League pass options for Celtics

[jordb2k5]

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I recently decided that I watch very little tv and even thought about cancelling my service. The main reason I don't is because I can't miss the celtics play. So my question is what options are out there to watch the games with league pass maybe their broadband service. Are the games in high def and how's the quality. If I can get high def live games it might convince me to get rid of my tv service. Thanks so much!!

[indeedproceed]

I'm not sure if this is the right area for this thread so please move if necessary.

I recently decided that I watch very little tv and even thought about cancelling my service. The main reason I don't is because I can't miss the celtics play. So my question is what options are out there to watch the games with league pass maybe their broadband service. Are the games in high def and how's the quality. If I can get high def live games it might convince me to get rid of my tv service. Thanks so much!!

If that's the difference, I'd do it.

Unless you live in a house where everyone loves to watch C's games together (which since you need League pass and you're a displaced fan, I doubt), then I don't see the point. People cry and moan about league pass online all year long, but honestly you're going to shell out the 50 bones a month, plus cable just to see them, when you could jsut do the 30 bucks a month online league pass? Take the online option, HD or no.

[jordb2k5]

I live in Texas and all by myself I've got it the pastfew years but I'm really not watchingany shows anymore that i can't buy on DVD or iTunes if I have to see and could save a lot by not paying each month. If I just hooked my computer up to my tv which I've done for UFC fights and it looked great. However hd games might be too important for me to give up and worth paying for.

[GreenEnvy]

I've been buying the League Pass for the past 7 years for Celtics games.

The broadband service is OK, but not great. It's definitely not high-def, atleast it wasn't the past few seasons. They do make improvements each year, don't know what new features we get this season.

Last year they added home and away feeds for most games, which is nice, because listening to other announcers can grow tiresome. They also added replays throughout the overnight. Two seasons ago they added an HD channel for one or two games a night, although the Celtics are rarely on that channel, especially home feeds. Three years ago was broadband.

My major problem is the SD feeds for all non-nationally televised games. Other than ABC, TNT, ESPN, NBATV, and my local market (NYK and NJN), the rest of the games on the League Pass are of horrible quality, atleast on a really good HDTV.

I've contemplated not getting it for this upcoming season because of SOOOO many national games, but I just can't miss half the Celtics games.

The broadband-only option is something you can definitely consider if you have basic cable and get the TNT/ESPN/ABC games.

[bdm860]

I'm not sure if this is the right area for this thread so please move if necessary.

I recently decided that I watch very little tv and even thought about cancelling my service. The main reason I don't is because I can't miss the celtics play. So my question is what options are out there to watch the games with league pass maybe their broadband service. Are the games in high def and how's the quality. If I can get high def live games it might convince me to get rid of my tv service. Thanks so much!!

Now I don't have League Pass currently, and have never tried the online thing, but my concern with you dropping cable completely is that you wouldn't get the games on ESPN or TNT (which is like 20 of their best games).  Also once the playoffs start, any game on TNT or ESPN you wouldn't be able to watch (which is just about all of them). 

At least when I had regular league pass a few years ago, all the nationally televised games weren't on there or were blacked out, plus any local games (you say Texas, so either the Spurs, Rockets, or Mavs games could potentially be blacked out).

Like I said I don't have league pass currently and have never tried the online thing so not sure how it works, but based on my past experience with league pass these would be my concerns, that the nationally televised games wouldn't be available on league pass.

[footey]

I get League Pass TV for Celtic games, have done so the last 5 years.  Year before last, I went with the broadband package to save $$. Very disappointed. Encountered freezing frames, lousy pic quality, etc.  Went back to TV last season.  Don't know if broadband has gotten better. Lately I have watched TV shows from my computer (through net flicks) on HD; the quality is just as good as TV. Don't know if NBA LP has caught up with this sophistication though. Let me know if you find out!!

[Q_FBE]

The League Broadband on the Internet definitely stinks. But that is all I can afford right now. Grande and Max do give a good broadcast and that is affordable. The NBA Audio Pass, the gamecast, and of course the chatroom is the way to go. All the important games will be on TV and I might get in some live work and could chat it up on my blackberry. Perhaps I can brownnose Mike Gorman into a live interview from Portand or something.