Sunday Ticket Coming to PS3
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TBone14
DirecTV is partnering with Sony to bring its NFL Sunday Ticket subscription package to the PS3. This means that even if you don’t have DirecTV, you can watch every out-of-market Sunday NFL game.
NFL Sunday Ticket is a sports package that has been exclusive to DirecTV customers until now. Subscribers get access to up to 14 NFL games each Sunday. You can view games in full HD and access DirecTV’s Red Zone Channel for replays and recaps.
PS3 owners who don’t have DirecTV can subscribe to NFL Sunday Ticket for $339.95. The price might sound steep, but it’s only $5 more than what DirecTV charges for the package. Plus PS3 owners don’t have to worry about setting up a dish, which is great for NFL fans who live in houses without a good line of sight to the southwestern sky, or whose buildings or neighborhoods have rules against dish ownership.
Existing DirecTV Sunday Ticket subscribers can get the package on their PS3s for $50 — in essence, turning their PS3 into an additional football receiver. That means you could watch one game on the PS3 in the den, say, and another on the DirecTV box in the living room.
The NFL joins MLB.TV and NHL GameCenter as sports options on the PS3. Major sports leagues are moving away from cable or satellite subscription packages and expanding their digital offerings to devices like the PS3, Xbox 360 and boxes like Roku and Apple TV at an increasing rate. If NBA League Pass shows up on the PS3 for the 2011-2012 season, the console could conceivably replace the cable box for fans of live sports.
Great news here. -
Wooball
Does anyone have either the MLB or NHL package? How do the games stream over the playstation network? -
TigerNation10
Wooball;866167 wrote:Does anyone have either the MLB or NHL package? How do the games stream over the playstation network?
I had the MLB and you just download the MLB.tv "app" from the playstation store. Go to it and put in your info and you're good to go. Just pick what game you want to watch. -
karen lotz
Wooball;866167 wrote:Does anyone have either the MLB or NHL package? How do the games stream over the playstation network?
The picture quality is really good for me on MLB.tv. They had some issues with choppy or blurry picture the first week of the season or so but they updated the app and has been fine since. Every once in a while it will freeze for a couple seconds, but it isn't really an issue to me and is definitely better than not being able to watch at all. -
TBone14
Wooball;866167 wrote:Does anyone have either the MLB or NHL package? How do the games stream over the playstation network?
Have MLB.TV and the app on the PS3. It depends on your connection. I have upgraded internet since my wife works a lot from home and it streams in crisp HD. -
Laley23
Microsoft is really missing out on sports streaming right now. PS3 is killing it. -
derek bomar
TBone14;866151 wrote:DirecTV is partnering with Sony to bring its NFL Sunday Ticket subscription package to the PS3. This means that even if you don’t have DirecTV, you can watch every out-of-market Sunday NFL game.
NFL Sunday Ticket is a sports package that has been exclusive to DirecTV customers until now. Subscribers get access to up to 14 NFL games each Sunday. You can view games in full HD and access DirecTV’s Red Zone Channel for replays and recaps.
PS3 owners who don’t have DirecTV can subscribe to NFL Sunday Ticket for $339.95. The price might sound steep, but it’s only $5 more than what DirecTV charges for the package. Plus PS3 owners don’t have to worry about setting up a dish, which is great for NFL fans who live in houses without a good line of sight to the southwestern sky, or whose buildings or neighborhoods have rules against dish ownership.
Existing DirecTV Sunday Ticket subscribers can get the package on their PS3s for $50 — in essence, turning their PS3 into an additional football receiver. That means you could watch one game on the PS3 in the den, say, and another on the DirecTV box in the living room.
The NFL joins MLB.TV and NHL GameCenter as sports options on the PS3. Major sports leagues are moving away from cable or satellite subscription packages and expanding their digital offerings to devices like the PS3, Xbox 360 and boxes like Roku and Apple TV at an increasing rate. If NBA League Pass shows up on the PS3 for the 2011-2012 season, the console could conceivably replace the cable box for fans of live sports.
Great news here.
you just made my day -
Hb31187
Bring on the ps3 fan boys.
