TD Riggo

#1698

 

Did you know that History Channel aliens guy speaks 5 languages?

One of them is Klingon. No?

Does hdfree.tv really require an account?

No. Just carefully click all of the small X's to get all of the crap off the screen.

I'm only getting Brit crap on the Zunox site. Try this (not sure if HD or SD):

http://hdfree.tv/watch/22/washington-redskins-vs-baltimore-ravens.html

My sole frustration as well...and especially when I pay for a "sports package". I should get what I pay for. All I want is my Redskins.

As a matter of fact, our contract pricing period is up, hubby freaked on the bill, so we're cutting all the movie channels (except HBO, kept solely for Bill Maher, LOL), and on all that's holy, if it weren't for Red Zone, I'd want the "sports package" gone too. I'm still on the fence.

I got rid of HBO, Showtime, and all the rest .. except for Starz because I watch Encore Westerns a lot .. at least a dozen years ago when boxing got to be so boring (I miss the good old days of Bowe/Holyfield, Tyson/Holyfield, etc) and began to be loaded with nothing but Mexican boxers. But I do still keep DirecTV for NFL-ST and the sports packages. With all of the cord cutting going on, I look forward to when they make it more a la carte. My wife & I honestly only watch about 5-6 channels anymore. TV programming is just awful and it is getting hard to justify the expense, EXCEPT for football!

The NFL eliminated PreSeason Live and combined it with GamePass. GamePass costs $119, I think. You still get the preseason games live; you also get to watch any regular season game on your phone or tablet after the 4pm Sunday games are over. Essentially, you can watch the games tape delayed. Whoop-De-Doo. IF you get the NFL Network on your satellite or cable, and most do, you can also watch or DVR the whole game on the NFL Network station. IF I have to wait to watch a regular season game till Sunday night, I might as well watch the next day for free on my big screen TV for FREE. And if you have the Sunday Ticket, why waste your money on GamePass? The only advantage is if you video analyze games to death, as a few do, then it would be useful since it also includes the All 22 coaches video view.

 

Just irritates me that the NFL blacks out my CSN feed for Redskins games that I get on DirecTV and then screws me on the preseason games on top of it.

Well, I probably "violate" the terms of agreement, but I use a video capture device and save all of the games to my HTPC for later watching, usually during the long dry spell of offseason. I just feel that I've paid a king's ransom the last 21 years on NFL-ST and DirecTV so I'm going to make it worthwhile, and NO .. I'm not also going to give them another 100 clams to re-watch a game that I already paid for and recorded for my personal use. An HD-PVR will set you back ~$150 and is well worth the price for several years of use.

The blackout rules for pre-game, post-game, local shows like "Redskins Nation," etc are just absurd and seemingly random!  I also pay year round for the sports package so I can get Comcast Sportsnet (or whatever they call it now) and find it absolutely ridiculous and hilariously ironic that they black out the ENTIRE NATION for a show called "Redskins NATION!"  I mean .. what do they show on RN that is so sensitive to the rest of the nation that they have to black it out?!  Usually, it's an in-studio interview of a player or coach. Us out-of-market fans sure do get treated like trash, even when we PAY FOR the "right" to watch those shows. And WHY in the name of all that is holy do they black out the post-game show during preseason, but not during regular season?! NONsensical!

And while I am on the topic of Comcast: Would everyone please drop a line to Comcast and ask them to GET RID OF Qadry Ismail?!  What a CREEPY, ANTI-Redskins jackass he is! I'd much rather have Smoot on those shows even though I can only understand about every tenth word he says!

The cricket streams that smooters posted worked for me without an excessive amount of worry for virii. Still, you have to click on the practically invisible x's and not the big X that is obvious (that will open up a popup for a betting site).  I started with Link 3 (I think) and it got shut down after about a quarter, so I tried Link 6 and it worked fine the rest of the game.

And yeah .. I thought that Flash on websites was supposed to be over about 5 years ago and we were supposed to be almost exclusively HTML5?!  It appears that we are every bit as much reliant on crappy Flash as we ever were on most websites. I think that's why Firefox has gotten so unreliable for me .. it's usually the Flash plugin that locks everything up. Sometimes it even crashes the browser. 

Can't get rid of the ads though.  Blocking the picture.

 

Oh wait, figured it out.  Thanks!

That's what I hate about these streams. Click on the wrong thing and you're downloading a virus. I always just look for the tiny, hidden little x's.  (If only the NFL wanted my damn 20 bucks.)

Thanks, man. I apparently am no good at searching for these streams anymore.

Common with those who do not have a precisely aligned dish.  I feel sorry for those who endure that without knowing it can be corrected.  I've also had cable and like others have mentioned during the heaviest snow storms I've seen the 'signal lost' because my cable company was using satellite as their source.

