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DirecTV's 'NFL Sunday Ticket' Offered as Standalone Subscription, Available on Macs/iOS Devices [Updated]
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This isn't the UK. You call lie right to consumers, and the Feds don't give a ish in the US. Zero accountability.
I got the free online sunday ticket with my copy of Madden last year and it was a terrible experience. Tried to save some money from what I normally pay for Sunday Ticket on Directv but I ended up just going back to Directv. I don't know if it was their servers or what but you couldn't watch anything through week 2 of the season. No way am I going to put the terrible streams from firstrow on my HDTV and deal with all the ads you have to click out of. Through Directv it works out to about $20 a week($330 with Redzone/17 weeks) which beats having to go to a bar to watch whatever out of market game you want to watch(if they even have it on). I love Redzone and Short Cuts.
It is contingent upon DirecTV renewing Sunday Ticket.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-directv-att-nfl-sunday-ticket-20140519-story.html
So the NFL has all the leverage. Basic Sunday Ticket will prolly be minimum $300 for the 2015 season.
It is their product after all.
Stand alone as mentioned in this story will probably cost more. DirecTV customers could see a higher price, I have not paid over $200 the last few seasons.
I've had this through DirecTV for three years now. First year was free and the next two I never paid the $300 price they advertise. All you have to do is call DirecTV and haggle with one of the reps and they'll give you a significantly cheaper price. Last year I paid $100 for the package and the ability to watch my favorite team, the Philadelphia Eagles.
I've been waiting for this day since Sunday Ticket started! Woooooo! **** DirecTV! No cable needed for this guy!
I've run into this for the noon and afternoon Sunday games. I recorded the Sunday Ticket channel, but the game was blacked out b/c it was on the major network affiliate (non-cable). Perhaps it varies by market.
Cool to see this finally happen.
Not as much as I thought it would be either seeing how over priced everything nfl is
Not as much as I thought it would be either seeing how over priced everything nfl is
Maybe, but we don't know if Apple invited DTV and was refused, or if the NFL wouldn't approve it, or what. We can't assume it's not on Apple TV because Apple doesn't think the NFL is important. That's rather silly.
Also $99? What is that? Sunday Ticket has never been that cheap, likely never will be. If you have DTV sometimes you can "bargain" with the CSRs to knock the price down, even get it for free for ONE year, but the regular price isn't going to be $99. Too many people willingly fork over $200+ every season. It's why DTV pays billions for the privilege of having it exclusively for the Sunday day games.
Only one device at at time. Sorry.
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Yeah, base package is $239 this year. Time to call CSR to whittle it back down to $199 or less. I hate this part of the game. I'd cancel and do the $199 streaming but I don't trust my Internet. I just know it will freeze up during a key play. Bleh.
Thursday and Sunday football is on basic tv this year. You just need an antenna. Monday is on ESPN. You need the bar for that...
Bad news. I got NFL Sunday Ticket access on my iPad last year by buying the Special Edition NFL Madden game for $100. The PQ was often awful, and the app itself would sometimes fail to stream the game at all. I wouldn't be shocked if the quality, even at $200, is poor.I'd rather pay $200 than deal with the crappy quality and overall annoyingness of dealing with sites like firstrowsports. Lagging, sometimes poor quality, and constant crashing of links makes it not very enjoyable to watch the Jets (which is not very enjoyable to begin with
The irony is that if the NFL sold a package at $400/yr that included every single game, many people would buy it.
Personally, I would pay for this - if it allowed 2 devices at a time and the NFL let Apple handle the streaming (see comments above). Would love to have two games going on different TV's (or one game on the ATV and one on your iPad).
Personally, I would pay for this - if it allowed 2 devices at a time and the NFL let Apple handle the streaming (see comments above). Would love to have two games going on different TV's (or one game on the ATV and one on your iPad).
All in the details...
The Blackout restriction is a bugger, and really, depending who you follow, and where you are located, might be a deal breaker. Are games blacked out from the service if the game is on a National station like Fox?
I had NHL Center Ice a few years back... $50... I'm thinking very high quality streams... far better than anything on firstrowsports, and I could use my Mac, iPad, or PS3... (PS3 app was two months late that year.) My team is in San Jose, I'm in BC, what's the chances that's going to have a big impact on me watching any games? Well, turns out it does. Regular season means a lot more in the NFL than most NHL nights, but I couldn't watch half of the games because they were being broadcast in some way on TSN, CBC, or NBC... and typically the matchups I wanted to watch anyway.
The way NHL did things is they cut commercials entirely, and post game/intermission details on most games as well. That stuff is somewhat interesting, and insightful. The commercials, not so much, but I'd bear with them instead of the same graphic for two, or twenty minutes at a time.
The Blackout restriction is a bugger, and really, depending who you follow, and where you are located, might be a deal breaker. Are games blacked out from the service if the game is on a National station like Fox?
I had NHL Center Ice a few years back... $50... I'm thinking very high quality streams... far better than anything on firstrowsports, and I could use my Mac, iPad, or PS3... (PS3 app was two months late that year.) My team is in San Jose, I'm in BC, what's the chances that's going to have a big impact on me watching any games? Well, turns out it does. Regular season means a lot more in the NFL than most NHL nights, but I couldn't watch half of the games because they were being broadcast in some way on TSN, CBC, or NBC... and typically the matchups I wanted to watch anyway.
The way NHL did things is they cut commercials entirely, and post game/intermission details on most games as well. That stuff is somewhat interesting, and insightful. The commercials, not so much, but I'd bear with them instead of the same graphic for two, or twenty minutes at a time.
This is why the MLB.TV is the best , no national balckouts except the sunday night yank...i mean ESPN game