TracVision - is it old hat these days?

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I am looking at buying a boat with TracVision M5 on it. Should I get excited about all the TV I will be able to watch and start reading the online manuals or has TracVision been trumped by my current system of watching TV - i.e. via 4G mobile internet and plugging my iPad in to the big telly?
 
I would be completely not bothered about sat tv nowadays - I use an amazon firestick running kodi/exodus/filmon plugged into an hdmi port on the tv, connected over a 4g mifi. Works brilliantly, provided you have 4g coverage where you are.
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
I would be completely not bothered about sat tv nowadays - I use an amazon firestick running kodi/exodus/filmon plugged into an hdmi port on the tv, connected over a 4g mifi. Works brilliantly, provided you have 4g coverage where you are.
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Yep. I have the M7 dish-in-dome jobs and have never turned them on, and don't know how to. Just watch TV on 4G
 
If it should happen to be my boat you are looking at then I can guarantee that the TracVision will make you a god amongst men, women will demand to have sex with you wherever you go, marinas will insist you stay there for free, and restaurants will fight to have your god like presence in their dining areas and you will drink the finest wines for free for ever more.



P.S. I don't really know if that's true I only turned it on once to see if it works.
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
I would be completely not bothered about sat tv nowadays - I use an amazon firestick running kodi/exodus/filmon plugged into an hdmi port on the tv, connected over a 4g mifi. Works brilliantly, provided you have 4g coverage where you are.
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Jimi, What network and package do you use in PVB?
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
I would be completely not bothered about sat tv nowadays - I use an amazon firestick running kodi/exodus/filmon plugged into an hdmi port on the tv, connected over a 4g mifi. Works brilliantly, provided you have 4g coverage where you are.
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I've got Kodi on 2 laptops, but have no idea how to get any particular TV stations - like SKY and BT Sport premiership football matches. It doesnt really matter right now as I have both Sky Go and Virgin Media TV Anywhere, so can watch anything I want - but I'm frustrated by the fact that I cant get further than loading Kodi.
 
jfm said:
£18k, gweep...
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:eek: serious? I thought I was exaggerating with the 4k...
checked on ebay, you can get a dummy TV5 for 800quid, ffs! or a stuffed one for 5k. No idea if they'd work in the Med, but anyway it's getting silly!

probably cheaper to buy a brand new sat phone and get a data connection for it!
You can then watch your favourite series or whatever even with a F8 midatlantic with broken stabs or your Nordhavn :D

cheers

V.
 
Whilst typing this, we are in bed watching Sky News over rhe sat domes.
This is because we are in between 4G contracts - only on the boat for a few days.
But I DO need to find a good 4G contract for 2017.
 
Richard10002 said:
I've got Kodi on 2 laptops, but have no idea how to get any particular TV stations - like SKY and BT Sport premiership football matches.
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Takes a while to find streams on kodi. But once found and added to favourites then fine after that.

I have just downloaded the 'mobdro' on my fire stick. More intuitive and easier to find what you want compared to kodi. To get sky sports in mobdro then go to sports, scroll down a few clicks and there is sky sports. Only annoyance is it has some small ads. Waiting for premium to become available at $2.99 per year to remove that.
 
I was using Vodafone last year.
Good 4G on the mainkand.
Mostly 3G in the islands but I think there was some 4G around.
3G was good though.

Several of us in SC used this 4G retailer for our Vodafone contracts.
http://www.nerja4g.com
The retailer was very good but it is Vodafone that is carp.
This kind of thing has happened to me lots of times with Vodafone.
You agree terms and they change their side of the deal.
In this case, we agreed unlimited data but in October, they changed their minds and reduced it to 120GB
We were paying 69 euros per month.
Absolutely disgraceful.
If I had changed my side of the deal they would have insisted on penalties but it seems that there is one rule for them and another for us.
Thanks to the retailer, I was able to cancel the contract but I'm ?issed off with Vodafone.
Vodafone have also screwed me on a UK contract in the past - they seem to have this kind of ethic throughout.

I'm on the boat at the moment and yesterday I checked the usage stats for last year - in my router.
It seems that my worst month (August) was just under 80GB so maybe I will renew again with Vodafone.
We are caught a bit by the curlies - they have the service but can't/won't honour their deals.

There are other options that l'm looking at but if anyone has any others, please post.
 
Hurricane said:
I'm on the boat at the moment and yesterday I checked the usage stats for last year - in my router.
It seems that my worst month (August) was just under 80GB so maybe I will renew again with Vodafone.
We are caught a bit by the curlies - they have the service but can't/won't honour their deals.

There are other options that l'm looking at but if anyone has any others, please post.
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I feel like this about Virgin Media wrt changing the deal agreed, but they remain better than the alternatives, so I stick with them. Sometimes you have to do business with the enemy :(

Recently bought a PAYG phone for my 80 year old Mum and got a Vodafone PAYG sim for it, (Vodafone is the only network that works in her village, so truly caught by the curlies. I put £20 on the SIM on the basis it would probably last a year or so - as soon as I'd paid up, Vodafone sent a text saying thanks for the £20, "we've converted it to a one month £20 bundle with loads of minutes, loads of texts, and some data" - I managed to get that removed over an online chat thing, but I'm guessing when we put more money on it, Vodafone will steal it again, and we may not even get to know. Truly a deal with the Devil :(
 
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