[Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football games

[Lynette Tillner]

That's great for city dwellers with cheap high speed internet and no bandwidth restrictions. For those of us in rural areas, where "broadband" means lousy satellite dish internet, at expensive prices and with severe bandwidth restrictions getting any level of video over the internet is a definate challenge. Until that's solved, DirecTV and DISH will have a market, albeit much smaller than the one they have now. 


Lynette (Tillner) Peavey
ltillner at yahoo.com

From: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
To: "Killmar, John" <John.Killmar at STJUDE.ORG>; "husker at tssi.com" <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football games

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


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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

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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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