Sunday Ticket Moving to YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime

@Pikes Peak posted:

We lived half way between Madison and Milwaukee.  Depending on the wind and cloud cover we could get both markets.  We had a gizmo that rotated our roof antenna into the correct position to get the best picture.  My dad was a wizard with it. If Milwaukee feed was snowy, hit the rotator and like magic the Madison station would appear.  

It was called a Rotor. We had one.  It had one big dial on its face that you turned like setting a timer then it would click, click, click, click until it pointed where you set it.  I think this was the exact one we had:

Without it we got local cbs, abc and pbs.  With it we were usually able to pull in nbc, depending on atmospheric conditions.

Then my friend's divorced dad got a satellite dish in the 80's.  Before they started scrambling anything.  And his dad was rarely home.  TV was very educational that first summer.

The best was pulling in ONTV Channel 44. Scrambled channel (180⁰ out of phase) but I built the board to tune it in 😁 Early hacking days.

Skinimax!!

@Blair Kiel posted:

We would tell my brother to change the channel…what’s so confusing about that? 😅 I mean, the kid wasn’t too sharp, but he only had 3 channels to manage.

I remember the times my parents would call me to the living room with excitement in their voice: "Tim, come here, hurry!"
Of course, I would rush in, expecting a surprise or gift or something nice, only to be crushed when they would say "turn the channel, will ya?"

The worst of it was it took several times of that happening before I learned...

@Fandame posted:

We had the same thing outside of Dousman, but I was the antenna rotator. It was okay until those cold January days, and the cold and wind chill combined to start popping the external plastic on the windows. I would tell my dad, "Just because it's fuzzy doesn't mean you can't see anything" although it looked like they were playing in a blizzard in Tampa. Yeah, that didn't fly.

Once we lived on a hill and our old farmhouse had a tin roof with lightning rods in about three spots in addition to the tv antenna. Whenever a storm was forecasted, we had to remove the antenna's alligator clips on the back of the tv so lightning wouldn't hit the antenna and blow up the tv. My sister and I were sitting there one day, tv antenna clips undone, when a massive BOOM! hit and in that same instant, a blue ball of lightning (about 10" across) burst out of the antenna clips, rolled around the room, and disappeared. It was there, and then it was gone. After the shock wore off, it became a contest: "YOU go move the clips so they point toward the wall!" "No, YOU do it!" That was some scary crap.

Yeah, Those alligator clips were clothes pins with an attitude. My Dad had an antenna rotator, on the roof, that was controlled by an electric motor, in the house. When a large bank of clouds made its way over the area I lived in, we could get signal bounce from Pocatello, Idaho. The signal would be as good as the signal we received from the Duluth, MN TV stations we had available, in our area.  Fun times, from my childhood. Same went for listening to far off radio stations, late at night. Dad converted a car radio into a table top radio that I'd listen to, later at night. I could pick up KAAY out of Little Rock, Arkansas, clear as a bell. Cheap fun for a kid in northern Wisconsin, in the early to mid 1960's.

Used to listen to this guy playing blues and early rock that could not be heard in GB.

John R.

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Rabbit ears with optional aluminum foil.

@Satori posted:

Cheezers posted a comment about uzzu TV, I looked em up and they seem to have a decent deal and offering, no clue if they deliver

I've had it for just over a year. Great for watching the Bucks and Brewers. Loading the app on a SMRT TV takes a tiny bit of skill. Haven't used it for much else but there's a ton of channels.

@justanotherpackerfan posted:

When we first moved to our current house, CBS still carried the NFC ( circa 1991). The closest (non- Minnesota) CBS was La Crosse.  I put an antenna in our attic that could be aimed it at LaCrosse. Every Sunday I’d climb into the attic and reset the antenna just to get 3 hours of blurry Packer games.

You aren't fooling anyone--you know you still do that.

Got he email today to sign up. Only 2 simultaneous streams? The price is much higher than what I was paying DirecTV and probably need a higher priced internet connection.

@GBFanForLife posted:

Got he email today to sign up. Only 2 simultaneous streams?

YTTV allows 3 simultaneous streams. It's fair. It works.

When I checked their website for the NFLST it says only 2

https://tv.youtube.com/learn/nflsundayticket/

How many streams do I get?

I’ve been able to watch about half of the Packers games live on LA tv. But I expect less national games without Rodgers this season.

I’ve used NFL + for last few years on my Roku. It has all games, shorts and All 22 but it’s not live (unless you watch in market games on your phone 👎). Replay usually available soon after game ends. Shorts, All 22 and full replay with no commercials the following day. I don’t watch early games live so replay works for me.

I think it’s changing this year with “NFL + Premium“ option. Not sure on pricing. Last year it was $80. 2 yrs ago $100.

@GBFanForLife posted:

When I checked their website for the NFLST it says only 2

https://tv.youtube.com/learn/nflsundayticket/

How many streams do I get?

