NFL Sunday Ticket PS3

[mooseq]

Has anyone had the Sunday Ticket through there PlayStation 3, if so is it any different then having it through Direct TV if so how? Also is as easy as just changing channels on your remote to switch between games? :starspin

 

[SDCowboy]

My brother had it and really liked it. It can be touchy though.

 

[SDogo]

I have not experienced it myself but I have been told it's a total mess and not worth a dime.

 

[mooseq]

Does it run off of your internet?

 

[skinsscalper]

I have not experienced it myself but I have been told it's a total mess and not worth a dime.

I've already got Directv, so I see no need to be totally dependent on an internet connection to get my football fix, but if it were my only option I might give it a look.

 

[mooseq]

I've already got Directv, so I see no need to be totally dependent on an internet connection to get my football fix, but if it were my only option I might give it a look.

I have Direct TV already but thinking about cancelling it to my local cable company who would give me a better price bundling my internet and phone.

 

[Nation]

DirecTV is pretty good about haggling if you choose to go that route, just call and ask for cancellations. I live in Boston so I have no choice but to go the Sunday Ticket route and I've twice called them bluffing on not being able to bundle and the Sunday Ticket cost as well. They took $20 a month off my overall bill for not being able to bundle and another $10 off my Sunday Ticket bill when I said that was too expensive for me.

 

[MC KAos]

no personal experience with it, but i know IGN had something about it working really badly early on last season. i dont know if they fixed the issues later on or not though.

 

[tayloner]

Highly recommend Sunday Ticket on PS3 for one reason:

You can pay monthly. I paid $85 (it's $340 total, 4 monthly installments of $85) for the first month when the Cowboys had a game that wasn't televised locally for me. However, the whole next month, they had games that were either national games or bigger games likely to be televised in my local market. So, I emptied my PS3 wallet, which is where they take your $85 a month from. Then, when they went to withdraw my $85 for the next month, the service automatically cancelled because there wasn't any money in my PS3 wallet. About a month later when the Cowboys had a game that wasn't going to be televised locally, I purchased the service again, paid $85 for the month, and did the same thing by removing all funds from my PS3 wallet, and the service was automatically cancelled again when it went to renew for the last month of the season. Every Cowboys game for the rest of the year was televised in my local market, so I ended up paying only $170 for the service to catch the 3 or 4 games that I would have missed. I'm not a big watch-the-game-at-the-bar type of guy, so this was WELL worth it for me.

Only a matter of time before they figure out a way to prevent people from doing this, I'd imagine, though. Hopefully we'll get one more year out of it.

 

[braw]

I had it last season and it was a total mess. Thats because i have 50 mb download speed internet.

 

[Macnalty]

Personal experience, it works but lots of games subject to blackout, I watched mostly the Redzone. They did go through some growing pains the first couple of weeks. It only involved Sunday games not the Thursday, or Monday Night. Trying to think of anything else of note, quality was fine and it was sometimes the away broadcast team announcers. Seems like it was a freebie with some other premium items I ordered, I only had access to the internet and a PS3 on some weekends so I watched it maybe 7-8 times.

 

[TheSkaven]

Can anyone confirm whether it's in Hi-Def? I live in South America and have NFL Sunday Ticket through DirecTV here, which gets me all the games but they don't have high definition.

 

[Lodeus]

Wasn't it like $300 without Direct TV? I remember thinking it was way too expensive.

 

[Hoofbite]

I have not experienced it myself but I have been told it's a total mess and not worth a dime.

PS3 or Sunday Ticket?

:laugh2:

 

[Hoofbite]

If it goes to XBOX Live, I'll sadly probably pay for it.

I just don't like the cost of ST and the cost of cable, and the cost of hardware and the cost of all the other stuff for HD when I don't watch TV really at all.

The 300 ST price goes up to like 600-700 over the span of the season by the time you pay for all the crap they want.

I wish they'd do it like they do UFC on the XBOX. Pay for events only and by events, I mean individual games.

 

[Meat-O-Rama]

Why they let DirecTV continue their monopoly on Sunday Ticket is beyond me. But as long as they have it, I'm their slave. (with the requisite yearly call in to threaten cancellation to get the price reduced and other freebies0

 

[Hoofbite]

Why they let DirecTV continue their monopoly on Sunday Ticket is beyond me. But as long as they have it, I'm their slave. (with the requisite yearly call in to threaten cancellation to get the price reduced and other freebies0

I was a little shocked that the NFL was willing to re-up with DirecTV.

Personally, after the current contract runs out in 2014, I think the NFL will no longer deal strictly with DirecTV because online streaming of live games will be available on NFL.com

I'm pretty sure they already do it for the preseason and I think they are testing out the waters for full season implementation in the future.

At least I hope.

 

[jmac]

I had it last season, it kinda sucked because it would always stop and buffer a lot

 

[Staxxxx]

Why they let DirecTV continue their monopoly on Sunday Ticket is beyond me. But as long as they have it, I'm their slave. (with the requisite yearly call in to threaten cancellation to get the price reduced and other freebies0

You can also purchase for the PC but they don't advertise that. It's part of an agreement they have with the NFL. I've had that for the last two years at $340/yr. Sometimes its great and sometimes it sucks. I've noticed that when there is a good match up or popular team such as Dallas that only gets played on TV regionally it tends to go bad. I'm pretty sure its a capacity issue and I don't expect DirecTV to address the issue in the future. They only offer it online either through a pc/Ipad or the PlayStation because it was a stipulation in their last TV contract with the nfl that they make it available online by 2011. Directv makes money on the ticket by getting new customers under a contract not by offering it online.

Support is almost nonexistant and if you can get support they will blame it on your internet. Last year they put a stickied thread up in their support forums saying they their servers were having a problem and their engineers were wre working on it. That was in week two and they never fixed it or updated the thread or replied to any other threads regarding the internet issues for the rest of the year.

Sad thing is Ill probably get it again this year because its the only way I can watch the games. I get other regional games when the Cowboys play.

 

[calico]

I had it and I wouldn't recommend it. Ive never had a problem with my Internet connection and stream a lot but Sunday ticket on the ps3 was a horrible experience. It worked properly almost 50% of the time and that's not worth $85 a month for non-dtv users like myself.