BTN2 - why taunt us schedule people?

[thewop]

I hate when schedules list BTN+ games as BTN2. The first time I saw it I actually went to my TV channel guide to see if there was a station I was not aware of. Not ONLY is it not a TV station, it's a pay per view service (BTN+) that doesn't work very well (at least it didn't Sunday).

I noticed the rivals/yahoo schedule lists it as BTN2, that's what started my rant. And yes, I feel better now.

 

[Ronman]

Get in line.

 

[DanL53]

This is where technology has brought us! 547,834 channels, IF it isn't cloudy or your neighbor is watering his lawn. Bills so confusing that in the fine print it reads, "We don't know either, just, send us THIS much. Or more." A false fire alarm clears the Arena and somehow it destroys all the microphones though you can hear them just fine. Eighteen cameras at the game so we can see that cute little kid dressed up like a cheerleader 14 times a game while we miss what is going on in the game! Six remotes to run seven devices and if you do them in a slightly wrong order all of North Korea's nukes go off all at once. But try to figure out the order and you get a call from a research station at the South Pole and they say, "Stop that!" An online tech guy that you can hear talking to you, from somewhere in your BASEMENT and when you confront him on it he explains it is just "technical research". A mouse arrow that mysteriously moves when no one or nothing is near the mouse! The funny thing is if you have a Ouija Board for a screen saver the arrow spells out, "It's no better here either!" $%%^&ing that's just great to know!

I mean, Uncle Charlie's SPIT BUCKET if things can't get any worse!?!?!? Not to mention I don't know how to own music anymore! I can't buy a new car, not because I can't drive, but I don't know how to PROGRAM IT!!! And the microwave is something called a "convention oven?" and I thought you couldn't put metal in there but they put metal in there!

I have a phone where I have to sit next to a window or the brick walls prevent communication.

And information!?!? In the old days when they said a player was 6'8", he WAS 6'8"!!! Now we get informed on the hour that he has shrunk, grown, and the day they mention he is now only 1'10" but not to worry, he's currently laying down, that's the day I'll have had enough.

What the HE11 is this cloud thing? Adware, spyware, underwear, I don't care anymore. Just glad I'm in a good mood or this topic would really get me going.

 

[hawkipucker]

.....but Directv's channel guide has it listed on THEE BTN.

 

[SpartanHawk]

And when you play back Iowa vs. Hampton's women's game on this pay-per-view set up on the net last Sunday, it only had THIRTY EIGHT minutes of the game on the replay on BTN Plus (BTN2). Tons of the game was arbitrarily edited out. Is that what people pay for? CRAPPY editing of replays of games? And the first television broadcast of an Iowa women's game this year was last night on ALT 452 on Dish Network on NORTH DAKOTA's broadcast (with THEIR announcers) of Iowa's road game there. Why does BTN treat so many of its teams and its fans like crap in terms of airing their games and forcing people to pay for a sub-par product. Do they even USE those whole slew of extra channels on Dish network any more? Why don't they use them to put on these extra games instead of forcing people to hook up network connections to their television setup? At least we could count on better quality of the streams that we could record on a DVR instead of the crap we're subjected to now with BTN Plus.

 

[ThamesHawk]

I'm seeing the SH game on just the regular BTN channel. Side note: for Comcast users who may not be aware as I wasn't until I called them, most BTN games not on the regular BTN channel can be found on BTN On Demand (for which you go to OnDemand>by network>BTN) Though it's on demand it is only available live during game time. Kind of strange but hopefully that helps some people.

 

[UpstreamHawkeye]

And the first television broadcast of an Iowa women's game this year was last night on ALT 452 on Dish Network on NORTH DAKOTA's broadcast (with THEIR announcers) of Iowa's road game there.

Spartan, lucky you to find that! I was scrambling to get a feed for the game when in the first half the men's call-in show was still on the radio and no game broadcast. Later read a post that provided a web link for the live video feed. I have to say though the UND commentators were quite complimentary about the Iowa team.

 

[NI hawk]

Bring back hawkeye basketball on KIMT Mason City . Early to mid 80's.Half hour pre game with Bob Hogue. At least got to watch games . Just joking. Kind of. No longer get KIMT ,.

 

[SpartanHawk]

Spartan, lucky you to find that! I was scrambling to get a feed for the game when in the first half the men's call-in show was still on the radio and no game broadcast. Later read a post that provided a web link for the live video feed. I have to say though the UND commentators were quite complimentary about the Iowa team.

On Dish, I just do a context search (not just subject titles) on all content with "Iowa" in it periodically once or twice a week, which finds those kind of sports broadcasts. Those who have Dish, and I presume DirecTV has similar search features should be doing that weekly or less to find those "hidden" broadcasts.

I think these broadcasters loved to talk to Hannah Stewart returning to her home in North Dakota to have a nice game in front of her local fans up there. A lot of the interviews they did asked more about her on the team there.

This one broadcast wasn't HD, but hey, a regular non-HD broadcast is better than nothing, and perhaps a lot better than the crappy streaming quality we've had lately. Reading on how so many others have had streaming timeouts, etc. I wonder if their problems are close to the source of how the streams are transmitted to where they are broadcast, which might explain why they had to edit the stream down to 38 minutes, if so much of the rest of it was garbage due to the content quality that they even had on the servers where they are archiving these broadcasts. That would mean that there REALLY are some problems that need fixing on their backend machines and services to justify the cost of these services.

The BTN people really need to clean up their act now. If they are covering more schools, they need to ramp up perhaps the additional channels to cover them live from those channels, even if there is an additional layer of costs in terms of a sports package from services like the two satellite services or the cable outfit you have. The internet service now is not providing the quality that is worth this conference's and its fans' dollars.

 

[UpstreamHawkeye]

On Dish, I just do a context search (not just subject titles) on all content with "Iowa" in it periodically once or twice a week, which finds those kind of sports broadcasts. Those who have Dish, and I presume DirecTV has similar search features should be doing that weekly or less to find those "hidden" broadcasts.

I think these broadcasters loved to talk to Hannah Stewart returning to her home in North Dakota to have a nice game in front of her local fans up there. A lot of the interviews they did asked more about her on the team there.

This one broadcast wasn't HD, but hey, a regular non-HD broadcast is better than nothing, and perhaps a lot better than the crappy streaming quality we've had lately. Reading on how so many others have had streaming timeouts, etc. I wonder if their problems are close to the source of how the streams are transmitted to where they are broadcast, which might explain why they had to edit the stream down to 38 minutes, if so much of the rest of it was garbage due to the content quality that they even had on the servers where they are archiving these broadcasts. That would mean that there REALLY are some problems that need fixing on their backend machines and services to justify the cost of these services.

The BTN people really need to clean up their act now. If they are covering more schools, they need to ramp up perhaps the additional channels to cover them live from those channels, even if there is an additional layer of costs in terms of a sports package from services like the two satellite services or the cable outfit you have. The internet service now is not providing the quality that is worth this conference's and its fans' dollars.

Thanks for the tip, Spartan.

Towards the end of the game, the commentators were gushing about Iowa's Ally Disterhoft. But of course, talking nice about Iowa was an implicit praise on North Dakota for giving a good effort.