[Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football games

Tue Aug 30 12:58:08 CDT 2011

No way I would subscribe to a landline phone.  What would you use one for? I
have a family plan and put an extra line on it with a free cell phone that
just sits there.  Allows me to have a home phone number, since I never give
out my cell number.  Reception is fine, but no one ever uses it.  Costs $10
a month.  Attached it via bluetooth to a Panasonic device with 3 handsets
around the house if you want to have it emulate a landline, but I wouldn't
do that again because no one ever uses it.  I often just forward the home
number to my cell so I don't have to check it for messages.

Dave

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Absolutely I use a hard-wired phone.  If I ever had to choose between a
> cell phone and the hard-wired phone, I'd choose the hard-wired one for one
> basic reason:  they work.
>
> Dead batteries, low reliability, bad signals, crummy sound quality... you
> name it.  Every cell phone I've experienced is a piece of crap in terms of a
> voice communication tool.  Even Apple hasn't figured out how to make one
> work for voice communication.  The new iPhone and Droid phones do some
> amazing things in terms of going online and getting information to you.  But
> at it's core, it's still a piece of garbage in terms of a phone.
>
>
> Mike Jaixen
> http://huskermike.blogspot.com
> http://www.cornnation.com
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Aaron Wolfson <awolfson0 at gmail.com>
> To: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Killmar, John" <John.Killmar at stjude.org>; "husker at tssi.com" <
> husker at tssi.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football games
>
>
> Man, Mike, I've been waiting for a-la-carte television ever since I was old
> enough to understand what television was. And I agree with you completely;
> if it wasn't for live sports, I would cut the cord right now without a
> second thought. It's becoming an expensive habit. Cable and satellite are
> both major rackets at this point, probably trying to milk as much as they
> can before they become obsolete.
>
> Also: do people still use hard-wired phones?
> Aaron
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:08 AM, 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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