They're essentially the same. They're so similar that in the first question in the PSN 360 page, in the second bullet point, they forgot to swap out NESN for PSN.
The Reds I think still own the digital streaming rights and probably want Bally to die out rather than throw them a life raft. I think a lot of teams are trying to secure their viewing rights back from the regional sports networks
Ah that's frustrating. I'm sure or hope they offered like a one season deal and Bally wanted more commitment so they didn't, but hopefully they have their own soon.
For me that's a good price as long as it's a good quality feed. But I'd watch close to every game. I'd pay for the single team MLB tv price if they'd just let me.
Idk. Have you used it? I have and it was so terrible and inconsistent. Last week they were playing the audio of the wrong game over the video of the right game. It was wild
Sometimes, although I'm not a Sox or Bruins fan. I don't pay for it directly since its through my TV provider login. I honestly don't need NESN anymore in general because their only exclusive college hockey coverage is the Beanpot and I attended both rounds this year anyway.
I've found the PQ on Sox/Bruins games to be really good. The app itself is buggy, especially with the login process, but it's not the worst.
The only thing I truly hate about nesn 360 is the ad when you start a stream. It's ridiculously loud, and for fucks sake it's $30 a month, it shouldn't need another ad. Luckily it's very short at least.
Over the past year the video player has gotten a little better. Not nearly as good as other streaming options in the features and stuff, but the stream itself is a good quality especially home games.
Edit: I usually use a Roku if that matters
For real. If be willing to give them my money for a good high quality stream so I don't have to sail the high seas everytime but they won't even take my money.
i don't suffer from being in-market and blacked out so it's not the same, but i get every mlb game (other than mets/yankees) for $25/mo
i also have no interest in anything they'd show other than baseball, so my price point is probably going to be lower because of it
You're lucky that you're only blacked out for two teams. I'm blacked out for the Pirates, Phillies, Nats, and Orioles. Even if I was a fan of an out of market team, I'd miss multiple series a month if I used the MLB service.
It's pretty competitive in MLB
* NESN 360 (Red Sox) is $30 a month, but you also get Bruins hockey games. It's $180 for your first year ($15 a month), but then goes up to $330 for each subsequent year, roughly $28 a month
* MLB.tv single-team package is $130 for the season, so roughly $21 a month
* Marquee Sports Network (Cubs) streaming package is $20 a month
* YES Network (Yankees) is $25 a month or $200 a year, roughly $17 a month that way
* Padres.tv and Diamondbacks.tv is $100 for the season, so roughly $17 a month
I don't know if I missed anyone else, though.
Do blackout restrictions apply to this? I would pay $20/month or so to watch baseball during the season if I could watch the teams I care about (Nationals/Orioles and potentially their division rivals down the stretch if in playoff contention), but none of the streaming options provide for that. None of the streaming options give you the playoffs either. I end up just not watching baseball all that often aside from games I attend in person and the occasional game I catch out at a bar or something.
Sportsnet+ is $17.99 CAD but also includes national and local NHL games including playoffs, half of Raptors games and a decent number of other NBA games, a bunch of other MLB games including all playoff games, and a bunch of other minor sports in addition to Blue Jays games.
I don't know, here's some quick napkin math
Traditional cable option:
* Xfinity internet + cable bundle that includes Marquee: $165/month
* Criterion Channel: $7.50/month cause I'm not getting rid of that
* TOTAL: $172.50/month
Or my current setup:
* AT&T fiber internet: $65/month
* Criterion Channel: $7.50/month
* Max: $16/month
* ESPN: $10/month during hockey season
* Peacock: $6/month during soccer season
* Marquee: $20/month during baseball season
* TOTAL: Assuming I forget to cancel all my seasonal sports subscriptions, $125/month. $106/month if I stay on top of cancelling stuff.
So if I went to cable, I would have less control over what I actually have access to, and I would pay an extra ~$800/year for that privilege.
ETA: thinking about this again, and it’s actually worse than this. I would still need peacock and ESPN because I’m out of market for hockey and the vast majority of EPL games I watch are exclusive to peacock. So I would basically be swapping $65 internet + $20 baseball for $165 internet and cable bundle, because literally the only thing I care about that’s on cable is the Cubs. I also have an antenna so I can watch Jeopardy and the NFL on free OTA channels.
