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See, the problem with that is if I got cable I'd still keep half of the streaming services anyway. It's just far easier to pirate what I don't have until the NBA let's me give them money to not blackout anything.
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Oh, Bally Sports will let you stream in-market games, but at a price you wouldn't dare pay.
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If YouTube loses Disney it might actually save money to subscribe to ESPN+ even if I keep YouTube because they’re dropping to $50 and ESPN+ is only $7. Anybody have any thoughts on ESPN+ as a streaming platform? Is it pretty smooth?
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Henchman of Santa posted:If YouTube loses Disney it might actually save money to subscribe to ESPN+ even if I keep YouTube because they’re dropping to $50 and ESPN+ is only $7. Anybody have any thoughts on ESPN+ as a streaming platform? Is it pretty smooth? It's quality sucks during high-demand games.
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Yeah it's been pretty rough when you're watching a really popular event. If it's just day-to-day stuff it's not bad.
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Kibner posted:You got the Birmingham Squadron GLeague team now and those games are all streamed for free! Hayes, Murphy, and Alverdao will all be playing for them again tonight.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:That's a good suggestion, I should make a point to catch more of that. Forgot Jared Harper was still with them too, love that guy. Yeah! Harper is playing basically every GLeague game and is their leading scorer, iirc. e: their schedule: https://birmingham.gleague.nba.com/schedule/
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Henchman of Santa posted:If YouTube loses Disney it might actually save money to subscribe to ESPN+ even if I keep YouTube because they’re dropping to $50 and ESPN+ is only $7. Anybody have any thoughts on ESPN+ as a streaming platform? Is it pretty smooth? Sure, if you're only interested in out of market teams. Quality isn't great all the time. I was not able to get around the in market restrictions by using a VPN. So I cancelled.
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https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1471548457022365697?s=21 New Fumble Dimension let’s goooo
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Edward Mass posted:
that's always been my problem, between my wife and i we watch just enough of a weird spread that we need ("need") weird packages and extra subs
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Getting HBO Max included with a modest cable package is a better deal than you think, what with all the sports I watch.
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Henchman of Santa posted:If YouTube loses Disney it might actually save money to subscribe to ESPN+ even if I keep YouTube because they’re dropping to $50 and ESPN+ is only $7. Anybody have any thoughts on ESPN+ as a streaming platform? Is it pretty smooth? Keep in mind that ESPN+ does not mean you get to see everything on ESPN. It's just for stuff that explicitly is shown on ESPN+. It does seem to have every NHL game (not in your market), and a lot of soccer. It's good if you're a fan of lower level college teams too because ESPN will shove a lot of its less popular games onto there. You're going to be able to watch like every Rhode Island game if you want.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Keep in mind that ESPN+ does not mean you get to see everything on ESPN. It's just for stuff that explicitly is shown on ESPN+. It does seem to have every NHL game (not in your market), and a lot of soccer. It's good if you're a fan of lower level college teams too because ESPN will shove a lot of its less popular games onto there. You're going to be able to watch like every Rhode Island game if you want. Well I always have my parents’ cable login and poo poo for regular ESPN but I was hoping I could get everything in one place. There’s not really much ESPN+ exclusive content that appeals to me.
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DJExile posted:get the slime cannons ready mother fuckers because the Nickelodeon game is BACK That poo poo was hilarious last year and hopefully this time the game is worthy of it.
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fartknocker posted:That poo poo was hilarious last year and hopefully this time the game is worthy of it. It was honestly one of the most fun things I've seen in sports broadcasts in ages.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Well I always have my parents’ cable login and poo poo for regular ESPN but I was hoping I could get everything in one place. There’s not really much ESPN+ exclusive content that appeals to me. Oh if you have a cable login then I think you can watch everything on ESPN+ then.
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DJExile posted:It was honestly one of the most fun things I've seen in sports broadcasts in ages. They definitely drew in new viewers. My wife doesn't care about sports in any way, shape, or form, but she watched the entire game and then asked if they were doing more Nick games for the playoffs.
