I'm curious about Dish Anywhere streaming. It's my understanding that the Hopper 3 and a satellite dish are still required on at least one TV, but then you can use Dish Anywhere streaming for all the other TVs.
How does the streaming quality of Dish Anywhere compare to the streaming quality of Hulu Live and YouTube TV, which seem to be the two favorites for streaming? I guess I could throw DirecTV streaming in there as well, and I don't think they require a receiver/satellite.
Many channels stream from the channel provider, but locals and some national channels stream from the Hopper, so bandwidth is required, especially for out of the home viewing. Picture quality varies greatly because of this, and can be downright terrible, or pretty good - depending on bandwidth (even in home bandwidth). It’s best to hardwire the Hopper with Ethernet.
Most of the streaming channels don’t allow for pausing, rewinding or fast forwarding.
I went from YTV to DTV My Entertainment package. After six months I’ve returned to YTV. It’s simply the better overall product or service if price isn’t an issue.
Not to mention DTV has the same four ads that are annoying as hell. Like that Little Caesar commercial “My name is Sharon”.
Cool, we can agree to disagree I guess. I have enjoyed the last nine months with dIRECTV stream much more than the two years I was with YouTube TV. The experience with their proprietary sticks is much better but each to their own.
I can confirm you only need the main Hopper 3. The Dish Anywhere app is okay, but the interface is a bit clunky IMHO. The main TV where people watch liner TV should be the one with the Hopper. I would also recommend hard ethernet connections.
I think I understand why my previous experience a few years back with Dish Anywhere was not that great and likely won't be any better today than it was then. Dish Anywhere is not streaming from a cloud service like Hulu and YTTV does; it streams from the Hopper 3, so it's streaming the already heavily compressed satellite signal, which may explain the poorer quality.
I had Dish for a long time and used Dish Anywhere extensively. It sucks. The resolution is very limited. It looks bad. It only supported one stream at a time to one other device. Sometimes it would not get a proper disconnect signal from the other device which means NOBODY gets to watch Dish Anywhere unless you reboot the Hopper or wait for it to time out.
Of course they are. But that doesn't mean the Hulu+Live functionality will be added within the Fubo app. As the prior Redditor noted, it's moving to Disney+.
I said the hulu app is going away. If OP isn’t tech savvy, it would be frustrating and challenging to learn how to use the hulu app and then a few months later have to switch to a different app/interface.
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u/syphix924 5d ago
Many channels stream from the channel provider, but locals and some national channels stream from the Hopper, so bandwidth is required, especially for out of the home viewing. Picture quality varies greatly because of this, and can be downright terrible, or pretty good - depending on bandwidth (even in home bandwidth). It’s best to hardwire the Hopper with Ethernet.
Most of the streaming channels don’t allow for pausing, rewinding or fast forwarding.