Because every time I try voice input my wife thinks I'm talking to her and wants me to repeat it. Or she's asleep and I don't want to disturb her...
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Yep, I understand that. My wife has figured out Siri on her iPhone and asks it questions all the time. I often think she has taken to talking to herself but then I hear Siri answer.Because every time I try voice input my wife thinks I'm talking to her and wants me to repeat it. Or she's asleep and I don't want to disturb her...
Out of curiosity, have you used streaming on a tv connected device such as a Roku, google tv device or Apple TV?
The only time you need to enter the password is at initial setup.
Even on my iPhone I can’t recall having to continually renter passwords among those types of apps.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding ?
Yes... And voice input is totally useless when I don't know what I'm looking for until I read it in the listings...Yep, I understand that. My wife has figured out Siri on her iPhone and asks it questions all the time. I often think she has taken to talking to herself but then I hear Siri answer.
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The only apps I have had to re-enter every few months were the TV Everywhere apps a long time ago, never have to with Netflix, YTTV, Disney+, etc, etc beyond the first time.
Never said one way was better than another. I use streaming as well as Dish. One benefit (IMO) to Dish is the ability to look through the guide and see everything available to me in one place. I don't have to scan through Amazon (for example), hoping to find something to catch my eye, oh, don't see anything there, look through Netflix, oh, don't see anything there, go to Disney+, etc, etc, etc.
The main thing keeping me with Dish is live sports. Yes, there are some streaming services that provide those, but the money difference between them and Dish is really not very large ($10-15/month).
Goto streaming for a month just enough time to be a new customer to get the deals and promo's with your past provider. Though DTV is great at giving out promo's and deals. but how long will that last with
TGP running it now???
I have a Roku 4, Apple TV, and Amazon Firestick. I don’t watch a lot of streaming with them so most of my watching is on my Hopper3. But the passwords seem to expire monthly on my Roku and Amazon Firestick. The passwords on my Apple TV last the longest. I think the reason they expire is that they what to check that you are still a customer of Dish.
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Those are TV Everywhere apps, they all expire about every month, no matter who the provider is.
Netflix, Hulu, Disney, YTTV, etc, etc never expire unless you change something.
I have a few apps on my Firesticks that require reactivation if they're not used for a few months. I'm working on weeding out the ones we really don't use often enough to keep them installed.
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Found this funny, speaking of finding things to watch on streaming services, just seen a Dish Network Commercial about how easy it is using the voice remote to find shows and the lady pressed the button and says Virgin River, which is a show on Netflix.
The thing with streaming is, there are two categories; streaming live TV and streaming On-Demand. Most of what I watch is On-Demand and that's what makes it appear that tstreaming is so, well, streamlined for me. For Live TV, I could see that being more of an issue
There's a Netflix app on the Hoppers, and the listings do come up in a search whether by voice or buttons on the remote. Very convenient...
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And my Firesticks... So I guess I'm not clear on why finding Virgin River on Netflix was funny to you on a Hopper that also supports streaming.
And the advantage of trick-play for the LIVE, linear streaming channels that one can NOT perform viewing live, linear streaming channels on a Roku or Amazon Fire, and that is a great frustration watching some good linear TV services via the internet today.
Dish does have backups in sleepy nap mode right now, but the real disaaster is if the all Spot Beam at 110 encounters major problems or dies prematurely. That failure will likely cause a major hit to PQ or WORSE.
However, I do believe, as has always been his way, Charlie has a plan for Dish eventually losing all or not needing as many satellites he does today. Dish is being typically secretive in what has to be a transition in linear TV delivery method, and some of these analysts are either paid mouthpieces or don't know what they are talking about regarding other options in technology to deliver linear TV programming. As if Charlie is is just gonna do nothing and let Dish fall off the cliff. What dope of an analyst. The Hopper+ is a big clue to the future of Dish
However, I do believe, as has always been his way, Charlie has a plan for Dish eventually losing all or not needing as many satellites he does today. Dish is being typically secretive in what has to be a transition in linear TV delivery method, and some of these analysts are either paid mouthpieces or don't know what they are talking about regarding other options in technology to deliver linear TV programming. As if Charlie is is just gonna do nothing and let Dish fall off the cliff. What dope of an analyst. The Hopper+ is a big clue to the future of Dish
The problem with linear services via internet today is that they are treated the same way as on demand services - all data is solely from the source on the internet. If they merely port the data feed from the satellite to the internet and treat it the same way as the satellite feed (have a one hour buffer recorded on the hard drive) subscribers would not even know there had been a source shange. The only caveat to internet vs satellite delivery might be the subscribers bandwidth limit - you might not be able to support the recording of 21 simultaneous data streams but how many actually hit that limit now?
With a new receiver that is capable of both satellite and internet streams to a hard drive buffer instead of directly to your TV display, a satellite service like Dish could all but eliminate rain faid by switching from satellite to internet feed only when the satellite feed was degraded, similar to what thet do now by switching from the HD feed to the SD feed when that happens.
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I don't find it funny as much as calculated. That commercial plants a bug in some potential customer's minds that if they get DISH, they will get Netflix too. Since DISH added the Netflix app to the Hopper, I can't count the number of customers that ask me how to use Netflix thinking it was included with their DISH service.