NFL Sunday Ticket can be watched on up to two simultaneous device streams.

I have 2 TV's in Family room. I guess I could tell the wife it's not available on her TV upstairs.

If you were married to Goldie, it wouldn’t be an issue as she’d  be smoking dope and watching Hallmark in the upstairs bedroom.

@GBFanForLife posted:

Got he email today to sign up. Only 2 simultaneous streams? The price is much higher than what I was paying DirecTV and probably need a higher priced internet connection.

Before Direct TV bought the rights to NFL Ticket it was carried by C-Band, the 10-12 foot dish. It was $99 on C-Band. Before NFL Ticket it was free on C-Band. Now the move is to get IPTV and stream it.

I'll listen to Wayne and Larry on my desktop PC.

And at the same time you can monitor the rescue efforts of the Titanic.

The Titanic doesn't need to be rescued. Those are celebratory fireworks. They sure are putting on a show tonight.

$349 ÷ 16 = $21.8125 a game. $149 to watch 1 Thursday night game. The $21.8125 a game goes up substantially depending on how many games are on your local channel. Hopefully the schedule comes out early enough to make a decision on who is getting my money.

They should pay you $21.8125 twice a year to force us to watch da Bears

@GBFanForLife posted:

When I checked their website for the NFLST it says only 2

https://tv.youtube.com/learn/nflsundayticket/

How many streams do I get?

NFL Sunday Ticket can be watched on up to two simultaneous device streams.

YTTV allows three simultaneous streams. Perhaps they're only allowing (2) streams specifically for ST games only and 3rd stream is any other channel that isn't Sunday Ticket. 🤷‍♂️

I have NFI, but I have verified my 3 streams works

@Shadow posted:

The Titanic doesn't need to be rescued. Those are celebratory fireworks. They sure are putting on a show tonight.

And the band is going down a storm too.

@Fedya posted:

I'll listen to Wayne and Larry on my desktop PC.

If you have Goldie over you can listen to Jim and Max.

@Boris posted:

I have NFI, but I have verified my 3 streams works

Your urologist thanks you.

@PackerHawk posted:

If you have Goldie over you can listen to Jim and Max.

  I’ll even bring some to share…….oh and can we make it tomorrow please???  4/20

So we can all expect no posts from Goldie tomorrow?

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@bvan posted:

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In past years, season ticket holders were “gifted” the red zone channel and Sunday ticket - are they offering that again this year?  I haven’t seen any info on it yet and in past it’s come about the time training camp starts.

If anyone else was wondering about this, here is the response from the ticket office:

“We are still waiting for information from the NFL regarding NFL+.  If it is offered, an email will be sent to all season ticketholders.”

Mo money 🤑💰 Mo money 💰🤑 Mo money

I saw a listing that indicated tomorrow’s game will be on YouTube TV.

My Directv guide shows it on the NFL Network alternate channel 212-1 at noon on Saturday

@Blair Kiel posted:

I saw a listing that indicated tomorrow’s game will be on YouTube TV.

My YouTube listing shows it being at 9:00 P.M. Sunday Aug.27.

@PackerHawk posted:

Your urologist thanks you.

It's annoying when part of your pee hole is closed and you get two streams and have to decide which stream goes in the toilet.

@DH13 posted:

It was called a Rotor. We had one.  It had one big dial on its face that you turned like setting a timer then it would click, click, click, click until it pointed where you set it.  I think this was the exact one we had:

Without it we got local cbs, abc and pbs.  With it we were usually able to pull in nbc, depending on atmospheric conditions.

Then my friend's divorced dad got a satellite dish in the 80's.  Before they started scrambling anything.  And his dad was rarely home.  TV was very educational that first summer.

Great blast from the past.  We had one of those too.  I remember my friend and I trying to manipulate the tv to get the Playboy channel.  It came in, but the picture was unwatchable.  It'd come on really fuzzy one second, and then go all wavy the next.  Sure enough, we stayed glued just in case we could catch a glimpse.

@Harry Manback posted:

It's annoying when part of your pee hole is closed and you get two streams and have to decide which stream goes in the toilet.

I thought you were a Sitzpinkler and didn't have that problem.

The first year of NFL Ticket it was $99, I got it on a C-Band dish, and Direct TV had even been heard of. That lasted for only that season with Direct TV getting exclusive rights and it's been downhill ever since.

@Harry Manback posted:

It's annoying when part of your pee hole is closed and you get two streams and have to decide which stream goes in the toilet.

Often, it's neither.  Then you got a cleanup problem.

All this talk of rotors and 10 foot dishes, now just a Roku stick is all you need. Amazing. I remember a bar on 27th street way south of Milwaukee that had a huge antenna tower that got Illinois stations. My dad would drive down there to watch some games. You'd see some houses with really tall antenna towers once in a while.  Stone age stuff now.