Anyone Make a Deal for NFL Sunday Ticket?

[DevonCardsFan]

Just got a deal half of SUNDAY Ticket and a Max Upgrade for free. 6 payments of 20 something. It was hardet the lady looked and saw I has free Sunday ticket since 2012. She said the 4 payments of 24.99 deal is over

 

[iRobot]

Just called today and they wouldn't budge more than giving me a $20 credit for the next year. I told them to cancel if they couldn't do better and now my services are being disconnected in 7 days. I'll just sign up under my wife's name (different last name) like it's a new household signing up for service and get the 2 year deal with free NFL Sunday Max.

 

[ARZCardinals]

It's 1 year free then no deals
They KNOW they got you hooked.
I've seen threads like this the past 5 years...they don't deal.
You're hooked on the NFL heroine and they supply the only needle.

 

[iRobot]

Yea, 1 year free NFL Sunday Max, I know. I've had the deal before.. and we just got it again... in my wife's name lol

After this year I'm going to likely just split the cost with my brother and I'll use the online login and he can use the Sunday ticket on his TV.

 

[eastcoastSUN]

TBH the reddit NFL streams are in such good quality these days that I don't think twice about Sunday Ticket (as long as you don't mind watching from a laptop or tablet).

 

[Dr. Jones]

One call.... ST for free. Max, charged $96 one time and they gave me a one time credit of $96 to offset it. Finally.... $45 per month for 12 months credit. BOOM


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[BigRedRage]

I have Centurylink 40Mbps down/20Mbps up for $32/month (discount offered on the phone after 2 year price-lock expired at $44/month)... it has occasional annoying downtime though. Cox has better quality, but it's double the price & the upload speeds are slower. I was ready to switch back to Cox's 100/10 internet until CL offered me that discount. I pay for Hulu Commercial Free $12/month & my sister-in-law pays for Netflix. I've got an over-the-air antenna on my roof that picks up HD broadcasts of local channels & recently bought a cheap DVR on Amazon for $25 that I plugged an old 1TB external hard drive into so I can record Cardinals games... the menu to set up the DVR recordings sucks, but it seems like it'll do the job.

lol I made a whole thread trying to find these posts. Snapping this up today. not sure if I have a spare hard drive laying around....crap...going to mexico this weekend gonna miss the falcons game

 

[BigRedRage]

Bought the DVR and a 1TB hard drive for it. Comes thursday just in time to set it up and hopefully it works! As long as it goes well, I'll fire up a new thread about it to spread the word to cord cutters

 

[WisconsinCard]

I got a story. Somehow my NFL ticket got cancelled, so when wife called they gave it back to me. Then wife said I want a deal as that was too much. Operator told her as a new customer they couldn't make her any offers, she said if we were a returning customer she could. Wife explained that we've been customer for 18 years and had the ticket for every year. She got manager on the line and he said they would call her back in the next two hours. Shocker....no call. The next morning I called and at the the prompt I Said cancel my service. That got me right to retention, they started asking me about my phone and how they could give me a great deal. I told them I was done with them, and I just wanted to cancel. All the while there was no way I would ever do it, got to have my Cardinals. They gave me $35 a month off my bill for a year. So I basicly got it for free plus $100. I did Have to do a new one year contract, but that's no big deal.

 

[Totally_Red]

Got it free last season. Best I could get this season was $10 off per month (total 60 bucks).

 

[BigRedRage]

I've schedule a few recordings & played them back just fine... the quality was as good as it was live through the OTA antenna. The fast forward & rewind worked decently, but not as good as a Cox/DTV DVR. You can pause live TV, but there are limitations... if you're watching something live then you have put it into "Timeshift mode" (by pressing pause) in order to be able to be able to pause/rewind so it isn't automatically recording everything you watch live like better DVRs do. I'd also recommend increasing the amount of TimeShift hard drive space to 4GB (default is 1GB) so that you can leave the TV paused longer if you plan to use that feature often. I haven't tested it enough to tell you exactly how long you can leave it paused.

Overall, the menus (& remote) are clunky/confusing, but once you figure it out then it works pretty well. They have a channel guide that you can go about 24-48 hours ahead to schedule a recording or you can manually set up a date & time range to record a particular channel. It only records one thing at a time & it has a 2TB max limit on the external hard drive (a 1 hour recording was about 6GB) & I think USB 2.0 was recommended. There's also an option to always record a certain show/channel in a specified time slot every week, but I haven't tested it yet. Plugging a HD larger than 2TB can cause the thing to crash from the reviews I read. Recordings are in .mts format so you can actually plug the hard drive into your PC & play them with the VLC media player.

I just got it last week so that I can record the 2nd pre-season game while I'm out of town. There's also a way to hook it up to the Xbox One like the Xbox TV Tuner so you get the Xbox guide, but you still have to use the clunky DVR menus & remote to schedule recordings. There are much better DVRs out there, but I don't plan on using this for much more than Cards games & maybe some CBS shows that don't stream through Hulu.