But seriously this is probably the first thing ps3 has that has made me jealous that i own a 360 -
Laley23
Hb31187;866477 wrote:Bring on the ps3 fan boys.
But seriously this is probably the first thing ps3 has that has made me jealous that i own a 360
I know you dont like MLB, so you wouldnt care. But I was pretty pissed they got the MLB Package and 360 didnt. This just makes it that much worse. Fuck. -
Rotinaj
I have a hard time believing anyone without direct tv would even think about getting this. -
justincredible
Too expensive. I always ended up getting it for practically nothing with my DirecTV. -
wes_mantooth
way too expensive....thank god I root for a team in my local market.
You know what kind of hooker i could get for that amount of money??!!! a nice fat and filthy one....god i love crack whores -
SportsAndLady
lol that is wayyyyyy too much money
"Quick! Someone come up with an idea for the NFL; the lockout is over and everyone is dying for football, lets charge almost $400 for all the games!! Yeah!!" -
hoops23
All the sports packages are ridiculously overpriced. Thank god I root for the hometown teams.
Don't get me wrong, I can watch any football game and the package is appealing, but not at that price.
I used te MLB app when it was free for the month of April or whatever. Very good HD picture quality. -
Laley23
SportsAndLady;866833 wrote:lol that is wayyyyyy too much money
"Quick! Someone come up with an idea for the NFL; the lockout is over and everyone is dying for football, lets charge almost $400 for all the games!! Yeah!!"
I mean, DirecTV has been doing it for YEARS with tons of success. Id say the biggest reason people have DirecTV is for the Ticket. I know of 7 different homes in Toledo who switch to DirecTV in September to get the package each year (and they all work for Buckeye Cable) lol. -
hoops23
Hb31187;866477 wrote:Bring on the ps3 fan boys.
But seriously this is probably the first thing ps3 has that has made me jealous that i own a 360
My 360 is better than my PS3 in one area and one area only. Collecting dust. -
Hb31187
hoops23;867175 wrote:My 360 is better than my PS3 in one area and one area only. Collecting dust.
lol congrats -
hoops23
Hb31187;867202 wrote:lol congrats
thanks bro -
hangonsloopy
hoops23;867175 wrote:My 360 is better than my PS3 in one area and one area only. Collecting dust.
+1. Although I wised up years ago and sold my 360. -
justincredible
Laley23;867170 wrote:I mean, DirecTV has been doing it for YEARS with tons of success. Id say the biggest reason people have DirecTV is for the Ticket. I know of 7 different homes in Toledo who switch to DirecTV in September to get the package each year (and they all work for Buckeye Cable) lol.
They are basically giving away Sunday Ticket these days if you have DirecTV. It was the reason I got DirecTV but we are canceling today. I just looked at my bill for the first in a few months and for my $61/mo plan I am paying over $95/mo after all the add-on fees for dvr, hd, and receivers.
If they were charging maybe $200 for the season for Sunday Ticket on the PS3 I'd probably jump on it. -
hangonsloopy
justincredible;867338 wrote:They are basically giving away Sunday Ticket these days if you have DirecTV. It was the reason I got DirecTV but we are canceling today. I just looked at my bill for the first in a few months and for my $61/mo plan I am paying over $95/mo after all the add-on fees for dvr, hd, and receivers.
If they were charging maybe $200 for the season for Sunday Ticket on the PS3 I'd probably jump on it.
How are they giving it away? I've had them for years and it would still cost me $300. -
justincredible
hangonsloopy;867354 wrote:How are they giving it away? I've had them for years and it would still cost me $300.
I got it for $6/mo last season. This ad banner is also floating around: -
Commander of Awesome
I go to a Browns Backers bar, even when I'm back in Cleveland. I like being around fans for games. I bet I don't spend $400 a yr total for food and drinks at the bar, that price is ridiculous. -
justincredible
Commander of Awesome;867363 wrote:I go to a Browns Backers bar, even when I'm back in Cleveland. I like being around fans for games. I bet I don't spend $400 a yr total for food and drinks at the bar, that price is ridiculous.
That's what I did before I had ST and what I'll do this year. There is a bar within walking distance that has ST and cheap beer on Sunday. And their wings are fantastic.