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[Q] Football season is here

I will be away from my television quite a bit this season, and want to know how I can watch some football on the evo. Minus the obvious slingbox, how do you stream live tv to your phone?

Capture card on desktop, VLC as a streaming server. LogMeIn Ignition for controls. Ta-da.

Slingbox. You can control your cable box and watch anything from anywhere. Its what I use when I'm on the road. I highly recommend it.
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shortbus182 said:
Minus the obvious slingbox
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He was trying to avoid slingbox. The other suggestion looks good to me.

Try justin.tv.

mkeena0305 said:
Slingbox. You can control your cable box and watch anything from anywhere. Its what I use when I'm on the road. I highly recommend it.
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I would love to use slingbox, but thats like a 200+ dollar investment on a phone I already paid a crap-load for.

NFL Sunday Package To-Go.
Goto Directv website and search for it. Nothing else comes close

Kornsaq said:
I would love to use slingbox, but thats like a 200+ dollar investment on a phone I already paid a crap-load for.
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Yeah but the slingbox will last you years and years without any additional cost. It's a one time fee. You can also watch on your laptop if you have one.
Just set up a slingbox pro hd and couldn't be happier.

JG-1 said:
Yeah but the slingbox will last you years and years without any additional cost. It's a one time fee. You can also watch on your laptop if you have one.
Just set up a slingbox pro hd and couldn't be happier.
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Definitely couldnt talk the wife into letting me get the pro since its what 300 dollars. Also, dont really see a need for the HD one since it will mostly be watched on my phone.
I actually found the solo version on Newegg for 156, so I might be picking that up.

Orb is your friend....tv tuner card and access to your mp3 and video collection from one mobile interface. There is an ORB android app but there is no need for it, the web browser works great. Orb has built a nice interface that will scale to multiple mobile codecs. I have been using it for awhile...first had it running for my old nextel blueberry...

yeah but w/out the nfl sunday ticket you can watch 1 or 2 games. with nfl sunday ticket 2-go you can watch any game.
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/content/sports/nfl_online_mobile

Tuner card in your PC is the least expensive. I typically use that with Orb but I haven't tried it on the Evo yet. Basically the Slingbox is doing the same thing for more money. It's a capture card and media web streaming device. Basically you can spend $100 on the capture card or $200 on the Sling. It's up to you depending on budget and whether you feel like setting it all up.

you can easily get a slingbox on craigslist used for very cheap, $50 or less easily and its far and away better than any other option suggested unless you get the sunday ticket package.

Netflix app

Anyone able to get the netflix app off the LG Revolution?
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Ohh, I want it too!
Hopefully this means we will be getting it soon (hacked or official). Apparently, you can have up to 6 devices linked to one Netflix account. So I will be able to watch using my wife's Netflix account.

Please oh please oh please!

I hope soon, I've been waiting fooorrreverrrr for this!
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That's a quick way to reach your alloted 5gb of 4g data!

yeah, sucks having to tether to an ipod touch to get your netflix content while away from a Wi Fi source. Might be the only reason why I haven't sold my ipod actually, the netflix app.

I would be happy with just a Netflix app that solely provides the opportunity to search for movies and manage your queues, not for watching movies on the G2 (although that would be sweet).

dustrho said:
I would be happy with just a Netflix app that solely provides the opportunity to search for movies and manage your queues, not for watching movies on the G2 (although that would be sweet).
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Umm, they already have that.

redpoint73 said:
Umm, they already have that.
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Care to share which one is actually worth using? I've tried a couple and they're not really good. I'm looking for one designed by Netflix, not some 3rd party developer.

as far as i know android hasnt received love from netflix due to security and piracy concerns. Dated November 13th (short article BTW)
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/13/netflix-headed-to-select-android-devices-early-next-year/#

androinica claims they have seen the Netflix app on an LG Revolution. But where can I get it for my G2?

