Dante Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 (edited) I would pay to watch some bills games as long as they were commercial free. As of now, I haven't watched the nfl or TV for 2 years- and find both unwatchable due to commercials. And I am not missing either This has been annoying me for several years now. With TV timeouts, video replays. Commercials after every score. Then one after the ensuing kick off. NFL games are indeed unwatchable. What we do now, if we can, is just DVR them for about a hour or hour and a half before I start watching. Skip all the tedious bs that stretches the game well beyond 3 hours. It speaks volumes that you can watch NFL replayed games in 30 minutes per game on Sunday Ticket on Tuesday. I wonder sometimes how NFL players do it. Game changing pick 6 then yet another 4 minute delay killing any emotional momentum. That said I already do pay for both NFL and NHL through Sunday Ticket and NHL Center Ice. However I would pay for ala carte games instead of that if it was reasonable. Edited January 18, 2013 by Dante Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 (edited) My intial reaction to the original questin posed was "hell no"..but then I realize, I alread probably spend between $1,000-1,200 a year to watch most of the Sabres and Celtics games, and all of the Bills games. And, as much as that sounds, I think it is a great value. If I pay $40 a month (or whatever it is) for Center Ice, and watch 15-20 Sabres games, that is a great value as far as I am concerned. Even when they suck! Same for Celtics. Â I pay for NHL Center Ice every season (about $280), and about a half season of the the NBA package every year ($140)...for the sole purpose of watching the Sabres and Cetlics games. True, I do watch other NHL and NBA games, only cuz I have access, but I wouldn't otherwise. If Time Warner offered the NFL package, no doubt, I would pay for that too, just to watch the Bills. As it is now, I spend somewhere between $20-30 a week to go to a bar and watch the Bills games. Edited January 18, 2013 by Buftex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maury Ballstein Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 i spent a year or two working for a cable company..........they are shady and IMO they will never offer the pay by the channel a la carte deal. Â I would love to pay for my sports and random select channels at a decent price. as it stands they offer you a price then after 12 months it goes up 50% and "deal with it" is what you get in return... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkyMannn Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I would pay to watch some bills games as long as they were commercial free. As of now, I haven't watched the nfl or TV for 2 years- and find both unwatchable due to commercials. And I am not missing either A lot of channels are "unwatchable" because of all the commercial breaks. TBS & TNT and many others slot 1:15 minutes for shows that used to air an hour and fill it with commercials. As Dante said, dvr them and surf through the commercials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 A lot of channels are "unwatchable" because of all the commercial breaks. TBS & TNT and many others slot 1:15 minutes for shows that used to air an hour and fill it with commercials. As Dante said, dvr them and surf through the commercials Of course, most of the programming on TV is unwatchable too so sometimes the commercials are a welcome distraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I've been trying to pay attention to which football games other than the Bills that I watch during the season. As it turns out, I often will have the Sunday/Monday/Thursday Night Football games on, and I occasionally will watch whatever games are being shown on CBS/FOX on Sundays. But I hardly ever watch any non-Bills games with DirecTV. Â So I guess the question is -- with respect to football, are we talking all football games, even those on CBS/FOX and on Sunday/Monday/Thursday Night Football, only being available by pay-per-view? Or would the same games be available on CBS/FOX/NFLN/ESPN, and this ala carte model only being applied to the games not otherwise available on those channels? Â I would probably prefer the ala carte model if games were still shown on CBS/FOX/NFLN/ESPN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tux of Borg Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I'm out of market and pay for the sport packages through my ps3. Â Sunday Ticket: $250 MLB.tv: $125 NHL Centerice: $50 Â There is a limit on what I'm willing to pay to watch sports. I'm not sure what it is but when/if the time comes i think Sunday ticket will be the first to go. It's the most expensive and has the least options (only Sunday games, no on demand) of the three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maury Ballstein Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 throw in the games that Sunday Ticket wont allow you to see and it is kinda a ripoff. Â I like in Virginia.....Panthers games are never available.....seems weird...........get the rest of em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 throw in the games that Sunday Ticket the NFL wont allow you to see and it is kinda a ripoff. Fixed your post. Sunday Ticket used to have all non-national games. Then the local networks complained to the NFL, saying that people were watching games on Sunday Ticket when they should be watching the local channels -- eating into the local revenue stream -- so the NFL forced DirecTV to black out games on the ST channels if they were being aired locally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Â Fixed your post. Sunday Ticket used to have all non-national games. Then the local networks complained to the NFL, saying that people were watching games on Sunday Ticket when they should be watching the local channels -- eating into the local revenue stream -- so the NFL forced DirecTV to black out games on the ST channels if they were being aired locally. Â Hey Fez... PTR never really answered my question... Can people still pull all programming with the old style big dishes... Or is that a thing of the past? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maury Ballstein Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Fixed your post. Sunday Ticket used to have all non-national games. Then the local networks complained to the NFL, saying that people were watching games on Sunday Ticket when they should be watching the local channels -- eating into the local revenue stream -- so the NFL forced DirecTV to black out games on the ST channels if they were being aired locally. Â yea but what stinks is the game i am missing is not on regular tv in my area.........i have 2 tv setup for football sundays......one on tv game other on bills/other sunday ticket game..........miss all the panthers games unless they show snippets on redzone..........seems strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted January 18, 2013 Author Share Posted January 18, 2013 Hey Fez... PTR never really answered my question... Can people still pull all programming with the old style big dishes... Or is that a thing of the past? Â I thought I did. Those big dishes are like VCRs. People still use them but it's ancient technology compared to DVDs, DVRs and streaming video. The shows that are still available on those big dishes are things no one cares if you steal: lots of religious and shop-at-home programs. 99% of all major sports programming is delivered via fiber optic networks. So yeah, those dishes still work but there isn't much worth watching on them.' Â PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 yea but what stinks is the game i am missing is not on regular tv in my area.........i have 2 tv setup for football sundays......one on tv game other on bills/other sunday ticket game..........miss all the panthers games unless they show snippets on redzone..........seems strange. If the game is blacked out in your area, you can't get it on the Ticket either. (that's an NFL thing ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyemike Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 (edited) This has been annoying me for several years now. With TV timeouts, video replays. Commercials after every score. Then one after the ensuing kick off. NFL games are indeed unwatchable. Â If you think they are unwatchable at home, imagine being at the game. The last NFL game I went to was four years ago, and I noticed immediately when the TV timeouts were. There sure were a lot of them. Â I know this is a post about paying for TV sporting events, but I wanted to note that. Edited January 18, 2013 by TheFourHorsemen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 All of television is headed this way. Not just sports. Anyone with the Internet can watch whatever they want, whenever they want, if they so choose. It isn't as convenient as conventional cable, but more and more people "unplug" every year. It won't be long before the time Warners of the world offer your choice of 50 channels, instead of shoving 300 channels of which 240 are pure schit, down your throat. Â Of course, this is all unless the government takes all of our guns and dictates what we watch on TV thanks to 3 less bullets in a magazine. Â But I digress. Â Go bills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I'd consider paying IF they guaranteed a WIN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) Â Â I thought I did. Those big dishes are like VCRs. People still use them but it's ancient technology compared to DVDs, DVRs and streaming video. The shows that are still available on those big dishes are things no one cares if you steal: lots of religious and shop-at-home programs. 99% of all major sports programming is delivered via fiber optic networks. So yeah, those dishes still work but there isn't much worth watching on them.' Â PTR Â Oh... Sorry... I see what you are saying now... Stupid me, instead of saying if they still worked, I should have said can they get the really good programming! Well, that sucks! :-( Â Edit: Interesting read Promo... As you can tell, I was never really in any tech loop through the years! LoL... I did just did some searches on this and stumbled onto one post: Â "As a dish owner myself during those days, we were not outraged when HBO encrypted their signal. They are a premium commercial free channel and deserve a right to be paid for their programming. The problem was what should that price be? Unlike cable and current satellite that provide the equipment for you, we paid for that "big ugly dish" ourselves so the price for a subscription should reflect that. Â The next issue was that the tide turned in the 90s and instead of nothing being scrambled everything became scrambled. So what if I could see CBC "Hockey Night In Canada"? CBC lost nothing being unscrambled on satellite. Neither did the US broadcast networks, AFRTS, NASA channel, etc. Â Then, the issue became no one would even offer subscription programming to those with that "big ugly dish". We would still be using ours today if everyone else did not conspire against us and force us to change to DirecTV. America is supposed to be about competition and not collusion." Â I guess this is what I was looking for... ;-) Edited January 19, 2013 by ExiledInIllinois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I would watch less sports for sure, but just like I do for all the Bills games, I would just find a feed on-line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helpmenow Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Nope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 This has been annoying me for several years now. With TV timeouts, video replays. Commercials after every score. Then one after the ensuing kick off. NFL games are indeed unwatchable. What we do now, if we can, is just DVR them for about a hour or hour and a half before I start watching. Skip all the tedious bs that stretches the game well beyond 3 hours. It speaks volumes that you can watch NFL replayed games in 30 minutes per game on Sunday Ticket on Tuesday. I wonder sometimes how NFL players do it. Game changing pick 6 then yet another 4 minute delay killing any emotional momentum. That said I already do pay for both NFL and NHL through Sunday Ticket and NHL Center Ice. However I would pay for ala carte games instead of that if it was reasonable. FIFA and the NHL have flow, and are quite watchable IMO. The NFL has on average 12 minutes of action- and yet takes almost 4 hours to watch. Damn shame the greedy mother!@#$ers ruined a beautiful game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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