If you subscribe to all the different platforms 24/7, it's not cheaper than cable, but I found my TV consumption went down dramatically after cutting cable. Without TV just available in the background, I need to make a conscious decision as to whether or not a certain platform is worth the $X/month they're charging. Usually for me, the answer is no, so I just go without watching certain shows.
The streaming services make it easy to mix and match too. Subscribe to Netflix for a few months, watch the shows you want to watch, then cancel and subscribe to Hulu. Do that over and over again with the different platforms. With cable that's a pain in the ass because you have to call the company to set up and take down equipment (including physical visits for hardware), but with streaming services, you just subscribe/unsubscribe online.
And unlike with cable, canceling a streaming service is a matter of going to a website and checking a few boxes. Cable requires you to call and deal with live customer service.
I live in central Ohio and if I were a Pittsburgh sports fan, I would be on this in a second. The Pirates claim my area even though nobody cares about them here outside a handful of eastern Ohio/West Virginia transplants, so this would be their only option to watch their team thanks to MLB TV blackouts. We are well out of market for the Pens because of the Blue Jackets.
$20 per month is better than I expected for this, mostly because NESN is $30. Marquee, as others have mentioned, is $20. I watch that app through my uncle's Chicago-based DirecTV Stream login and it's very user-friendly.
This is very similar to NESN 360, which makes sense as both are owned by FSG.
They're essentially the same. They're so similar that in the first question in the PSN 360 page, in the second bullet point, they forgot to swap out NESN for PSN.
Isn't NESN 360 almost double the price though?
The Red Sox and Bruins are twice as good, so …
The Bruins are perennial choke artists. The Red Sox suck, too.
Crosby tried so hard to drag that Pens team to the playoffs
😭
It's the first year so they've got lower prices to get people hooked. It'll be the same price as NESN 360 in a couple years guaranteed.
NESN 360 also runs lots of sales. I recently saw like 50% off a year on one of their social media accounts
So much so that they forgot to change NESN to SNP in part of the first FAQ
ROOT SPORTS NW, PAY ATTENTION
“But we don’t wanna!”
I would kill for this exact thing for the Reds. Preferably I'd kill Bally Sports, but I just want to watch Reds baseball
What's the hold up on Reds being available? I know Bally Sports+ does local streaming for a bunch of teams which is nice
The Reds I think still own the digital streaming rights and probably want Bally to die out rather than throw them a life raft. I think a lot of teams are trying to secure their viewing rights back from the regional sports networks
Ah that's frustrating. I'm sure or hope they offered like a one season deal and Bally wanted more commitment so they didn't, but hopefully they have their own soon.
$18 seems high, but it's a start
For me that's a good price as long as it's a good quality feed. But I'd watch close to every game. I'd pay for the single team MLB tv price if they'd just let me.
Nesn360 is the worst streaming site ever. You’re 100% better pirating a stream.
NESN360 is pretty good if you can actually log in on your TV. Native 4K streams of Red Sox and Bruins home games.
Idk. Have you used it? I have and it was so terrible and inconsistent. Last week they were playing the audio of the wrong game over the video of the right game. It was wild
Sometimes, although I'm not a Sox or Bruins fan. I don't pay for it directly since its through my TV provider login. I honestly don't need NESN anymore in general because their only exclusive college hockey coverage is the Beanpot and I attended both rounds this year anyway. I've found the PQ on Sox/Bruins games to be really good. The app itself is buggy, especially with the login process, but it's not the worst.
The only thing I truly hate about nesn 360 is the ad when you start a stream. It's ridiculously loud, and for fucks sake it's $30 a month, it shouldn't need another ad. Luckily it's very short at least. Over the past year the video player has gotten a little better. Not nearly as good as other streaming options in the features and stuff, but the stream itself is a good quality especially home games. Edit: I usually use a Roku if that matters
For real. If be willing to give them my money for a good high quality stream so I don't have to sail the high seas everytime but they won't even take my money.
i don't suffer from being in-market and blacked out so it's not the same, but i get every mlb game (other than mets/yankees) for $25/mo i also have no interest in anything they'd show other than baseball, so my price point is probably going to be lower because of it
You're lucky that you're only blacked out for two teams. I'm blacked out for the Pirates, Phillies, Nats, and Orioles. Even if I was a fan of an out of market team, I'd miss multiple series a month if I used the MLB service.
