Looks to me as if they are trolling for new DTV subscribers. I don't qualify either although I don't give a crap as I don't want it. Well, maybe if it were free.
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Looks to me as if they are trolling for new DTV subscribers. I don't qualify either although I don't give a crap as I don't want it. Well, maybe if it were free.
I'm not eligible, but seems like a bargain to me IF someone wanted to watch the whole season in an out-of-market game. Comes to $11.75 a week. Then again, that's me.
I switched from DTV to Dish a year ago because DTV refuses to show the Pac-12 network, now going into the 3rd year.
I do get the Redzone on Dish, but I have to buy the sports package to do so ($11 a month).
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MAYBE. Local teams are blacked out, but if your team is out of the area, it is a good deal.
From other posts, I gather that Apple AirPlay doesn't work for this package. IF not, you can alway run a HDMI cord to your TV and see the games on the big screen. Be advised unless you have a hard through put of around 10 Mbps or higher, you will occasionally get pixilation.
Since you can't use the PM system yet Email me at bw (@) bbmail.in and I'll explain to you in detail.Can you let me know how to exactly do that? I'm so confused and I tried googling it got me nowhere
Can you let me know how to exactly do that? I'm so confused and I tried googling it got me nowhere
You might try goats.net also.
A cheapoo solution...
http://www.goatd.net
Pay no attention to offers to upgrade java or ANYTHING ELSE. Wait for the clock to count down to zero (I think it starts at 15 seconds.) Then click the "x". You may have to play around with for a bit to make it work. If it fails, close it down and reload the website. Sometimes I have to do it 2 or 3 times before I get a stable picture. While I'm not sure, I think
Select your game (all times in EDT). Your video plumbing may vary. I either watch on my laptop or via Apple TV/AirPlay. Once you get it going, click on the expand screen on your laptop.
This site will NOT work on an iPad/iPhone because it needs flash. Pretty good picture if you have decent throughput.
http://www.goatd.net
Pay no attention to offers to upgrade java or ANYTHING ELSE. Wait for the clock to count down to zero (I think it starts at 15 seconds.) Then click the "x". You may have to play around with for a bit to make it work. If it fails, close it down and reload the website. Sometimes I have to do it 2 or 3 times before I get a stable picture. While I'm not sure, I think
Select your game (all times in EDT). Your video plumbing may vary. I either watch on my laptop or via Apple TV/AirPlay. Once you get it going, click on the expand screen on your laptop.
This site will NOT work on an iPad/iPhone because it needs flash. Pretty good picture if you have decent throughput.
Worst thing? How is choosing ONLY what channels you want a bad thing? How would you like to go to a furniture store and be told you had to buy the love seat in order to buy the sofa? You'd laugh at them. No different here.
Look, if a dinky, useless channel can't stay afloat on its own subscriber base then it deserves to die off. That's the way of things. Just like when a business fails and closes down. Thems the breaks. This idea that the good channels have to prop up and subsidize specialty or lame channels is terrible.
Your idea is simply a version of TV channel socialism. All the weird and oddball channels have to be subsidized by the channels people really want. Bunch of crap. Obviously more people agree with since pay TV users are dumping it left and right. The word is out. Pay TV is a massive ripoff.
And ya know what? Screw them anyways. The NFL has become a totally watered down product with too many teams that don't matter, regional coverage that sucks, way too many commercial breaks, terrible rule changes, and so much else. Rampant free agency and holdouts are also a killer. Overexposure is also a problem since Roger Goodell the dooshbag wants to play games every night of the week and in thirty different countries too. Worst commissioner ever.
Instead of awesome dynasty teams that kept the bar raised high they've dumbed it down due to "fairness" and every team basically resets every year. Super Bowl winners from the last ten or fifteen years would have gotten KILLED by any of the great 80's or 90's powerhouses and it wouldn't even have been close.
So, adios, NFL. You don't matter as much as you think you do.
I feel your pain, man. This years changes are just ridiculous. The most ****ed up thing is that even though the changes are ostensibly to increase scoring for the sake of the fans, it's actually to increase scoring so they can increase the # of commercials.
I think every time the Wold Cup comes around people in the US are reminded about the benefits of watching a sport that isn't interrupted every 2 minutes.
It's a shame, the NFL used to be great.
Not really. Big difference between getting it directly from the DTV satellite verses streaming on the 'net. It will be watchable, but not as sharp. And if your bandwidth meters up and down, look for some freezing. That's the way MLB looks streaming.