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I dumped Sunday ticket this year and DirectTV as well. They priced me out of the market.
Since I see every Cards home game in person, missing all the other day games anyway on those days and every away game is televised here, that only leaves me exposed to the networks choice of televised game for 1 game slot 8 Sundays of the season.
With Cox cable, I get all the games in High Def, including the Sunday night and Monday night and NFL channel games as well, at no extra cost.
With high speed internet, currently at 54 mips on the same cox cable line, sayonara DirecTV. You have blown your market advantage.
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I dumped Sunday ticket this year and DirectTV as well. They priced me out of the market.
I may do the same after being a dedicated customer since direct started up. I have pumped thousands of dollars into that company over the years only to be almost priced out of the market. The NFL makes it much cheaper for Dallas and Denver fans.
Last season I found myself watching less Cardinal games. I spent more time out hunting, hiking and taking photos. That was much less stressfull. I still would tune into the game via sirius. Always a cardinal fan.
I dumped Sunday ticket this year and DirectTV as well. They priced me out of the market.
Since I see every Cards home game in person, missing all the other day games anyway on those days and every away game is televised here, that only leaves me exposed to the networks choice of televised game for 1 game slot 8 Sundays of the season.
With Cox cable, I get all the games in High Def, including the Sunday night and Monday night and NFL channel games as well, at no extra cost.
With high speed internet, currently at 54 mips on the same cox cable line, sayonara DirecTV. You have blown your market advantage.
Thanks for your post. Saves me from wondering if I am missing something.
As an out of Arizona fan, I'm either going to the bar or watching Sunday Ticket. Being able to DVR the games is a huge plus for me. Now that I've got an HDTV finally, I'm looking a huge extra cost to add superfan too.
As an out of Arizona fan, I'm either going to the bar or watching Sunday Ticket....
Same for me. So its either $4 a beer or $6 a six pack. Ill pay directv and stay home easily saving enough money to pay for the Sunday ticket every year.
Plus getting the added bonus of watching the last few minutes of a lot of exciting games around the league every season.
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I dropped Sunday Ticket also, as they priced me out of the market. I figure the Card games will be on local TV, hopefully in HD, and the NFL Channel will allow me to watch other games during the week. I may also switch over to COX in the future if it saves me some money.
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Wow its amazing, people used to switch to directv because it was both cheaper and better quality, and now it seems that the money issue isn't in Dtv's favor anymore. I'm not going to drop directv anytime soon, but they better hope they keep their exclusivity with the NFL.
I hope they don't, because while I'd keep Directv even if they lost the NFL, there needs to be some competition in the market to keep prices down. This is getting ridiculous. I don't think all these people canceling will have an effect either for a while, because directv needs to recoup the money they spent on this contract.
Fios is in my area in one month. I am just hoping that comcast can wrestle some rights away from Directv.
Then its over.
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Fios is in my area in one month. I am just hoping that comcast can wrestle some rights away from Directv.
Then its over.
FIOS is awesome, The DVR they have is light years better than DTV's pile of shiat.
I hate that I still have DTV and their ugly ass dish on my house, just for Sunday Ticket, but I don't see them losing exclusive rights to it any time soon, So until then.. I have both Fios and DTV. :/
Thank God for the sunday ticket. I would never want to go back to the days where I had to wait to see the score pop up every 15 minutes or go to a bar and hope they would turn on the Cards game for me....of course without sound so the rest of the bar can watch the Bears or north divison team.
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You guys that drop the Sunday Ticket are insane if you live out of AZ. Its still only 270.00 for the whole season which works out to 16.88 per game to see the Cards play every single Sunday? Then you get to watch any game you want suring the bye as well and not limited to regional viewing.
If you ask me that is an incredible value! Even if I subtract the 4 in person games I attend every year it avergaes out to 22 bucks a week. I dunno about you but for me that is worth every stinking penny to watch my boys play.
Directv is no different than anyone else. Operating costs go up from year to year and the cost of their product is going to go up too. I guarantee and will take any and all betters right now that if Directv loses their exlusivity to the Sunday ticket that the first season afterward that it is available on cable also the price will be the same or more then it was the year prior when it was just Directv.
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I am still going to get the Sunday ticket. I am going to get 3 games this season off of sunday tickett. 2 for the St. Louis games & the Monday nighter againist the 49ers on November 10. It is time to do my annual bet with my brother. $50 the first game and $150 the next.
You guys that drop the Sunday Ticket are insane if you live out of AZ. Its still only 270.00 for the whole season which works out to 16.88 per game to see the Cards play every single Sunday? Then you get to watch any game you want suring the bye as well and not limited to regional viewing.
If you ask me that is an incredible value! Even if I subtract the 4 in person games I attend every year it avergaes out to 22 bucks a week. I dunno about you but for me that is worth every stinking penny to watch my boys play.
Directv is no different than anyone else. Operating costs go up from year to year and the cost of their product is going to go up too. I guarantee and will take any and all betters right now that if Directv loses their exlusivity to the Sunday ticket that the first season afterward that it is available on cable also the price will be the same or more then it was the year prior when it was just Directv.
I agree with this for anyone, even in Az, if you don't have season tickets. Some blackouts may be looming for locals. $270 to see all 16 games is a good deal.
In my case, it was $270 on top of the basic package charge, for viewing maybe 4 or 5 non-Cards games, without the additional kick of high speed internet provided by local cable.
It's a different no-brainer, depending on your situation.
I still think DirecTV blew it with an extra high def charge for high def games on top of an extra high def charge for basic high def service. Buying the NFL package doesn't get you the high def games even if you already have the HD box and service. They make you buy that cute little add-on (forget the name) split screen, fantasy oriented extra stations stuff to get the HD games.
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