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League Pass on Time Warner has one channel in HD. They definitely favor certain announcers. Usually get Raptors feed only once or twice per month.
I've had NBA LP on Comcast the last couple of years (I'm in NJ), and pretty much watched every game. They did not offer any of the games in HD though (not even NBA tv).
I switched to Dish a couple months ago, and don't ask how but I'm already subscribed for the next season. I can tell you right now channels 560-572 all have both SD and HD, and the same goes for all the Fox Sports networks. I'm sure blackout rules still apply, but I'm pretty excited to see how many games in HD they're gonna show this season.
I'm using the eastern arc setup. I'm not sure if it's any different if you're using the western satellites.
League Pass on Time Warner has one channel in HD. They definitely favor certain announcers. Usually get Raptors feed only once or twice per month.
I bought NBA League Pass in Austin (Time Warner Cable) when I figured out that the Spurs were NOT blacked out, despite TWC saying they were.
The first week or two are free, and if you sign up during that period, you get the early bird discount (like $20).
It seems to differ by carrier how much you get in HD. Here, we had one HD channel that would carry one HD game (usually) per night.
You also get NBA League Pass Broadband for free. I had to enter my TWC account number on some web page and it took them about a week to validate it and turn on my service.
I found that the service itself was OK. However the blackout determination was really screwed up for me. It wanted to black out all kinds of games nowhere near where I lived (like Indiana games for some reason). It does require a reasonable amount of available bandwidth (over a megabit if I recall correctly), so it doesn't work well in a lot of hotel rooms.
If you want to wait until the all-star break they have another free week and offer a lower-cost second-half option.
IM from northern California and I have Direct Tv with DVR HD receiver. Last season was awesome for me, I got to record all the Spurs games and most of them are on HD. I say about 70% of NBA games last season have HD broadcast.
I've been on Dish for years and had both Cable and Direct. The first year we got Finley I went ahead and got the full season League Pass. The next year I may have had the half season, and fell off after that. You absolutely have to have a DVR to get the max benefit. The Dish DVR also has a very nice skip forward button that is perfect for football games. You hit skip right when the tackle occurs, and it goes right before the next snap when teams are not running the no-huddle. I can watch a full NFL or college game in less than an hour. For NBA games, always nice to skip the free throw shooting, timeouts, and halftime. When I am really in a hurry, I will even 4x speed the point guard dribbling the ball upcourt. Yeah, I know, pretty sick. I rarely watch anything live, normally I lag and get chores done or whatever, then catch up while in progress.
I have not seen a similar skip button for Direct or cable DVRs. Cable basically sucks, and Direct is more expensive than Dish who gives you just as many features if not more. My take from someone who has had all 3.
Im wondering if League Pass will allow you to have the capabiility to watch games on you iphone similar to what MLB does with its At-bat app?
At this time, there is no NBA streaming app for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
You could probably find a way to do it through another streaming video app, but the quality and reliability will be similar to if you searched for a feed at your computer.
The games shown on the TV of your country aren't shown on NBALP International.
Did anyone else see some of the new features for League Pass they supposedly have?
1) Early bird is now $163.80, not a huge difference but a little cheaper
2) There will now be a "Mosaic" channel. You can watch all games airing on League Pass at once.
3) Dual feeds now. You can choose which announcers you want to listen to.
All of those are pretty cool, especially the Dual Feeds.
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