How do you stream games (legally) in the US

[JBLUES]

Hey all,

Just wondering how do I stream games legally in the US. I am in US till July and really want to see the Carlton games live, and also the NAB cup games if possible. How would I go about doing this? Also if anyone is in Philadelphia and wants to go to a Frat party let me know.

Cheers

JBLUES

 

[grimface_87]

Can't be done

EDIT: I guess it can! I've heard that the quality is quite poor though

 

[Mr Eagle]

http://www.afl.com.au/default.aspx?tabid=9281

This is pretty much your only option. No idea if its any good.

 

[AlibiMonday]

http://www.omnisport.tv

OK-Good service. About US$6.00 per game. But you have to watch it live.

I've streamed approximately 20 games last year. Had problems with a couple of games. One were they lost connection half-way through the final quarter. Image quality is not HD, but adequate enough to watch it through a TV if you hook it up right.

 

[AlibiMonday]

http://www.afl.com.au/default.aspx?tabid=9281

This is pretty much your only option. No idea if its any good.

BTW - DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING associated with the AFL or Telstra if you have a Mac. It's simply not supported.

 

[2Sewell4School]

http://www.omnisport.tv

OK-Good service. About US$6.00 per game. But you have to watch it live.

I've streamed approximately 20 games last year. Had problems with a couple of games. One were they lost connection half-way through the final quarter. Image quality is not HD, but adequate enough to watch it through a TV if you hook it up right.

Does this service work in Australia?

 

[greennick]

Does this service work in Australia?

I don't know if it does, but I know it is not supposed to as they only have international rights.

 

[2Sewell4School]

I don't know if it does, but I know it is not supposed to as they only have international rights.

Cheers mate.

This is timely as I posted this thread on the computer board yesterday.

 

[Danog]

Send me a private message the weekend before the games are on and I'll try and provide you with a stream.

 

[Copernicus]

ESPN360.com usually streams three games live per week, but obviously the schedule is at their discretion. I don't think the NAB Cup is being streamed but I may be wrong about that. A good resource is afana.com. They should have all the broadcast details.

 

[happy_punter]

so people living over seas can purchase any game of there choice but not for people living in australia? strange

 

[WATTSJURRAHDUNN]

Internet...for sure.

 

[funk44]

once the NBN rolls past a few more houses i think you will find the amount of streams boom!

not sure about the legality of them though

 

[greennick]

so people living over seas can purchase any game of there choice but not for people living in australia? strange

Makes total sense. C7/10 and Fox pay hundreds of millions for the rights. The overseas rights are sold for bugger all. The networks pay all that money for exclusivity. Some people just get Fox to be able to watch their team every week. If you could buy the odd game that wasn't on FTA, that would be less likely to happen and Fox would put a much lower value on the rights.

 

[grimface_87]

so people living over seas can purchase any game of there choice but not for people living in australia? strange

Don't be silly. We get Channel 7 and their Super Special Pre-Game featuring the cast of Better Homes & Gardens

 

[bing181]

BTW - DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING associated with the AFL or Telstra if you have a Mac. It's simply not supported.

+1 on that. It's the dark ages!

And what bugs me the most is that they know about it, but aren't able to fix it. Incompetence.

As for streams, apparently they're out there, but for obvious reasons, aren't discussed on open forums.

 

[Flyingsaint]

Not streaming as such
but this site may be of use to some
styled on the testmatch couch that ran out of England for The Ashes
http://www.footycouch.com/

they will initially cover games being done by Fox as they are not generally available to many still.

 

[Rioli2Gunstall]

U could stream the games on the bigpond website. Though it isn't live you can watch the day after and shouldn't matter if you can't see the scores etc over there anyway. I always watch the games i've been to like this.

 

[scottyjc]

http://www.omnisport.tv

I use these guys too.

Watch it full screen on my 15 inch Vaio and the quality is acceptable. We have a pretty quick internet connection though.

 

[krudmonk]

I use Omnisport for every game that's not free on ESPN3. It generally runs pretty smoothly, except for one instance in which the game did not show until the second half.