 robertflPremium
join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL
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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 |  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | 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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| |  MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | 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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|  53059959Temp banned from BBR more then anyone
join:2002-10-02
PwnZone | where can I get live nfl via the internet? if anyone knows of a stream ip that would be great | |
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | 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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 KeepOnRockinMusic Lover ForeverPremium
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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| robertflPremium
join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL | Re: NFL on the BIG screen Just as long as it's not compressed to hell and back.
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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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| | subman87Another day in the Brentwood
join:2000-11-24
Harrison, NY | 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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| | BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | 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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| | | | | Re: Guess part of the cable battle got missed No, I'm raising the issue that the NFL used the public airwaves for decades and collected billions of dollars making both players and owner rich at the public's expense and even at the taxpayers' expense (like building stadiums with public money ala taxes and bonds).
Now, they are heading to a pay model. Funny, the NFL had to appear before the Senate and explain themselves just recently on the "NFL Network."
Now, they want to use certain broadband mediums (how many tax breaks has VZ gotten? a lot) to cater to a select few.
So, since this appears to be the NFL's ultimate plan, how about:
-Customers get to bounce ESPN (1 &2), which pays them billions, to save money on their Cable bills. ESPN is like $2-3 a month on cable bills BEFORE the cable company adds their profit margin.
-No more free rides on the public dole. If an NFL team wants a stadium, they pay for it. They have no problem paying players $10 million a season. Pay for their own stadiums. Same with the NBA, MLB, etc.
I'm just sick of my cable bill exploding every year to make sports teams rich.
How about al a carte cable? I'd love to bounce a few more stations I pay for that I don't watch. I also like to see PBS off the taxpayers bill. How many cable news networks do we have? Enough to get rid of it.
The NFL wants it both ways: public and private. They need to go one way or another.
If you don't think this backlash is happening, Google it. | |
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join:2005-10-27
Matamoras, PA | 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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| 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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| | | Re: Verizon, NFL and DirecTv DirectTV only offers NFL Network to ST subs. Dishnet offers it on basic pack. | |
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| | BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | 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.
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 Rob AJets AFC ChampionshipPremium
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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| | 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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|  cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:7 | 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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join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ | It is all a hustle. What happened to football on TV? | |
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| BarneyBadAssBadasses Fight For FreedomPremium
join:2004-05-07
00001 | 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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join:2000-12-14
DamnFlat, OH |  Critically important to me - calling all proxy gurus
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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join:2005-01-03
Cleveland, OH | i don't like/watch NFL I guess i don't care, since I don't like/care/watch American Football ... but anyway, those prices are way to much  | |
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| robertflPremium
join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL | Re: i don't like/watch NFL That's ok. I'm not a big sprots fan either but I do keep up with certain teams, though.
Rob
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