With respect to Fubo, I feel most of the blame falls on the regional sports networks that Fubo works with. We just want to watch our team play on the living room on a new TV. Instead, the TV is turned off and we're watching this paid Fubo sports stream on a 15" MacBook from 2010, despite (or perhaps in spite of) all of this available technology to the contrary. All the user wants to do is load up from an internet browser and drag the browser window over to another display so it can be watched on a larger screen like God intended. The result of this framework is a scenario by which the end-user owns the playback device, owns the input medium, owns the secondary display, owns the TV, pays for the internet to connect to said devices, and pays for the streaming content, but quite literally cannot drag the Fubo browser to a secondary TV display.Ĭonsider for just a moment how absurd this is. There are no alternative platforms on offer. The Fubo video feed functions exactly as advertised (at 720p and 60fps) when playing from within an internet browser, but cannot be relocated to a secondary display detected via HDMI, either from a laptop or computer, due to the aforementioned act of terrorism that is the HDCP standard. Regional sports monopolies and the associated corporate media networks that own them use artificial standards like HDCP that forbid the end-user from seeking simple solutions to circumvent the above problem. Picture quality is choppy/jittery, audio is poorly synced, and the video feed transmission is riddled with harsh compression noise and glaring artifacts. The built-in FuboTV app does not function as advertised on any top-end Sony, Samsung, or LG television display. This goes way beyond the Fubo app or a TV's failure to process video feeds there within. While I am not certain Fubo is to blame here, I do feel this is worth discussing nonetheless, or at least documenting for future reference.
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