Comments on: DirecTV could pull plug on NFL Sunday Ticket

By: kmr2288

kmr2288 — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:28:01 +0000

Red zone sucks you want watch game or what Direct tv been member since 1994. No Sunday Ticket, NFL will suck who want watch NFL rewind game unless it was historic or your team kick ass. Too many games on Thursday night. Too mush of good thing can tarnish your product . NFL keep games on Direct tv.

He’ll I was only person with SB with the 50″ snow in neighborhood in Virginia. Comcast was offline for week. No power to there sub station on TV.
Dawn I just got my Genie, Heather Davis

By: mquinnjr

mquinnjr — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:58:59 +0000

At least Sunday Ticket on DirecTV is truly live and in all-HD glory. ST on PS3 is on a 15 second delay, and has brutal buffering issues. You give the rights to cable carriers who carry only one HD channel of movie channels currently due to bandwidth limitations, and have fun watching ST in standard def.

NO THANK YOU!

By: kmr2288

kmr2288 — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:06:45 +0000

I have been a DirecTV customer since 1994 main reason I got DirecTV for I can watch my Dallas Cowboys play each and every Sunday. I recently have Fios Internet only at my home and if DirecTV cancel Sunday ticket I will change over to the Fios. I watch the price of DirecTV skyrocket because of NFL.

If directv share this with another carrier ala Verizon your customer base would become nonexisting. NFL is asking too much for package but your lost is all carriers gain.

By: blackngold4life

blackngold4life — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:11:53 +0000

Sunday Ticket is the main reason lots of Fokes have Direct TV..and Direct TV is the Main reason ppl stay home or go to the Sports Bars and Not go to games anymore..NFL can’t like that too much

By: jebdamone

jebdamone — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:01:49 +0000

i love NFL sunday ticket and have ordered it the last six years. i will not be ordering it this year but that is mainly b/c i moved back to MN for the first time in 14 years and can watch the vikes every week anyway…and i am still actually considering it just so i can watch the games i want every week. it would be a no brainer if it weren’t so damn expensive.

By: spedman24

spedman24 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:34:58 +0000

You can’t compare Redzone to the Ticket. People that do are either poor or cheap — man up.

By: gabbo34

gabbo34 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:30:19 +0000

A lot of people are missing the point. ST got more and more expensive because the the rate kept going up. It was worth it to DTV because the exclusivity kept many subscribers around. But that equation has changed.

Odds are the NFL also realizes they can probably get more money by selling the package across multiple platforms like very other sport (and potentially even broadband like the NBA/MLB).

DirecTV will likely still carry Sunday Ticket…it just won’t be an exclusive item anymore.

The good news for consumers is the non-exclusive cost will likely be lower.

By: ruslwt001

ruslwt001 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:31:21 +0000

NFL Sunday Ticket is absolutely the ONLY reason I have Directv. When that goes, so do I. I was in the Military for so many years and usually always unable to get my teams games on network TV. The ticket gave me that opportunity. I have been a customer of this service for 10+ years and will not hesitate to cancel and go with whoever can give me my teams games.

By: Sometimes Interesting

Sometimes Interesting — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:14:47 +0000

The NFL should follow the MLS on this one.

MLS offers MLS Live for $60/year. You get full HD Internet streaming of most games, and you get anytime replay access 48 hours after the event.

Imagine watching that game you liked from week 1 whenever you want all season long.

Streams on my phone through their app too.

NFL should do this.

By: rboyett

rboyett — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:03:40 +0000

No NFL Sunday Ticket = No DirecTV in my house. I’ll drop them like a bad habit.

By: therealjr

therealjr — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:12:30 +0000

Let’s be clear, the NFL is the only one doing the gouging. D* makes zip on that package and in fact it’s probably a loss leader for them, which allows them to build their subscriber base. Problem is, NFLST is becoming less valuable as a whole because of what the NFL has done with it’s programming. Cherry picking Sunday night games, then adding Thursdays and worst of all putting 10 games on at 1pm and 3 on at 4pm. Having all the great games spread out makes for the best ratings but it devalues NFLST quite a bit.

Really what they are doing is wising up. They won’t be taken out to the woodshed again by the NFL and they think they can do just fine being a non-exclusive carrier. They’d rather pay a fraction of the money they are now and allow the NFL to spread it around. In the end the NFL does just as well if not better and D* thinks they are better off as well.

People asking for the streaming, get real. Good luck when millions of people are tying to stream games.

As for providers in general, I still prefer D* to Comcast or any other cable provider. FIOS I have seen and is nice but available to about 1% of the country.

By: romoscollarbone

romoscollarbone — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:49:43 +0000

I hope Comcast bids for the Sunday ticket.

By: perfect1972

perfect1972 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:31:03 +0000

And $20 per game? That’s $320 for an entire season without any other games?

Fantasy Football is the main driver behind the Ticket’s popularity. Yeah I get to watch my team but I get to watch my fantasy players too!

By: postaldude2012

postaldude2012 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:30:37 +0000

DirectTV better watch what they are doing or they will lose the last best thing that has ever happened to them, I might be glad to get rid of DirectTV! They have been manipulating the market for years, they better fathom the idea how many customers will dump their ass if they don’t renegotiate their deal!

