With my Fios cable card about to be deactivated, I'm planning to move to Hulu live TV. With diminished TVE support (I won't be able to record ESPN as a TVE source) what's the value of keeping my Channels DVR subscription active on my Synology NAS if I'll be getting local channels from Hulu live and they have cloud DVR?
I would make Hulu Live my last choice in all honesty. It doesnt work well (or at all) with TVE. My recommendation, go with YTTV. Besides TVE, YTTV's picture quality is light years better than Hulu. Its unreal how bad Hulu is. This could be a huge factor if you ever want to go the adbtuner route with a linkpi encoder.
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Some people value having their own local recordings and the automated commercial skip, enough so they will spend extra time and money setting up one of the alternate source projects to recover the lost TVE channels. For me when or if I lose my OTA channels to DRM, I will not have a need for Channels DVR.
Each subscription live TV service like YouTube TV and Hulu Live all have good and bad points. Here's why I decided to stay with Channels instead of using YouTube TV's DVR service.
Note: The other thing I learned about YouTube TV's DVR service was during the Disney+ contract dispute, Disney or YouTube TV blocked me from watching any previous DVR recordings from any stations Disney owned and couldn't watch them until after YouTube TV and Disney signed an agreement. The shows I recorded on Disney owned stations through Channels were not affected.
YouTube TV’s DVR (Cloud Library) offers unlimited storage, allowing users to record unlimited, simultaneous live programs without hardware. Programs are added to a personal library by clicking a "+" button, which records all future airings, including reruns, and stores them for up to 9 months. Recordings allow for pausing, fast-forwarding through commercials, and on-the-go viewing.
How to Use and Key Features:
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Recording: Find a show in the live guide, search, or home screen and click the +(plus icon) to add it to your library.
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Unlimited Capacity: There are no storage limits, and you can record as many shows as you want simultaneously
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Series Recording: When you add a series to your library, YouTube TV automatically records all new episodes and reruns.
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Storage Duration: Recordings are saved for up to 9 months, after which they are automatically deleted.
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Commercial Skipping: For recorded, non-on-demand content, users can fast-forward through commercials.
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Device Sync: Your library is synchronized across all devices, including smart TVs, phones, and web browsers.
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Live Control: You can pause and rewind live TV for up to 12 hours, though you cannot seek back to before you started watching.
Important Considerations:
- No Individual Deletion: Individual episodes cannot be deleted from the library; you must remove the entire series to stop recording.
- On-Demand Replacements: Sometimes, recordings may be replaced by on-demand versions that do not allow commercial skipping.
- Personalized Experience: Each user in a family sharing group gets their own personal DVR library.
I'd love to stay with channels dvr recording via TVE. The problem is several channels that used to wo
rk via TVE just don't anymore, especially those in the Disney family (or. ESPN).
For me the best way to record content is via a combination of HDMI recording / EPlus TV. Specifically, I use ADBTuner ADBTuner: A "channel tuning" application for networked Google TV / Android TV devices for Android TV -> HDMI -> Channels DVR.
I bought three cheap ONN dongles, and plug them into something like this: Amazon.com: ORIVISION 4 Channel 4K H.265 264 MJPEG HDMI Video Encoder with Screen, Max 16 Feeds Output, Extra Audio HTTP RTSP RTMP RTMPS SRT UDP RTP IPTV Video Encoder for Live Broadcast Facebook YouTube Twitch : Everything Else
I purchased the 4 channel URayCoder but that appears to be discontinued