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I, a millenial, won't pay for a cable subscription, or a streaming service that will black out games that are otherwise available on said cable subscription in my area. Until the NHL figures out that cable is for the olds, its  for me. Once they get with the times, I'll pay, I dunno, $250 a season to get a quality stream of one game a night that I get to choose. deoju fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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being an out-of-market fan is pretty great tbh as long as you don't want to go to very many hockey games
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deoju posted:Once they get with the times, I'll pay, I dunno, $250 a season to get a quality stream of one game a night that I get to choose. You can get that now. I feel like I’m beating this drum every time streaming chat comes up, but NHL.tv plus a DNS service like Unblock-us or Yonder.tv gives you official streams of every game with no blackouts for the full season and playoffs. I don’t even remember what Nhl.tv costs but it’s something like $130 for the year plus $30 for the year for Yonder.tv = $160 for every game without blackouts and without having to worry about finding a good quality pirate stream or anything like that. I just wish they still showed the local commercials instead of replacing them with the same 3 commercials for every break. EDIT: In the interest of transparency, I just remembered the one downside to this: you still can’t watch any local games that are subject to blackout restrictions on your phone if you have an iPhone. The NHL iPhone app still uses geolocation to determine blackout eligibility, and there’s no way to get around that unless you jailbreak your phone, which most people don’t do. I assume it’s the same way for the Android app, but I also assume it’s easier on Android to fake your geolocation so maybe that would fix it. OldSenileGuy fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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Jul 19, 2020 06:13
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it is now canon that trump is personally responsible for hockeystreams shutting down
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Jul 19, 2020 06:40
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3 hundo a season not including playoffs and we make it hard to watch games in your area eg the team you probably follow's home games. Also 30 frames is plenty.
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:it is now canon that trump is personally responsible for hockeystreams shutting down Thanks Obama !
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Jul 19, 2020 14:26
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deoju posted:I, a millenial, won't pay for a cable subscription, or a streaming service that will black out games that are otherwise available on said cable subscription in my area. I mean, YMMV, but I've been able to legally stream Jackets games from Florida with the combination of the bare-bones Spectrum cable package and FOX Sports Go. Valid Spectrum login+That login on FSGO=My team anywhere.
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Jul 19, 2020 15:49
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I swear to God if NBC makes me sign up for their streaming service, that's just what I'll do.
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Jul 19, 2020 16:20
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https://twitter.com/EdmontonOilers/status/1284921072245018624 1 year since the Oilers got rid of the worst contract in the league 
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Jul 19, 2020 21:43
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You know David Clarkson is still under contract in the NHL, right?
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Jul 19, 2020 21:47
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OldSenileGuy posted:You can get that now. I feel like I’m beating this drum every time streaming chat comes up, but NHL.tv plus a DNS service like Unblock-us or Yonder.tv gives you official streams of every game with no blackouts for the full season and playoffs. yeah Yonder owns, worked perfectly when I was living in NY and couldn't get Devils games.
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Jul 19, 2020 21:59
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https://twitter.com/RobTheHockeyGuy/status/1284916176053694464?s=19 Speaking of dudes on god awful contracts, I present to you one of my darkest fears manifest.
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Jul 20, 2020 13:53
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I was a cord cutter once. Hockeystreams was the poo poo and I didn't want cable. But then it went away... I have since signed up for bullshit faux cable before JUST to watch the Caps on the regional sports network. First PS Vue and now Youtube.TV. They have since "expanded" the offerings for a higher fee that I couldn't opt out of, including lots of poo poo I'll never watch and some poo poo my wife is excited to watch. So now I can never get rid of it, I'm paying cable prices (~$65 a month) for it, and the interface is worse than Hockeystreams or regular Youtube or cable. I played myself. If they make me get something else to stream the playoffs I will lose my poo poo.
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Jul 20, 2020 14:37
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I got YoutubeTV and the overall quality is fine. They did add a bunch of unnecessary stuff and up the price from $35 to $50, which essentially brings things back to cable.. However, you can share accounts. So right now my account is being used by my brother, parents, aunt, and I. However, they got rid of FSN West and Prime, which basically renders it useless for me. Then Covid hit and it didn't matter anyway. We'll see what happens next year.