The problem is, the usual techs that DirecTV sends out aren't good enough or willing to spend the time (usually both) to tweak the dish for the best signal on all 5 LNBs to alleviate most instances of rain fade. I know there are some good ones (they post on the DBS, AVS and SS forums all the time), unfortunately none of them live in my area. So, I bought an expensive meter and tweak it and replace parts myself whenever necessary. I understand most people aren't willing to do that. But the result for me is FAR better than the crappy cable in my area!

Now .. Since the NFL has left us out of area fans (who they obviously hate since we can't even watch any of the Redskins shows on sports channels that we PAY for) with no other choice to watch preseason games ... does anyone have any links for tonight's game? I'm coming up with bumpkus (even FrontRow isn't available) ..

I concur. As I mentioned above, I've subscribed to NFL-ST since 1994. I live in the thunderstorm capitol of the country and I have never missed a minute of a game. Now if football season started in the Summer, then it might be an occasional problem. But the cable companies have beaten that to death and it's ridiculous. I had WAY more problems with cable than a very occasional rain outage with DirecTV that only lasts a couple of minutes and then it's back to crystal clear picture. That's why I fired them 21 years ago and will never go back.

 

I also wonder about reliability. I've heard commercials (run by the cable company) about DTV going out when it rains. And one of mom's restaurants subscribes to DTV, and yeah, their signal went out a lot.

I also wonder what the installation is like. I'd rather not have their installer in the house, if I can avoid it. The house is wired for cable, right now. ( I wired it). Will DTV use the existing wiring, inside? Will I need their boxes (and another remote) for every TV?

Or, at one point last year, I was considering getting a home satellite radio receiver, and just signing up for Sirius, at home. Anybody know much, about that?

Reliability with DirecTV is better (in my experience) than cable. In fact, I fired my cable system back in 1994 and went to the upstart DirecTV (I used to have to pay two bills; one to DirecTV and another to USSB for all of the programming). Another plus was that they had Sunday Ticket. The plus to changing to DTV was that the picture is crystal clear and the outages due to weather are WAY overplayed by cable companies! First, you will only lose signal in the HEAVIEST part of a HEAVY thunderstorm. It may last a few seconds, or a couple of minutes. Generally, the types of storms that will cause rain fade are in the summer time, so by football season you should be good. To tell you how much the cable companies exaggerate, I live in Florida and watched a live PPV movie (had some neighbors over) on DirecTV when Hurricane Floyd was 60 miles off the coast and missed almost none of the movie.

I previously wrote about my loathing of installers. But that goes for the installers that the cable company and the phone company sends out, so if you can tolerate them then you should have no problems with DirecTV's installers. I'm just very nitpicky and intolerant to people who have the capability to screw up and drill on my house.

As to whether the cable in your house can be used? Only if your house has RG-6 in the walls. Most homes used to be run with RG-59 which is what cable TV installers use. RG-59 cannot carry the proper voltage and bandwidth as RG-6. If you already have RG-6, then they may be able to use it. It also depends on where they have to place the dish and if you have a run to there.

If you go with the new(er) 5 tuner "Genie" HD-DVR, then you will need a small box at each TV. There are also wireless boxes available.

As to Sirius .. I have subscribed to them since about 2005 just to listen to Sonny and Sam/Cooley. I can sync up my DVRs exactly to the Sirius feed. Sunday Ticket feeds are always about 30-45 seconds AHEAD of Sirius. Just press pause at the first penalty and sync up the refs lip movements (lip sync) to his voice on Sirius. I've been doing this for ten years without fail.

I think they scrapped the preseason package because ppl were buying that and not game pass (which looks like a waste IMO if your team sucks)

That's just stupid! I wonder if they ever considered that many of us pay for NFL-ST and thus have ZERO need to pay for a full season of GamePass, but would spring a few bucks for preseason since they lock us out of market fans out from seeing preseason games?  So, I guess I'll just have to go back to hunting for free pirated streams on the innerwebz because that's our only venue. The NFL is just going all to hell!

Gone with Game Pass this year myself but just a heads up theres always streams (usually quite good ones) put up here https://www.reddit.com/r/nflstreams/

I've done streams before but usually they are so damn unreliable and often they are crap. Also, by time you actually find one that works and click through 37 screens while being extra careful NOT to click a link that will download a virus, it's halftime. And often, the streams are shut down before the end of the game. IOW .. way too damn frustrating to see maybe a quarter or two in bad quality. That is why I went ahead and paid the 5, 10, 15 bucks the last 2 or 3 seasons to watch the preseason games. But I can't for the life of me find a link for subscribing to JUST the preseason games this year. (Yes, even after they billed me three times for one package last year and I had to pull my eyeteeth to get the two refunds).

Goodell is running a damn clown college!

DirecTV tip:  Some installers are not very thorough.  They align your dish until it works but they don't improve on it.  You'd want one person at the TV with a phone or within shouting range when at the signal strength page, and another person on the roof slowly aligning the dish to find the centerpoint for the best reception signal.

