Everyone complaining about sunday ticket etc. !

[acheman]

Like you said, to you it isn't worht it, but to those of us who are forced to watch the Panthers or Falcons on FOX, or Titans or Colts on CBS every freaking week due to our home town location it is most definitely worth it. To each their own.

 

[skinsscalper]

"Dircet TV and the NFL DO block out games. I was being blocked out of a few games last year and the year before. It seems if you live within a hundred miles of a game you could be in trouble. You have to either miss the game or listen on the radio. Direct Tv does not guarantee all the games! They claim it is the NFL that decides who gets blocked! Very frustrating and infuriating!"

I believe this year there will be NO Blackouts. Somebody correct me if I am wrong.

You are wrong. Blackouts apply no matter what. It's set up by the NFL (in a lame attempt to boost ticket sales). If you live within 150 miles of the game in question you will be blacked out if the game is not sold out by the previous Thursday evening (even if the game eventually sells out Friday afternoon). Playoff games are the only exception and those aren't offered through Sunday Ticket anyway, as the Ticket is a regular season package only.

SS

 

[acheman]

I guess I am not referring to a black out, but rather to the practice of pre-empting a game just because it is on a local affiliate station. I am pretty sure they did a way with that policy this year.

 

[scottsp]

I'll pass. I have only one gripe about Sunday Ticket, and it's that they no longer air games broadcasted by FOX and CBS/NBC. This has been the case the last couple years, but it was nice to just scroll up and down the 700s - with every game right there. Now ya gotta go to the local affiliates.

Minor, minor gripe but I am so damn lazy. No getting around that.

 

[acheman]

scottsp see my post above yours.

 

[skinsscalper]

I guess I am not referring to a black out, but rather to the practice of pre-empting a game just because it is on a local affiliate station. I am pretty sure they did a way with that policy this year.

They still do that also (just talked to the DirecTV rep lat week). If a game is on your local Fox station (or any other) you will not able to view it in the Ticket package (even if you have Super fan that broadcasts in Hi-def, but your local carrier does not). Which sucks because I can't view my local channels in Hi-def because DirecTV has not not yet put an HD DVR on the market with the ability to broadcast local channels in Hi-Def (my ONLY complaint, so far, with DirecTV). I've been told that the new HD DVRs with that capability will be available this fall but I won't hold my breath.

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[acheman]

Well I guess I have been misinformed, because on several different occasions I thought I heard that that policy was going to be done away with, or maybe it was that if a game runs over on your local channel and you get to start the game you want to see on a Sunday Ticket channel it will not go off the air at half-time like before. I am confused now, which is nothing new believe me.

 

[skinsscalper]

Well I guess I have been misinformed, because on several different occasions I thought I heard that that policy was going to be done away with, or maybe it was that if a game runs over on your local channel and you get to start the game you want to see on a Sunday Ticket channel it will not go off the air at half-time like before. I am confused now, which is nothing new believe me.

You're not alone, as I heard the same thing (which is what prompted my call to DTV to find out due to the limitations of my HD DVR).

SS

 

[5Stars]

I can't get DirecTV because we have a canopy of trees over my house and cutting them down isn't an option! Cable doesn't offer Sunday Ticket and until the NFL Network plays all of the Cowboys games that arn't shown locally here in New York I will just have to suffer. Though they tend to show about eight a year. If they took the stupid Jets off the air I'm sure we would get several more.

Trees, shmees! I guarantee you, if I had a tree in the way of my satalitte dish, that freaking tree is history! Or, else I WOULD FIND A WAY!

You could even take the dish outside the boundries of the trees and just rig it so that it's in the ground, or something!

I'm not going to miss any Cowboy games...PERIOD!

 

[5Stars]

NFL game broadcasts from the previous weekend, complete with original television announcers and cameras, will be re-televised on NFL Network, just days after their live airing.

This marks the first-time in the 86-year history of the NFL that games from the NFL regular-season or playoffs are shown outside their live window.

During the 2006 season, NFL Replay will feature four of the most exciting games from the weekend, re-airing exclusively on NFL Network Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.

Two contests will be shown each Tuesday and Wednesday night with 8 p.m. ET and 10:30 p.m. ET kickoff times.

NFL Replay games will air in a 90-minute fast-paced format, without halftime and other elements not critical to the outcome. NFL Replay will tell the story of the game with additional features.

In order to give the games context, NFL Network will add sideline and on-field sound captured during the game and post-game press conference sound bites.

Other enhancements will include exclusive shots and camera angles from NFL Films, allowing fans an inside look at game action they did not see on Sunday. This will give fans a deeper understanding of the game, the players and the coaches.

For example, if NFL Replay was featuring the Colts-Steelers AFC Divisional Playoff where Jerome Bettis fumbled late in the game, viewers would see related comments from Bettis, Bill Cowher and others immediately after the play, as well as slow-motion footage showing the play as it unfolded.

NFL Network has the ability to select any NFL game for use on NFL Replay.

Each Monday, NFL Network will select which games to air on NFL Replay.

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I guess that's nice...if you like eating leftovers!

I want to see the games LIVE...! That's what makes them exciting. Who wants to hear the RedStinks lost to the Eagles 35 - 7 on Sunday, and then have to watch it on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday!

That's just plain stupid! However, I do consider the source....typical logic.

 

[skinsscalper]

Trees, shmees! I guarantee you, if I had a tree in the way of my satalitte dish, that freaking tree is history! Or, else I WOULD FIND A WAY!

You could even take the dish outside the boundries of the trees and just rig it so that it's in the ground, or something!

I'm not going to miss any Cowboy games...PERIOD!

I have a friend that hooked his dish to such an offending tree (about 45 yards from his house). Best of both worlds: tree still stands and he gets his satellite.

SS

 

[5Stars]

I have a friend that hooked his dish to such an offending tree (about 45 yards from his house). Best of both worlds: tree still stands and he gets his satellite.

SS

That works too! That's funny you said that, because I have a friend that did the same thing....however, he said if a BIG WIND comes through, he will lose his reception for awhile because the tree sways a little.

But, yeah, I'm not going to miss out on the Sunday Ticket!

I'll burn down the freaking next door neighbor's house if it got in the way!

 

[CowboyPrincess]

I can't get DirecTV because we have a canopy of trees over my house and cutting them down isn't an option! Cable doesn't offer Sunday Ticket and until the NFL Network plays all of the Cowboys games that arn't shown locally here in New York I will just have to suffer. Though they tend to show about eight a year. If they took the stupid Jets off the air I'm sure we would get several more.

It's odd that you can't get service because of the trees. I have a canopy of trees over my house also... 18 pecan and oak in front and 22 on the backside and I'm able to get DISH and Local w/ the second dish and I have Wiband. Both DISH and Pegasus weren't going to give up until they got signals. I guess it depends on the relays locations in conjunction with the trees. Plus they were willing to use expansion equipment or whatever else they needed to make it work. Maybe I just got lucky