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American Gunner

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Thanks for all the input. I may looking into getting just local channels and then using ESPN on my Xbox for other sports stuff.
 

steppinthrax

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damn, times must be tough if you're holding down two 120k jobs and can't afford 120/month for cable.

LOL

I didn't get this way spending money. I'm cheap. I drive a 1999 Toyota Camry with 134K. And yes. You can't tell from looking at me. Your in ball park with the income....
 

sciencewhiz

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if you are have internet with an ESPN partner (e.g. timewarner) you can use espn3/watch espn

You could do that a long time ago, but not any more (possibly depending on provider). I have Time Warner internet but do not have cable. My Time Warner log in does not work for Watch ESPN.
 

Ns1

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You could do that a long time ago, but not any more (possibly depending on provider). I have Time Warner internet but do not have cable. My Time Warner log in does not work for Watch ESPN.

you guys are right, my bad. They smarter than us now.

Encountered this trying to watch world cup this year =X
 

notposting

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Or...let go of the football (and sports in general).

One of the better moves I ever made (was easier with how shitty the Lions are). Quit watching in 2007 (yes, I "missed" out on 0-16!). My Sunday's are free now, spend time with the wife and kids, do yard work, go to the park, make special trips (museum, train rides, etc) and maybe around 5 or 6pm I might check my phone and see all the ranting about football on there.

We have a Roku and use Netflix, Amazon (Prime), PBS, couple other channels, have somewhere around 7-800 DVD's ripped to server and also just don't watch as much. Did use Aereo until they got flip turned upside down into Schrodinger's Duck.
 

Carson Dyle

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You can easily find illegal internet feeds of all NFL games and most college games, but the quality isn't always good. Most of the time, it downright sucks, actually. But there are also sometimes high quality HD feeds, especially for the primetime NFL games.

If you have a favorite team and you _have_ to watch the big game against the division rival, or want to watch playoff games in high quality, you're most likely going to begin thinking of going to a sports bar. And then you're most likely going to do what most people in sports bars do - eat and drink. In the end, your cable TV package is probably going to be less expensive.
 

Ns1

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You can easily find illegal internet feeds of all NFL games and most college games, but the quality isn't always good. Most of the time, it downright sucks, actually. But there are also sometimes high quality HD feeds, especially for the primetime NFL games.

nothing like watching the game-changing 3rd and 1 play, only to have your illegal internet stream get shut down at that very moment.

And my god were those ads a pain (and quite frankly dangerous to most systems).
 

Carson Dyle

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nothing like watching the game-changing 3rd and 1 play, only to have your illegal internet stream get shut down at that very moment.

Some get shut down. Most, however, do not. Quality of the feeds are a much bigger issue. There can be a lot of cutouts in many of them. The problem is that the sites that relay the feed often cannot handle the demand.

And my god were those ads a pain (and quite frankly dangerous to most systems).

Huh? Ad blockers hand 99% of it. A couple of sites try to catch ad blockers and tell you to turn them off, but are easily bypassed.

Here's a typical one happening as we speak, for tonight's TNF game. Not bad.

http://www.bosscast.net/channel13.php
 

Ns1

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Some get shut down. Most, however, do not. Quality of the feeds are a much bigger issue. There can be a lot of cutouts in many of them. The problem is that the sites that relay the feed often cannot handle the demand.



Huh? Ad blockers hand 99% of it. A couple of sites try to catch ad blockers and tell you to turn them off, but are easily bypassed.

Here's a typical one happening as we speak, for tonight's TNF game. Not bad.

http://www.bosscast.net/channel13.php

meh, I've been down that road before and visited my share of those sites, I don't think my experiences are uncommon. Clearly YMMV and depends how good your network of sites are.
 

Carson Dyle

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meh, I've been down that road before and visited my share of those sites, I don't think my experiences are uncommon. Clearly YMMV and depends how good your network of sites are.

The link wasn't intended for your benefit.
 

shortylickens

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You can easily find illegal internet feeds of all NFL games and most college games, but the quality isn't always good. Most of the time, it downright sucks, actually. But there are also sometimes high quality HD feeds, especially for the primetime NFL games.

