I WILL get my football in the USA - Boston Bound!

[scottydeewah]

I am two weeks away from leaving Australia for a minimum of 2 years. My new home will be Boston, MA in the United States of America. Now with Ben Graham going to the Jets I have a reason to pick a team and watch NFL but I need football. I have check out the USAFL website and searched around and aside from the weekly wrap-up show there appears no way to get AFL in AUS so I have had to get inventive. Luckily I have a mate coming across who also happens to be a Geelong member so we are thinking of the following.

Buying the whole season worth of DVDs and shipping them across weekly.
Buying my mates dad foxtel digi and hooking it up to his PC so we can rip games and have him FTP them to us
Get an afl.com.au subscription and watch unwatchable streams
Try and get some illegal satellite hookup

Has anyone else done or contemplated and of this.

 

[cos789]

Buying the whole season worth of DVDs and shipping them across weekly.
Buying my mates dad foxtel digi and hooking it up to his PC so we can rip games and have him FTP them to us
Get an afl.com.au subscription and watch unwatchable streams
Try and get some illegal satellite hookup

At the moment Foxtel don't allow file transfer so you'll have to replay in real time and and record AV .
Better to get someone to record them from DVD or from FTA TV PC capture and then FTP .
In Asia it's as simple as watching ABC Asia pacific , but you're in the USA.

 

[Rooster]

I like the illegal satellite idea.

We couldn't get proper cable in Shekou South China... so some smart bugger pinched a couple of microwave dishes from a cellular network rollout and made a totally unauthorised microwave link from Hong Kong across to Shekou... (I guess it was between 8 or 32Mb/s) got his Hong Kong cable signal across and reticulated it to a few pubs (+ a couple of private places)... I think that these all needed their own set top box (subscribed for in HK and smuggled into China).

or at least that is how it was explained to me.

 

[scottydeewah]

I like the sat idea but of the three that is probably not likely to happen. Problem is I will be living in an appartment with the building wired for cable, so setting up your own satellite is near impossible. I will probably buy the DVDs and have them shipped over every week.

Ripping foxtel is my prefered choice though.

 

[Kokoda]

For AFL Satellite reception in US/Canada you have to be on the extreme West Coast -Then put up a very large dish to pick up the ABC Asia Pacific free Sat service. That location is on edge of the footprint.
Speaking of International TV cover generally AFANA report that the 2005 was the worst/lowest ever.

 

[Copernicus]

I like the sat idea but of the three that is probably not likely to happen. Problem is I will be living in an appartment with the building wired for cable, so setting up your own satellite is near impossible. I will probably buy the DVDs and have them shipped over every week.

Ripping foxtel is my prefered choice though.

What's the deal with the DVDs? I'd never heard of that before!

I'm stuck with the streams right now -not the best, and you have to wait 24 hours, but it beats the hell out of nothing at all!

 

[cos789]

What's the deal with the DVDs? I'd never heard of that before!

I'm stuck with the streams right now -not the best, and you have to wait 24 hours, but it beats the hell out of nothing at all!

Basically you can order a DVD of any AFL game .
Maybe they'd post it direct to you .

 

[Centimetre Perfect]

For those wondering about watching footy DVD's in the USA:

To get every game of your team each season, see "Subscription Offer":
Australian Football Video Subscriptions

I assume that as next season nears, you can pre-order the 2006 games.

You can also order individual games -- pretty much any game going back to the 1996 season, and sporadic ones back to 1968:
Name-A-Game

Just MAKE SURE you have a multi-region DVD player that can automatically convert PAL (the video standard in Australia and England) to NTSC (the standard in the US and Canada). PAL discs won't play in DVD players that you can buy in the stores here -- they're all region 1 NTSC (except sometimes you can run across ones from cheap-ass brands like Cyberhome and Apex that will, but I've heard of people having a lot of prblems with those). If you don't already have one, you'll have to order one from a specialty retailer, unless you live in a big city that has stores that cater to immigrants, etc needing multi-region and other voltage electronics. I have a Malata unit that has worked extremely well for years -- there's other brands as good or better. If anyone needs to buy one, I would highly recommend:
HK Flix

That's where I got mine -- they have a great selection and excellent customer service. And if you're into asian movies, they have literally THOUSANDS.

 

[scottydeewah]

Copernicus how are they streams? I havent been able to see one and want to know what the quiality is like.

 

[Copernicus]

Copernicus how are they streams? I havent been able to see one and want to know what the quiality is like.

Well I guess it's not a live stream per se. I signed up on the AFL site and the game streams from there. It's not the best quality, in fact it's fairly dodgy, and I think I've figured out how to get better quality video of it.

I can show ya how to do it if you'd like me to.