I've about had it with Netflix and their crappy movie line up anyways. They charge you $8.99 a month (which is fair) but then they offer so few good available and the others are dvd only. Then they "fix" this issue by charging you more dvds out at a time to make up for it. Its just about screwing over folks and milking them for the $20, 30, or 40 plan. I wish they would just upload all digital streaming and offer dvd to those old fashioned folks who actually want it. Plus, their reasoning for not offering their app on android is ludicious.... I hope something better comes along soon

Damn peoples. You gotta be patient. How are people going to pull and share the Netflix app when they just figured it out recently that one exists for Android. I mean don't get me wrong, I want the app as much as the next person but its not going to magically appear. Let the Android community do its magic. I don't even think people even got to mess with the phone yet let alone the Netflix app.
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History of android phones has shown that apps from pre-release dumps and leaks from upcoming phones as well as preview phones have found their way to xda before a phones release. It isn't too far fetched nor unreasonable to have a little expectation that it may have happened or will in this case
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sino8r said:
I've about had it with Netflix and their crappy movie line up anyways. They charge you $8.99 a month (which is fair) but then they offer so few good available and the others are dvd only. Then they "fix" this issue by charging you more dvds out at a time to make up for it. Its just about screwing over folks and milking them for the $20, 30, or 40 plan. I wish they would just upload all digital streaming and offer dvd to those old fashioned folks who actually want it. Plus, their reasoning for not offering their app on android is ludicious.... I hope something better comes along soon
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I was under the impression that one of the main reason Netflix has not come to Android is because of the backbone of Netflix streaming, which is M$ Silverlight
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sino8r said:
I've about had it with Netflix and their crappy movie line up anyways. They charge you $8.99 a month (which is fair) but then they offer so few good available and the others are dvd only. Then they "fix" this issue by charging you more dvds out at a time to make up for it. Its just about screwing over folks and milking them for the $20, 30, or 40 plan. I wish they would just upload all digital streaming and offer dvd to those old fashioned folks who actually want it. Plus, their reasoning for not offering their app on android is ludicious.... I hope something better comes along soon
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Its not netflix - its pressure from hollywood and the studio execs for both the lack of streaming titles and the android app/"drm" concerns. And let's not forget that apple has their tentacles deep in hollywood cuz of their involvement with pixar and apple tv (jobs was the ceo of pixar).
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Yeah, that sounds about right about the lack of complete library streams. Other the other matter, I'm sure ports will be on the way. The only issue I foresee is linking the account to the device if its ported. Might be a pain to get the port properly to avoid that issue...

I'd greatly appreciate a netflix app for my g2. I'm jealous of the iphones netflix app. -__-
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dustrho said:
I would be happy with just a Netflix app that solely provides the opportunity to search for movies and manage your queues, not for watching movies on the G2 (although that would be sweet).
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You mean, like QueueMan for Netflix??

sundar2012 said:
Its not netflix - its pressure from hollywood and the studio execs for both the lack of streaming titles and the android app/"drm" concerns. And let's not forget that apple has their tentacles deep in hollywood cuz of their involvement with pixar and apple tv (jobs was the ceo of pixar).
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I am personally inclined to believe it has more to do with Apple's influence/blackmail than the pirating issue. It seems far fetched that someone would resort to a phone stream to pirate movies or shows.

Besides use as a cell phone...

What can it do? I was going to activate it on Sprint, but its way too expensive. I decided to just get an HTC Maple on the SERO plan.
So what can this do? I have it controlling my music on the PC already, but I don't know what else I can do with it. So far I keep either this or my iPhone4 in my pocket for use as a:
Music player
Flashlight
Music switcher
Camera
Web Browser
Game player (rather Doodle Jump player)
Clock
What else should I make it do?

Isn't the maple a Windows mobile device? Geeze...

How about a paperweight?

What else would you need it do...? Short of controlling your car and printing money.

if you got a maple, why are you posting here? do you just have an unactivated evo?

The Maple is indeed WM. I hated the phone until I got my Droid stolen and was pleased by the battery life that it had, and I realized it I didn't hate it at all, I did prefer the older stupid-smartphone for various reasons, it works better as a phone to me anyways and I always preferred the keyboard to a touchscreen. I do have an unactivated Evo that I don't think I'll use for cellular service and I'd like to make the best of it. I realize that its like castrating the phone, but I really don't know what else to do with it. Is there a way to forward texts to it and reply from my Evo?

You could just give it to me and I'd make really good use of it.

I can't give it away, I already spent like 100 bucks on it fixing and stuff.

why did you buy this instead of the new itouch? why are you in the Evo forums without a real service providing Evo?
This is dumb

Because it was on sale? I bought it and an iPhone since they were bundled. Why are you so mad? Ignore me if you don't have anything useful to say.

