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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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4 years ago
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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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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KingGamer
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I told them on Twitter saying that DIRECTV Stream should have the Western time zone feeds of the channels instead of the Eastern time zone feeds for people on the West coast.
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kpc2424
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The issue stems from users (including myself) that are using an OEM OS app to access direct tv. The only exception is iOS where it will correct to the local
time zone. If you’re downloading the app from google play on a Sony tv and trying access live west coast local
programming, that’s where the problem arises. It does not let you in app change to local time zone. It does however, warn that you can only change time zones 4 times per year. This is my first move to the west coast and I’m stuck with east coast programming on all my smart tvs.
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Jrandomuser
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Yes, we know they offer only east coast feeds. That has been stated ad nauseam for years. But that is neither a reason nor a solution, just a statement of what is.
The issue is that some networks offer west coast feeds also. DirecTV provides those (in addition to the east coast feeds) to satellite subscribers. U-Verse TV (which is part of DirecTV these days) provides both. Some other live streaming services offer west coast feeds at least to west coast (and maybe mountain time zone) subscribers. DirecTV certainly knows where a subscriber is. So the question is why don't they offer west coast subscribers west coast feeds (or everyone both)? It can't be hard technically, so it seems either it would cost them extra (which they are willing to pay for satellite subscribers) or they just don't care.
Of course, since they know where the subscribers are, they could go beyond that and offer all national network programming at the "correct" time for that time zone, by recording the programming and streaming it delayed to match the time zone. I believe some cable providers do this, though I don't know if any live streaming services do that, nor for that matter if customers would prefer it. They could get even fancier, and allow a subscriber set their account to delay any given network by a delay based on their time zone or just their preference. That might even be a competitive advantage for selling the service.
Given the infrastructure they have in place, none of these things should be tremendously hard to do, and they wouldn't require figuring out a good UX for the feature, which conceivably is an excuse for not adding profiles, or mechanisms to allow editing of the channel list or, a whole list of other enhancements that haven't shown up over the last 5 years. So - are they just cheap and don't want to invest the development dollars (even though they spend some money to periodically add really marginal channels) or do they just not care?
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