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I dislike BTN+ - it is locally produced by each school so you are getting a very low-quality product. I actually think it was a major failing of the new TV deal that BTN plus did not get more centralized/professional production.
This weekend’s game on the ACCN btw.
This weekend’s game on the ACCN btw.
I do it frequently. It's definitely usable. Occasionally there will be a broadcast with no announcers. Sometimes the camera is locked in one position, and, for baseball as an example, you can't see the corners of the outfield. Mostly it's pretty good, with proper broadcast quality and skilled announcers who are sometimes students of the home institution (in my opinion, these amateurs are better than the professionals because they actually talk about the game we are watching rather than doing a field-side talk show).
If you pick one team only, it's very cheap.
I use it to watch Maryland soccer and baseball for the most part....
If you pick one team only, it's very cheap.
I use it to watch Maryland soccer and baseball for the most part....
ESPN+ should get you this weekend's game -- no additional subscription to hulu or another streaming service (sling or directTV) needed.
Otherwise you need a cable subscription, YouTube subscription, Sling, etc. to get BTN for live streaming. BTN+ is supposed to show live events (on BTN) the next day.
It's great for the early season basketball games, olympic sports (I enjoy baseball in the spring), and watching replays, but it DOES NOT stream live football games. BTN streams on Fox Sports and this weekends game on ACCN streams on ESPN, so you'll need a provider / package that gives you access to those to watch football games.
A game is never on BTN+ if it's on any commercial network. It's not really a substitute for having some kind of "cable-like" service.
I cut the cord a long time ago, and buy YouTube TV during football season so I don't miss those games.
Afraid this was the answer. Unfortunately with Youtube TV, I'm trading a $120 a month bill for cable TV for a $79 a month or whatever it is. Savings, no doubt, but still a lot for something I'd rarely use.
When I signed up a couple weeks ago, they had a deal for like 4 months at $59, I think. That's about as long as I plan to use it, so should work nicely.
Ime, the savings from streaming are no longer so much from an apples-to-apples per-month comparison but from the ability to easily cancel after FB season and save that unnecessary cost for half the year. Maybe cable's gotten better with that, but last I had it, there was no quick cancel option.
They were offering it for FREE earlier and did it again. Just had to use a code for one of the 4 new schools. Of course I missed it both times.
That's a great point. It's very easy to turn YTTV on and off on a dime, for example.
YTTV is casually but steadily jacking up their rates (I started at $49/month), but still way cheaper than the hundreds per month I was paying to Comcast (I ignored it mostly, and was suddenly well over $200/month somehow).
For most of us it's probably not the money that drives this; but for myself, I'm not sure what IS the driver...
Here it's a choice of Verizon or Optimum -- and I wouldn't go back to optimum. The Verizon service was good but was a lot of channels we never watched, so even $80/month is too much if it's never or rarely used.
I'm going with an OTA antenna and ESPN+ this year. $11/month. I had sling last year but again rarely watched games if I didn't go, and that was between $60 and $75/month depending on the sports networks (ESPN/Fox/BTN/etc) that you wanted to get. Dropped it when basketball season ended.
EDIT If I could get the BTN direct to consumer I would -- the only service I saw was BTN+ which didn't air anything that went on BTN until the next day. the likelihood of watching after the fact is pretty slim for me.
BTN+ is for non-televised sports, at least for live sports. They do have on-demand replays of football and basketball on there.
Sadly FOX Sports does not have a DTC app so there is no legal way to get BTN, FS1, FS2 without cable/sat or some streaming version of that. FOX also has no plans to release their own app.
Sadly FOX Sports does not have a DTC app so there is no legal way to get BTN, FS1, FS2 without cable/sat or some streaming version of that. FOX also has no plans to release their own app.
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