[Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football games

Rod Wellman gobigred66 at mac.com
Tue Aug 30 13:16:03 CDT 2011 

There is nothing wrong with my iPhone 4 in terms of using it as a phone. Call quality is great.  I don't suffer dropped calls in the areas around where I live that I use the phone the most.  If I'm out traveling, that's another story, but pretty much everyone I talk to have stories of bad cel phone reception if they are on the go much, no matter what phone they have. The microphone they have built into the iPhone cancels noise.  I know of a professional video company who used it in a pinch to record sound on the set when their field recorder died. It's that good.  It's an excellent as a phone.  If there are any problems, they lie with the carrier and maybe a lack of a cel tower coverage in that area (or overburdened cel towers).  Has little to do with the iPhone.  

Rod W.
Sioux City, Ia.


On Aug 30, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Mike Jaixen 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
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> 
> ________________________________
> 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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