robertfl
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join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL
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1 edit | What about the rest of us?
Gee what about the rest of us who DON'T live in fios area?
I would like to see Verizon buy out Embarq which covers this section of Florida (ya right)
I'm sick of seeing this type of thing limited to a small percentage of users on the internet & television. The NFL only allows their Sunday Ticket on Distruct TV vs cable.. and down here it's SAINTS SAINTS SAINTS.. blah GO BROWNS!
(I still pull for Cleveland even though their team sucks)
Rob
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KeepOnRockin
Music Lover Forever
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join:2002-11-08
Beaverton, OR
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1 edit | NFL on the BIG screen
quote:
The NFL today announced that they'll be testing the delivery of live Thursday and Saturday night games over the Internet to Verizon Fios customers
It sounds like a good idea.
A NFL game on a 42" (or bigger) plasma would definitely be a good thing streaming over FIOS. |
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IGGY
No Guru Just Here To Help
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join:2001-03-30
Chatham, IL
| Guess part of the cable battle got missed
Not sure if this was by design or just not enough hours in the day. I'm sure other cable providers forums here may have similar threads. But how many of those were started by the CEO of the company?
»[Cable] Great News for NFL Fans!
»[Cable] NFL Games
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | reply to robertfl
Re: What about the rest of us?
And just how is this any different than any other content pushed over verizons fios network?
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kyramilan
join:2006-11-26
Pensacola, FL
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Re: Guess part of the cable battle got missed
Great for what fans? Only rich and lucky FIOS fans.
People that don't have or don't want the overpriced digital cable can't get Thursday Night games.
Isn't this becoming an anti-trust issue? Didn't the NFL get out of the USFL lawsuit being a "natural monopoly?"
Cable netorks say NFL Network should be a pay channel or in a pay tier due to its expense.
If NOT for the people watching the NFL (rich TV deals that stick it to all because ESPN is a HAVE TOO), players would be getting one third of their pay, nobody would be stupid enough to shell out $750 million for a team, and ESPN would be a small operation (since it should be on a pay tier).
How about the basic channels, say 50, but put all the others, like expensive ESPN, on a next tier?
Otherwise, why is the NFL getting preferential treatment after purposefully bankrupting the USFL? Let's face it: Most Superbowls suck. NFL doesn't mind getting $2.5 million for a 30 second ad though on broadcast TV but screw fans otherwise. That is where it is headed.
NFL is becoming the pay sports league more and more. TV contracts on broadcast TV wasn't good enough. Screw everyone on cable with ESPN's big deals. Either let everyone watch or put their overpaid football players on a pay tier and lower the prices of cable. Cable prices go up 7% or more on Jan. 1st. |
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Maxo
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join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
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Re: What about the rest of us?
said by dvd536  :And just how is this any different than any other content pushed over verizons fios network? I think what the OP, and myself, would like to see is the ability for you to be able to view such content despite your provider. In the case of IPTV this could simply be accomplished by a PPV online stream, sorta like how porn sites work (or at least I imagine them to work  )
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JaM4150
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join:2005-10-27
Matamoras, PA
clubs: | Timing of the deal comes as major cable networks battle...
... over pricing for carrying the network.
I guess that means Cablevision isn't that far away from striking a deal too. Especially with FiOS competing head-to-head with them. |
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subman87
Another day in the Brentwood
join:2000-11-24
Harrison, NY
| reply to kyramilan
Re: Guess part of the cable battle got missed
said by kyramilan :NFL is becoming the pay sports league more and more.
You can say that about MLB, NBA & the NHL as well.
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Lumberjack
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join:2003-01-18
Newport News, VA
| Verizon, NFL and DirecTv
This is no surprise. DirecTV and Verizon have been partnering all over the place to compete with Cable companies. Both have a common enemy and now a common friend, the NFL Network. Should be interesting to see how it plays out.
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53059959
Temp banned from BBR more then anyone
join:2002-10-02
PwnZone | reply to robertfl
Re: What about the rest of us?
where can I get live nfl via the internet? if anyone knows of a stream ip that would be great |
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roachxp
join:2004-05-26
Milford, MA | reply to Lumberjack
Re: Verizon, NFL and DirecTv
DirectTV only offers NFL Network to ST subs. Dishnet offers it on basic pack. |
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Rob A
Same Old Jets
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join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ | Glad to hear it
Fios is looking better everyday. Although it would be no need to be, as I can just watch the games on NFL Network. |
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jarthur31
join:2006-04-14
Carlsbad, NM
| NFL Internet streams?
Seriously, if this means the beginning of subscribing to NFL games (just like MLB) and watching online, then I'll all for it!
But the NFL should offer another tier to this so that we don't have to buy Sunday Ticket. Just let us follow one team so it would be cheaper. $80/month for all games would be awesome, tho. At least Selig got this right. |
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batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
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join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ
clubs: | It is all a hustle.
