This week optimum was a complete f up. The second half of the game is on the regular btn channel. They're was a time when both channels were showing Iowa.
Yes ridiculous. Incompetent and almost certainly unintentional.
WTF Big Ten Network
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Yes ridiculous. Incompetent and almost certainly unintentional.
Not to beat a very live horse, but not only was the game super easy to find on both Hulu Live and Fox Sports - a big app-like tile showing on the home screen without any regard for channel number- Hulu auto-recorded the game without my even thinking about it.
The last game didn't show up immediately on the home screen, so I used the search feature and found it in five seconds. Also auto-recorded for later viewing.
Use this terrible game experience as motivation to cut cable TV and go Streaming. Beyond a much better RU gameday experience you'll enjoy all the other great benefits.
The last game didn't show up immediately on the home screen, so I used the search feature and found it in five seconds. Also auto-recorded for later viewing.
Use this terrible game experience as motivation to cut cable TV and go Streaming. Beyond a much better RU gameday experience you'll enjoy all the other great benefits.
What the actual F? I saw this thread earlier and it seemed like the complaints were from subscribers out of state, but then I just tried to watch the RU game on my DVR and I got the Iowa game. That's just wrong, wrong, wrong, like wrongoriffic wrong. Haven't had time to research this at all, but hoping the RU AD flipped out on the BTN on this one. I wouldn't even care about having to use some other channel to record the game on while I'm there in person, but Optimum had the game listed as being on 247, the B1G main channel, but nope, not there, so I had no idea. Epic fail. Luckily, earlier tonight I watched the 60 in 60 game.
And it still "thought" it was VT at RU on the DVR version as that was the title listed while watching friggin' Iowa play.
I used the guide and set the DVR around noon, right before I left. Unacceptable to have it listing the wrong channel for the game.
So, I Googled and found Politi's article, where he mentions the Optimum debacle, although he had no intel, at the time, on whether anything was being done about it. Has anyone heard a peep from Hobbs or the Dept? This is way more infuriating than unimportant things like concessions, lol.
https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/...its-3-0-record-is-politis-5-observations.html
e. People of New Jersey (and beyond): Check your local listings, and double check them, and triple check them, and then call your cable provider. Finding the game is becoming a weekly adventure, with many viewers turning on their TVs at 3:30 p.m. to be greeted by ... Iowa-Western Michigan?
f. To make it worse, many viewers reported that Iowa-Western Michigan was on both regular BTN and the overflow channel on several cable systems. The Broncos were giving the Hawkeyes a game, but c’mon, BTN. Know your audience.
https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/...its-3-0-record-is-politis-5-observations.html
e. People of New Jersey (and beyond): Check your local listings, and double check them, and triple check them, and then call your cable provider. Finding the game is becoming a weekly adventure, with many viewers turning on their TVs at 3:30 p.m. to be greeted by ... Iowa-Western Michigan?
f. To make it worse, many viewers reported that Iowa-Western Michigan was on both regular BTN and the overflow channel on several cable systems. The Broncos were giving the Hawkeyes a game, but c’mon, BTN. Know your audience.
By the way, it should flip to the Rutgers game on your DVR shortly into the 2nd half.
Is your 65" TV a smart TV? I found the game on the overflow channel on optimum (channel 205) but it was unwatchable quality. So I installed the Fox Sports app on the TV and watched it there, which was great quality.
That was on a Sony TV, which uses Android TV OS. But I'd imagine most other TVs, using whatever smart TV OS, have the Fox Sports app available.
The only blip was that, about 30 minutes into watching on the Fox Sports App, the app hid coverage of the game and told me my "30 minute trial" was over and I'd need to sign in to continue watching. Which I did using my optimum credentials. A minor irritant, mostly because the interruption came right in the middle of a 3rd or 4th down play.
My point is that having to still go through these gyrations is total BS. I am the customer. My expectations are not unreasonable. Shit should just work right and not require this much effort to achieve a basic service. Hopefully there will be enough of an outcry from the fans for the powers that be will fix this problem.
I understand the frustration.
But since we can't control what the networks do, if you have access to the Fox Sports App, I'd recommend installing it on the TV prior to Saturday's game. Might also want to sign on and watch something until the 30-minute free period expires, then sign on with whatever TV provider you have.
That way, if this issue happens again, you should be ready to watch on the TV. It's a hassle, but at least it's better than watching on a computer, or scrambling to find how to watch it next time.
Once I was on the Fox Sports App, the coverage was indistinguishable from watching on BTN.
Only flaw in all this is if the game isn't streamed on the Fox Sports App, which I suppose is always possible - not sure if they stream every game or not.
There's won't be issued Saturday. RU-Michigan is the only noon BTN game. Could be a concern for Wagner-RU since Maryland-Indiana is also 3:30 on BTN.
I have DIRECTV. I chose to watch the game on the Fox Sports App because it has a much better picture.
Not a gyration, a solution. Fix the problem yourself.
Fox Sports app will have your replay, too, so you don't have to worry about DVR mishaps or catching the 60-min version.
The quality was surprisingly good. The BTN app quality is nowhere near as good.
Fox app usually has one or two of the big games in 4K/HDR, too.
One day our best will play in 4K against their best.
All the BTN games are also live on the Fox Sports app.
Still the providers and BTN need to resolve this issue.
The in-market B1G team should ALWAYS be on the primary BTN channel when there are multiple feeds. PERIOD.
Still the providers and BTN need to resolve this issue.
The in-market B1G team should ALWAYS be on the primary BTN channel when there are multiple feeds. PERIOD.
I totally disagree! There was no comparison. The App images were brighter and sharper!
Was really bad to not see the game live, record it, then have it bounce to Iowa. I get a weather delay caused issues but BTN needs to be able to have a solution for that.
You think the BTN app is better than the Fox Sports app in terms of picture quality? That has not been my experience at all.
Uh... no. My reading comprehension is perfect.
I said the Fox Sports App quality was "surprisingly good". And that the BTN app was not as good.
You said, and I quote: "I totally disagree". And you said, again I'm quoting, that the "App imagines were brighter and sharper". Only you didn't say which app, of the two I had mentioned, you were referring to. Which is ambiguous.
Since you said you disagreed with what I said about how good the Fox Sports App was, that implied you thought the BTN app was somehow better.
Thus I posted again, to get you to clarify what you meant due to the ambiguity of your post.
Mildone, you are an arrogant ass! In my original post, I clearly stated that I have DIRECTV. I also stated that I chose to watch on the Fox App because of the superior picture quality. What was ambiguous?
BTN and the app suck. Can't get through any of their programming be it directly through channel or app without delays, pixelation or skipping.
I directly quoted your post containing the ambiguity. And what you wrote earlier doesn't clarify the ambiguity of your subsequent post. Not sure how that makes me either arrogant or an ass.
You realize, right, that you're the only one of us who has resorted to personal insults here (twice, no less 😂).
Oh, and if you don't mind, I really prefer to be called "douchebag" rather than "ass", thanks. I'll cop to the arrogance, though, since I am lots better than you in every conceivable way and, as you can see, I don't mind telling you all about it. 😉
Their app does pretty much suck, yep. I got it for early season basketball games. Meant to cancel after the first month of the season, but here I am almost a year later and I still have it and basketball season is looming now, so no point cancelling.
