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NFL RED ZONE

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Have toiled on Sunday for the past five years. First regularly scheduled NFL Sunday off since 2005.

First day ever with NFL RedZone.

Best $49.99 I ever spent on ANY electronic media.

It moves. The host is quick and accurate traffic cop. Transitions are smooth.

We get most of the best, live, without suffering through any pontificating.

No RedZone commericals. In fact, no commercials, period.

There were even live look-ins of the locally blacked out Tampa Bay-Cleveland game...including the winning touchdown.

Who needs DirecTV, with the frequent black-outs of its own thanks to our frequent Florida rainstorms?

RedZone is where its at.
 
I haven't seen Red Zone (and probably won't) but as I sit here reading the board with an NFL game up in a mini-window I realize yesterday's NCAA games were leagues better than what I am seeing on Sunday.
 
Sorry I have to disagree with you to a degree. The concept of NFL redzone is great.

However it kind of annoys me on a bandwidth starved cable system such as the one I got (comcast) I have to see an HD spot wasted for a channel that is 99.9 % of the time "off the air" (yes it sits their all off season long too). NFL redzone seems to be the same thing as MLB network's MLB tonight "featuring live look-ins". Except MLB does it on their 24/7 network.

Seems to me, NFL redzone channel could just as easily be NFL redzone program on NFL network. NFLN doesn't really program anything great to go against football anyway. They usually just have a scoreboard up.
 
Speaking as someone who has NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV and who has its version of the Red Zone Channel, while watching touchdowns is great, I can also watch eight games at once with the Sunday Ticket Mix Channel. Talk about fast paced, I get to see every key play as it happens, and with HD I get to see everything clear and concise. As for weather dropouts, I almost never have them. In fact in the almost eleven years that I've had DirecTV, I have had only a handful of dropouts, while with cable I used to frequently get them. If you are a true sports fan there just is simply no comparison between DirecTV and cable.
 
i find that everyone has a different outlook at satellite depending upon location and if they got screwed or not, but i like the nfl redzone they have expanded past just the redzone its pretty much the whole game chunks at a time without commercials. but as i am stuck with comcrap will be looking into a dish once i get to a place that i can have one, but for now redzone is great
 
I am not trying to put a wet blanket on the NFL Red Zone channel on cable. I am glad that viewers other than satellite can see plays from around the league. I guess my comments are more directed at the systems themselves as Comcast keeps claiming they're the best at everything as does Fios and, yes, DirecTV, and especially Dish Network. Each one has something to offer in its own way. Comcast is good with on demand programming, Fios with HD quality and high speed internet, and Dish Network with movies, but when they start comparing sports programming it simply is no comparison as DirecTV is head and shoulders above them all. As for being screwed by DirecTV, I have had them for almost eleven years, and I just simply pay my bill with little problem. From what I'm seeing people are getting "screwed" by trying to get into these introductory price programs being offered and then suddenly being charged full price when the trial period is over. Then it's "hey, I'm not paying that much," and they think they are being screwed. Any way you slice it, both cable and satellite are expensive, and if you want premium programming, you will need to pay through the nose to get it. On another chat board, I hear people complaining that the NFL Sunday Ticket price is almost $300 this year, and when they called to complain that they were long time subscribers and that they should get the price reduced, and then are denied, they feel like they are getting "screwed". I understand the cost of the NFL package and am willing to fork over the $300 because I budget myself to be able to afford it. I do not expect a break in price just because I've been a long time subscriber. If and when I cannot afford it I will no longer get the NFL package. However, people expect all the breaks nowadays, and when they don't get them, they feel like they are the victims and have been "screwed". I have been very happy with DirecTV over the years; could it be better, sure, but it could be a whole lot worse...just take a peek at what some Dish Network subs are saying, especially when it comes to sports programming.
 
