We don't have a cable TV package with ESPN, but we do have the NFL iphone app that gives live streaming games. Naturally, iPhone + NFL app + digital video camera w/component output + microphone + bass amp + digital television = Rube Goldberg MNF! I should have added duct tape in there somewhere though.
UPDATE: This made the front page of "There I Fixed it!" ! That master's degree is finally paying off.
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How do you have a fancy digital camera
huge TV, an Iphone…but no ESPN?!
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I have all those things...
well minus the iPhone (droid, what?), but don’t have cable.
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by David Taylor on Sep 13, 2011 1:23 PM CDT up reply actions
huh
I suppose…I don’t have anything but a TV and an Xbox but if I had a nicer TV rather than my tiny 10 year old 20 inch I might get cable…then again, I might just get a hdmi cable and hook my laptop up to to my TV and find a feed online
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I suspect that some of the online feeds originate in a similar rig to the one shown above.
But at least that setup doesn’t get dropped. And strictly speaking, it’s legal, since it’s still used in the home for just the iPhone subscribers.
Jay Cutler is our quarterback, baby! Please pass the nitroglycerin tablets.
I just don't watch TV that much.
Besides the Bears, and some random shows on Netflix, I’d rather be doing something else.
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by David Taylor on Sep 13, 2011 2:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Making works of art?
or dropping snarky knowledge on Bears fans at WCG?
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exactly.
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by David Taylor on Sep 13, 2011 2:42 PM CDT up reply actions
One reason I won't get cable is money.
The other reason is that it’s hundreds of channels of pure BS “reality” shows designed to rot the mind, and I refuse to be coerced into supporting that crap financially just to get Monday Night Football.
Jay Cutler is our quarterback, baby! Please pass the nitroglycerin tablets.
by juperee on Sep 13, 2011 1:52 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I get that
I wish I could just buy the Travel Channel, Food Network, NBATV, TNT, ESPN, NFLN and FX…I’d be set
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If cable came a la carte,
I’d be all for it.
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by David Taylor on Sep 13, 2011 2:43 PM CDT up reply actions
These days, there's no technical reason not to make it a la carte.
Jay Cutler is our quarterback, baby! Please pass the nitroglycerin tablets.
Exactly.
HBO already offers online streaming to it’s subscribers (for free). NFL Ticket does the same thing to it’s DTV buyers. If either of those offered a pay for online streaming service, I’d do it. I just don’t understand why I have to pay for a thousand channels of crap to watch the few channels / shows I do like.
If it was offered that way, I would gladly pay their cost. But it isn’t, so I watch streamed games.
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by David Taylor on Sep 13, 2011 2:51 PM CDT up reply actions
They know full well that the only way to sell that other crap is to hold ESPN / NFL network hostage
It’s like Rachel’s father making Jacob marry her ugly sister Leah before he could have Rachel too.
Or making you buy the whole crappy album for the one decent single. But in that case, the music industry was eventually transformed by mass refusal to comply. And now, most people are happy to pay 99 cents for a song they like, whereas they previously would copy illegally.
NFL/ESPN/cable companies would be wise to heed that example.
Jay Cutler is our quarterback, baby! Please pass the nitroglycerin tablets.
I think with stuff like Netflix
Hulu and ESPN on XBox…a la carte style cable isn’t to terribly far away
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I should clarify
when i say “holding ESPN/NFL network hostage”, I don’t mean that they are the victims; au contraire, they are some of the heavy handed dinosaurs trying to keep the old system afloat. But they hold the content we want as a prize we can only get if we agree to the crazy demands of subscribing to Lifetime also.
Jay Cutler is our quarterback, baby! Please pass the nitroglycerin tablets.
definitely
Disney isn’t going to let anyone carry espn if they dont also carry abc, disney channel, lifetime, history channel, a&e.. and so on..
and ya know
a&e is part owned by nbc universal, so you also have to carry usa net, anc, cnbc, telemundo, bravo, versus, e!, syfy, the weather channel.. and so on….
Exactly
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
by GriggsBriggs on Sep 13, 2011 4:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah
Just like the award winning programs of HBO, AMC, FX, and others.
I hate when people automatically put down tv. It’s not different than other medium. There’s some shit, and there’s some quality. Just ignore the shit.
Took the 'G' out your waffle, all you got left is your Ego.
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But there's shit everywhere!
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exactly
You can’t complain about TV, but yet totally ignore all the hyperbole on the Enet
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by suckmyditka on Sep 14, 2011 10:17 AM CDT up reply actions
With the amount cable charges each month...
I can spend that money on the DVD sets of the shows I would watch and still come out ahead. With Netflix and Hulu, the only reason to have cable is to live stream events, and most of those can be streamed via… other means.
When you go to somebody's house, you don't crap on their floor. Being a fan of one team does NOT give you license to be a dick to fans of another.
Corollary: When people are visiting your house and behaving themselves, them being a fan of a different team is NOT a reason for you to piss in their beer.
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by Robert Rence on Sep 14, 2011 11:55 AM CDT up reply actions
nice
Whenever Mike Ditka boards an aircraft, it changes its call sign to Bear Force One.
by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Sep 13, 2011 1:03 PM CDT reply actions
It's a cheapie of some sort
My husband has more guitar & bass rigs than i can count, and sometimes the Craigslist ones come with random accessories, including this Radioshack PoS microphone.
