Is espn+ worth it?
- Thread starter EvilBetty
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As recent as the late 2000s, there were many ISU conference games not televised. It’s great that there’s finally an option to watch every ISU game. I never understood how before 2011, Fox Sports Net owned all of the conference games that were not televised so not even MC22 could televise the games.
2011 and on was great that every game was on cable but in 2018ish Fox opted out for televising the Big 12 Championship. That left a void every other year for the Big 12 championship. In order to get ESPN to agree to take the television rights for the years left by Fox, the Big 12 had to give ESPN their 3rd tier rights for all schools except Texas and OU (previously owned by each school) thus ESPN+ was born. It was advertised the quality would be as good as the ESPN cable broadcasts. I highly disagree that is the case. But… At the end of the day I’m glad ISU now has every game on TV but the 2011ish to 2018ish was the absolute best when every game was on cable.
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You must be watching a different ESPN plus than me. Its pretty damn good.
Anything other than college football and basketball (when comparing against the flagship ESPN broadcasts). It seems for college sports, ESPN uses ESPN+ as their development program for their production crew and on air talent…and it shows.
I dont notice the difference but maybe I dont pay enough attention or care.
I mean, it’s very, very obvious and known that ESPN is not going to put their best talent and producers on ESPN+ broadcasts. It’s a lesser product. But honestly, it’s good enough. Streaming ESPN+ on Apple TV - the picture quality is fantastic. I’ve never noticed a difference between the picture vs. a normal/standard broadcast using YTTV to watch ESPN or ESPN2. Both look great. And I can easily find and watch replays and zip through them. Love it.
Love how I can watch women’s college sports. About the only thing ESPN has done that doesn’t annoy me
I dont care who calls games honestly.
Be grateful that we get to see games, that we normally can't.
Jfc...10 bucks or so per month.
I'da paid $100 to see this game today. Ps. I'm far from financially set.
Jfc...10 bucks or so per month.
I'da paid $100 to see this game today. Ps. I'm far from financially set.
I get the Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle “free” through Verizon but I got an email last week informing me the price of the bundle is going up and the bundle will no longer be included in my plan starting next month. We don’t watch anything on Disney+ or Hulu so looks like I’ll have to start paying $11.99 for ESPN+. Oh well, it’s worth it to watch the Cyclones.
I add it to my Disney Hulu bundle the day we play our first football game on ESPN+, then I drop it the moment we play our last ESPN MBB game of the season.
I'll patoup to watch my ISU football and men's hoops. After that, I don't have much use for it. I rarely watch games from other schools on there, the better games are usually on one of the networks.
I'll patoup to watch my ISU football and men's hoops. After that, I don't have much use for it. I rarely watch games from other schools on there, the better games are usually on one of the networks.
Anybody here try to watch NHL on ESPN+? How do you get around the blackouts? Asking for the MN Wild.