Irishfl said:
However it kind of annoys me on a bandwidth starved cable system such as the one I got (comcast) I have to see an HD spot wasted for a channel that is 99.9 % of the time "off the air" (yes it sits their all off season long too). NFL redzone seems to be the same thing as MLB network's MLB tonight "featuring live look-ins". Except MLB does it on their 24/7 network.
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RedZone has zero..none...commercials..nada. And, unlike MLB, I don't have to put up with unsufferable Chris Rock soundalike Harold Reynolds...or any sports 'anal'yst for that matter, save for the lone announcer who rolls with the flow.

Verizon FIOS has one regular and one HD channel set aside for RedZone.
 
Point being however redzone channel is on the air from 1:00PM to 7:00-30 PM 17 days a year. Thats about 5 days of programing for an entire year. meanwhile comcast can't add other HD channels because they're out of space, and currently are moving analog channels to digital so they eventually will be able to add more channels.

So I ask again, why can't redzone channel be a programing block on NFLN? NFL wanted espn type money for NFLN, and threw in red zone as a way to allow cable companies to have it on a higher tier, but keep NFLN in basic. However they could've just as easily said cable can block redzone programing to non-sports tier customers.

Anyway thats my only point. I don't think it should be a channel. As for content, yes I agree NFL red zone is great.
 
smaug07 said:
Speaking as someone who has NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV and who has its version of the Red Zone Channel, while watching touchdowns is great, I can also watch eight games at once with the Sunday Ticket Mix Channel. Talk about fast paced, I get to see every key play as it happens, and with HD I get to see everything clear and concise. As for weather dropouts, I almost never have them. In fact in the almost eleven years that I've had DirecTV, I have had only a handful of dropouts, while with cable I used to frequently get them. If you are a true sports fan there just is simply no comparison between DirecTV and cable.
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Actually there is. It's called SPORTS PACKAGES

While DirecTV carries Extra Innings, NBA League Pass, Center Ice, ESPN Plus & perhaps even MLS Direct Kick like the cable companies & DISH Network do, THE ONLY thing that comes close to a sports package for NFL games IS NFL RedZone. Only difference is DISH Network charges an extra fee for NFL RedZone while Comcast/Xfinity (And perhaps other cable companies as well) offer it as NO CHARGE as long as you have either NFL Network or their sports package for Digital Cable.

In short, you get to have your own control room WITHOUT putting yourself on the proverbial diehard football fan DL as you hand an arm & a leg over to the NFL & DirecTV (Whom you know are both making A FRIGGING MINT with that sweet deal of theirs).

Just my opinion.....

Cheers :D
 
Irishfl said:
Point being however redzone channel is on the air from 1:00PM to 7:00-30 PM 17 days a year. Thats about 5 days of programing for an entire year. meanwhile comcast can't add other HD channels because they're out of space, and currently are moving analog channels to digital so they eventually will be able to add more channels.

So I ask again, why can't redzone channel be a programing block on NFLN? NFL wanted espn type money for NFLN, and threw in red zone as a way to allow cable companies to have it on a higher tier, but keep NFLN in basic. However they could've just as easily said cable can block redzone programing to non-sports tier customers.

Anyway thats my only point. I don't think it should be a channel. As for content, yes I agree NFL red zone is great.
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At the very least, NFL RedZone should be on a shared basis with either a Public Access channel (Which Comcast/Xfinity is also moving to Digital) or its own CET channel (Much of its programming can be seen elsewhere like Altitude here in Denver for the short period of time which NFL RedZone takes up).

BTW.....Channel 105 (The new home of CET) is where Altitude 2 (The overflow channel that is programmed & pressed into service as needed) is aired on Comcast/Xfinity here in Denver.

Cheers :D
 
Irishfl said:
Seems to me, NFL redzone channel could just as easily be NFL redzone program on NFL network. NFLN doesn't really program anything great to go against football anyway. They usually just have a scoreboard up.
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Kinda like how ESPN airs bowling on Sunday afternoons, or figure skating and poker against the Super Bowl.
 
Red Zone is having a free preview this Sunday (9/19/10)

http://www.freepreview.tv

so many of us can judge for ourselves the worth of this channel. :)

I've heard some people love it while others think it's like someone with ADD in charge of the remote. :D

So if your provider has the preview, judge away. ;)
 
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