The GPS should work. It's an expensive alternative to a TomTom, but you already have it.

Check my sig.

you can also watch porn! lol

Lokifish Marz said:
Check my sig.
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Oh my god, thats beautiful. I'm totally doing that. Thanks! Wow.
cranbiz said:
The GPS should work. It's an expensive alternative to a TomTom, but you already have it.
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Do I need data to use the GPS? I didn't know there was an offline way to use it!
davidv001 said:
you can also watch porn! lol
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Haha, I think I would have to convert a lot of videos!

Download CoPilot via WiFi and you can use that offline, just download the maps on to a SD card and you're golden!
I use CoPilot all the time during road trips and is awesome!
Also, not sure what area you're in but if you're in an area that has MetroPCS you can activate the EVO on their service. I know in Jacksonville, Florida they had this thing where they would charge you 10 dollars for flashing your phone over to MetroPCS as long as it had a clean ESN.

Man, I'm confused. Are you planning on using it for some of the things it's intended to do? Or are you planning on using a crappy WinMo phone?

Bloomberg Radio app??

Hey guys,
I am quite new to this system.
I can't believe a simple task in iOS can be such a hassle here.
I am a normal business users that I want to turn on bloomberg radio while I am on the go.
There is the official Bloomberg Radio app in iPhone which works alright. But when I turned to Android. I am stuck at this simple apps is missing out of 500,000+ android apps??
I did my homework before asking.
Tune-in had WBBR AM 1130 . It was the PAST. For some reasons, it stopped working a few days ago. That really pissed me off because their official pages seems still include Bloomberg Radio as part of their marketing info.
And Sirius XM has bloomberg radio too! But damn after 7 days you need to pay at least 10 USD a month to keep this one station available to you.
Question:
IS THERE ANY WAY TO JUST HAVE THIS STATION? Any apps? I could not care less about having all fancy Pops/Hiphop/Rock and Roll stations like all radio apps provide. I just need this one. It is a multi-year habit that you wake up, you want to get this radio on at the back ground.
And no, I don't want to go back to iPhone just for this reason.
Help please.
I love Android. I am sure powerful and helpful users here can give me some suggestions!
Cheers!!

MaxxNexus said:
Hey guys,
I am quite new to this system.
I can't believe a simple task in iOS can be such a hassle here.
I am a normal business users that I want to turn on bloomberg radio while I am on the go.
There is the official Bloomberg Radio app in iPhone which works alright. But when I turned to Android. I am stuck at this simple apps is missing out of 500,000+ android apps??
I did my homework before asking.
Tune-in had WBBR AM 1130 . It was the PAST. For some reasons, it stopped working a few days ago. That really pissed me off because their official pages seems still include Bloomberg Radio as part of their marketing info.
And Sirius XM has bloomberg radio too! But damn after 7 days you need to pay at least 10 USD a month to keep this one station available to you.
Question:
IS THERE ANY WAY TO JUST HAVE THIS STATION? Any apps? I could not care less about having all fancy Pops/Hiphop/Rock and Roll stations like all radio apps provide. I just need this one. It is a multi-year habit that you wake up, you want to get this radio on at the back ground.
And no, I don't want to go back to iPhone just for this reason.
Help please.
I love Android. I am sure powerful and helpful users here can give me some suggestions!
Cheers!!
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Quick search for bloomberg radio in the android market shows bloomberg doesn't seem to provide an official application for this on android. Might be worth asking bloomberg when they will be releasing this?
As to a short term/immediately solution, there appears to be a 99 cent app released yesterday/today which claims to use the flash player and provide Bloomberg radio - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jay.mybr . In the description it says, "Currently
1. Tune-in Radio's WBBR channel stopped working a few days ago
2. Sirius XM's WBBR channel requires subscription of at least 10 USD/month after 7 days trial.
3. Bloomberg Radio Official Android App is NEVER available , though promised to be coming soon. " Seems to match your situation.
As a side technical note, it mentions uses Bloomberg's Radio web site, perhaps this is accessible through just the web browser bypassing the need to pay 99 cents for this application? One route could be through their mobile site: http://mobile.bloomberg.com/ ?
Seems bloomberg doesnt provide their radio app for Android .. not sure why: http://www.bloomberg.com/mobile/
Hope something in there helps!