EDIT: One more important thing, you have to leave the DVR "On" for it to record things... if you put it into standby mode then it does nothing.

Does the TV have to be on to record also or just the DVR? I am setting it up tonight, setting it to record the falcons game and then hoping for the best while in mexico. I received it yesterday but the 1tb hard drive I bought is coming in the mail today so setting everything up tonight.

 

[jbeecham]

Just the DVR needs to be on. You'll need to format the 1TB hard drive through the DVR menus. I'll see if I can find the website forums that I used to help set it up because the thing is lacking instructions.

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[jbeecham]

http://forum.mediasonic.ca/

 

[BigRedRage]

http://forum.mediasonic.ca/

thanks!

 

[BigRedRage]

hopefully the hard drive doesnt go into sleep mode, just saw on their forums that will keep it from recording. I did find in Amazon Q&A:

Does it shut down when not in use? Even if it's plugged into something?
Answer:
It's like a big usb stick, thumb drive, memory stick.
Until the comp is off/sleep or you unplug this it will still be active

So hopefully I am good.

 

[BigRedRage]

http://forum.mediasonic.ca/

Unless I'm totally missing something, I think I got a bad box. I'm on Fox watching through it but the remote does nothing and pushing channel+ on the box does nothing.

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[oaken1]

local dude here sells software hacked amazon firesticks that get sunday ticket along with all the other PPV stuff...over the internet...with hbo, cinemax, etc...
they run 75 bucks...thinking about getting one of those

 

[jbeecham]

Unless I'm totally missing something, I think I got a bad box. I'm on Fox watching through it but the remote does nothing and pushing channel+ on the box does nothing.

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Did you put batteries in the remote? It doesn't come with any batteries.

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[BigRedRage]

Did you put batteries in the remote? It doesn't come with any batteries.

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Lol. Yeah.

The weird part is the channel buttons on the box weren't doing anything either

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[jbeecham]

If you can't get it working, I can share my recording of the game with you (and anyone else who wants it) when I get back into town Sunday night. You're supposed to be able to play it on any PC with the free VLC media player.

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[BigRedRage]

If you can't get it working, I can share my recording of the game with you (and anyone else who wants it) when I get back into town Sunday night. You're supposed to be able to play it on any PC with the free VLC media player.

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Like, you just send a link and I'll be able to watch it?

My other thought was that I could just get a trial of "gamepass" and watch it on there

 

[jbeecham]

Pretty much, I can send a link & you download it to your PC & watch it. It might be a 20GB download though.

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[BigRedRage]

Pretty much, I can send a link & you download it to your PC & watch it. It might be a 20GB download though.

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Thats fine, I am happy to check it out when I return from Mexico

 

[cardinals]

Yesterday, I received my monthly Directv bill in the mail only to discover that I was being billed 6 payments of $62.99 for NFL Sunday Ticket Max...a total of $384.

I called at 7:24...and it took 4 agents (some saying they were supervisors), several 10-20 minute holds and 2 1/2 hours total to get a supervisor who immediately offered me 4 payments of $24.99.

The backup on calls there last night was voluminous...others must have seen the bills in the mail as well.

Some of the agents who called themselves supervisors were clearly not supervisors because they had to put me on hold to check for discounts, 3 of whom said (after a 5 minute wait) the best they could offer was a $17 per month discount off of $62.99.

The second to last agent actually tried to tell me how fortunate I was to have a few discounts on my bill and how I was getting such great value...but, all I have is the Choice package, the HBO/SHO/Sports Pack bundle and with three discounts (2 because of the bundle) which I have still been paying $120 a month for. She had me so furious that I told her to cancel my DTV subscription...which she immediately accepted and proceeded to tell me all the mailing back of boxes i had to do and that I would have a $220 cancellation fee. She said she was the supervisor, but for some reason I just thought of asking her if she had a supervisor and she said yes and that it would a 20 minute wait to speak with him.

By then it had been 2 hours and 10 minutes so what's another 20, I thought.

The next guy was super. I didn't really have to explain anything. Just asked about NFL Sunday Ticket and said I've subscribed to it for the past 17 years and voila he made the 4/$24.99 offer.

There is no question in my mind that this is DTV's plan...make you go to all lengths to get the right deal. Some people probably don't want to take on the hassle and just pay whatever the bill is. I just have to learn to not let it get me so pissed...that is as long as they monopolize NFLST.

you have to ask for customer retention.. they send you to a person who then tries to find you a deal.. but this doesnt work for everyone.
the truth is its all a rip off and you already paying too much. half the channels you have you never watch and are full of info-mercials anyway

 

[BigRedArk]

TBH the reddit NFL streams are in such good quality these days that I don't think twice about Sunday Ticket (as long as you don't mind watching from a laptop or tablet).

Thanks for that heads up about reddit streams! I watched the stream of tonight's game and it was excellent quality! No spam or virus alerts like the stream links of yesteryear would inevitably have.