cdaigle430
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I have both cable and I use my Apple TV to stream movies but I dont have to wait for it to completely download.
Streaming movies &TV shows ..Dish, Netflix, Hulu ???
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Thanks blue...I do not have an xbox..I never thought of checking a pawn shop but I only paid $49.00 for this thing from wal mart and it is new...I just hope I can figure out how to connect it...you ought to see all the wires we have behind the stand...we have a DVD, VCR, Dish Reciever, home theater box and the tv is mounted on the wall, the router is in another room...it is wireless with wifi...so I have no clue where to hook what to what...I'll just have to see...Sure is getting hard to watch tv now days...
We bought a wii for our grand daughter but we don't have one..so I have to hope I have the smarts to hook this thing up when I get it...I may need help..please stay tuned...:laughing:
I enjoy modern technology ... As long as someone else gets it going for me!!!
I hear ya when it comes to all those wires...The xbox has the DVD player so out with the dvd wires... moved the vcr to the upstairs tv for the grandkids.. so out with those vcr wires...we only have the 6 local channels ... so no dish wires.
k0ua
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Been streaming netflix with a Roku box for a couple of years. It starts in about a minute or less, to buffer ahead a bit. Got another TV with built in streaming ability a week ago, so moved the Roku box to the bedroom tv, and set it up wirelessly. and the main TV is still wired to my network with a cat5e cable. With netflix you can pick out movies with the TV/controller or you can go to the website with you PC and put them in your streaming que to watch later on your TV or you can watch them on your PC. No waiting.
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brin
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I am either dump as a stump or I misunderstood what Dish Network, netflix and all the rest Hulu and all are talking about when they say you can stream from your TV...We got this new DVR and the Sling link and we have a router with Wi Fi ..but it still will not let us stream movies or old TV shows to our TV...we can download but then can't find where the downloads went...sigh !
So I figure I was missing the device I ordered from Wal Mart...I called Dish this AM but they could not even tell me if I should be able to stream to the TV or not...:confused2:
dmccarty
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You need a device to which the content is streamed. Many new TV's will direct connect to the Internet for example. In our case I bought a cheaper TV set since I new our BD player would stream the video. Roku, Western Digital, xBox, Wii, PS3, etc will also accept the video stream and send it to the TV. You have to be careful what you get though. PS3 has wired and wireless connections but our xBox only has wired. Wireless was extra. Some devices with handle HD video but other are only SD or not fully HD. Some of the devices will only stream from certain providers though I think everyone is doing Netflix. Other providers are Hulu, Sony, and Amazon.
If you DVR does not accept a video stream then you will need another device.
Have you checked the manual on the DVR?
This stuff is not simple.
Later,
Dan
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brin
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Dan ...Our DVD player is about 10 yrs. old...the DVR is brand new from Dish network ..so it will work ..it is just figuring out which wires go where since they are all wired in a series...VCR, DVD, Audio Receiver for Home theater...all to the DVR from Dish network and then to the tv...Yikes :confused2:
dmccarty
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I feel you pain.
If the devices all connect with HMDI cables it is much simpler and less cable. Otherwise it is more complex. If you are running the video through multiple devices before getting to the TV you really have to have your ducks in a row. :laughing:
We bought a new receiver and TV last year as well as a BD player. They all work much better together than my old set up. I dread replacing our current TV stand with the new one we have because of all of the rewiring I will have to do.
Later,
Dan
grsthegreat
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I dropped directv 2 months ago due to the constant increases in fees. Got sick of it. Have a roof antenna and get 17 channels over the air. Im thinking of getting netflix but i too am lost at the complexity of this. I just havnt sat down and tried to figure this out yet. All i know is none of my tv's or dvd players are set up for it. Some day ill actually sit down and figure all this out.
Sticklizard
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I have Dish and the Blockbuster Movie Pass. From the few movies I've watched through the pass on my DVR, it appears that they download some data, but they actually do some kind of streaming as you watch. I was watching a movie and had to stop and continue the next day. It had disappeared off my DVR so I re-added it. It said it was ready and I wanted to fast-forward to where I had left off but I could only fast-forward so far before I had to wait for more data, even though the movie was 'ready'. Maybe if I waited long enough it all would have been on the dvr disk.
I find the user interface for the DVR to be the worst imaginable.
For the internet streaming options, you need to use a PC. I found that I can use the Roku box I bought for Netflix streaming for the Epix channel from the Blockbuster Movie Pass. Maybe some of the other channels are or will be available that way. Their streaming is an odd combination of different sources.
For the online streaming, I find the web site leaves a lot to be desired as far as searching and getting recommendations. Netflix has it all over them for that.
I find the user interface for the DVR to be the worst imaginable.
For the internet streaming options, you need to use a PC. I found that I can use the Roku box I bought for Netflix streaming for the Epix channel from the Blockbuster Movie Pass. Maybe some of the other channels are or will be available that way. Their streaming is an odd combination of different sources.
For the online streaming, I find the web site leaves a lot to be desired as far as searching and getting recommendations. Netflix has it all over them for that.
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brin
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Same thing here except I can't even figure out where to go to view the movies we have downloaded...each time we clicked to view a movie it said it would be available in an hour or several days....but never told us where and it does not show up in our recorded movies on the DVR ..I must be missing something...I have ordered a streaming device..but when I get it I am not clear on how to hook it into the mess we have...we have a DVD player, VCR, the Dish DVR and home theater all wired into the TV..so I am unsure just where this new device will connect...???? I am clueless..there is only one HDMI connection on the back of our TV...the DVD player is not HD since it is 10 yrs. old as is the VCR - I sure don't want to get into replacing all of them...any ideas on hook up will sure be appreciated...I have ordered this device that is wifi for netflix, hulu etc. should be here in a week or so...Thanks