been wanting to drop cable (I have Uverse 450), it's getting very pricey. I mostly watch streaming anyway... I have netflix and amazon prime.
The only thing holding me back is spurs games.
I'm not sure how to watch, or what I need to stream fox sports sw spurs games on my TV. I don't want delayed streaming from FSSW, and if I get NBA TV, won't spurs be blocked since I live in S.A. ?
and I don't want to watch games on my computer.
the NBA League Pass is bs with the regional , it's why I never renewed.
Harlem is always talking about a site called BallSack or BallStreams, something like that. that might be able to work on multiple devices like League Pass, it's something I'm considering.
You can buy a single team NBA league pass for $120. I AirPlay Kings games from my phone to my appletv to my tv.
ETA: not sure about blackout rules since you are local
Couldn't you pay someone out of the region to buy it and you use the login info?
never thought of that. i suppose there are ways to mask the IP, use a proxy or some to make it from another region. you can watch the games afterwards just not live if you're in the blackout area.
You can catch almost everything off the Reddit nba section, lots of streaming links
I'm in the same boat as you. If you want to see your Spurs games in HD, you're stuck with cable/satellite service. The ty streams online aint cutting it for me.
Thanks. I use the frontrow site, but I like to catch games later sometimes so that's where BallStream or League Pass are worth it imo.
I think ballstreams is still closed to new users because their billing systems are hosed according to my roommate. He used it last year
A la carte channels seem to be just around the corner. In the meantime you could cut back to U200 or see what bundles TWC has with standard cable. Can check to see if Grande is in your area as well. The one good thing about TWC is you can just drop the video when the season is over. They are testing a sling-like service in NY that uses Rokus and requires no regular cable boxes at all.
A la carte Fox Sports SW and DirecTV can GTFO... Need true a la carte channels, not this stupid sign in through your provider crap.
I remember the days where we had tricked out cable boxes to get every single channel and PPV.
ing Digital Age ed things up.
Ballstreams is HD, but they are having trouble with their payment system right now, so you can't sign up for it at the moment
What services do you currently have and about how much do you pay? I dropped a bunch of recently and seem to have more now than before, even though I lost HBO and Showtime. I will have to catch up on GoT and some other I was watching one day. I went from close to 300 a month to about 150.00. I have the highest speed non-business connection available because I prefer to spend my money on what I use the most. I can do damn near anything online that I can do with cable television anyhow. The Spurs games are about the only thing I will watch on TWC, but now and again I catch some On Demand programming.
I don't know that watching a few games a month is worth the extra money, but you cannot do a lot of customizing due to packaging of the products. But yeah, Smart TV makes movie watching on Cable (or even DVD) a thing of the past. Some people complain that the resolution isn't as good but for me it's great, and I don't get any connection issues. I've tried the streaming from this or that "free" site and it's not worth the bull tbh.
I'm hesitant on paying or committing to some shady grey market service.
Trouble with payment system aka FBI frozen
Have you considered HBO Go or whatever it's called?
You can open a ticket and pay them with PayPal, but it takes a few weeks
That's about what I'm paying now and I'm considering cutting cable alltogether and then put some of that extra money on more speed.
Currently I'm getting 50mb down and 26 up. Not bad but, I download a ton of tv shows and movies so I could do with more faster speeds.
I'm not as worried about missing a game of any kind live because that's easily found on the net these days.
having to climb Mt. Everest to give a company my cash. That site is good as gone.
I pay $70 for my cable through Grande in Austin, it's very fast. I have Amazon prime, which I share with some close friends/family, Netflix and HBO now but I don't really watch too much stuff omit even though I have a fire stick I got for $39. One of the people I share prime with lets me use their directv login for fox sports 1 and ESPN or whatever else the login works for. Other than that I watch college/nfl OTA. I cut able 2 and a half years ago.
Fwiw, I completely agree with you on this. I've just been using my buddy's login for the fssw app and Chromecasting it to my tv
Are you talking about the boxes you could pop open and tune in the channels yourself? That was the . The Jerrold cable box iirc.I remember the days where we had tricked out cable boxes to get every single channel and PPV.
ing Digital Age ed things up.
I had a descrambler box from 97-99 or so it was great. Free cable through apartment and all channels, ordered it off some website can't remember
Not that I can remember.
These illegal boxes came with a chip that allowed for viewing all the channels from the cable company. You would buy it from the shady guy for say 150 and replace it with the one the company gives you. Worked great until they started zapping the boxes with what they call "electronic bullets."
Had one too. Wrestling and boxing PPV's and all the porn a young rookie could HANDle
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