OT: NFL.com PreSeason Package

[NovaScotiaPatsFan]

Plus, unless they've changed things, you get at least all the regular season games from 2010, so you can, for example, watch 45-3 to your heart's content.

Oh I've already got an HD copy of that on the old Hard Drive.

 

[TB146]

They do. It's $29.95 (the 'discounted' price if you have the preseason package) for the regular season, but they're not live. You'd be able to watch all of them after they're over.

I'm thinking about getting this for the regular season, and one concern I have is maintaining my ignorance of the score/result until the game is available to be watched. I read about the "Big Play Markers" on the progress bar while you're watching... does that give anything away? They're not labeled like "Pats TD" or anything like that, right?

On a related note, does anybody know how much it costs to download a game from iTunes? Probably not as good of an option as NFL Game Rewind, but I'm checking different options.

 

[Rossmci90]

Compare that to the $280 us in the UK have to pay for NFL Gamepass which granted has all the games live, apart from the two best games of the week picked by our cable broadcaster which are blocked until the following Saturday. Very prohibitive so it's pirate streams for me.

I think its great personally, the quality is superb and you also get NFL Network which is not available here. Well worth the money for me. Sure it is a fair chunk of change but i love this sport and this team so much that i really don't mind.

I'm thinking about getting this for the regular season, and one concern I have is maintaining my ignorance of the score/result until the game is available to be watched. I read about the "Big Play Markers" on the progress bar while you're watching... does that give anything away? They're not labeled like "Pats TD" or anything like that, right?

On a related note, does anybody know how much it costs to download a game from iTunes? Probably not as good of an option as NFL Game Rewind, but I'm checking different options.

Well from what i've been told, it is exactly the same as GamePass over here. Which means the big play markers are just symbols, for example a triangle for a touchdown (i don't actually know what the symbol for a TD is). Its not team specific and if you don't look at the glossary then you won't know what the symbols represent. You can also turn off the big play markers and hide the scores.

 

[loosebearing]

I've got the GAME PASS, THE PRESEASON LIVE PASS, THE GAME REWIND (off season viewing of all games), and AUDIO PASS.

The AUDIO PASS was the surprise!

You watch the game live on your home tv. Then you can listen to the game on the Patriots radio cast with Gino and Gil. Then you can listen to the game on the other teams radio cast. Hearing the game from the Jets, Dolphins, Colts, etc home broadcasts are great - especially when the Pats crush them. Which happened alot last year.

 

[PatsSox363804]

BTW, if it's sticking you with a low quality stream, what I did was uncheck "best available quality" and manually set it to the highest setting. Worked like a charm- I used my HDMI out to get it playing on my TV, and it looked very sharp, about on par with an HD broadcast.

I'll have to try that Thursday. I used my HDMI port to watch on my tv as well but the quality was definitely not HD. Still better than nothing and well worth the $20.

 

[Rossmci90]

I'll have to try that Thursday. I used my HDMI port to watch on my tv as well but the quality was definitely not HD. Still better than nothing and well worth the $20.

That was likely due to a difference in resolution between your TV and PC.

 

[BradyFTW!]

I'll have to try that Thursday. I used my HDMI port to watch on my tv as well but the quality was definitely not HD. Still better than nothing and well worth the $20.

First, I'd recommend that you make sure that the video quality is manually set to the highest possible (3,000 kbps), then also make sure that your video card is set to display to TV-out if possible. When I do this, it doesn't display to my monitor at all, due to the aforementioned resolution difference.