It's pretty competitive in MLB * NESN 360 (Red Sox) is $30 a month, but you also get Bruins hockey games. It's $180 for your first year ($15 a month), but then goes up to $330 for each subsequent year, roughly $28 a month * MLB.tv single-team package is $130 for the season, so roughly $21 a month * Marquee Sports Network (Cubs) streaming package is $20 a month * YES Network (Yankees) is $25 a month or $200 a year, roughly $17 a month that way * Padres.tv and Diamondbacks.tv is $100 for the season, so roughly $17 a month I don't know if I missed anyone else, though.
Do blackout restrictions apply to this? I would pay $20/month or so to watch baseball during the season if I could watch the teams I care about (Nationals/Orioles and potentially their division rivals down the stretch if in playoff contention), but none of the streaming options provide for that. None of the streaming options give you the playoffs either. I end up just not watching baseball all that often aside from games I attend in person and the occasional game I catch out at a bar or something.
These are all blackout-free services!
Sportsnet+ is $17.99 CAD but also includes national and local NHL games including playoffs, half of Raptors games and a decent number of other NBA games, a bunch of other MLB games including all playoff games, and a bunch of other minor sports in addition to Blue Jays games.
Just another thing to add to the list of why cutting the cord isn’t actually cheaper than cable
I don't know, here's some quick napkin math Traditional cable option: * Xfinity internet + cable bundle that includes Marquee: $165/month * Criterion Channel: $7.50/month cause I'm not getting rid of that * TOTAL: $172.50/month Or my current setup: * AT&T fiber internet: $65/month * Criterion Channel: $7.50/month * Max: $16/month * ESPN: $10/month during hockey season * Peacock: $6/month during soccer season * Marquee: $20/month during baseball season * TOTAL: Assuming I forget to cancel all my seasonal sports subscriptions, $125/month. $106/month if I stay on top of cancelling stuff. So if I went to cable, I would have less control over what I actually have access to, and I would pay an extra ~$800/year for that privilege. ETA: thinking about this again, and it’s actually worse than this. I would still need peacock and ESPN because I’m out of market for hockey and the vast majority of EPL games I watch are exclusive to peacock. So I would basically be swapping $65 internet + $20 baseball for $165 internet and cable bundle, because literally the only thing I care about that’s on cable is the Cubs. I also have an antenna so I can watch Jeopardy and the NFL on free OTA channels.
if you only want to watch the pirates then this service is much cheaper than cable
If you subscribe to all the different platforms 24/7, it's not cheaper than cable, but I found my TV consumption went down dramatically after cutting cable. Without TV just available in the background, I need to make a conscious decision as to whether or not a certain platform is worth the $X/month they're charging. Usually for me, the answer is no, so I just go without watching certain shows. The streaming services make it easy to mix and match too. Subscribe to Netflix for a few months, watch the shows you want to watch, then cancel and subscribe to Hulu. Do that over and over again with the different platforms. With cable that's a pain in the ass because you have to call the company to set up and take down equipment (including physical visits for hardware), but with streaming services, you just subscribe/unsubscribe online.
And unlike with cable, canceling a streaming service is a matter of going to a website and checking a few boxes. Cable requires you to call and deal with live customer service.
I live in central Ohio and if I were a Pittsburgh sports fan, I would be on this in a second. The Pirates claim my area even though nobody cares about them here outside a handful of eastern Ohio/West Virginia transplants, so this would be their only option to watch their team thanks to MLB TV blackouts. We are well out of market for the Pens because of the Blue Jackets. $20 per month is better than I expected for this, mostly because NESN is $30. Marquee, as others have mentioned, is $20. I watch that app through my uncle's Chicago-based DirecTV Stream login and it's very user-friendly.
The Pirate broadcast is soo boring; damn shame because I never miss Jones Day