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NFL RedZone channel (1 Viewer)

Meh. I watched about an hour of it. I'd rather watch a game, just about any game. I would not have watched it over a good 1 p..m. game (we got Giants-Chiefs) and would not have watched over either 4 p.m. game (Saints and Broncos).

 
I switched it on the freeview on Comcast at 1PM and didn't move it until it went off the air. I had Sunday Ticket for 8 years until this year. I don't know what package I have to get on Comcast or how much it is, but I think it's going to be well worth whatever I'm going to pay.

 
SteevieG said:
I switched it on the freeview on Comcast at 1PM and didn't move it until it went off the air. I had Sunday Ticket for 8 years until this year. I don't know what package I have to get on Comcast or how much it is, but I think it's going to be well worth whatever I'm going to pay.
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the Comcast deal is pretty decentorder NFLNetwork in the Sports Package (I think I pay $5.99/mo) and RedZone is free

Channel 734 in Baltimore---I watch the Raven game 1 o'clock and switch during the commercials, then move over to RZ for the 4 o'clock games

you get to see all the earlier TD's, and large chunks of each 4PM game, as if you had The Ticket

I was close to switching to DTV and Sunday Ticket---I waited to see what RZ was like, and I'll keep the $300/yr that The Ticket cost

waayyyy happy w/RedZone!

 
ravnzfan said:
SteevieG said:
I switched it on the freeview on Comcast at 1PM and didn't move it until it went off the air. I had Sunday Ticket for 8 years until this year. I don't know what package I have to get on Comcast or how much it is, but I think it's going to be well worth whatever I'm going to pay.
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the Comcast deal is pretty decentorder NFLNetwork in the Sports Package (I think I pay $5.99/mo) and RedZone is free

Channel 734 in Baltimore---I watch the Raven game 1 o'clock and switch during the commercials, then move over to RZ for the 4 o'clock games

you get to see all the earlier TD's, and large chunks of each 4PM game, as if you had The Ticket

I was close to switching to DTV and Sunday Ticket---I waited to see what RZ was like, and I'll keep the $300/yr that The Ticket cost

waayyyy happy w/RedZone!
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I already get the NFL Network with my package but not the RZ. Strange.
 
Although I still have DTV Sunday Ticket, I do really like the RZ.

While I will rarely watch it consistently in lieu of a game, it is a great tool for dialing into games at key times. In past years if there wasn't one game that would I want to "lock on to" (i.e, watch, except for commercials) I would surf around a bunch of games and it would be somewhat "random" as to what game I'd pause on or get hooked to or simply need to give my fingers a rest. Now I use the RZ as my alternate channel (i.e., the channel that I put on during commercials, or sometimes even in between plays, or when I'm in the mood to bail on whatever game that I've been watching), it makes the decision and process much easier to find a new game that I want to switch over to without changing channels so frequently.

Anyway, it may seem like a minor enhancement but I really like having the new RZ along with Sunday Ticket.

Btw, I would expect the "stand-alone" cost of RZ to increase significantly in future years, especially to the extent that "market research" determines that it anyway is cannibalizing Sunday Ticket revenue.

 
Kind of a dumb question but when do the hosts get a chance to run to the restroom. They are on air for about 8 hours straight, right? Are they pissing in a bottle under the desk?

 
u999spf said:
Kind of a dumb question but when do the hosts get a chance to run to the restroom. They are on air for about 8 hours straight, right? Are they pissing in a bottle under the desk?
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There are long periods without host involvement, plenty of time. I do have one small gripe, after most of the games return from halftime the channel still shows highlights for a few minutes. I would rather see continuous action, not highlights. I guess they do this to bring people up to speed. Amazing channel regardless, but I could do without highlights until after the 4pm games EST. Oh, and forget switching channels to RZ during commercials, get two TVs side by side. One with the Jets, one with the RZ.
 
u999spf said:
Kind of a dumb question but when do the hosts get a chance to run to the restroom. They are on air for about 8 hours straight, right? Are they pissing in a bottle under the desk?
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The only thing I hate about this channel is I don't know when to take a piss.
 
RedZone Channel is awesome! Best way to watch games on Sunday.

One major criticism is that they seem to like to break to commentary and highlights with Andrew Siciliano (DirecTV version) even when there are games going on. For example around halftime, they break for 20 minutes to give us highlights on the morning games. I just watched the morning games on RedZone Channel, why do I need highlights on the last 2 hours? It's like sportscenter having a hightlights of their highlights halfway through the show.

Get rid of the studio commentary and only show live games.

Also, it would be useful to have Game Mix to have 1 of the 8 screens dedicated to RedZone channel, so I can see if I want to switch to RedZone or not when I'm in Game Mix channel. They do this in the afternoon when there are less games, but especially when they're "cutting to the studio to watch highlights or get commentary" I want to know when the Red Zone channel goes back to real games.

 
As much as I would hate for it to happen, I can't see the RedZone channel not going up in price next season. They keep raising the Sunday Ticket price every year and people are willing to pay, so what about RedZone? What if they make it $5 a week pay-per-view? $10?

 
malice said:
As much as I would hate for it to happen, I can't see the RedZone channel not going up in price next season. They keep raising the Sunday Ticket price every year and people are willing to pay, so what about RedZone? What if they make it $5 a week pay-per-view? $10?
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And I would gladly pay it....
 
NFL needs to do a better job on going mobile - whether it be video feeds, audio feeds or game tracker.

