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I live in the Bay Area (California) and when I got home at 1 PM PST to watch the Dolphins/Raiders game, something very familiar happened.

The local CBS channel wasn't showing the game. That's cause Raider games, barely, if ever, sell out and hence the lockout crap. So I say to myself "Ok - well that's ok. I paid $250 for Sunday Ticket, should be showing it since my LOCAL TV is not."

Guess what? The Sunday Ticket version was ALSO blacked out. So all of a sudden I'm freaking out. So pissed that I'm about to call DirecTV and demand my money back. Thankfully, we had just installed a dish that receives local channels from major TV stations around the nation - and low and behold, the CBS in KENTUCKY was showing the game, so that's how I saw it.

But - I guess my question is - can DirecTV do that? I mean, does that mean that NO home Oakland Raider games are available on television? Or any home team for that matter EVEN IF you have Sunday ticket?
 
If the game is blacked out in the local team markets where the DTV feed comes from, I guess it is totally possible and there is nothing legally DTV can do about it!
 
Yeah, thats what the clause in the DirectTV contract stipulates, in reference to the fact that their bound by the local blackout restrictions as well.
Totally sucks since your still paying for the game. They probably figure entire neighborhoods would simply pile into Sunday Ticket Livingrooms.
At first, I didn't realize they could regulate local markets over the Dish networks, and thought if a game was blacked out locally, DTV just didn't air it period.
Apparently, they know exactly where we live, just how much crap we'll put up with, and like Jim Carey's "The Truman Show", can shut it down anytime, anywhere, to anyone, with the flick of a switch.
Actually, still outside the bubble here in LA, they haven't yet sewn everyone up by the niblets. :shakeno:
 
Get yourself an extra dish, a concrete cinder block, a power converter, drive about a 100 miles away from where you are, and set up your own tailgate, you don't need a connected phone line to watch DTV. Also if you are only 100 miles away the azimuth, and degree settings should be the same, regardless, your dish setup would tell you the correct settings. Just fiddle with it until you have a signal.
 
Wildbill3 said:
Get yourself an extra dish, a concrete cinder block, a power converter, drive about a 100 miles away from where you are, and set up your own tailgate, you don't need a connected phone line to watch DTV. Also if you are only 100 miles away the azimuth, and degree settings should be the same, regardless, your dish setup would tell you the correct settings. Just fiddle with it until you have a signal.
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Improvise, adapt, overcome!! Spoken like a true Marine WildBill
 
Yeah, I've got a good hunch, Wild Bill doesn't merely preach it...


Unbolt the Direct TV dish from its mounts, and just go mobile?

:lol: LOL, thats a great idea! Too bad I didn't hear that at the start of the season, I've missed at least 4 games on the road, having to work weekends!
 
Califin said:
Yeah, I've got a good hunch, Wild Bill doesn't merely preach it...


Unbolt the Direct TV dish from its mounts, and just go mobile?

:lol: LOL, thats a great idea! Too bad I didn't hear that at the start of the season, I've missed at least 4 games on the road, having to work weekends!
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as long as your sub (subscription) is paid up, you can take your reciever anywhere. Buy an extra dish boys, they are cheap, and you can take your tv with you to friends, family, whatever, also if you have two recievers, you never have to unhook your main setup. :D
 
I can see it now, Big ol dish mounted to the roof of my van, drivin down the highway, and peeps pullin up alongside me askin, "Wheres the Tornado?"

Suppose I'd just reply, "In Miami's backfield!" :rawk:
 
I just remembered something, you'll have to have your second Reciever registered under a different zip code. IN other words, if you have a family member that lives in a different state, Tell directv that you have a second home, and you want DTV at both houses, then hook your second reciever up at thier house to get the program downloaded, and then you can take the reciever back to your house, and watch the blacked out games in your area.

(the portable DTV thing won't work, because it will still be programmed to the area you live in, and thus will still be blacked out no matter where you take it.) Sorry for the misinformation.
 
Hmmm, I wonder how Madden does it?

I think theres retired folks out there, who actually live perpetually on the road traveling, who have it for their motorhomes. The full dish hookups.
Wonder how much more it would be? While usually on my shingled roof, I kinda like the idea of one account, one dish, with a custom bracket for easily attaching, or actually maybe a small one for my van.
DirectTV may not yet be up speed for marketing such a setup, but like everything else thats gone mobile, I expect it wont be far off.

Seems like it could be a pain though dialing in, and locking onto a signal, at each reststop.
 
I was able to watch the game at a bar... i'm in NY though. I can't believe Raider games aren't selling out... i thought them fans out there were some of the most diehard in the nation.
 
sjdolphin said:
I live in the Bay Area (California) and when I got home at 1 PM PST to watch the Dolphins/Raiders game, something very familiar happened.

The local CBS channel wasn't showing the game. That's cause Raider games, barely, if ever, sell out and hence the lockout crap. So I say to myself "Ok - well that's ok. I paid $250 for Sunday Ticket, should be showing it since my LOCAL TV is not."

Guess what? The Sunday Ticket version was ALSO blacked out. So all of a sudden I'm freaking out. So pissed that I'm about to call DirecTV and demand my money back. Thankfully, we had just installed a dish that receives local channels from major TV stations around the nation - and low and behold, the CBS in KENTUCKY was showing the game, so that's how I saw it.

But - I guess my question is - can DirecTV do that? I mean, does that mean that NO home Oakland Raider games are available on television? Or any home team for that matter EVEN IF you have Sunday ticket?
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Same thing happened to me....read my thread from Monday here ...

http://www.finheaven.com/boardvb2/showthread.php?t=111010&highlight=screwed+DTV
 
It's ok though because DirecTV and the NFL said there will not be anymore blackouts starting next year because a lot of people were complaining (if you remember there never used to be blackouts, that all started only a few years ago.)

I try to find the link...
 
Kind of off topic, has anybody heard of Slingbox and if so used it to get a TV feed through their computer? My one ? is whether a person catch watch the local channel and still have it feed through the slingbox to another user on a PC. If this is possible I might do this and have one sent to a buddy that has Direct TV.
 
Califin said:
Hmmm, I wonder how Madden does it?

I think theres retired folks out there, who actually live perpetually on the road traveling, who have it for their motorhomes. The full dish hookups.
Wonder how much more it would be? While usually on my shingled roof, I kinda like the idea of one account, one dish, with a custom bracket for easily attaching, or actually maybe a small one for my van.
DirectTV may not yet be up speed for marketing such a setup, but like everything else thats gone mobile, I expect it wont be far off.

Seems like it could be a pain though dialing in, and locking onto a signal, at each reststop.
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There is a special type of roof mounted dish that looks more like one of those snow saucer sleds turned upside down. Here's a link.

http://www.kvh.com/Products/Product.asp?id=79
 
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