ATT owns directv and hbo. If you have their cell phone. You can get a discount off directvnow services. (At time of this post) And free hbo. IF that deal is still going on. You can stream on your phone WITHOUT eating up your internet allotment. Tablet too if it's att serviced. I beleive both devices can stream to a tv. I know the phone can.

Satellite and cable are no longer the only games in town. And neither will be around much longer. Supposedly ATT plans on shutting down satellite in a couple of years. SUPPOSEDLY. That's the news floating around on the internet. We'll have to wait and see when ota 3.0 starts rolling out. And 5g.

 

The set up i have you can not get a signal while going down the road. I think they make one you can but its thousands of dollars

 

I DVR things while driving all the time. I had Dish Network, I now have DirecTV. With either one, you will need an in-motion dish. The dish itself will run you between $900 and $3000 depending on make/model and place of purchase. I was impatient and bought a Winegard Road trip T4 from Camping World extremely marked up. You can find them for around $1000, I paid $1500, but wanted it then.

It records pretty well even going down the road, but it still works line of sight, so you will have times where an overpass, tunnel, skyscraper, etc momentarily block your signal.

With Dish, you can have HD and SD, with DirecTV, you can only have SD.

 

I just set my dvr at the house to record what I want when while at home, then log onto direct tv app on tablet and watch my dvr recording on the road.. I have att so it doesn’t charge data and pretty sure their is a cord to hook up your tablet/phone to your tv it watching on tablet no bueno for you.. a rv shop will be able to fix you up with what you need to watch tv going down the road if you want to go that route,, they are expensive tho that’s why I stream

 

If you have dish at home you get all the channels you get at home for $7 a mo. You will lose your local channels when you get out of your local are, may be several hundred miles.
I can watch the OKC Thunder games where ever I am .

You need a system that can switch to all 3 dish primary satellites.

 

Phone's stream wirelessly to tv. It's called mirrorcast. Or even miracast. I would assume tablets to do. Only requires a tv capable of streaming which seem to be a few brands these days and a wifi connection. A.k.a. phone hotspot. It doesn't use data stream to transmit phone to tv. And if you don't have a capable tv. A roku or amazon stick will work.

I used to have my movies on a hard drive. Using PLEX. I could transmit laptop to roku stick to watch my movies on the tv. .

 

I'm looking at Directv Now instead of satellite but I'm concerned/confused about the "streaming from any device" part. My Verizon phone contract has unlimited data but the hotspot is limited to 15gb. Does Directv Now only work with the hotspot?

I'm thinking of getting stand alone internet without a TV package at home. I can get the gizmo to connect my phone and TV at home. The TV is a new Samsung 4k Smart TV. I'm assuming that will work, right?

Last question: any idea if Directv Now is HDTV? I can't find anything except conflicting comments.

Thanks,
Frank

 

I saw that att had home internet package that costs $60 for 50GB/mo.
I would just get those modem and setup in the truck to stream online. Too much headache with dish.

 

Dish is a hassle, I park, turn on tv , push a few buttons and in a few minutes I have several hundre channels with nothing good to watch.
My question is how many hours of your 10 are you planning to watch shows?