New Member
•
20 Messages
Sports Blackout Issues and other Sports questions
The NY Yankees are broadcast by The YES network, which is the reason I signed up for DirectTV Stream, it's the only streaming service that carries it. However, they are commonly broadcast nationally by TBS, ESPN etc at the same time as YES but blacked out in the NYC market. Yesterday I had to manually delete and change my team recording for the yankees because it wanted to record TBS over YES. I would have ended up with 4 hours of "This broadcast is not available in your market" and missed my game.
I thought streaming was supposed to be smarter than cable, shouldnt it know that I can only watch on YES and record that instead? If not, it would be nice if they can add an option to give a channel priority.
Also, how well does auto extend work? With cable I am used to doing "extend for 120 minutes" which is usually enough but on some crazy rain delayed games its not, will auto extend catch a game that goes on for hours and hours because of rain delays and extra innings?
detuch254
ACE - New Member
•
5.2K Messages
2 years ago
@mike453434 streaming is not any "smarter" than cable is, both get the same Live television. Unfortunately, it cannot tell to record on one specific channel due to the other being blacked out. It is up to the user to determine the proper channel to record. I'm not saying the future couldn't bring this feature, but it is not a feature with DIRECTV STREAM as of right now. You have to record all stations possible that would be broadcasting the game.
Auto extend works fine on DIRECTV STREAM, just be sure to choose the proper time. After you have started a recording, it will base the end of it on what setting you have chosen. For example, just because the game extends another 2 hours doesn't change the fact that you chose 30 minutes. The DIRECTV STREAM app will therefore only record an additional 30 minutes. In this case, you should ALWAYS expect the worst and record as much additional time as possible. Also, to save recording space, remove older recordings that are not needed so you have enough space to be recording an additional 3 hours for each sporting event that you plan to record.
0
0
mike453434
New Member
•
20 Messages
2 years ago
Thank you for your reply.
Regarding the blackout issue, giving the ability to set a channel as priority would fix the issue. NFL games where there are a few a week are one thing to manually manage but when you are recording 162 baseball games a year it gets extremely tedious to manually manage them all, especially with how convulted the broadcast schedule is.
Regarding auto extend I am a bit confused by your response. I see no option to set an extension time. It just tells me its + auto extend when i setup the recording and that is the only option I see. I watch all these games typically after they are done recording, usually the next morning, so I have no ability to manually extend during the recording if that is what you mean.
I was under the impression that with MLB, NHL, NBA and NFL it will auto extend to the true end of the broadcast without any intervention by me.
0
0
Jknoop
1 Message
11 months ago
Why can we watch a game on BTN 610 but not record it?
0
0