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Jul 20, 2020 14:48
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Is NHL.tv really so bad in the States? I think I've encountered maybe two blackouts in the past 5 years here in Canada and the quality (while not perfect) is certainly decent all things considered.
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Jul 20, 2020 14:54
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Rogers' side of Gamecenter doesn't blackout national games, the US side does. So if you're not local to the team you want to watch you can see every game.
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Jul 20, 2020 14:57
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I've honestly had very few problems with gamecenter the last few years, but I'm nowhere near Philadelphia and it now largely seems to think Toledo is solely a Detroit market instead of both Detroit and Columbus.
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Jul 20, 2020 14:59
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ThinkTank posted:Is NHL.tv really so bad in the States? I think I've encountered maybe two blackouts in the past 5 years here in Canada and the quality (while not perfect) is certainly decent all things considered. Depends on your location and teams you like. My 3 teams are Flyers, Blues, Preds. It works great for me for Flyers and Preds since they’re out of market. Doesn’t work for any Blues games since I’m in market (unless I disguise my location, which I’m personally just not willing to do the effort there). It also blacks out “National” aka NBC Sports games, so that depends on your team. Probably sucks for teams like Chicago, Pittsburgh, NY, etc. Philly is on NBC a moderate amount, Nashville rarely is. And of course, NHL.TV blacks out most to all playoff games (in part because they’re almost all nationally broadcast....I think), so really, I’m paying for NHL.TV for Flyers and Preds regular season games. It works for me because A. I split NHL.tv with a family member (you can have up to 2 simultaneous streams), so I basically pay 50% of the price, and B. I gave up on trying to cord cut, so I get Blues and national games via cable. My current cable promo, the Tv is probably about $50ish more than just internet, but I get HBO with it, which I would pay for separately, and we watch enough cable where between cable channels and live sports it’s worth it. It does require switching between cable companies every 2ish years when your promo runs out.
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Jul 20, 2020 15:09
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ThinkTank posted:Is NHL.tv really so bad in the States? I think I've encountered maybe two blackouts in the past 5 years here in Canada and the quality (while not perfect) is certainly decent all things considered. It's pretty good for an out-of-market fan of a team that doesn't get many national US broadcasts, like the Jets. Last year they pushed an upgrade that really improved the quality of the browser player. I had Hockeystreams and it was great (my subscription ended the same day they shut it down) but since then I've been satisfied with NHL.tv.
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My main issue with NHL.tv is my Roku app doesn't get 60FPS streams even though everyone else on the planet is able to get it smoothly Not even off a wired ethernet can I ever get it but surprise surprise the streams that randos put on the internet work like a charm!!!! gently caress you NHL
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Jul 20, 2020 15:29
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The only reason I can think of for paying for nhl.tv (other than, y'know, ethics...) would be to be able to replay games that you missed. For anything live, there are plenty high quality 60fps sites available where you don't have to try and duck the blackout restrictions.
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Jul 20, 2020 15:48
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I live in Syracuse and any game with the Sabres, Isles or Rangers (and sometimes Devils) gets blacked out on the nhl app. This is because you can get all the MSG channels here on cable if you pay for all of them and sure that makes sense since I live three hundred miles away from NYC. To be clear I kind of understand Buffalo blackouts.
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Jul 20, 2020 15:52
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After having to repeatedly find alternative streams in order to watch hockey games that'd been blacked on on gamecenter I was overwhelmed by the irony and had to sit down.
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Jul 20, 2020 15:53
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Penguins intra squad game streaming live on Facebook for anyone that is as hard up for hockey as I am.
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It's like watching the music industry flailing around trying to reacting to file sharing back in the day. Oh, there's an alternative that's in a better format, way more easily accessible, and it's not packaged with a glut of poo poo you don't care about? Well then we'll just have to offer a worse version of it and raise prices. That should take care of those pesky streamers once and for all! Except instead of the privilege of getting the whole Lincoln Park album (that you wanted a single song off of) for 19.99 in a DRM riddle package of poo poo we get 30fps, blackouts, and an interface that was aged poorly a decade ago. Oh and it costs way too much.