I have an iTouch and I paid $10 for mlb.com app for the iTouch. It was by far my favorite app during the baseball season. I had audio (home and away) for every game while I followed the internet style 'gamecast'. I could also buy the video feed for $1.99 per game ala cart. They also had free live video feeds for select games each day - not sure how long that would continue. It was an awesome app - links to everything I needed to know when I needed to know it - news/rosters/stats/etc.

And last year the play-offs were free with multiple camera angles to select from for each play-off game. This was offerred in this way because tv rights (contract verbage) indicated the could nto stream the television broadcast.

I really wish the NFL would build an app just like it.

 
vinwinephans said:
NFL needs to do a better job on going mobile - whether it be video feeds, audio feeds or game tracker.I have an iTouch and I paid $10 for mlb.com app for the iTouch. It was by far my favorite app during the baseball season. I had audio (home and away) for every game while I followed the internet style 'gamecast'. I could also buy the video feed for $1.99 per game ala cart. They also had free live video feeds for select games each day - not sure how long that would continue. It was an awesome app - links to everything I needed to know when I needed to know it - news/rosters/stats/etc. And last year the play-offs were free with multiple camera angles to select from for each play-off game. This was offerred in this way because tv rights (contract verbage) indicated the could nto stream the television broadcast.I really wish the NFL would build an app just like it.
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Sprint has an NFL Mobile app.I used it to listen to audio when I was out and about.Worked pretty well.I did not do much else with it but believe you could access stats and stuff pretty easily as well.
 
malice said:
As much as I would hate for it to happen, I can't see the RedZone channel not going up in price next season. They keep raising the Sunday Ticket price every year and people are willing to pay, so what about RedZone? What if they make it $5 a week pay-per-view? $10?
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No way it goes up that much. There aren't that many fantasy footballers out there that don't already have Direct TV, or go to the sports bar. And those are the only people that'd pay that price.
 
massraider said:
malice said:
As much as I would hate for it to happen, I can't see the RedZone channel not going up in price next season. They keep raising the Sunday Ticket price every year and people are willing to pay, so what about RedZone? What if they make it $5 a week pay-per-view? $10?
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No way it goes up that much. There aren't that many fantasy footballers out there that don't already have Direct TV, or go to the sports bar. And those are the only people that'd pay that price.
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I would agree if it wasn't for the fact that it's all the action of football without the commercials or timeouts. Even the casual fan would appreciate that. Plus I would be shocked if the introduction of RedZone didn't cut into the Sunday Ticket numbers.
 
malice said:
massraider said:
malice said:
As much as I would hate for it to happen, I can't see the RedZone channel not going up in price next season. They keep raising the Sunday Ticket price every year and people are willing to pay, so what about RedZone? What if they make it $5 a week pay-per-view? $10?
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No way it goes up that much. There aren't that many fantasy footballers out there that don't already have Direct TV, or go to the sports bar. And those are the only people that'd pay that price.
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I would agree if it wasn't for the fact that it's all the action of football without the commercials or timeouts. Even the casual fan would appreciate that. Plus I would be shocked if the introduction of RedZone didn't cut into the Sunday Ticket numbers.
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I'd drop the Sunday ticket and just watch redzone if Direct TV does that. No time outs, reviews, commercials, best channel evar!
 
joeski said:
malice said:
massraider said:
malice said:
As much as I would hate for it to happen, I can't see the RedZone channel not going up in price next season. They keep raising the Sunday Ticket price every year and people are willing to pay, so what about RedZone? What if they make it $5 a week pay-per-view? $10?
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No way it goes up that much. There aren't that many fantasy footballers out there that don't already have Direct TV, or go to the sports bar. And those are the only people that'd pay that price.
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I would agree if it wasn't for the fact that it's all the action of football without the commercials or timeouts. Even the casual fan would appreciate that. Plus I would be shocked if the introduction of RedZone didn't cut into the Sunday Ticket numbers.
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I'd drop the Sunday ticket and just watch redzone if Direct TV does that. No time outs, reviews, commercials, best channel evar!
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Comcast includes it in their digital "sports package" of the NFL-NHL-NBA-MLB stations.
 
Interesting thing from the Owners meetings too is Goodell talked about wanting to make the games more enjoyable live to make it worth the $$$ spent to go to a game...and talked about possibly showing redzone like feeds in stadium. Would be pretty damn cool to have.

 
I went to a Cowboy game at the new stadium when I was visiting Dallas and they had the Redzone playing on huge screens all around the outside bar area. It was pretty awesome.

 
jackdubl said:
I went to a Cowboy game at the new stadium when I was visiting Dallas and they had the Redzone playing on huge screens all around the outside bar area. It was pretty awesome.
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They should all do that. The one thing I hate about going to games is that they act like nobody cares about any other game other than the scores.
 
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I'd drop the Sunday ticket and just watch redzone if Direct TV does that. No time outs, reviews, commercials, best channel evar!

I would also be curious to know if direct tv does this because I think I'm very close to canceling my Sunday ticket and just going to the local sports bar to watch games when my team isn't on.

 
If I'm not mistaken with DirecTV it's either Sunday Ticket w/ HD and you get their RZC or you get squadoosh. Pretty sure even if the NFL Network has it, it's blocked out on DirecTV.

The extra $$ for ST and the need to finally step up for HD has me seriously considering the move to Comcast or Dish Network. The "New Customer" deals are pretty enticing.

Anyone know how long I need to be off DTV's books to go back as a "New customer" with them?

 
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