What does a digital platform mean for Bills in London?

[Albany,n.y.]

Where am I going to be able to watch the game? Does anyone know?

http://www.wgr550.com/pages/9034669.php?pid=464226

The NFL announced on Monday that the October 25 matchup between the Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars will be available not only in local television markets, but it will be available on a digital platform to every fan around the world as well. The game will not be available on the NFL's Sunday Ticket package, according to reports.

It will be the first time in NFL history that a national regular season matchup will be shown on a platform other than a television network.

[Forward_Lateral]

WTF so we have to watch it online?

****ing stupid

[Ed]

Why would it be unavailable on the Sunday Ticket?

[feldspar]

I guess the game will be played at 9:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, October 25...which is week 7. I also guess that it will still be broadcast locally in the Buffalo market on TV.

Idiotic to not have it on Sunday Ticket. That's going to piss a lot of people off.

I guess somebody is going to pay for the rights to broadcast the game digitally over the Internet? Google or Apple or some such? I have no idea.

[jimmifli]

On TV in local markets only, all others must stream.

They are selling broadcast rights to streaming companies. The game might be available on youtube, or Amazon prime or Netflix etc. They just haven't decided yet.

[Jry44]

I guess the game will be played at 9:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, October 25...which is week 7. I also guess that it will still be broadcast locally in the Buffalo market on TV.

Idiotic to not have it on Sunday Ticket. That's going to piss a lot of people off.

I guess somebody is going to pay for the rights to broadcast the game digitally over the Internet? Google or Apple or some such? I have no idea.

Word. I know that I for damn sure am planning on using this when I talk them down on the price for this year. It will be interesting to see how their any game in any market marketing campain goes....

[Jry44]

On TV in local markets only, all others must stream.

They are selling broadcast rights to streaming companies. The game might be available on youtube, or Amazon prime or Netflix etc. They just haven't decided yet.

And it will be an absolute disaster. These online things always are the first time through. Guaranteed that the broadcast will either crash or keep dropping out due to a high volume of people accessing it.

[YardRat]

Bob Kraft -"Nobody gives a **** about Buffalo and Jacksonville, let's run the digital format test on that game."
Roger Goodell -"(Mmmmph) I ( hmmmmm) agree, (gurgle) sir (slurp)."

[Meathead]

just make the whole thing digital. players, coaches, the field, suzy kobler, all just in memory somewhere. if we would all just pretend its real then it would become real. just like championship wrestling. or like marcia and the cheater are doing to the real game anyway

[OpIv37]

So, first live test of a new platform....available for free to the entire world, international event....what could possibly go wrong

I have a bad feeling that I will be missing significant portions of that game due to "technical difficulties."

[better days]

Quite a while ago, I told you all it was a real possibility that this would happen.

And it is possible that you will have to pay if you want to watch this game if you live outside of the Buffalo area.

Bills fans screwed again.

[THATHURMANATOR]

Why would it be unavailable on the Sunday Ticket?

Doesn't anyone who has Sunday ticket have the ability to get it digitally?

My god do people not know how to hook a laptop up to a TV?

[better days]

Doesn't anyone who has Sunday ticket have the ability to get it digitally?

My god do people not know how to hook a laptop up to a TV?

The point is people that PAY for the ticket should get all NFL games.

And there is the possibility that this game will be pay per view as well.

Bills fans screwed over AGAIN.

[Night Train]

I'll put a video camera on my local monitor so you can all watch.


First, your payment must clear with Paypal.

[Joe Fo Sho]

Doesn't anyone who has Sunday ticket have the ability to get it digitally?

If it's not available with the NFL Sunday Ticket package, I would assume it wouldn't be available with the digital aspect of the NFL Sunday Ticket package, no?

My god do people not know how to hook a laptop up to a TV?

You'd be surprised at how many people don't know how to do something as simple as that.

This has the potential to be terrible. If the NFL isn't ready for the type of bandwidth necessary, it's going to make a lot of people angry. Not to mention if anyone's internet connection isn't up to snuff, the game won't stream in HD. That's a big deal to some people.

Hopefully the stream is handled by either YouTube (google) or Netflix. These are probably the only 2 companies that I would trust being able to stream the game to millions of people simultaneously.

Personally, I'm all for the NFL streaming everything all the time. Anything that allows me to cut out Time Warner Cable is a plus in my book. I just don't understand why they would make this the only option. I would love to be able to stream live NFL games with my Netflix account, maybe be able able to rewatch them with the all-22 view or the sped up version of the game that only take 25 minutes to watch.

[Ed]

Doesn't anyone who has Sunday ticket have the ability to get it digitally?

My god do people not know how to hook a laptop up to a TV?

I can just stream through my smart tv so I'm not worried about it, but I just don't understand why they would make it unavailable on the Sunday Ticket when the whole point of the Sunday Ticket is that you have access to every game.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

Quite a while ago, I told you all it was a real possibility that this would happen.

You did and I didn't believe you, because I never thought the NFL would be so dumb. I overestimated them again.

[OpIv37]

Doesn't anyone who has Sunday ticket have the ability to get it digitally?

My god do people not know how to hook a laptop up to a TV?

I have multiple ways to get the stream through my TV but:
1. We are paying for every game, we should get every game.
2. Streaming technology is imperfect and the reliability goes down with number of simultaneous users. I don't know what the demand for this game will be, but i am very concerned about technical issues with the stream that wouldn't be an issue if the game was just on Sunday Ticket.

It's bad enough that the team has to do the extra travel and that fans have to watch the game at 9:30 am. Now this? **** Roger Goodell.

[Ed]

I have multiple ways to get the stream through my TV but:
1. We are paying for every game, we should get every game.
2. Streaming technology is imperfect and the reliability goes down with number of simultaneous users. I don't know what the demand for this game will be, but i am very concerned about technical issues with the stream that wouldn't be an issue if the game was just on Sunday Ticket.

It's bad enough that the team has to do the extra travel and that fans have to watch the game at 9:30 am. Now this? **** Roger Goodell.

I'm assuming that's 9:30 AM east coast time. I'm going to have to watch the game at 7:30 AM and fans on the west coast will have to watch at 6:30 AM. I normally DVR every Bills game and will start watching about an hour after it starts so I can fast forward through the commercials and half time before getting caught up to the live action. I don't think I'll have that option if I have to stream. I have no problem with them streaming the game I just want it to be available through Sunday Ticket too.

[better days]

I'm assuming that's 9:30 AM east coast time. I'm going to have to watch the game at 7:30 AM and fans on the west coast will have to watch at 6:30 AM. I normally DVR every Bills game and will start watching about an hour after it starts so I can fast forward through the commercials and half time before getting caught up to the live action. I don't think I'll have that option if I have to stream. I have no problem with them streaming the game I just want it to be available through Sunday Ticket too.

Well, I wanted this game to be on FREE OTA TV like the London 9:30 AM game was last year.

And last year was the first time CBS & FOX televised games from the other conference when the Bills would have been the logical choice to play on Thanksgiving if that didn't happen.

Bills fans screwed again.