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Gamecenter is only meant for out of market fans because of TV contracts. It's a necessary sacrifice because for many here, the team you like only still exists because of those TV contracts.
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Aphrodite posted:Gamecenter is only meant for out of market fans because of TV contracts. It's a necessary sacrifice because for many here, the team you like only still exists because of those TV contracts. this works well enough in the regular season, but during the playoffs when all or most games are nationally broadcast, it essentially means you can't watch anything at all on GC, even if you're on the moon or something. signed, longtime out of market fan
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Jul 20, 2020 16:14
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https://twitter.com/renlavoietva/status/1285231425374085128 So Domi hasn't opted out after all.
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The assumption there is that your cable has those games since they're national. It's not a good one, but it's how the whole system works because they have to acquiesce to NBC.
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Cocaine Bear posted:Except instead of the privilege of getting the whole Lincoln Park album (that you wanted a single song off of) for 19.99 in a DRM riddle package of poo poo we get 30fps, blackouts, and an interface that was aged poorly a decade ago. Oh and it costs way too much. Hey, Meteora was a solid album front to back Gonna add my name to the pile of people saying that even when I paid for Gamecentre I was using streams 30% of the time because of app stability and time delay issues. Especially in the playoffs, a random illegal streamer could pull off <20s time delay while the NHLs official app was fully 4 minutes behind real time.
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Aphrodite posted:The assumption there is that your cable has those games since they're national. Streaming TV may have gotten just as expensive as cable but at least it's easy to subscribe and unsubscribe when you want. In theory you could sign up for Youtube TV for the two months of the playoffs and quit after the Cup gets awarded.
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The dumb part is that the streams are real high quality themselves. It's the apps that gently caress it up. That's what Hockeystreams did, they just ripped off the official ones.
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If you like the quality of the GC streams, but are in market, don't want to pay the too expensive fee, or are fed up with the outdated apps, and you have access to a Windows PC, search reddit for NHL underscore games. Sometimes it breaks from server/api changes, but it only ever goes out for a day or two if that happens. Otherwise it is the service GC should be providing. You can hook in your spotify for ad breaks.
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Jehde posted:If you like the quality of the GC streams, but are in market, don't want to pay the too expensive fee, or are fed up with the outdated apps, and you have access to a Windows PC, search reddit for NHL underscore games. Sometimes it breaks from server/api changes, but it only ever goes out for a day or two if that happens. Otherwise it is the service GC should be providing. You can hook in your spotify for ad breaks. this is what I use and it's very good when it's working, but occasionally doesn't always have streams available for every game
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For people wondering about the broadcasting schedule, it looks like we'll be getting that info soon enough. Sportsnet has already released theirs. https://twitter.com/JShannonhl/status/1285237732105740288 https://twitter.com/GMillerTSN/status/1285236617708539909
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Aphrodite posted:The dumb part is that the streams are real high quality themselves. It's the apps that gently caress it up. That's what Hockeystreams did, they just ripped off the official ones. I'm pretty sure Hockeystreams.com encoded their own streams from HDTV broadcasts. In contrast, almost every free option then as well as today just uses the NHL.TV / GameCenter Live streams.
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Zat posted:I'm pretty sure Hockeystreams.com encoded their own streams by ripping HDTV broadcasts. Oops I meant NHLstreams. The subreddit, not the subscription service.
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https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1285243664546103296 https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1285243979848720386
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In a just world, Josi would win over Carlson, but this might be my boy Johnny C's only chance at it and he was at a point per game, so give it to him. It's so dumb too because he's had much better seasons defensively, but the Norris is about POINTS.
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Kilza posted:For people wondering about the broadcasting schedule, it looks like we'll be getting that info soon enough. Sportsnet has already released theirs. Yeeeeees, Gord owns.
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