Sunday Ticket Blackouts 2008

No HD games (with the exception of when the stadium didn't sell out) were blacked out for me last year. This year it looks like HD games are subject to the same BS blackout rules as SD. If the game is on your local affiliate, it will be blacked out.

 

Titans have sold out every season since they moved to Nashville and have a multi-year waiting list, so on the (rare) occasions I want to watch a Titans game, it's never an issue.

 

ok....no one was asking about selling games out....but....ok.

 

Blackout have a great deal to do with sellouts in a local market, in case you didn't realize it.

 

Ummm...yeah I am very aware of that being from Jacksonville. Re-read this thread, it has nothing to do with "sell outs." In previous years, HD broadcast of ALL NFL Sunday Ticket games were available whether the local affiliate was airing them or not with the exception of IF A GAME WAS BLACKED OUT DUE TO NON SELLOUT (so in my case, when the Jaguars would be on CBS in Jax, the SD version on ST was blacked out, but the HD was available). Not so anymore, they are now apparently blacking out the HD feeds of games shown on local affiliates as well.

This thread had nothing to do with blackouts of games because they dont sell out, it has to do with now blackouts of the HD versions of games broadcast on local affiliates.

 

Um, read the first post of the thread again. :lol:

 

I am not experiencing any blackouts. All games are good for HD and SD.

 

Last year if a game was carried by my local affiliate (in Cleveland) I could still watch the SuperFan HD feed without getting the blackout message.

I would get the blackout message on the standard NFLST channel, but not on the HD channel.

This year it appears that the system know which games are being broadcast locally and the receiver won't let me tune to the Superfan channel.

This isn't really a big deal unless the guide is wrong. Twice in the last few years CBS changed the game my local affiliate was getting late in the week and the guide didn't reflect this. The guide said I was getting game A. I was actually getting game B. If that scenario happens this year I might not be able to see a game without calling DirecTV.

Another more common problem last year was with 4pm games. If the guide says I'm getting a game locally on my affiliate I can't watch the SuperFan channel. What happens if the 1pm game hasn't ended? Often the 4pm games are joined in progress after the 1pm game ends. In the past I could watch the beginning of the 4pm game on the SuperFan channel. I won't be able to do that this year.

 

Yes you are right. The game on CBS and Fox here locally are blacked out for me on Sunday Ticket. No big deal, however, you won't get the special features on your local channels.

 

I am not having any games blacked out in my area in SD or HD. I checked them now and all are working.

 

You know, I wonder how hard it would be for D* to send those interactive features out over the LIL's CBS and Fox feeds via satellite? Of course, if you're OTA only, then you wouldn't get them.

 

Last year I never got blacked out on HD feeds. In Dallas and KC markets. KC game was not blacked out and Dallas game is. New, but not a big deal.

 

Guess I am just lucky. No games SD or HD are blacked out today.

 

No big deal for me. The 2 games that are blacked out for me I can get them in HD from my local CBS and FOX. I'm watching the Dallas game right now in HD from my local FOX station and it's got a great picture.

 

It is a big deal to me as D* does not offer my locals to me via SD or HD and I dont qualify for DNS as of yet but I am working on that.

 

Okay, I'm confused.

I kept the TV in my bedroom and the Supercast on the Red Zone Channel for the morning games and up until approx. 3:06 PM Pacific when the Red Zone Channel stopped.

I then went to the GameMix, but it was NOT in HD. :bang

So after watching the GameMix in SD (widescreen 480i), I decided to watch the San Diego - Carolina game in HD, but there was no HD game, not even a message, just SD only.

Now, I did get a waiver for East and West Coast SD feeds from when I first got D* service, and lost the HD waiver when the law changed. Could this be the reason why...?

I'm in the So. Bay Area and the San Diego game was not on locally, only the Whiners', er... Niners' game was on FOX.

According to this, here's the distribution of FOX's late games. So, I understand D* blacking out the Whiners', er... Niners' game, but why the San Diego game in HD? After all, isn't that why we subscribe to the NFL Sunday Ticket, to watch out of market games...?

 

It was really a pain in the arse today because the local CBS HD broadcast was pretty crappy. The difference was clear at the end of the game when you could see if being broadcast on a ST channel. Plus... no player tracker or other alerts. I dont like it!