DirecTV To Offer iPhone App For Watching NFL Games - Barron's Blogs
Drop an iPhone and crack its screen, Apple will fix it for $200
that will allow subscribers to its Sunday Ticket Superfan service to
watch NFL games via both 3G and WiFi. To use the service, you’ll need
to pay for both the satellite TV provider’s $280 Sunday Ticket
subscription, and a $100 add-on Superfan upgrade. The service is
subject to local blackout rules.
As Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield notes in a blog post
today, DirecTV now makes note of the planned iPhone app on its web
site. (It is well down on the page, so you’ll need to do some
scrolling.) DirecTV also offers a free iPhone app for remotely
programming your DVRs
John Blutarsky
<vic.h...@gmail.com> wrote in news:76273e53-8531-4c3b-b4db-903f44e640f5
@h30g2000vbr.googlegroups.com:
Anybody truly excited about this should consider a few points:
- Football on a screen that size is almost unwatchable. The wide angle
field view used to show most plays will make the football impossible to
follow.
-How mamy football games are you going to be able to watch in a month
before bumping up against the AT&T data cap?
- How many "Superfans" are going to be out of view of a normal television
at gametime enough to justify the additional $100 charge?
News
Drop and spread 'em wrote:
> DirecTV (DTV) has unveiled plans to launch an Apple (AAPL) iPhone app
> that will allow subscribers to its Sunday Ticket Superfan service to
> watch NFL games via both 3G and WiFi. To use the service, you�ll need
> to pay for both the satellite TV provider�s $280 Sunday Ticket
> subscription, and a $100 add-on Superfan upgrade. The service is
> subject to local blackout rules.
Wow, the perfect $380 excuse to go blind.
Not exactly comparable to picture quality on a 60" DLP 1080p screen...
KDT
> Drop and spread 'em wrote:
>
> > DirecTV (DTV) has unveiled plans to launch an Apple (AAPL) iPhone app
> > that will allow subscribers to its Sunday Ticket Superfan service to
> > to pay for both the satellite TV provider’s $280 Sunday Ticket
> > subscription, and a $100 add-on Superfan upgrade. The service is
> > subject to local blackout rules.
>
> Wow, the perfect $380 excuse to go blind.
>
> Not exactly comparable to picture quality on a 60" DLP 1080p screen...
Once again someone is stupid enough to think that you can go blind by
"straining your eyes". Do you also think you can go deaf if someone
whispers too much when they talk to you?
News
KDT wrote:
> On Jul 13, 7:14 pm, News <N...@Group.name> wrote:
>> Drop and spread 'em wrote:
>>
>>> DirecTV (DTV) has unveiled plans to launch an Apple (AAPL) iPhone app
>>> that will allow subscribers to its Sunday Ticket Superfan service to
>>> watch NFL games via both 3G and WiFi. To use the service, you�ll need
>>> to pay for both the satellite TV provider�s $280 Sunday Ticket
>>> subscription, and a $100 add-on Superfan upgrade. The service is
>>> subject to local blackout rules.
>> Wow, the perfect $380 excuse to go blind.
>>
>> Not exactly comparable to picture quality on a 60" DLP 1080p screen...
>
> Once again someone is stupid enough to think that you can go blind by
> "straining your eyes". Do you also think you can go deaf if someone
> whispers too much when they talk to you?
I see... Say again?
News
KDT wrote:
> On Jul 13, 7:14 pm, News <N...@Group.name> wrote:
>> Drop and spread 'em wrote:
>>
>>> DirecTV (DTV) has unveiled plans to launch an Apple (AAPL) iPhone app
>>> that will allow subscribers to its Sunday Ticket Superfan service to
>>> watch NFL games via both 3G and WiFi. To use the service, you�ll need
>>> to pay for both the satellite TV provider�s $280 Sunday Ticket
>>> subscription, and a $100 add-on Superfan upgrade. The service is
>>> subject to local blackout rules.
>> Wow, the perfect $380 excuse to go blind.
>>
>> Not exactly comparable to picture quality on a 60" DLP 1080p screen...
>
> Once again someone is stupid enough to think that you can go blind by
> "straining your eyes".
Have at it, fanboi. NFL-by-iToy is just what the doctor ordered.
"iPhone 3G eye strain on units with lower screen color temp (yellower)?"
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=567382
"Are Cell Phones Killing Our Eyes"
http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/007/07/cell_phones_killing_our_eyes.htm
Kindle 2 Users Complain of Eye Strain
http://www.switched.com/2009/04/14/kindle-2-users-complain-of-eye-strain/
pltr...@spamlessxhost.org
>> Wow, the perfect $380 excuse to go blind.
