Streaming NFL Sunday Ticket through Direct TV

[J12B]

Anyone use this service and what was your experience like?

 

[Creeper]

I canceled it a couple of years back. First, you have to have a DirecTV subscription with at least the basic channels package to order Sunday ticket. I could not get HD satellite reception from my location so I went with FIOS. I kept DirecTV basic only for Sunday Ticket. I would suspend DirecTV service for 6 months a year in the off season, but it is still expensive. When I first subscribed to Sunday Ticket I think I paid about $150 a year for it. When I cancelled it I was paying nearly double that WITHOUT HD which cost extra. Basic DirecTV went from about $40 to $70 as well.

The last two years I had Sunday Ticket I was watching games on my laptop or through XBox. The reception in low def on my TV was pretty backwards, although I could see the game, it wasn't HD and I am spoiled. At the same time, the Cowboys were broadcast locally about 12 out of 16 games so I was paying all that money to watch 4 games. I am a big Cowboys fan but that was kind of silly so I cancelled everything. I did get to watch other games but I had it to watch the Cowboys. Keep in mind they do not carry any preseason games, any nationally televised games (like Monday and Thursday) and no playoff games. You only get regular season games local broadcasts.

I am not advising anyone what to do, but for myself, it just became impractical and way too expensive. Perhaps if Sunday Ticket was offered by FIOS or even as a streaming package on Netflix or Prime I might consider re-subscribing. But if it's $250 or $300, which comes to more than $30 a game if the Cowboys are on national TV 8 times I would probably skip and it watch the replays on the NFL channel. To be honest, I prefer streaming to all the cable providers including the satellite services.

 

[DanteEXT]

I canceled it a couple of years back. First, you have to have a DirecTV subscription with at least the basic channels package to order Sunday ticket. I could not get HD satellite reception from my location so I went with FIOS. I kept DirecTV basic only for Sunday Ticket. I would suspend DirecTV service for 6 months a year in the off season, but it is still expensive. When I first subscribed to Sunday Ticket I think I paid about $150 a year for it. When I cancelled it I was paying nearly double that WITHOUT HD which cost extra. Basic DirecTV went from about $40 to $70 as well.

The last two years I had Sunday Ticket I was watching games on my laptop or through XBox. The reception in low def on my TV was pretty backwards, although I could see the game, it wasn't HD and I am spoiled. At the same time, the Cowboys were broadcast locally about 12 out of 16 games so I was paying all that money to watch 4 games. I am a big Cowboys fan but that was kind of silly so I cancelled everything. I did get to watch other games but I had it to watch the Cowboys. Keep in mind they do not carry any preseason games, any nationally televised games (like Monday and Thursday) and no playoff games. You only get regular season games local broadcasts.

I am not advising anyone what to do, but for myself, it just became impractical and way too expensive. Perhaps if Sunday Ticket was offered by FIOS or even as a streaming package on Netflix or Prime I might consider re-subscribing. But if it's $250 or $300, which comes to more than $30 a game if the Cowboys are on national TV 8 times I would probably skip and it watch the replays on the NFL channel. To be honest, I prefer streaming to all the cable providers including the satellite services.

I was in the same position with 12 or so games being shown locally. Cancelled DTV 5 years ago and put up an antenna. Get CBS and FOX from both Indy and Louisville (along with NBC too). Though Indy reception for FOX is spotty I had PSVue with local Indy channels. Only thing I had to contend the first 4 years with was the Bengals or Colts playing a home game at the same time causing FOX stations not to be able to show a game. Last year a new wrinkle arose in the form of Lamar Jackson causing the Louisville stations to prioritize Baltimore games over any other including the Bengals. That said I still got 11-12 games.

 

[Doomsday]

It works well, my nephew has been logging into my account and watching the Bears games on his laptop and cell phone for a few years now and he says it works great.

Sometimes I will stream a game on my laptop while watching another game on my TV and other than being a bit delayed from the live feed it always works well for me.