We needed something to boost the sound from the iPhone, and I didn’t have a 1/8th inch input jack on the TV, so the fastest workaround we could come up with was the little practice amp and a mike with a 1/4 inch jack. Worked great!
Jay Cutler is our quarterback, baby! Please pass the nitroglycerin tablets.
Why not just get this?
It’s a component video cable for an iPhone.
Took the 'G' out your waffle, all you got left is your Ego.
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Ha! I thought the same thing at first
And it IS pretty awesome to stream things out of the iPhone onto the TV. I have the version of the cable that goes iPhone to HDMI (vs iPhone to component/composite, as you show there in the pic).
The big problem is, the iPhone doesn’t automatically send video out on everything on the iPhone screen. It’s up to the individual program or app. So Youtube sends out over the cable you show, and videos & photos you take yourself have A/V send, as do several other programs. But the NFL app is a No Go for video out from iPhone/iPad/iFML
Presumably, NFL is trying to avoid some obscure sports bar from shirking its subscription to cable in favor of an iPhone broadcast to the masses. I’m sure that would financially cripple the Nuffle.
Hence the epic kludge shown above.
Jay Cutler is our quarterback, baby! Please pass the nitroglycerin tablets.
Classic!
I would love to see cable “a la carte” as well. Unfortunately, the prospect of this as being “cheaper” than bundles is likely untrue.
"More cowbell" - Bruce Dickinson; "More bell cow" - Lovie Smith
For some, maybe.
For me, it absolutely would.
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by David Taylor on Sep 14, 2011 11:01 AM CDT up reply actions
And that's the point.
You only pay for what YOU watch. If you want 200 channels, you pay more than someone who only wants 10 channels. #FairCableBill2011
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by David Taylor on Sep 14, 2011 11:03 AM CDT up reply actions
Great in theory.
Ideally, all customers would have access to virtually all programming and, like pay-per-view, be billed for what they actually watched. But therein lies the catch: Which is going to cost more, one live NFL game or one re-run of Three’s Company? There will always be premium content that carries a premium price-tag.
Additionally, programming is supported with advertising dollars. “Cash for Gold” needs Three’s Company re-runs and vice-versa.
The reality is that consumers like “value”, and the bundle is considered a value. Ever try to buy just one article from a magazine? You, like others here, are savvy consumers and are very selective about how you spend your leisure time. Most aren’t and the powers that be are well aware that.
I’m still trying to figure out why I have to pay for the service and the programming and still have to watch commercials.
"More cowbell" - Bruce Dickinson; "More bell cow" - Lovie Smith
I think he means
You buy certain channels.
I.e…Fox, NFLN, ESPN ect ect
Not individual shows.
"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - Colonel Sanders
It's all about THE []_[] baby!!!
~"Smile when u being attacked,laugh when they talking boutcha,wave when they hating on u and Pray when they leave u alone Somethings wrong!"~ Deion Sanders
At least FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER before you judge me fool
by suckmyditka on Sep 14, 2011 12:01 PM CDT up reply actions
There's peanut butter in my chocolate!
"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - Colonel Sanders
It's all about THE []_[] baby!!!
~"Smile when u being attacked,laugh when they talking boutcha,wave when they hating on u and Pray when they leave u alone Somethings wrong!"~ Deion Sanders
At least FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER before you judge me fool
by suckmyditka on Sep 14, 2011 3:07 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I love this place
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I want the Nutella option
Congress shall make no law respecting selection of yummy nut/legume based sandwich spread.
That is how we know God has blessed this nation.
Jay Cutler is our quarterback, baby! Please pass the nitroglycerin tablets.
What SMD said.
And the cable companies could still offer “value” by providing different bundle options to the users that want them.
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by David Taylor on Sep 14, 2011 12:11 PM CDT up reply actions
I see.
Look out for the “I want to select my channels a la carte” additional fee.
"More cowbell" - Bruce Dickinson; "More bell cow" - Lovie Smith
Your service and the programming are paid to the cable company.
Who licenses with the network. The network gets the revenues from the vast majority of the advertising, and uses that, (partially) to fund the project being delivered.
Took the 'G' out your waffle, all you got left is your Ego.
Writer at windycitygridiron.com | @KDoggers
Yes.
So we can pay for better reception of channels that we don’t watch.
What further aggravates me is the teaser and recap portions of a program.
I was referencing the days of “free” TV and rabbit ears, or rabid deers, where we draped wire over the aluminum foil covered antlers on the heads of wall mounted game. The signal would be so strong as to cause the mouth of the animal to foam, thus the rabid part. But I digress.
"More cowbell" - Bruce Dickinson; "More bell cow" - Lovie Smith
Television was never "free"
You invested your time to watch the programs who were sponsored by advertisements.
You weren’t paying money—but you were still paying.
Took the 'G' out your waffle, all you got left is your Ego.
Writer at windycitygridiron.com | @KDoggers
Advertising arguments aside, that's impressive.
"With all due respect, and I mean with ALL due respect...that idea ain't worth a velvet paintin' of a whale and a dolphin gettin' it on."
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