![]() ![]() Sony has been tight-lipped about the exact reasons PS Vue had to die. (Image credit: Sony) What killed PlayStation Vue? PlayStation Vue also suffered setbacks right from the get-go, and Sony never addressed them sufficiently. Availability wasn't perfect, depending on your region, but it was another cable-replacement first.īut, as tech history has demonstrated again and again, innovative features alone won't save a doomed product. Sony incorporated local ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC affiliates right from the start. Local channels: Sling TV still struggles to offer local channels, relying instead on HD antenna workarounds.PS Vue introduced the easy-to-scan guide, which would tell you what was on now, as well as what would be on in the near future, for a dozen or so channels at a time. You'd have to scroll with painstaking care through one channel at a time, and these channels didn't always load all that quickly. Channel guide: While channel guides on cable TV have been a thing for decades, cable replacement services didn't used to have them.PS Vue was the first service to let you personalize a channel list, DVR library and roster of favorite shows, and let everyone else in your household do the same. User profiles: It's bizarre that many cable replacement services still don't offer individual user profiles, but here we are.PS Vue's approach was a little more sensible, offering everything from cheap Core plans (which started around $35 per month), all the way up to all-inclusive Ultra plans (which could go for $80 per month, or more). While Sling's solution of offering one base plan with lots of little add-ons was ingenious, it also had the potential to get very pricey, very fast. Tiered subscriptions: Not everyone wants the same channels.PS Vue was the first to introduce DVR features, which are now standard in every similar service. But back when cable replacements first started to spring up, you could watch shows live, access sporadic on-demand content, or rig up a complicated third-party workaround to record shows. DVR features: Who's got time to watch TV on some network executive's schedule? Nobody, that's who.Here are a few things that PlayStation Vue introduced: ![]() As the two services evolved, PS Vue was always the first to get hot new features, leaving Sling to play catch-up. Remember: When PlayStation Vue launched in March 2015, its only major competitor was Sling TV. What you might not know, though, is just how unusual these features were when PS Vue debuted. ![]()
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