What happened to football on TV? |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to 53059959
Re: What about the rest of us?
said by 53059959 :where can I get live nfl via the internet? if anyone knows of a stream ip that would be great You can't. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to kyramilan
Re: Guess part of the cable battle got missed
said by kyramilan :NFL is becoming the pay sports league more and more. TV contracts on broadcast TV wasn't good enough. Screw everyone on cable with ESPN's big deals. Either let everyone watch or put their overpaid football players on a pay tier and lower the prices of cable. Cable prices go up 7% or more on Jan. 1st. Quit acting like you're getting screwed out of something or charged for something you would be getting. If NFL Network didn't show these games then they wouldn't be on AT ALL in my area. In fact these 8 games you would have to get Sunday Ticket to see them. As it is now you get 1 CBS and 2 FOX games or 2 CBS and 1 FOX game a Sunday Night game and Monday Night game. That's only 5 of 16 games shown in someone's local area in a given week.
Before 1987 there wasn't even Sunday Night fooball so at most you got to see 4 out of 14 games a week.
I live 800 miles way from my favorite team and if the NFL wants to offer me a chance to pay to see them on the internet then I'll take it because it's better than the 1-4 games I normally get to see in a year. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to roachxp
Re: Verizon, NFL and DirecTv
said by roachxp :DirectTV only offers NFL Network to ST subs. Dishnet offers it on basic pack. ANY DirectTV subscriber can get NFL Network. Get your facts straight.
here's their channel lsiting for thier cheapest package.
»directv.com/DTVAPP/packProg/chan···d=900039 |
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BarneyBadAss
Badasses Fight For Freedom
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join:2004-05-07
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| reply to batterup
Re: It is all a hustle.
Doncha know?
Because of DRM, it's now illegal to brodcast these copywrited materials to TV's because they can be captured on VCR's and other devices then put on file servers 
And only if you have all the appropriate HW on your system can you view these programs across the I-net... where there's all the ECM? stuff where there's encryption and authentication for viewing purposes!!! 
Just tugging on your leg there guy!
Of course we know you use umpire right?? for guys with Foul Balls???
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cdru
Go Colts
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| reply to jarthur31
Re: NFL Internet streams?
said by jarthur31 :$80/month for all games would be awesome, tho. At least Selig got this right. NFL:ST is only like $250 isn't it per season? That's around $62/month. Even if you go with the SuperFan add on for an extra $100 to games in HD, you are only at $87/month.
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Yowzaaah
Ours Go To Eleven
join:2000-12-14
DamnFlat, OH
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|  Critically important to me - calling all proxy gurus
There IS a way to buy streaming live access to tonight's Ravens v. Bengals game. Evidently if you live outside of their major license distribution areas (i.e. not in the U.S., Canada or any other area with a mainstream interest in American Football) you can pay and watch it streaming live. I tried to buy access and of course it re-directed me to the "so sorry you are accessing this site from a restricted location,but since you're on that miserable asshat infested Satan spawn of a network Time Warner that refuses to carry our product in their line up here is the phone number to you local TW office to demand your nfl.com now!" AstroTurfing page.
I'll bite my already bloody lip about the pot and the kettle on this one because I don't care about having the nfl.com on my network in the future- I NEED IT TONIGHT.
3 years, 7 months and 17 days ago I was unwillingly transferred to NE Ohio, the armpit of American football, where the love of football is a form of ritualistic public masochism that has nothing to do with ever making it to the second round of the playoffs; from my beloved - have won two NFL Championships, TWO Superbowls (V with the Colts and XXXV with the Ravens)and a CFL Grey Cup with the Stallions in 1995 to boot: Baltimore Maryland. Yes I am a genuine Balti-Moron and I smuggle Utz crab chips to Ex-pat Balti-morons around the world for a living 
Like Crack - but spicier
(I made the very last bit up).
Here's the problem, I'm divorced and I have 3 kids under 11 living at home with me so I can't go to a sports bar to watch an 8 o'clock kick off game on a school night without social services investigating me (were it a weekend I'd be tempted).
I AM 100% WILLING TO BUY THE LIVE ONLINE GAME ACCESS FOR TONIGHT'S GAME, but need someone to help me find a way to proxy myself in such a manner as to allow both the purchase and the viewing seemingly from an area where the NFL finds such money offered for the purchase of their product to be acceptable.
Even if you despise the Ravens PLEASE TAKE PITY ON ME and help me if you have the know how. Imagine yourself living away from your hometown team while they are tearing up the league and are unlikely to catch many or their games, but not only are you out of the normal viewing area - you are stuck in a town in the same division as your team whereby you are virtually guaranteed to see nothing but the weekly forcible sodomizing of the Browns at the hands of every team in the NFL. It's twice as pathetic as you imagine it might be to watch this team (I personally think the Browns are the direct cause of the perpetually dismal economy and civic decline in Cleveland but I'll save that rant for another time - I'm on a mission).
FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING GOOD AND RIGHT IN THIS WORLD PLEASE HELP ME BE ABLE TO BUY ACCESS TO AND WATCH THIS GAME TONIGHT!!!
BTW - this was my old neighborhood 
Bawlmer Xmas Hon!
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