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Time zone streaming
My DirectTV streaming guide shows eastern time zone and I'm in Pacific. My address is in the Pacific Time Zone. How do I fix this?
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My DirectTV streaming guide shows eastern time zone and I'm in Pacific. My address is in the Pacific Time Zone. How do I fix this?
KingGamer
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Yes. We should get both Eastern Coast and Western Coast feeds for these channels:
Channels that have both an Eastern and Western Coast time zone feeds in SD, but should have the Western Coast time zone feed in HD too.
However, licensing deals with the owners of the channels might be needed to fulfill these. Additionally, the Western Coast time zone feeds of the channels that have them should also be on DIRECTV Stream
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bcbsncjlj
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The guide for DirecTV Stream is based on the Eastern Time Zone, except local channels and regional sports. There is no West Coast feed. DirecTV satellite service is different.
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KingGamer
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Ok. But the Western Time Zone feeds for Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, and Cartoon Network should also be in HD, not just SD.
And these are the channels mentioned that should get Western Time Zone feeds:
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bcbsncjlj
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There are no western feeds for DirecTV Stream except for locals and regional sports. As for the SD channels are you referring to DirecTV satellite or DirecTV Stream. Some channels may only be broadcast via SD.
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Jrandomuser
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Is the issue that you want DTV Stream to:
There are some live streaming services that do the former. AFAIK none do the latter.
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KingGamer
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As for the Western time zone feeds of the channels I mentioned, I refer to DIRECTV Satellite.
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KingGamer
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It would be better for DIRECTV Stream to offer the Western Time Zone feeds instead of the Eastern Time Zone feeds for people who live in the West Coast Time Zone.
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litzdog911
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I'm not sure why KingGamer keeps beating this dead horse. DirecTV is not going to change their network feeds. DirecTV Stream makes it super easy to record any show you want and view at your leisure. Simply record the East Coast feed and watch it three hours later if you must have the "west coast" feed. Simple.
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jdfrost1970
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Thanks for everyone responding
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chasf00
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Where do DStream feeds originate from?
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Jrandomuser
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If you are asking where DTV Stream gets their feeds, they are directly from the originating networks (though I don't know what mechanism is used to get the the feed from that source to DTV). If you are asking where DTV Stream sources their streams to end users, they feed (I assume from a central site) via external CDNs. I don't know if they use more than one CDN vendor - I am fed from an Akamai server.
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Jrandomuser
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@litzdog911 - It is true that west coast users can record everything and time shift. It's also true (I'd assume - I am on the east coast so don't know from personal experience) that doing so is a pain. It doesn't seem unreasonable for DTV to provide subscribers on the west coast available west coast feeds - some other live streaming services do. Since not all networks offer a west coast feed, this wouldn't completely solve the time shift issue, but a partial fix is better than none. (And yes, there are undoubtedly some west coast subscribers that prefer getting the east coast feed. It's hard to make everyone happy. Providing both feeds might, but as I noted earlier, none of the live streaming services appear to do this, so there may be additional license fees or other impediments to doing that.)
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chasf00
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@Jrandomuser
How does one find the server they get their Dstream from. I'm making the assumption that there are many servers to handle all the requests.
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KingGamer
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@Jrandomuser, it would work out better if DIRECTV Stream offers the Western time zone feeds instead of the Eastern time zone feeds for people who live in the West coast.
Additionally, for DIRECTV Satellite, these channels that don’t have any should also get Western time zone feeds. And these networks should get Western feeds (same channel number as the Eastern one, but with -1), however, they will only be in HD.
Because they are HD only, they will need HD equipment and an Advanced HD Receiver.
These 3 channels with Western Time Zone Feeds should also get HD versions of the Western Time Zone Feeds:
However, the HD versions of these Western Time Zone feeds of the channels require HD equipment and an Advanced HD Receiver.
If the Western feeds do come to DIRECTV Stream, they should be from the HD versions.
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Jrandomuser
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@chasf00 - I did a traceroute (well, on Windows a tracert) to stream.directv.com, and it showed Akamai as the end link. A CDN (content distribution network) is indeed many servers - distributed geographically and generally provided by companies (like Akamai) that specialize in the service of providing access to content to a large and distributed population of end users. DirecTV sends the streams to Akamai (I assume with appropriate targeting info), and Akamai forwards them to their many distribution points, that then provide them to the (appropriate) DirecTV Stream subscribers.
@KingGamer - this forum is specific to DirecTV Stream. If you want to converse with DirecTV satellite subscribers, you will need to use one of those forums. And I'm not sure what you think you can accomplish by repeatedly posting that list here. We are aware that you want west coast feeds on the west coast, but there's absolutely nothing we can do about it - we're just other customers. Your best bet to reach someone who can at least pass the request to someone significant is to post to DirecTV's social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) - links are at the bottom of the page.
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