Sunday Ticket and PS3

[skinsguy]

I don't see any benefit to this. You still have to shell out a king's ransom for the Sunday Ticket, then they make you pay out an extra $50 just to play it on your PS3? And then, I suppose it's streaming through your internet hook of your PS3, which means that HD picture is eating up a lot of bandwidth. Maybe I'm wrong on that, I don't know.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by skinsguy

I don't see any benefit to this. You still have to shell out a king's ransom for the Sunday Ticket, then they make you pay out an extra $50 just to play it on your PS3? And then, I suppose it's streaming through your internet hook of your PS3, which means that HD picture is eating up a lot of bandwidth. Maybe I'm wrong on that, I don't know.

If you can't have a dish (not a good signal, apartment building won't allow it, etc), this is beneficial. And it targets cord-cutters. Those aren't usually sports fans, but this protects against that to an extent.

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

If you can't have a dish (not a good signal, apartment building won't allow it, etc), this is beneficial. And it targets cord-cutters. Those aren't usually sports fans, but this protects against that to an extent.

OK, so you don't need the dish for this content, but you do still have to pay for the NFL Sunday Ticket. I'm not sure how successful this would be if it is targeting the cord-cutters, since their #1 objective is to get their entertainment for free. Now, if they were offering this for just the $50, I would have jumped on this and not hooked back up to DirecTV.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by skinsguy

OK, so you don't need the dish for this content, but you do still have to pay for the NFL Sunday Ticket. I'm not sure how successful this would be if it is targeting the cord-cutters, since their #1 objective is to get their entertainment for free. Now, if they were offering this for just the $50, I would have jumped on this and not hooked back up to DirecTV.

Shoot, if I could have the Ticket for $50, I'd happily switch to Directv.

SS, since you are into internet sports marketing, I have to give a shout for all of us who simply cannot afford Sunday Ticket. Even if I could afford it, it would be kind of a waste, since you can't watch all of EVERY game.

Instead it would be great if there were an a la carte model where I could pay to stream the games that I want. If I ended up paying $80 a year on the a la carte model, I'd go for it. And that is $80 a year that providers would have, whereas now they get nothing from me because $335 is just too expensive.

I realize that there are real knots in this suggestion, such as Directv's contract. But $80 a year from many consumers may end up financially outweighing $335 a year from fewer consumers.

I'm sure that you've approached all of this before because internet marketing is what you do. I just wanted to take the opportunity to cast a vote for the little guy.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Shoot, if I could have the Ticket for $50, I'd happily switch to Directv.

SS, since you are into internet sports marketing, I have to give a shout for all of us who simply cannot afford Sunday Ticket. Even if I could afford it, it would be kind of a waste, since you can't watch all of EVERY game.

Instead it would be great if there were an a la carte model where I could pay to stream the games that I want. If I ended up paying $80 a year on the a la carte model, I'd go for it. And that is $80 a year that providers would have, whereas now they get nothing from me because $335 is just too expensive.

I realize that there are real knots in this suggestion, such as Directv's contract. But $80 a year from many consumers may end up financially outweighing $335 a year from fewer consumers.

I'm sure that you've approached all of this before because internet marketing is what you do. I just wanted to take the opportunity to cast a vote for the little guy.

I think the a la carte is a great idea too but I am also positive someone at DTV has crunched those numbers and it is more profitably for DTV to sell it in whole year packages.

You can cry it is $335 but obviously the market can bear it thus why they charge that much. I can cry a new Lexus cost $75k but that doesn't make it criminal or wrong I just simply can't afford that car, much like you can't afford $335 for the Ticket.

For the record I won't waste $335 on the Ticket but then again I live in the DC market and see ever game I know it is different for others.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Shoot, if I could have the Ticket for $50, I'd happily switch to Directv.

SS, since you are into internet sports marketing, I have to give a shout for all of us who simply cannot afford Sunday Ticket. Even if I could afford it, it would be kind of a waste, since you can't watch all of EVERY game.

Instead it would be great if there were an a la carte model where I could pay to stream the games that I want. If I ended up paying $80 a year on the a la carte model, I'd go for it. And that is $80 a year that providers would have, whereas now they get nothing from me because $335 is just too expensive.

I realize that there are real knots in this suggestion, such as Directv's contract. But $80 a year from many consumers may end up financially outweighing $335 a year from fewer consumers.

I'm sure that you've approached all of this before because internet marketing is what you do. I just wanted to take the opportunity to cast a vote for the little guy.

As a fan I would love an a la carte model. But the professional in me has looked to figure out a viable business model for that, and it's not so simple.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

As a fan I would love an a la carte model. But the professional in me has looked to figure out a viable business model for that, and it's not so simple.

I was afraid that you would say that. C'est la guerre.

It would be nice if there were some way to make it cheaper. The MLB and NHL packages are much cheaper than Sunday Ticket, although obviously different sports economies are at play.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Lotus

I was afraid that you would say that. C'est la guerre.

It would be nice if there were some way to make it cheaper. The MLB and NHL packages are much cheaper than Sunday Ticket, although obviously different sports economies are at play.

At $20 a game I don't know how it could be cheaper???? ALC would probably be like $30 or $40 a game. Look what WWE and UFC get for their crap on pay per view!