[Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football games

[David Strong]

Absolutely.  If it was not for college football, I'd have dropped cable two
years ago.  Live sports is the only reason I keep it.

Dave

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Sounds like Jay is one of those "cord-cutters" who have dropped cable and
> satellite completely. It's becoming a growing trend, but right now, it's
> impractical for sports fans because while there is a good infrastructure in
> place via NetFlix, Hulu, and Apple for television programs, it's a hit and
> mostly miss mishmash of technology for live events.
>
> I do imagine that in 10 years, though, cable and DirecTV will be dinosaurs
> for the most part.  It'll die harder and faster than hard-wired phones
> because unlike cell phones, internet-based television delivery is going to
> give you the same quality of communication eventually.  And when that
> happens, $70+ a month cable bills are going to be a thing of the past once
> people will have the ability to select their programming ala carte.
>
> The Pac-12 and K-State are already heading this direction; their new
> networks are online, not traditional cable networks.
>
>
> Mike Jaixen
> http://huskermike.blogspot.com
> http://www.cornnation.com
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Killmar, John" <John.Killmar at STJUDE.ORG>
> To: "husker at tssi.com" <husker at tssi.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football games
>
> Jay, you're not just talking about a few football games this season.  This
> season EVERY Husker football game will be on TV.  Most of the carriers will
> not charge extra for you to get BTN.  Are you just watching football on an
> over the air signal?  If so, you will probably only get to see a couple of
> Husker football games on TV.
>
> John Killmar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
> Of Jay Schlechte
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:47 AM
> To: Jim5417P at aol.com
> Cc: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football games
>
> In looking at the alternative ways, I don't think video.BTN.com will have
> live football games and quite likely won't even have replays available.
> Where this could be really nice is for volleyball and baseball.  This is
> the blurb I ran into on the intro page (
> http://video.btn.com/allaccess/index-splash.html):
>
> "Welcome to the Big Ten Digital Network Your online home for Big Ten
> Conference video content and entertainment. The Big Ten Digital Network
> offers fans the largest schedule of online streaming video for Big Ten
> athletic events. Over 500 exclusive live streaming of *NON-TELEVISED* events
> direct from *BTN.com* covering basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball and
> more! PLUS, subscribers gain access to additional live and on-demand video
> content from every Big Ten school."
> Which is really unfortunate and annoying from my perspective.  I have no
> desire to pay the necessary amounts of money for a satellite or cable TV
> service just to see a few football games.  Good old fashioned radio over the
> internet will have to do.  :) GBR,
>
> Jay
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:13 PM, <Jim5417P at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > Hopefully this note gets to you and you can share it with the list.
> >
> > For the life of me I can not figure out how to post on the list.
> >
> >
> > What I wanted to share is that there are some alternative ways to see
> > the Nebraska games if you don't have satellite and your cable provider
> > doesn't carry  the BTN.
> >
> > Take a look at BTN2GO
> >
> > or look at   Video.BTN.com <http://video.btn.com/>
> >
> > Both of them are Internet options.
> >
> > If you have a carrier (Sat. or Cable)  that carries the BTN but is not
> > showing the Nebraska games you can sign onto BTN2GO and see the streaming
> > broadcast.   This option is NOT available if your cable company  doesn't
> > carry
> > the BTN.
> >
> > If you are in that position, then you can consider using
> > Video.BTN.com<http://video.btn.com/>
> >
> > Video.BTN is a fee based Internet service.  It is $14 per month or
> > $114 per year for all of the B1G.  You can sign up for Nebraska only
> > and  the annual fee is $79.
> >
> > Only problem, right now they show NO game listings for Nebraska.  I
> > think it is coming but I can't guarantee anything.  I sent a question
> > to  the place on their website where they receive questions.  But they
> > have not  given me any answers as of this time.
> >
> > Hopefully this helps some of us.
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