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Originally Posted by buckeye
I don't believe this will be the beginning of the end for linear TV, but I hope it might be the beginning of the end of the major platform providers forcing us to pay for channels we don't want to get the channels we do want.
Never again will I be forced into buying a bundle of channels to get access to the things I want, my viewing needs are supplied by Freeview and online services these days.
I am in agreement with Mr K, online streaming services are getting better each year but they're still not as good as broadcast HD.
I wont deny BT offer a great streaming picture quality but its not as good as the HD picture I used to get through VM.
I'm not sure what you're watching NBC Sports on but on my 48" TV even their 1080P streams are not as good as ESPN, Fox Sports or BBC Iplayers 720P streams let alone watching Sky Sports in HD.
For what its worth here's how I'd rank the online services for sports viewing:-
1/ ESPN/BBC Iplayer, not a lot to choose between these two, about the closest available to broadcast HD.
2/ BT Sports/Fox2go, fractionally below the above but still very watchable
3/Eurosport Player/Now TV, pretty good but in the middle ground between SD and HD via traditional methods
4/NBC Sports, as #3 but slightly worse
All that being said I appreciate I'm lucky to have a very dear friend in the US who lets me use their cable login to access the US services and would never complain about the quality on them and will take the slight drop in quality on the UK services I pay for to not have the ridiculously large bill I'd have with VM to get them.
I'll venture into your grey area and say Real Debrid would be a must if I used Kodi for TV and movie watching but people should not be fooled by the headline resolution, quite often the HD variants on the grey area Kodi addons offer a pretty low bitrate and I'd liken them to the now defunct yify group encodes (if you use VM's broadband there's a way to get movies in Bluray quality and TV shows as good as they originally aired for free without resorting to risky torrents but that's not a conversation for an open forum like this)
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I'm using Appletv for nbcsports,
the bt sports app on windows 10 is amazing quality but i only have 40inch 1080p samsung tv i guess if my tv was bigger i'd prob see a difference between streaming and linear tv broadcasts.
You can get blu ray quality movies via BT too as i'd imagine would be same with any provider offering good speeds.
I agree never risk torrents i've repaired many laptops/pcs because people used torrents and got stung with malware./viruses etc which is why i use a android tv box for kodi and addons i research into before installing aka look at ratings, peoples comments etc.
I like you am lucky enough to know someone in the US who gave me a login to their tv provider for a small fee which is understandable $10p/m is peanuts really.