Don't have the NFL Network but still want to catch every single pre-season NFL game in HD? Well you finally have an option with NFL Preseason Live. It'll cost you $40 for the over 50 live broadcasts, as well as on demand access, but what is particularly cool is access to either team's radio broadcast (we assume it is synced up to the video) as well as enhancements like Big Play Markers -- whatever that is. If you click through you can get a taste of what it's like by watching last year's Super Bowl, looks good up to 3Mbps. Now before you get all excited about the idea that this is a prelude to regular season games coming to the internet, just hold on there. The pre-season games are night and day when compared to regular season when you're talking licensing rights. While the regular season rights are part of some of the biggest TV deals ever, the pre-season rights are usually sold to local affiliates; which always makes it fun to see the quality of the broadcast with considerably smaller budgets.
posted July 30th 2010 8:54PM
I think we'll be able to catch every Tim Tebow pass on ESPN with his throwing mechanics analyzed to boot, so it's probably safe to pass on this offer.
Uh, yeah... NO. There are at least a couple ways to get this for FREE.
wow, pay to see pre-season? it could be .50 and that would be too much.
Will this have Fullscreen mode when it goes live. The demo didnt seem to have a way to fullscreen the image. Which is a deal breaker. that and the ridiculously high price for exhibition games were all the stars are sitting on the bench so as not to get hurt.
Games played in Europe , a proposed 18 game season , a European expansion team , wanting the super bowl played overseas , and now this . The NFL is america's most popular and richest sports league , yet it's money grubbing commissioner Roger GREEDell never misses a chance to rip fans off to put more money in it's coffers . Coming soon in 2011 a lockout by the owners - supposedly because all the players they give the huge contracts to are making too much preventing them from building new mega stadiums to make even more moola . You can't make this sh*t up !
they want to charge us for this? f*ing ridiculous.
give us regular season games in HD and then we'll talk. in the meantime, im perfectly happy with NFL Red Zone.
Check this out. Almost everything on TV -if you really search- can be watched for free. So, who in the hell will pay for Pre Season games? If you think about it, I guess if they can get us to buy water then we will buy anything. I need to stop being lazy and cancel cable, most of the shows I can get on Netflix, the Internet or iTunes.
@Citybayarea
Yeah , but what's the video quality when put up on a big screen HD tv , in my case a 58'' plasma . Also don't think I could do without the convenience of an HD DVR , especially since I rarely watch shows at the time they are actually aired . But I know what you are saying since as a Cowboy fan in NJ I never miss an unaired game , always finding it online somewhere . Also have recently seen Inception , Kick-Ass , and Grown Ups online .
I'm trying to get rid of preseason tickets and the NFL thinks people want to spend money to watch it onlne.
I would do this if it was the regular season, but oh wait for some reason you need DirecTV to stream games online. I wish the FCC would step in and stop the monopoly that the NFL has setup with DirecTV. My cable provider Cablevision won't even add the NFL network or Redzone until they are allowed to add the Sunday Ticket.
@Proghog
Part of the latest contract with DirecTV stated that they need to establish on online version of Sunday ticket that is available to non-subscribers by 2012. They actually had a streaming package available for manhattan residents last year.
@scyber
Ya they had one for Manhatten because a bunch of rich people complained because DirecTV doesn't work all that well in the city. It shouldn't take them 2 years to create an online version of Sunday Ticket.