 

This will help a lot with making DirecTV only go out during the heaviest rain or snow storms.

That's why I went ahead and invested in one of these http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?p=AIM&d=AIM-Advanced-Installation-Signal-Meter-for-DIRECTV-Satellite-Dishes-%28AIM%29&sku=610370580820&q=meter last year. The buffoons that DirecTV sends made me go ahead and bite the bullet. There ARE cheaper meters that would do fine, and you can sometimes find slightly used ones on eBay, but this one is the best and makes the isntall extremely fast and easy to get MAX signal strength. You can also use the on screen meters from the DVR and come pretty close, but it's not possible if you don't have line of sight with a TV when you're on the roof. Up until my first HD DVR and dish install about 9 years ago, I installed all of my equipment and dishes. That was the first time a "professional" was "required" to do an install, and shall be the LAST time. It's not hard to do it all yourself, but you have to learn what to do and how to do it properly, and the results will be superior. It has gotten more complicated with SWM and all, but it's still not that difficult.

Does anyone understand/know what the hell the NFL is doing with the streaming of preseason games this year? I usually sign up about this time, but all I can find is crap about the whole season. https://www.nfl.com/gamepass I don't need the whole season because I pay a buttload for NFL-ST. Honestly, they should throw in preseason games for what they charge us for NFL-ST every year!

I've had DirecTV and NFL-ST since 1995. DirecTV's customer service is not as good as it used to be. Their customer service sucks these days. I was hoping that the AT&T/DirecTV merger would help, but I have AT&T phone+U-verse DSL service, and they suck too.  All in all; DirecTV is about the same as any of the other cable/sat services. They treat existing customers like crap and new subscribers like gold. Still, it is the only way for me to see Skins games every week. Looks like I too will have to call this week or next and try to get one of my DVRs replaced (it's a 15 year old faulty piece of crap, while new subs get the latest and greatest technology like the Genie) and see if they will give me some sort of credit towards Sunday Ticket. I am getting real tired of spending >$110/month for 20 years and being treated like crap!

I see the Crackgirlz brought their refs as usual.

Pack 7  Crackgirlz 0  Refs 7

http://www.streamking.org/channel4.html

 

I just waited the for the initial ads to close.  Great quality so far.

Thanks for that! After getting screwed over, taking 3 hours of my time (during a slightly over 3 hour game) two weeks ago, and charged twice and yet STILL not getting to see anything but the last 3 minutes of the game by the NFL, I absolutely REFUSE to give them another penny for any streaming. What a debacle that was, and I told them so several times.  Now, they want $14.99 (geez .. a whole $5 discount from the four game package with only half left to go .. what a ripoff! Especially when it will be free on the NFL network at 700am tomorrow) for the last two games?! 

Wtf? Oh... And Tampa does not have the best Unis in the NFL, let alone their division.

I actually like the Bucs unis. But that new helmet, aside from the cool chrome mask, is just ridiculous looking. The logo decal is WAAAAAAYYYY too big. Just dumb looking!

I can only hope. I *love* the yellow pants. My wife often jokes I only watch the Redskins because I love the colors. That's not true, but it helps. To me, this is about as good as it gets. I would use it for home and away, haha.

 

Yeah. Still my favorite Skins unis ever! Although I am partial to the Sonny/Billy era unis. That 70th uni was sharp. (I also liked the throwbacks with the leather-look helmet the last two years!)

I don't hate the "yellow" pants. Kind of like 'em actually, but I would like 'em even better if they were that color of GOLD instead! After all, we ARE supposed to be burgundy and GOLD.

I hope we start a new era and get rid of the white. Those throwbacks are too sick to be worn once.

Agreeance! The Redskins should never have, and should never again worn white! I absolutely HATED when we wore white-on-white! We looked like a bunch of hospital orderlies -- handing out meds and emptying bedpans.

Burgundy and gold, in any combination, every week. And agree that we should have worn the throwbacks more than one week!

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Throwbacks weren't suppose to grab anyone's attention because it's from 1937. Helmets were the ugliest part of the uniforms.

You're not serious, right? Those leather-look helmets were some of the coolest looking helmets ever!

LOL @ #1580, 1581 and 1600.

I wish I had mad 'choppin skillz.

Those of you that want to keep the gold pants, are you talking about our current color, which is more yellow like or gold like what Baylor had on their jerseys?

Gold. As in "Burgundy & Gold." Not the current "Burgundy & Mustard."

Hail to the Redskins -- in their Burgundy & Mustard.

I like that look as well. Awesome mock up.

I agree. I would rather they have gold pants rather than the white ones.

Last I checked, Skins colors were still burgundy AND gold, yet we continue to see white pants with tiny gold accents on the helmets and shoes. Now, I'm not totally opposed to wearing white pants once a season, but I liked the return to the old school burgundy jerseys/gold pants last year. It made us look like the Redskins again.