NHL Center Ice. More Games in HD through Dish or Directv?
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Hockey fans will want Platinum (if it still exists after 8/1) to get Versus (games generally on Mondays and Tuesdays). If your team is playing on Versus, I don't believe the game is available on CI...
You would think Cablevision would have MSG & MSG+ available in HD for out of market customers,which would force in-market customers to have cablevision if they wanted to watch their favorite local team in HD.
I am an Islanders fan,I'm out of market so no HD but if someday I moved to New York all I would have to do is bring my DTV and change my address and never have to use Cablevision at all.
National broadcasts have broadcast priority over NHL CI feeds of games because they pay for exclusive broadcast rights for national games. So if a game is on NBC, Versus, or the NHL Network you will not be able to watch it on the Center Ice channels.
Being a Wing's fan not living in the Detroit area, the CI Package is the only reason I'm with Dish. If I went to Fios, I wouldn't get nearly as much HD Wing's game.
You have the world's best hockey player living and playing in your backyard and your a Wing's Fan???:rant:
MSG: They are owned by Cablevision Systems. When pigs fly, their HD feeds will end up on satellite. It's used as competitive leverage for Cablevision. (MSNBC is also exclusive to Cablevision in its areas, so cable competitors serving Cablevision areas cannot carry MSNBC.)
Flyers problems: CSN Philly will come when pigs fly. It's "hiding behind a PRISM" (or 33-year-old microwave infrastructure) due to the terrestrial loophole. Even if the FCC investigates, it might be a while. I do want to see it come to an end, though.
Flyers problems: CSN Philly will come when pigs fly. It's "hiding behind a PRISM" (or 33-year-old microwave infrastructure) due to the terrestrial loophole. Even if the FCC investigates, it might be a while. I do want to see it come to an end, though.
I just got my NHL Center Ice renewal notice the new price $163.80 early bird price $40.95 in four installments.
Where do they come up with these amounts? $163.80 what a strange amount you would think that they would round up.
On Time Warner, 90% of the time when the Sabres are playing, they put the Sabres on the SD channel in place of the other games, but they either forget or neglect to black out the MSG HD channel. I've caught quite a few Rangers games this way (not that I really care about them).
When they were on VS, the games were also on VS in the Buffalo market. Of course, I still wish VS took none of our games, I can't stand "DRIVE" and the Crosbyfest that are their announcers.
I was born/raised in the Detroit area. I don't bail on my team because I move out of the area. I'll always be a Wing's fan regardless of where i lay my head.
Raymie,
In our local Monday Paper it was announced MSG is to be spun off from Cablevision as a wholly self owned entity by years end.
I hope this means Dish will be able to get a retransmission for the MSG HD feeds. As now Cablevision was/is the owner the Voom suite of channels. Since Dish and Cablevision are in litigation MSG HD feeds will not be coming to Dish until the disagreement is settled, unless MSG is a seperate entity.
John
Got my letter yesterday in the mail also......does anyone remember what the early bird price was last year ?? I thought it was around $140 or something like that.
I thought it was $159 for the early bird special and $169 for the regular season, but I could be wrong...
Me, too. They are the greatest hockey franchise in the world today. They may not always have the best team (2nd best last year), but they have the classiest organization.
BTW, you mentioned Fios in a prior post. I had thought about going that way too, but found they had only one HD channel per night dedicated to the CI package. And they indicated they had no forseeable plans to increase that...
Me, too. They are the greatest hockey franchise in the world today. They may not always have the best team (2nd best last year), but they have the classiest organization.
BTW, you mentioned Fios in a prior post. I had thought about going that way too, but found they had only one HD channel per night dedicated to the CI package. And they indicated they had no forseeable plans to increase that...
Yea I can't live with not having most Wing's games in HD. So I can't ditch the dish just yet.