Thanks for replying!
Looks like I am really a small user group then since so many glanced at the question but no solutions.
Thanks you pointing to a good choice...
but it is charging 99cents for using bloomberg's flash to play its radio?
hmmm...take as back up then.
But thanks!

Thanks..
Problem using browser is that whenever you screen goes off, the sound will be cut off. And you can't afford to keep screen on just to listen to this thing... even using Razr Maxx...
anyways call me crazy but I decided to bite the bullet and buy that 99 cent app. Anyway it is even less than the tips I pay to the velvet guy to park my car and the dev seems to be quite active in making the thing better. . .

I encountered the same problem. I've found that several stations stream Bloomberg for several hours in the morning (First Word, Surveillance) and afternoon (Taking Stock). Try these on TuneIn: biz 1190, 1070 WTWK, Money 105.5 FM.

MaxxNexus said:
Thanks..
Problem using browser is that whenever you screen goes off, the sound will be cut off. And you can't afford to keep screen on just to listen to this thing... even using Razr Maxx...
anyways call me crazy but I decided to bite the bullet and buy that 99 cent app. Anyway it is even less than the tips I pay to the velvet guy to park my car and the dev seems to be quite active in making the thing better. . .
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How is that app? I'm in the same boat. I went back to my iPhone just so I can use the Bloomberg Radio+ app.

Question Spotify Equalizer

Does anyine know how to use the Spotify equalizer instead of the Samsung one. It just seams like the Samsung one is a lot more quiet than the Spotify one was. Mostly listening on my bluetooth radio

You would need root to disable the systemwide Samsung equalizer. Worth it to you?

I'm so disgusted with Spotify. They seem TO WEEKLY be down for some nonsense "maintenance" and they restrict my amount of offline downloads.. Pretty crummy business. I can find all my music on Apple Music and can download an unlimited amount of albums and they are NEVER DOWN. Google music is what I used for years but they shut down and Apple is as close to that as I can get. #spotifyisajoke

OJsakila said:
I'm so disgusted with Spotify. They seem TO WEEKLY be down for some nonsense "maintenance" and they restrict my amount of offline downloads.. Pretty crummy business. I can find all my music on Apple Music and can download an unlimited amount of albums and they are NEVER DOWN. Google music is what I used for years but they shut down and Apple is as close to that as I can get. #spotifyisajoke
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Im serious about Spotify being PURE CRAP. They are highly over rated and obviously reading their own press releases. Spotify is terrible in the whole scheme of offering an entire scope of historical band's albums.. If you like all the nonsense "extras" (videos, partial albums, hits only, podcasts, playlists, etc) and ZERO FULL ALBUMS outside of the most popular ones then Spotify might be for you. If you like MUSIC and dont want to pay for one single song to complete an album, then there are better, cheaper, RICHER options out there. #Spotifyisforchumps

I have the family paid to use in my classroom, and share with the family.
Never have the weekly maintenance issue. They have bands I haven't heard since high school, as in they were local bands I saw live all the time.
Downside is that some songs are unavailable, and they don't really have a reason why. But it's few and far between.
I find it worth the cost.

dirtybudha said:
I have the family paid to use in my classroom, and share with the family.
Never have the weekly maintenance issue. They have bands I haven't heard since high school, as in they were local bands I saw live all the time.
Downside is that some songs are unavailable, and they don't really have a reason why. But it's few and far between.
I find it worth the cost.
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LOL I was crazy hard on Spotify the other night. Yes, I'm sure plenty of people are happy but I really have a bad taste in my mouth about Spotify. Personally, I do NOT find it worth the money. Thats just me, of course. I know they're quite popular and I'm an old guy so I probably expect more from music than most people do today.

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LOL I was crazy hard on Spotify the other night. Yes, I'm sure plenty of people are happy but I really have a bad taste in my mouth about Spotify. Personally, I do NOT find it worth the money. Thats just me, of course. I know they're quite popular and I'm an old guy so I probably expect more from music than most people do today.
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I feel ya. At 43 it's nice to be ale to get some older tracks. But I do get it. I tried Amazon music and Pandora...just not impressed. But to each their own.