TSN GO Launches - Live TV for Bell and Rogers customers

[robaur]

Pretty sweet...just tried it and it works great.

http://www.tsn.ca/other_sports/story/?id=446002

Sorry if fata...i didnt see another thread.

[HotHotHeat]

I'm actually kinda worried about being a telus customer with this new deal.

[OzSome]

I am with Shaw and the live TV game will not work for me. Too bad I guess.

[Northendzone]

does anyone have a sense of how much it costs to watch TV on your phone?

i note that perhaps cost is not the right phrase, maybe how much data does a person use to watch TV via thier phone?

[Mass_nerder]

Yeah, I would imagine streaming a game would be a good way to eat through a month's worth of data very quickly.

[$ven27]

To watch a whole game would take up a ton of data, not worth it.

[Vulcan]

It would have helped me when I was visiting my niece last week and she didn't have TSN.

[StrykerSteve]

Originally Posted by $ven27

To watch a whole game would take up a ton of data, not worth it.

WiFi

[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by $ven27

To watch a whole game would take up a ton of data, not worth it.

With Bell Mobility you can pay $5/month to get 10 hours without counting towards to data plan. Not sure if the others have something similar (although I can't find it on their website)

[$ven27]

Would never go back to Bell, horrible experience with them. Hopefully TSN gets this with other phone providers too.

[Matty81]

Shaw is the absolute worst for embracing app based tv viewing. No HBO Go and no Sportnet world online either. Seems like the are also really fighting introducing the pared down tv packages with more choice as well. Real dinosaur of a company from my vantage point.

I feel like I have been a free hour and some motivation away from switching providers for a couple months.

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by $ven27

Would never go back to Bell, horrible experience with them.

How long ago?
No idea how they might compare on product/cost/coverage, but Bell customer service is now superb. Easily the best I ever experience by phone

[T@T]

Originally Posted by $ven27

Would never go back to Bell, horrible experience with them. Hopefully TSN gets this with other phone providers too.

Ask me and my answer is Telus sucks, ask my daughter and she'll say Rogers is terrible.

amazing how that works!

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by $ven27

Would never go back to Bell, horrible experience with them. Hopefully TSN gets this with other phone providers too.

I think it's your TV provider that is important, not your phone provider.

[freakinsaprikin]

Originally Posted by Matty81

Shaw is the absolute worst for embracing app based tv viewing. No HBO Go and no Sportnet world online either. Seems like the are also really fighting introducing the pared down tv packages with more choice as well. Real dinosaur of a company from my vantage point.

I feel like I have been a free hour and some motivation away from switching providers for a couple months.

Not that I don't think Shaw could go further with this, but I don't know that you are entirely accurate or maybe have missed some stuff. Also the Shaw Go Movie Central App includes HBO content:

http://www.shaw.ca/television/shaw-go/

Shaw Go is designed to deliver mobile content to Shaw customers anyplace, anytime. With new Shaw Go apps available all the time

[Vinny01]

Why the heck hasn't shaw released an app to let me record shows from my phone?

[$ven27]

Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce

How long ago?
No idea how they might compare on product/cost/coverage, but Bell customer service is now superb. Easily the best I ever experience by phone

6 months ago. Would regularly charge 5x my actual phone bill and they had no explanation for it, always said it's fixed, but they never did.

[Super Nintendo Chalmers]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

With Bell Mobility you can pay $5/month to get 10 hours without counting towards to data plan. Not sure if the others have something similar (although I can't find it on their website)

Doesn't Bell get flak for that from groups concerned about net neutrality?

[Matty81]

Originally Posted by freakinsaprikin

Not that I don't think Shaw could go further with this, but I don't know that you are entirely accurate or maybe have missed some stuff. Also the Shaw Go Movie Central App includes HBO content:

http://www.shaw.ca/television/shaw-go/

They released a proprietary app for movie central about 2 years after hbo go came out.

In the interim all they used to offer was this hbo/mc menu on the shaw vod that was only accesible via a shaw box and showed movies in a window box a less than full screen.

They just feel really change resistant, another example, back when I used to get it, they were the last cable provider to get sportsnet world hd, they just kept the regular def version for half a year after the other providers rolled it out.

I'm sure the grass is always greener but shaw does suck, especially gouging people as they do on pricing, no wonder there are increasing numbers of cable cutters.

[Anduril]

My c/ped posted from Tech Talk.

Originally Posted by Anduril

While this is applicable to iOS users as well, meh.

TSN updates their app to include live streaming to TSN/TSN2 for Bell/Rogers TV customers. They say they'll be 'adding more broadcast partners...in the future'.

Not sure how many people still use Bell TV but lucky me I guess? Video quality is actually pretty good. Not much in the way of stuttering with a decent connection (both wifi/cellular). No options to pause the live content but being able to watch Wednesday night hockey away from home is pretty nice.