• Leviathan@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 小时前

    I would never give these billionaire fucks a dime. I’d rather go watch beer leagues at the local rink.

  • stolig@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 小时前

    These greedy sports teams are going to lose our young people since they can’t watch… and they won’t have many fans in the future

  • tripledip@lemmy.world
    9·
    7 小时前

    Same deal with F1, couldnt renew my F1 sub without getting apple TV. Ive never owned an apple product in my life, not gonna sub to their garbage. Bye F1tv.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      7·
      6 小时前

      What really pisses me off is having lived in Las Vegas, where they shut the whole Strip and a bunch of surrounding areas down for this race. Not sure if they do it every time but they also shut down the famous Bellagio fountains and covered the view with ugly scaffolding!

      For the race itself, not only can you only watch it via a subscription stream, they also block off any local infrastructure with a view, such as the pedestrian bridges, so that the only eyes able to actually see the thing happen in our own city on our own streets paid ~$2000 for the privilege.

      The classism on display is insane. The city is all about entertaining the obscenely wealthy globalist class, and the people that make it all run are serfs.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    7 小时前

    I prefer watching IRL anyway since I don’t have a high refresh rate TV and I haven’t even seen any broadcasts higher than the typical 24fps. I can almost never see the puck on TV. It moves too fast.

    Also my team fucking sucks anyway. One of, like, only 2 teams that have never won the Stanley Cup.

  • Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    32·
    13 小时前

    Reading this thread makes me so happy I long ago lost interest in watching sports. It sounds like a complete headache to be a fan of any sport these days.

    • DeLancre@piefed.socialEnglish
      16·
      16 小时前

      Music services still pretty useful. I’m using deezer for example, it can stream lossless audio and kinda okay with “radio” mode. Used spotify before, but it infuriated me by suggesting same music I already heard for 20-50 times. It’s like at some point it just traps you in your own bubble of 100-200 songs.

      The alternative would be downloading thousands of albums in flac and uploading to multiple devices. Plus you need to add new music, which includes searching for that mentioned music. So yeah, nah, I’m okay with paying subscription for now. Until they eventually go to shit like video services did. Then we will need to come up with “popcorn time” alternative for music I guess.

      • SoakedBread@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
        5·
        15 小时前

        I still sticking with Qobuz. 70% of the time I listen to music I try to discover new artists and find obscure stuff. It would be way to time consuming to download random stuff via. Soulseek in hope to find a single track I like. So the discoverability of streaming services is unbeaten. If I like an Artist, I either download the tracks on Soulseek (Which is pain in the ass in my opinion) or I buy it via. bandcamp to add the to my offline collection.

        • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
          4·
          12 小时前

          Man I have zero issues with Soulseek. I’ve gotten so much stuff from there. Even obscure. What struggles do you have with it?

          • SoakedBread@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
            2·
            11 小时前

            If I am searching for something I mostly will find it, but only 1/4 of my downloads complete. Most of the time the downloads stuck at the status “queued” and won’t download. I have to find at least 4 different sources to get the Track I want. I’m using Nicotine+.

            • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
              3·
              8 小时前

              Are you sharing too? Most people on there autoblock transfers if the DLer isn’t sharing.

              I haven’t used Nicotine+ so I can’t be sure there isn’t something with that. I just use the soulseekQt client.

              • SoakedBread@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
                4·
                8 小时前

                Yes. Always. About 60Gb. Maybe it’s the Client but I don’t think this will solve the problem but I will try soulseekQt.

                Edit: Wow. I think this was the solution! With the OG Soulseek Client every request is downloading within seconds! The Client looks a little bit out of date, but if it works, I don’t mind. Surprisingly I get some bot messages every few request to prove I’m human. I never got these kind of messages with Nicotine+. Thank you very much!

      • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        15 小时前

        I’m downloading thousands of albums now in a bid to archive and run my own streaming service and let me tell you, I probably won’t ever unsubscribe from Tidal.

