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NBC to Stream Super Bowl XLIX on iPad and Mac for Free, No Cable Subscription Required
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so.... anyone with a link for a free US VPN feel free to PM me 
haha kidding..............................
or am I?
haha kidding..............................
or am I?
This is more of a watershed event than most think. Next is NFL.com streaming the Supwer Bowl without any television network.
With Super Bowl 50 in Silicon Valley next year, the timing is just right.
I agree. And it's getting worse. the NFL is ruining its appeal and will begin pushing many longtime fans away with their obnoxious advertising commitments and consumer gouging.
There will be ads, that's a given; NBC is not giving that content away for free.
But they are perhaps testing the waters how this will be received by us, and how content of the future could be distributed using a different model, while maintaining their profit margins, ie small-scale relatively low-risk field tests for the radically new distribution models many consumers have been clamoring for.
Change to the old tried-and-true is coming, but perhaps a bit slower than many would have hoped.
All HD is compressed in one way or another. Over the air signals are compressed in MPEG2 at about 12-18 Mb/s. Internet provided MPEG4/H.264 can have the same or better picture with less bandwidth.
I believe most cable companies simply pass through local channels without recompression. Probably different for satellite.
As a chord cutter for over 10 years now -- only pay for an internet connection -- I'm sure NBC has this in mind. Expect the same or possibly Internet specific commercials during the Super Bowl.
All television networks are proprietary have been fighting the Internet tooth and claw to keep the David Sarnoff business model relevant. This is why you are seeing so many network produced shows instead of the old model production house shopping their shows the big four networks.
If the networks need to become relevant, they need to follow the PBS / YouTube model and view an Internet viewer just are relevant as cable TV or broadcast viewer. There are over fifty years of boilerplate licensing agreement in the way but this is eventually how it will pan out.
Eventually, you will see broadcast television stations be more irrelevant and lower in viewership. There are rural areas without a complete big four coverage already.
I guess some TV executives are starting to get it right
It only took 15 years
Once you get south of SLO from Silicon Valley, it is amazing how stoic the entertainment mechanism views technology. Almost every consumer powering innovation (cassette tapes, VCRs, MP3 players, public file sharing, etc. etc.) is viewed at a threat to revenue and a Century City law firm gears to up sue somebody.
I got sick of it after a handful of consulting gigs where the exec's just couldn't see how increasing consumer choice would make them money. After a few talking-to-wall presentations, I gave up and moved back up to NoCal. Also, the money for a techie and the air quality are both much better up north.
My understanding the latest thing to grind the gears of the Hollywood machine are YouTube stars. None of them are union, many are doing millions a year just on ad clicks, no middle man other than content delivery and the established celebrities need exceptions from various acting, screen and musician guilds to just be part of a YouTube production.
And how many Spare the Air days have we had this month? Cripes, we're dyin' for a breeze and/or rain up here!
It is free if you have an antenna and a clear line to an over-the-air broadcast tower, or no extra cost if you have satellite or cable service. But some, like me, have none of that ... I live in a mountainous area with no over-the-air reception, and I dropped my cable service (other than internet). This would allow me to stream the game to my Mac or iPad (not sure about AirPlay ... might be blocked). But, I'll watch at my friend's house where the game can be paused, fast-forwarded, or backed up, and the beer is free
Haha, correction, many others have DirecTV because of sports. Cable is so years ago.
NFL red zone really hurt direcTV Sunday ticket. They actually started offering that channel themselves. Nothing beats 7 hours of commercial free football, and you do not have to channel surf
Murdock sold Directv to Liberty over 8 years ago, so those "others" can come back now.
I may not be the first to say this, but I hope that the Cantonese option is available.
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so.... anyone with a link for a free US VPN feel free to PM me
haha kidding..............................
or am I?
See if you can get to Blaine and just pull in from a Starbucks on the US side!
It's a compressed 1080i signal.
There is nowhere near enough bandwidth in the spectrum reserved for TV, to serve uncompressed.
IIRC it's about an 18-19mbps stream, roughly half of Bluray.
Dude... Remove the tin foil hat for a second.
The product price pre-, during & post-ad are identical. No upcharge. What they gamble will pay for the ad is the surge in sales tied to the ad. Sometimes that pans out. Sometimes that doesn't.
Now... Carefully put the hat back on. Bigfoot has an ad running in the 2nd quarter. Cheers.
Hope the site doesn't crash.
This is a step in the direction of finally getting off cable if other channels follow the example.
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I will stream it onto my TV. I like the extra content that comes with the online broadcast.
This is a step in the direction of finally getting off cable if other channels follow the example.
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I will stream it onto my TV. I like the extra content that comes with the online broadcast.
