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Re:Apple Special Event Livestream [video] by ben_jones on Monday March 25, 2019 @01:15PM (#19484391)
Until TV stops paying for a monopoly on sports (via blackouts of local games) the fans will continue to consume subpar services. I would pay hand over fist for an NBA streaming app that gave me every game at good quality. Instead I use the Hulu Live TV package and occasionally watch pirate streams (because the Hulu UI for recording a game interferes with watching it live - I've been stuck in loops of watching 5 minute commercial blocks endlessly because they didn't invest enough into QA).

EDIT: I use the Apple TV hulu app which probably gets less development resources/QA then other platforms.

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Re:Apple Special Event Livestream [video] by ascagnel_ on Monday March 25, 2019 @01:26PM (#19484501)
The nice thing about the ATV Hulu app is that you can log in to Hulu at a system level, and then individual channel apps can use that system-level login. If I wanted to watch+record, I'd watch live via the channel's app, and then watch the recording via Hulu. As you said, though, catching up to a live event was an awful UX.

FWIW, I've been trying PS Vue this month, and they handle that case far better than Hulu.

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