All I want is to be able to watch every Detroit Red Wings game all season long and playoffs. My options are thus:
1) Go to a virus-ridden website for free streaming. Free but unreliable and low quality 2) NHL GameCenter Live subscription. Great HD quality and reliable but $$$/yr. and they only let you watch away games, because they have content deals with cable companies that specify exclusive broadcast rights. So they don't wanna step on the toes of your local cable co. and so they'll only show you away games. FFS it's the NHL itself, you would have thought they could strike a deal. 3) Pay for cable all season/playoffs long. $$$$$$/yr. and great quality and reliable, but they can't just let you order the one sports channel (Fox Sports Detroit) that shows all the hockey games. They make you buy a stinkin' package full of channels you don't want.
It's pretty terrible. You'd think someone would have come up with a solution, since there's a clear desire. --- "You can't keep throwing people at your problems, dear." - Emma Frost to Colossus ~Jacehan~
Keep in mind that you can't really buy cable (in my experience at least) for the length of a season/playoffs. Here it's a two year contract and they're the worst. They are seriously just the worst.
You could go to a sports bar? I understand that lots of people do that. (And if they're day-games you could totally bring the kids and enjoy an appetizer sampler.) --- Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both. -Mimir
Also you could run a linux partition that you blow away every couple of weeks for the purposes of visiting disease-ridden websites. I had a laptop that basically only ran on a uBuntu boot disk and it represented a new kind of freedom.
Ed. And for the record there are numerous examples of perfectly legal applications for this, for example visiting wikia.com or looking up lyrics*.
*http://arfer.net/pms/topics/65398905 --- Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both. -Mimir
Sports bar is your best bet. The reason you can't see home games on your NHL subscription is probably because they're all blacked out, besides the station that hosts them (which I'm guessing is NBC Sports, but could be another channel similiar to MSG (home of the NY Rangers and Knicks). Even national channels have to put up with this.
If the Knicks are playing a national game on ABC, but MSG has the rights to the game, it will be "blacked out" on ABC, but the game will still be shown on MSG. However, this is only in the home market. If you're out of the market, you'll be able to see the game. --- Well, there is a new accent of n00b language. It's called: Vet LUEser goes Foreign!-MegaSpy22 Those must be the pants of the gods!-Digitalpython