[Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football games

Rod Wellman gobigred66 at mac.com
Tue Aug 30 13:12:06 CDT 2011 

Don't worry, the media moguls will ensure that they get the same amount of money out of you.  Starting years ago, people got "conditioned" to spend $30 on cable TV.  It keeps getting more expensive and now people don't think much of spending $75 on Cable/Dish TV.  A lot of money?   I think so, but we somehow manage to cough it up each month, mainly for a few channels we want.

I'm amazed at how "happy" people are to ditch their landlines.  We thought having a telephone in your house "at the ready" was a luxury when I was kid (party line, no less).  And we got conditioned to spend $30, $40 a month on having the phone there, and bills that were higher if we called long distance.  Now, we're "cheering" that we are able to get rid of the land line? What did we replace it with?  A household of 4 that EACH has their own phone, that averages about $40 per phone per month in charges.  So, where the telephone communications company was once making $40 on our household, now they're making $200.  What's wrong with that picture?

When it comes to TV programming, you'll be spending quite a bit per month to ensure your internet connection to be fast enough to stream all the TV you want.  Plus, do you think the pipeline will be unlimited?  Internet providers (and cel phone) are already limiting how much in gigabytes you can download.  Go over that amount and it'll cost you even more.  So factor that into your "a la carte" costs, because without the need for video streaming, you really don't need a fast connection or 5 Gigs of data transfer.  And, the trend is towards paying for what you watch.  So, combine the two, and what are you up to?  The same, or EVEN MORE than that $75 per month Cable/Dish bill.

Just depends on how you look at it...

Rod W.
Sioux City, Ia.


On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Aaron Wolfson wrote:

> 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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