If you have a favorite team and you _have_ to watch the big game against the division rival, or want to watch playoff games in high quality, you're most likely going to begin thinking of going to a sports bar. And then you're most likely going to do what most people in sports bars do - eat and drink. In the end, your cable TV package is probably going to be less expensive.

Yeah they aint gonna let you sit there for 2 hours drinking water.
 

Carson Dyle

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Yeah they aint gonna let you sit there for 2 hours drinking water.

No, they will. They won't particularly like it, but I've never seen anyone kicked out of a bar for not buying something. Not unless they're causing trouble or being a nuisance.
 

shortylickens

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No, they will. They won't particularly like it, but I've never seen anyone kicked out of a bar for not buying something. Not unless they're causing trouble or being a nuisance.

I have.
At the local sports pub they booted some people who werent buying. Space was tight. I think it was the super bowl actually.
 

Hugh Jass

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nothing like watching the game-changing 3rd and 1 play, only to have your illegal internet stream get shut down at that very moment.

And my god were those ads a pain (and quite frankly dangerous to most systems).

I have been watching games on pirated streams for a very long time and have NEVER had one shut down on me in the middle of a game.

And learn how to use ad blockers, anti malware software/addons and whatnot.

Take your lame ill informed bullshit elsewhere.
 
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Ns1

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I have been watching games on pirated streams for a very long time and have NEVER had one shut down on me in the middle of a game.

And learn how to use ad blockers, anti malware software/addons and whatnot.

Take your lame ill informed bullshit elsewhere.

you're absolutely right. since it's never happened to you it's never happened to anyone else in the world ever. my apologies sir.
 

shortylickens

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I have been watching games on pirated streams for a very long time and have NEVER had one shut down on me in the middle of a game.

And learn how to use ad blockers, anti malware software/addons and whatnot.

Take your lame ill informed bullshit elsewhere.

I hope you enjoyed our forum, because I dont think you will be on it much longer.
 

MrSquished

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as far as the espn thing mentioned in the quoted post above, that espn thing doesn't work for me. my parents have espn and optimum which i have also and at their house i can stream espn using their name and password. but when i go to the espn site to sign in on my network it won't let me put it a username and password it uses my IP, knows I don't pay for ESPN and says that service is not available.

I have to amend this. I simply hit stop when the page was loading to the login page for optimum. I was then able to log in with my parents optimum credentials. I pay them to keep NFL network so I can stream NFL Redzone which is awesome. It also allows me to login to Hulu Plus to see certain shows like this season's Top Chef not available to regular Hulu Plus members.

Pretty much the only things I knew I would miss cutting the cord was football and some cooking shows like Top Chef. All problems solved.
 

iGas

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I gave up cable more than 2 decades ago so that I have more free time, and haven't look back even when the local cable company offers to hook up my cable with first 3 months for free.
 

Blanky

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Sports have a stranglehold on sports fans insofar as cord cutting is concerned. I've read about it, and a neighbor directly told me as much--only keeps cable because of the sports. Thankfully, they don't interest me so cord cutting was easy. My guess is more sports fans will cut the cord regardless, and NFL and others will come up with a paid internet approach, rather like HBO is about to do with its standalone internet package. We will then see what is currently a gradual decline in paid subscribers accelerate. It will be beautiful to behold.
 

MrSquished

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Sports have a stranglehold on sports fans insofar as cord cutting is concerned. I've read about it, and a neighbor directly told me as much--only keeps cable because of the sports. Thankfully, they don't interest me so cord cutting was easy. My guess is more sports fans will cut the cord regardless, and NFL and others will come up with a paid internet approach, rather like HBO is about to do with its standalone internet package. We will then see what is currently a gradual decline in paid subscribers accelerate. It will be beautiful to behold.

agreed. can't wait to see it happen.

i'm only a football fan so i only have to worry about one sport. direcTV has come out with an internet only NFL sunday ticket plan. it's starting. it's inevitable it is just a matter of how long it takes.
 
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