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https://twitter.com/JamPackard/status/1471670599227523072 lol Wilbon
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I only use it for soccer and F1 but ESPN+ is so much better than the competing offerings from Paramount, NBC and whatever garbage BeIN is making GBS threads out these days. There always seems to be some low level UFC stuff on as well if you're in to that.
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The only real problem with espn+ is the lack of archival stuff, I think you can only go back a week or something. Otherwise it's incredibly easy to use.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Oh if you have a cable login then I think you can watch everything on ESPN+ then. Nope! ESPN+ is strictly OTT, cable logins be damned.
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There are things that ESPN has that are labeled as ESPN 3 on the ESPN app that you get with a cable subscription. They've moved almost everything over to ESPN+ but there are still some college football/basketball available.
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Edward Mass posted:Nope! ESPN+ is strictly OTT, cable logins be damned. It is? When I load up ESPN+ it will show what is airing on ESPN and ESPN2, but I can’t watch it without a TV subscription. So I figured you could access that stuff if you have cable.
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Yeah it’s pretty confusing because it’s all just lumped into the same app. But yes, with a cable login you can watch the ESPN/ESPN2 stuff but not the ESPN+ stuff. And vice versa, if you have ESPN+ but not a cable login, you can watch everything except the stuff airing on ESPN/ESPN2 (though it’s kinda weird, if there’s like a big game, you can’t watch the main feed but you can watch like the skycam). But the only way to watch everything in the ESPN app is to have a cable login AND an ESPN+ subscription.
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Ah yea, I think I confused it all because I said ESPN+, when I really meant you can watch it on the ESPN app. The app covers everything, but limits what you can see based on various subscriptions.
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and sometimes, even when you're logged into your cable provider, it'll tell you that you can't watch ESPN/2/ABC content because it's "not part of your TV package"
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mactheknife posted:and sometimes, even when you're logged into your cable provider, it'll tell you that you can't watch ESPN/2/ABC content because it's "not part of your TV package" The blackout rules still apply - I can't watch some local games on ESPN because they're blacked out and carried on a local channel in my area.
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It also frequently buries ESPN/ABC content under Serie A, UFC, and other ESPN+ exclusive content.
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https://twitter.com/YouTubeTV/status/1472076067326156803 They literally pulled the plug in the middle of a Lakers game Also lol https://twitter.com/BrokenNickMan16/status/1472077975004725248
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Honestly most devastated that I can’t watch Jeopardy now because it’s on a local ABC affiliate. I guess I’ll just switch to Hulu live because it’s the same price that YTTV was.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Honestly most devastated that I can’t watch Jeopardy now because it’s on a local ABC affiliate. I guess I’ll just switch to Hulu live because it’s the same price that YTTV was. Can you pick it up OTA? I got a cheap flat antenna for Jeopardy, but I live in a city with strong OTA signals, and my TV handles digital cable like a champ. Sometimes football games come through in higher fidelity than streaming online.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Can you pick it up OTA? I got a cheap flat antenna for Jeopardy, but I live in a city with strong OTA signals, and my TV handles digital cable like a champ. Sometimes football games come through in higher fidelity than streaming online. I record a bunch and then watch them with my partner later.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I record a bunch and then watch them with my partner later. That’s nice  My parents used to DVR them so we could skip the commercials.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Can you pick it up OTA? I got a cheap flat antenna for Jeopardy, but I live in a city with strong OTA signals, and my TV handles digital cable like a champ. Sometimes football games come through in higher fidelity than streaming online. OTA works great for sports. I don't have a 4K TV so on a regular HD games come through better than they do from cable and way better than Hulu.
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PotatoJudge posted:OTA works great for sports. I don't have a 4K TV so on a regular HD games come through better than they do from cable and way better than Hulu. This is usually true even with a 4k TV.
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The big exception is Fox, who’s OTA compression sucks. If I can, I try to watch Fox stuff on the Fox Sports app and it’s usually in 4K. Looks way better than OTA. NBC and CBS OTA look great though.
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https://twitter.com/globechadfinn/status/1473156662592692232?s=21 Dish has dropped NESN, the last RSN they carried.
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