Ongoing "who gets the Eagles game" thread

[Geowhizzer]

WEEK 3 - Eagles at 49ers (Kenny Albert / Brian Baldinger)

PA - Philadelphia, Wilkes-Barre, Harrisburg, Johnstown
CA - SF/Oakland/San Jose, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Chico, Eureka, Fresno, Monterey
NV - Reno

FL - DirecTV Sunday Ticket customers (if my heart can take it)

[TexasEagle]

WEEK 3 - Eagles at 49ers (Kenny Albert / Brian Baldinger)

PA - Philadelphia, Wilkes-Barre, Harrisburg, Johnstown
CA - SF/Oakland/San Jose, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Chico, Eureka, Fresno, Monterey
NV - Reno

Great, I get the Giants game.

[MDS]

Those fools again? Yuck.

[General_Failure]

Albert and Baldinger are good luck. LUCK, I say!

[PhillyPhreak54]

EJ72 PM'd me this link to post up in the appropriate thread. This can be of use to those of you who live out of the area and will not get the game this weekend (or any other weekend).

http://www.tvunetworks.com/

Apparently this is a place where you can view broadcast TV from other parts of the country. EJ72 said that several Cowboys fans watched the DAL-SF pre-season game on this site because they have west coast FOX and CBS affiliates on their site.

I haven't tried it yet but for those of you who dont get the game on Sunday you should check it out and see if it works for you. Find out what FOX station it will be on in SF and then see if it works.

Ed, you could post it up in the EMB gamethread too.

[The BIGSTUD]

Is the site legal?

[EJ72]

Bunkley, as far as I know yes. From what I've been able to learn about these streaming TV players, they use peer to peer sharing in a manner similiar to torrent downloading, where there is no one single source, but multiple sources streaming data that's combined to form the content. About the only issue I could imagine would be the copyright, but I would imagine the source would be liable for that rather than the recipient as long as it isn't being recorded and redistributed.(Which is done with pretty fair regularity to begin with, when you consider that every video highlight that any given individual uploads is technically copyright infringement, although it's not generally done for profit.)

One thing I did notice is, it's limited to users with broadband access. I hadn't noticed that before, and since we've had broadband for some years now, I kind of take it for granted. I can't guarantee it will carry the game. I don't know for certain which affiliates are streaming in the program and which will be airing your game, but I would imagine the chance exists that since it aired a S.F. game before, it may again. That's why I thought of it.

[BigEd76]

[MDS]

[Sgt PSN]

I'll be at the game.  It is completely irrelevant where it's broadcast.  It's also of no consequence who is calling the game as I will be unable to hear them.   

[Don Ho]

I'll be at the game.  It is completely irrelevant where it's broadcast.  It's also of no consequence who is calling the game as I will be unable to hear them.   

Where are you staying?  In the city? 

It'll probably be 58 degrees at Monster Park and 85 degrees about 2 miles inland.  I went to a Giants game as a kid there in June and froze my ass off.

[EJ72]

For the record, it looks as though that player will be carrying your game. I looked at the forum where they post the schedules, and they have it listed at 4 PM eastern time.

http://forum.viidoo.com/viewtopic.php?t=1112

For those that want to try it, it takes a minute for it to lock into the stream and can be kind of choppy. There are no real configuration options save for a full window(Not full screen) view. Also, I would download it ahead of time and see how it works on your PC with your connection first. For one thing, the download from that site is sloooow, so slow I couldn't imagine how they could stream video. For another, I wouldn't want to be all hyper in anticipation of watching a game only to try to use this thing and have it not work for crap and be disappointed.

One more note: This doesn't have channels for all areas of the country. Some Cowboy fans tried to see if it would carry more games, but it was just dumb luck that they were playing SF and this program happens to carry their channel.

[Sgt PSN]

I'll be at the game.  It is completely irrelevant where it's broadcast.  It's also of no consequence who is calling the game as I will be unable to hear them.   

Where are you staying? In the city?

It'll probably be 58 degrees at Monster Park and 85 degrees about 2 miles inland. I went to a Giants game as a kid there in June and froze my ass off.

We're staying just south of the city.....about 10 miles from the park.  Weather forcast for the weekend is high 60's/low 70's.  Colder than what I'm used to in NC but definately good weather. 

[Magical_Retard]

hey guys so i downloaded that tvu player thing just now to try it out and it took forever for it to download and thats on my broadband connection. still the good news is that once i got it to work it worked really well and i put it on the fox feed and it came pretty clear. this will be great for those of us who cant see the game today, unfortunately this is supposedly only for the san fran fox feed right now?

[PhillyPhreak54]

SF feed or Philly feed - it doesn't matter really. You'd get Kenny Albert and Brian Baldinger on either one.