U.S. Cricket Lovers Shafted, Bloody ESPN3 (On Internet) Gets ‘TV’ Rights To Pakistan, Sri Lanka and W.I. Cricket.
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.by Anura Guruge
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Many thanks to Satyajit who brought this to my attention this morning in the form of a comment.
This is terrible.
I for one can’t get access to ESPN ‘bloody’ 3 on my PC because my Internet provider, TDS, is not on the authorized list.
I have as much chance getting TDS to sign up for ESPN 3 as I have of getting a pig to fly.
Plus, as I have said before I do not want to watch cricket on a PC.
I want proper broadcast TV.
Plus the little coverage I have seen from ESPN 3 is beyond garbage
and the commentators they have come across as having
no idea of cricket.
A sad day for US in the US.
I am sure this was another filthy lucre based deal by the
Indian Board of Control.
I am so mad. I am so disgusted.
Reasons 111 To 115 Of The 1,001 Reasons I Really, Really HATE DirecTV.
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.by Anura Guruge
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#111. I have 30 Mbps broadband Internet download capacity at home across two dedicated fiber connections, 15 Mbps allocated to the Wi-Fi router and the other 15 Mbps, unshared, piped to this PC. Friday morning I was trying out the DirecTV Android APP (#103 & 104) on our Google Nexus 7 pads. At that time, since everybody in the house was piled on the bed, nobody else was using any bandwidth on the Wif-Fi router. So the router was getting close to 14.5 Mbps (taking into account the overhead). The DirecTV APP on both CNN and Nick was having trouble buffering the video. It was by no means streaming video! We were not impressed.
#112. This morning, Sunday, at 9 am, as is out wont, we put on Boston Channel 4, CBS “Sunday Morning”. Deanna wanted it recorded. So I hit record and it started recording. A commercial came on. I started going up through the Channels all the way to Channel 9, WMUR. They were showing local weather. Watched that. Then hit ‘4’ on the remote to go back. Black screen. NOTHING. No sound. Black screen. Thought bloody Genie was dead again. Hit guide. No, bloody Genie (alas) is alive — just not showing Channel 4. Hit Channel up to go to 5. 5 comes on. Hit Channel down. 4 now comes on. This is so pathetic and stupid.
#113. I had experienced this before (#89), but I again suffered mightily on Friday morning. Around 8:40 in the morning, while still drinking my first cup of coffee, I like to turn the sound off on the TV and read a book until 9 am, when I catch the headlines. So I hit mute. Friday morning mute only worked, turning off sound and then turning it on … on the 3rd attempt. So first two pushes got me noting! This is crazy.
#114. Given all the hassle I keep on encountering with the stupid DirecTV service, suffice to say I find the never ending ‘refer a friend’ commercials by DirecTV that tell me that I can save $400 a month extremely annoying and offensive. I have, however, hatched a plan. I am going to really push DirecTV to all those that irk me. So if you get e-mail (or similar) from me, signing the praises of DirecTV and urging you to switch, you should get the message.
#115. I have, as of today, had DirecTV for 23 days — and as these posts painfully chronicle I have yet to go A DAY without running into a problem. I wonder if the NH lemon law could be twisted to help me out because DirecTV sure is a lemon.