>
>Once again someone is stupid enough to think that you can go blind by
>"straining your eyes". Do you also think you can go deaf if someone
>whispers too much when they talk to you?
You might want to look up "hyperbole."
-- Larry
do...@03.usenet.us.com
> Not exactly comparable to picture quality on a 60" DLP 1080p screen...
I love the DTV ad that shows that you can watch up to six sports channels
on one multi-screen simultaneously "all in HD".
--
Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5
News
> In alt.cellular.cingular News <Ne...@group.name> wrote:
>> Not exactly comparable to picture quality on a 60" DLP 1080p screen...
>
> I love the DTV ad that shows that you can watch up to six sports channels
> on one multi-screen simultaneously "all in HD".
>
Try that on your iToy...
ZnU
> In alt.cellular.cingular News <Ne...@group.name> wrote:
> > Not exactly comparable to picture quality on a 60" DLP 1080p screen...
>
> I love the DTV ad that shows that you can watch up to six sports channels
> on one multi-screen simultaneously "all in HD".
If we give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that means 720p, all
you need is a 3840x1440 screen. Heh.
Such things do exist. I doubt DTV has a device that can drive one.
--
"The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to
anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it
must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes
John B. Coarsey, PE
"John Blutarsky" <bl...@faber.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9C47AF4B174...@85.214.113.135...
John, what cap is that? Is there a cap for iphone data? If so what is it?
Todd Allcock
"John B. Coarsey, PE @yahoo.com>" <jcoarsey<nospam> wrote in message
news:h420a...@news3.newsguy.com...
There's no cap on any "on phone" data plans with AT&T- only tethering or PC
card/USB stick plans have a 5GB cap. The iPhone, Blackberry or PDA plans
have no caps.
News
It's a common sense cap; anyone considering this has exceeded it.
Todd Allcock
"News" <Ne...@Group.Name> wrote in message
news:iuydnWDvJpl9AvnX...@speakeasy.net...
>>>>> DirecTV (DTV) has unveiled plans to launch an Apple (AAPL) iPhone app
>>>>> that will allow subscribers to its Sunday Ticket Superfan service to
>>>>> watch NFL games via both 3G and WiFi. To use the service, you'll need
>>>>> to pay for both the satellite TV provider's $280 Sunday Ticket
>>>>> subscription, and a $100 add-on Superfan upgrade. The service is
>>>>
>>>> Anybody truly excited about this should consider a few points:
>>>>
>>>> - Football on a screen that size is almost unwatchable. The wide angle
>>>> field view used to show most plays will make the football impossible to
>>>> follow.
>>>>
>>>> -How mamy football games are you going to be able to watch in a month
>>>>
>> There's no cap on any "on phone" data plans with AT&T- only tethering or
>> PC card/USB stick plans have a 5GB cap. The iPhone, Blackberry or PDA
>> plans have no caps.
>
>
> It's a common sense cap; anyone considering this has exceeded it.
I doubt anyone will be hunkering down to watch entire games on a 4" screen,
but frankly it's probably a better time-waster for idle moments than yet
another iFart app... ;)
It'd be a perfectly fine idea if it works via a TV-output cable to rig up
viewing on a hotel TV to watch the game you actually want to watch when out
of town rather than whatever the local network stations happens to be
showing. Of course in that case, you could connect over the hotel WiFi as
well.
Larry
news:cA29m.65520$Qg6....@newsfe14.iad:
> I doubt anyone will be hunkering down to watch entire games on a 4"
> screen, but frankly it's probably a better time-waster for idle
> moments than yet another iFart app... ;)
>
>
Now, now, Todd. Don't say that. A whole new generation has been
conditioned to accept just that.
They'll have to watch it! They paid a heavy price for it!
--
-----
Larry
Noone will be safe until the last lawyer has been strangled by the entrails
of the last cleric.
News
> "Todd Allcock" <elecc...@AnoOspamL.com> wrote in
> news:cA29m.65520$Qg6....@newsfe14.iad:
>
>> I doubt anyone will be hunkering down to watch entire games on a 4"
>> screen, but frankly it's probably a better time-waster for idle
>> moments than yet another iFart app... ;)
>>
>>
>
> Now, now, Todd. Don't say that. A whole new generation has been
> conditioned to accept just that.
>
> They'll have to watch it! They paid a heavy price for it!
>
>
>
Not only that, they'll report back here that it was a BETTER VIEWING
EXPERIENCE than watching the 60" DLP in 1080p.
Larry
news:c5OdnVYK5dihefnX...@speakeasy.net:
Much smoother and, of course, shinier, too!
Can an Iphone render a whole football game on one charge in a poor ATT
coverage area?? That's a pretty tall order for a 3GS that's so hot it
discolors the plastic....