playstation vue is a really good option for public viewing

[wacky1980]

wife trialed the ps vue service yesterday while our cable tv was out at home. i was surprised as hell to learn of all the sports programming on there (mlb, nfl, nba networks, college bball networks, regional sports channels, seventeen espn's, etc). a lot of that programming simply isn't available through our cable tv provider, which sucks because we also have that provider at the bar and we have to tell our customers "sorry, we can't get [x] game because our provider doesn't offer that channel." so i got online and chatted with a playstation rep, and i asked about commercial pricing for public viewing areas. in short, they don't recognize a difference between in-home (private) or commercial (public) viewing, so there is no commercial package. if we chose to, we could set up their service at the bar and stream to 5 devices (convenient, because we have 5 tv's), and it wouldn't cost us any more than if we stream to our tv at home.

so for $45/mo, a person gets basic cable ($80/mo with our current provider), plus all those sports packages. and there's not the 10x markup for public viewing. it's not one of those grey area, "our service is only supposed to be for in-home use" scenarios either. dude told me we can fire it up in the bar and pay the same price. they just don't care. BUT...that may change at some point, if they start to get pushback over it. right now, no one's giving them hell.

in comparison...directv offers a "commercial xtra" pack with all the normal channels and sports channels...for $150-600/mo depending on occupancy. but all the sports packages are additional, from $40/mo for college sports up to $500/season each for the pro packages.

fucking no-brainer here. only thing we need to do is buy a couple roku tv's to replace some older ones that need replaced anyways, and a couple roku boxes for the projectors. another great thing about the ps vue service is you don't need a playstation at each tv to use it. our internet is currently 50x50, which should be plenty to stream 5 channels at once. it should actually cost us about half as much to double our programming, which will also result in more business because we'll have more of everyone's games available.

i mean, this almost feels illegal. there's probably some performance rights issues with this arrangement, but the people at playstation don't care, so neither do i.

[mochi]

I'm already paying 50 dollars yearly for online multiplayer on the PS4 I dunno if I wanna stack another set of charges on top of that

 

 

besides I already have netflix

[André Toulon]

I had it for a while, and it would seem such a solid service pack wouldn't come with constant blackouts, crashes and buffering issues.  When I had the trial, it streamed like a boss....The second I paid for it, it started shitting the bed persistently.  I dumped it after the 3rd month, but good luck.....This was 2016.....All of this may no longer be an issue.

[nameraka]

Got it on trial when it first came out. Probably would have been worth it if I watched a lot of TV. 

Edited February 15, 2018 by nameraka

[Derackthehunter]

I tried it around Thanksgiving because I wanted to the Chargers smoke Dallas.

It was good and works well but for the price it'd just be cheaper to add cable to my internet from Comcast.

Of course this is just me.

[wacky1980]

7 hours ago, Noboru Yamaguchi said:

I had it for a while, and it would seem such a solid service pack wouldn't come with constant blackouts, crashes and buffering issues.  When I had the trial, it streamed like a boss....The second I paid for it, it started shitting the bed persistently.  I dumped it after the 3rd month, but good luck.....This was 2016.....All of this may no longer be an issue.

i looked into the req's for streaming 5 channels on their service. 50-70mbps for full 1080p quality. i mean, we have that much bandwidth at the bar already, but dang. i don't want to deal with buffers when there's a popular game on.