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Pink-Fish

What is the delay between FUBO and normal TV ?

I've been looking all over this subreddit and their website. I love streaming and want to throw away my cable box forever.

Reason I do not get rid of cable is because I cannot stand a 45 second delay.

I saw someone's excellent post comparing the delay between devices. But what is the delay of FUBOTV compared to a cable box?

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Edit #1 -- Delays only matter when it comes to live sports for the brilliant ones that couldn't comprehend what I was getting at

Edit #2 -- If the delay is only 15seconds I will be signing up. I wish there was a way to confirm that.

Posted Sep 15, 2019, 3:12 AM UTC · edited

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thestreamable•

Depends on the channel. In our tests, Fubo had as low as 15 second delay.

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Pink-FishOP•

Live Sports?

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blondedre3000•

Oh no this my pillow commercial is 45 seconds delayed, I find this unacceptable and would much rather pay $100/month for non delayed my pillow commercials

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BlueTico•

What are you talking about? WE’RE TALKING ABOUT LIVE SPORTS!!

(For everything else the delay doesn’t matter obviously)

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Pink-FishOP•

what?

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2cruddy•

For me, the delay seems to be about 30-45 seconds and it seems to grow throughout the broadcast.

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BlueTico•

That’s tough to pay for. Why is this so hyped for live sports? No one cares?

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2cruddy•

The delay really only matters if you have something to compare it to. It does bother me that I get alerts from my phone before my team scores, but in general I find the quality of the games I watch better on fubo than sling (which also has a delay) and the price much easier to take than cable/directv. So it's a tradeoff.

My son knows I have a delay and will often taunt me by either spoiling the next play for me or worse, making up a result that isn't going to happen, lol.

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BlueTico•

This is a great question. Twitter was 29 seconds behind normal TV when they streamed NFL back in 2017. I thought that was good but I’m assuming fubo is better since it’s two years later.

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