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Originally Posted by Anduril
Gamecenter is certainly viable considering the savings and amount of hockey you get to watch.
Only issue I had with it is then quality. When you have a solid Internet connection the best you can get isn't quite the same as what TSN and CBC offers unfortunately.
I'm not sure about what the regular season is generally like but during the shortened season with their discounted price, the beginning of the season was a gong show in terms of stability.
Biggest bonus I think is the fact you can watch hockey on the go.
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I watch all my sports online now (NHL and MLB), and I agree, it's not quite the same as a cable or satellite HD feed - there's something not quite right about the framerate, which is apparent during the camera panning. I wonder if its a very slight difference in the FPS being used - 29.97 vs 30 fps, or some such nonsense.
That being said, you get used to it very, very quickly - my friends notice it right away, but I don't anymore (and honestly, it's not that big a deal)
In terms of early season gong show stability, that's par for the course - I don't think NHLGC has ever launched a season without issues. MLB, by contrast, is rock solid all the time.
In terms of watching on the go, this varies - if you are in-market, and at home on wifi, UnblockUs will definitely allow mobile devices to function, regardless of the location information their GPS is feeding them. In the old days, you could use VPN in conjunction with location services turned off while out on 3G or LTE and get around blackouts, but not anymore - both NHLGC and MLB At Bat require that your location services on your device be enabled. That being said, watching games on an iPad via LTE from anywhere is pretty awesome, other than occasional hiccups or bandwidth drops - spent many bus rides home catching games.