Super Bowl Online... Pass Or Fail?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I'd say FAIL this year.

The CBS streaming website never seemed to work with a non U.S. connection. And even with a U.S. connection, it never would play for me for more than a minute or so before stalling. Made it impossible to watch the game there, notwithstanding CBS's promises in advance of better performance than last year with NBC.

Same with a free accounnt with USTVNow. From the very outset, got a message from their website saying all their free account connections had been used, and never could get it to play at at all.

Fortunately, there were a variety of options available via StreamTorrent and various third party websites... Able to catch most of the game live there...with only a few dropouts...

And then the stadium power went out. Yikes!!!!

[longball53098]

I paid 9.99 to NFL.com for the SB game. Best 10 bucks I ever invested. The streaming was flawless and HD quality. Never missed a second of action or the half time show. They blacked out 2 ads for some reason but 99 percent were shown. Even the power outage at the Dome was shown as it happened. I guess Truevisions went to a service screen during that?

First time I have ever tried the NFL game pass and for me this was a real winner. I will consider Game Pass next season for sure

[wayned]

Watched it on True this year but used Gamepass last year, it was excellant. When the lights went out True brought up ADs as a filler with no explanation of what happened. Went to NFL.com and found out about the power.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Interesting... GamePass is the online, real-time live broadcast of NFL games.... VERY expensive if done for the season.... I didn't know the NFL sold the Super Bowl as a standalone (live) game purchase.

I have NFL Game Rewind (the 24 hour delayed online version) for both the regular season and the playoffs, which is a bargain by comparison pricewise.

But the Super Bowl is the one game during the year where I fear being able to successfully avoid hearing/seeing about the outcome of the game before I can watch it online via streaming. Hence I was watching it live online the other day....although not paying to do so.

The StreamTorrent feeds actually were fine... you just had to find a good and stable one...and not one of those that stopped midway through the game. I ended up watching the version broadcast via SkySports out of the UK.