[actionjack]

Sunday Ticket is only for out of market games, isn't it?

Local TV channels will still carry the local games.

I have never lived in market for the Rams, so for me LEGAL streaming will be great. I have always had to either go to a bar or not so legally stream all Rams games that are not nationally broadcast.

DirectTV as the only other option has been stupid, as if you can't get DirectTV, then you have zero other options. That is the most unfair, none of these other complaints about the changes are even close.

Im not sure how you "can't" get DirecTV, unless you have trees blocking the sky. I have had DirecTV for over 20 years just so I could watch the Rams, plus other great games. I could not stand watching the freaking niners every week!!

So most of us with DirecTV dont want to see it change as (A) cost a bunch more than often "free" and (B) over picture quality. So far even though I have good wifi streamed AMZN games have been trash. Hopefully improves greatly this year. Also I dont trust anything Apple does they have become the massive corp they use to make fun of. At least Apple+ sucks, just read a report how it is leading stream services with cancels, up 1200%

[St. Loser Fan]

Im not sure how you "can't" get DirecTV, unless you have trees blocking the sky. I have had DirecTV for over 20 years just so I could watch the Rams

-trees
-hills or mountains
-buildings
-living in an apartment or condo with no view of the south sky

[St. Loser Fan]

Sunday Ticket is only for out of market games, isn't it?

Yes it is. If you're on Sunday Ticket and you select a game being shown on local TV (Fox, CBS, NBC etc) the box stops you, throws an error message and then retunes you to that local channel instead. With older boxes this could take 20+ seconds.

[St. Loser Fan]

The one thing I hate about streaming games is the delay. It wasn't good with DirecTV satellite as it was always 15-20 seconds behind. But CBS games on Paramount+ or Sunday Night NBC games were damn near a minute. Bally's Sports (local sports) is even worse with it nearly two minutes off.

[Elvis]

And some of us like to DVR games. I'm not always available to watch a game live from beginning to end. Commercials suck.

Game Pass?

[Hacksaw]

The one thing I hate about streaming games is the delay. It wasn't good with DirecTV satellite as it was always 15-20 seconds behind. But CBS games on Paramount+ or Sunday Night NBC games were damn near a minute. Bally's Sports (local sports) is even worse with it nearly two minutes off.

Yeah, made it tough to live chat.
Score, wtf?

[St. Loser Fan]

Yeah, made it tough to live chat.
Score, wtf?

If I was at home I'd switch over to the antenna.

It's funny watching a Cardinals game at one of the many bars about a mile south of the stadium. When the weather is nice and you're watching at a bar with DirectTV if someone hits a home run or the game is over you hear the fireworks first while the pitcher is still standing there getting ready to throw on the broadcast.

On a related note I'm impressed with the speed of the API the NHL app uses. I had to turn the notifications off because it's only 2 or 3 seconds behind real time on goals.

[rams74]

Game Pass?

Game Pass compressed replays would be great if you're not watching until the next day, or however long it takes them to compress it.

With a DVR'd game on Sunday Ticket, I don't have to start a game live to be able to watch it from beginning to end. I can start watching the DVR after one second, or one minute, or one hour -- it doesn't matter. I like to start watching a game about an hour after it's started, and then skip through timeouts, commercials, half-time, etc. By the time I've reached the end of the game, I'm back up to live action. And I can skip through opposing teams' celebrations after touchdowns or interceptions, or whatever.

You can't do any of that with streaming. You either join the stream live at whatever point the game is, or you wait until the full stream is available 4 or 5 hours after the game is complete.

Talk about a step backward. And there's no good reason for it that I've ever heard. It's not like the technology doesn't exist.

[Hacksaw]

DTV Stream service is the same with regard to locally broadcast content. Not sure NFLT wouldn't be the same if you have the subscription.
I'm a fan of DVR myself. If you are out io market, I feel you 74.

[Elvis]

Game Pass compressed replays would be great if you're not watching until the next day, or however long it takes them to compress it.

With a DVR'd game on Sunday Ticket, I don't have to start a game live to be able to watch it from beginning to end. I can start watching the DVR after one second, or one minute, or one hour -- it doesn't matter. I like to start watching a game about an hour after it's started, and then skip through timeouts, commercials, half-time, etc. By the time I've reached the end of the game, I'm back up to live action. And I can skip through opposing teams' celebrations after touchdowns or interceptions, or whatever.

You can't do any of that with streaming. You either join the stream live at whatever point the game is, or you wait until the full stream is available 4 or 5 hours after the game is complete.

Talk about a step backward. And there's no good reason for it that I've ever heard. It's not like the technology doesn't exist.

I think the GamePass replays are supposed to be available almost as soon as the game is over but i hear you.

My guess is streaming DVR capabilities are going to get a lot better over time that that's where we're headed...