        • DeLancre@piefed.socialEnglish
          21·
          15 小时前

          Not everyone have static IP and device that can work as server. But yeah, it’s not like you can’t find work around: something like old android phone or spare notebook with pinggy on top would do the trick. Still, point stands - as for now it’s less convenient option.

          • Axolotl@feddit.it
            3·
            13 小时前

            Not everyone have static IP

            You can use a DDNS

            and device that can work as server

            Yep, if you don’t have any hardware or money that sucks, the hardware costs a lot, what i could buy wuth 20-30€ costs over the hundreds

            • DeLancre@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              12 小时前

              what i could buy with 20-30€ costs over the hundreds

              Khm-khm, arm boards, khm-khm

              No like, for real, why 16gb arm board like O6 now costs almost 1k euro? 32gb version right now 1400 euro on aliexpress. FOR WHAT? Finest chinesium?

              And “affordable” Raspberry Pi with as much ram as my toaster (and similar CPU at that) now costs more money, than regular small mini PC on x86.

              You can use a DDNS

              I need to dig into that a bit more, but I’m not sure if it will work with NAT on ISP side (with is a common thing at least in region I’m from).

              • Axolotl@feddit.it
                3·
                12 小时前

                Khm-khm, arm boards, khm-khm

                Even x86 hardware, because everyone is now selling shit without RAM and SSD/HDDs but with the same prices

                I need to dig into that a bit more, but I’m not sure if it will work with NAT on ISP side (with is a common thing at least in region I’m from).

                It should work in theory

    • BigDiction@lemmy.world
      8·
      12 小时前

      Damn I just assumed plopping down $450 for Sunday Ticket got you every game, but it doesn’t include primetime games at all!?!

      • Prox@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 小时前

        I believe Sunday Ticket only includes the Sunday games and literally nothing more. It’s pretty much bullshit.

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        12 小时前

        They’ve continually devalued Sunday ticket as a product. I’m surprised Google isn’t more pissed about it, as they paid a fuck load for the rights to be the exclusive seller.

  • Jhex@lemmy.world
    40·
    16 小时前

    It was already worse than 2 subscriptions before… now they ensured that people who are dumb enough to give them money could not say “well, I guess I can skip Monday games”

    So they have segmented the broadcast further; showing zero care or respect for their customer base in Canada

    In time this will backfire badly. We used to be a fam who watched Hockey when our kids were little, because of that my now grown son had asked to “get back into it” (we had already given up) so we pirated the feeds because it’s cheaper and better service than any official broadcast partner. He could not believe we needed to check the NHL site to find out which service was carrying “today’s game”

    It is easy to see how so many families would just decide to go without and the fan-hood that is passed from parents to kids as they watched sports as a family would be over. Even now, most of my sons’ friends could not care less about Hockey which was definitely not the case in my generation. Good job Bettman!

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
      9·
      15 小时前

      But isn’t that because of different leagues and cup tournaments. In the US they split the games from a single league across different subscriptions. At least in my country in Europe the main football league is just one subscription.

      • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
        5·
        15 小时前

        In Germany, to have all Bundesliga games available you’d need DAZN and Sky. I also looked up Premier League in UK and apparently you’d need Sky and TNT there. Those are the respective top national leagues. Champions League is also split up between Amazon Prime and Paramount+ and the finale might be available on Netflix exclusively.

        • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
          2·
          14 小时前

          oh wow that sucks. Here in the Netherlands I can get both Bundesliga and Premier League from Viaplay under one subscription. Champions League, La Liga and Seria A from Ziggo and Eredivisie from ESPN. Still not great but no splitting leagues across different providers. yet.

  • onTerryO@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    15 小时前

    Me: Well, at least I can watch for free on CBC on Saturday nights.

    Rogers: Yoink!

  • BigDiction@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 小时前

    ESPN+ was actually good if your team is in another TV market, but not broadcasting all the national playoff games was ridiculous - cancelled it.

    I’m very close to Canada, bought try an antenna to grab the CBC broadcast.