By: perfect1972

perfect1972 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:28:53 +0000

Agreed @sportsinhd

Listen I’ve had DirecTV for years and anyone saying their customer service is lacking is quite insane.

Every year I call them and they give me the entire full-version Sunday Ticket with all of the options for $150 if I pay it all at once.

Every three months I call and get Showtime for free for three months, sometimes I have to get HBO too but it’s always a great deal.

Anytime I call looking for ways to lower my bill they work with me and always offer me credits equalling $50-$100.

They move my system when I move for free.

When i tell them a rented movie sucks they refund it.

The HD pic is GREAT.

I can control my receivers from my iPad and watch TV on it…

They always give me free receiver upgrades. I paid $200 for the first HD DVR and have received three more for one in each room for no charge.

And 20 minutes ago they agreed to send me the new Genie for free ($49 to install, billed to my account) so with my three DVRs I can record 11 things at one time. Seriously.

And the free 3D programming is great. The On Demand is awesome. HBO on Demand has every episode of every show they ever made (almost).

Name one other provider that does that! DirecTV does and they do it knowing that they are the only ones to have Sunday Ticket and that I would never leave anyway no matter how bad the service because of it!

DIRECTV for LIFE (unless I could no longer pay to watch the Dolphins stink.

By: mikewhorio

mikewhorio — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:27:31 +0000

To those complaining about the cost of Sunday Ticket…you need to call right before the season. I’ve had Sunday Ticket since 1995 and haven’t paid full price in probably 6 years. Just threaten to cancel > get retention > get killer deal (sometimes for free with all the credits) > be happy…

By: melikefootball

melikefootball — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:24:30 +0000

Just another slap in the face to the fans ,that the NFL says they care about. It is bad enough what you have to pay to get the ticket but now the greed of a non paying tax NFL to get more money. To bad we don’t get the product we use to see on the field, with all the fines and suspensions players now care more about the fantasy league than their division wins. I love the game but things are crumpling around the NFL.

By: raidr12

raidr12 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:04:05 +0000

Direct TV was NOT the first system to have NFL Sunday Ticket. It started on the big C band dishes. Direct TV got it in the second half of the next season, only offering 8 games, and eventually got exclusive rights. Made the big dish useless. Just getten the facts straight!

By: sportsinhd

sportsinhd — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:49:10 +0000

If you think you are watching the Red Zone Channel on Comcast or Time Warner cable you are sadly mistaken. Their version of RZ is a sad clone of the original version on DirecTV. You’ve got to have Andrew Siciliano or it’s just not the same.

Surprised to hear about the customer service issues with DirecTV, having had Comcast and other providers in the past, I’ve always found DirecTV to offer far better service. Unlike Comcast they’ve never kept me on hold for four plus hours.

By: mrf47

mrf47 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:00:45 +0000

Out-of-market NFL games on-demand…$20 / game. Here it comes across all major cable providers.

By: broncosfan29

broncosfan29 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:51:18 +0000

you know what i would like to see. instead of paying for the sunday ticket. why not charge per game?

By: americasfan

americasfan — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:43:04 +0000

I’d like to see Sunday Ticket become an iTunes subscription option, to watch games on Apple TV or iDevices.

By: fuzzebear

fuzzebear — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:28:05 +0000

I’m a real football fan and have had the Sunday Ticket since 1997. I have 9 TV’s in my basement with 6 Direct TV recievers and two cable boxes for the two local teams. I have been watching EVERY NFL game this way since 1997 every weekend. No matter who carries the Sunday Ticket in two years I will pay to watch each game…..

By: thetroofishere

thetroofishere — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:19:30 +0000

1. Make the Sunday Ticket Package available via broadband.

2. Make an app for it for SmartTVs and tablets/iPads.

3. Break it down into Division Packages.

4. Charge just $99 for division packages.

Watch the Sunday Ticket explode.

By: officialgame

officialgame — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:17:17 +0000

Good because Comcast uses that bogus exclusive argument to keep me from watching my local Baseball, hockey, and basketball teams.

By: malachiofcourse

malachiofcourse — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:14:57 +0000

every legitimate sports bar in where i live (vegas) has direct tv’s package. i can’t imagine sundays without it to be honest.

By: 4evrnyt

4evrnyt — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:06:57 +0000

For the two dozen or so souls that realistically watch more then 6 games on a Sunday afternoon the price is well worth it but for the rest of us that don’t $200-300 is simply too much money.

By: frankdatank23

frankdatank23 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:02:30 +0000

Squish the dish

By: bangpow

bangpow — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:59:32 +0000

While I’m tired of getting pimped for the Sunday Ticket package, I would still stay with DirecTV if the package was available to more cable providers and the price went down.

I actually think the picture quality on Directv kind of blows Comcast and others out of the water. The only times I have reception issues if there’s some intense cloud cover that makes it look like it’s midnight outside, when in reality it’s only 3 in the afternoon in the summer.

Their regular package pricing is the same as anywhere else too.

By: str8cashhomey

str8cashhomey — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:54:09 +0000

I purchased the Sunday ticket from my ps3 last year….so there’s always that way to get it