Nobody cares about Evoca. It was a crappy service. It's easier for me to pirate games than support the team. That's the problem with the deal the team signed.
That's what you don't understand. Networks like Root Sports negotiate "the deal" with the streaming and cable services, not the teams that are on their network.
I just turn on my TV and watch the game. My cable bill is about $100 bucks. Lets see? In November i watched 15 games on TV. (one game i went to) Thar's just under $7 a game. I still get all the other channels as well. Tell me exactly how the Blazers are making watching the team unaffordable or making it so people can't watch the games? When I'm traveling out of town i can get the game on my laptop at no extra cost.
The Blazers signed the deal with root instead of kgw or YouTube. The Blazers made that choice. They didn't have to sign with root.
I agree. You can get Root Sports on FuboTV with their cheapest package that's only $70 a month. That's only about $5 a game. People spend more than that on a coffee.
KGW isnt really an option. They cant and dont want to give up their prime time slot for a full season of Trail Blazer games. NBC wouldn't allow that. They need to air all their stupid shows and news. And I know you'll respond with "they used to be on KGW". They did, but it was only a small handful of games each season.
Luckily KGW wasn't the only option. Why would I change my provider or pay $100 per month (of which only a tiny percent goes to the Blazers) when I can just go click on a link no matter when or where I'm at?
I do think Root is a better option than Comcast was where there were people that couldn't get the service even if they wanted to.
Seriously? You really want to go there? I just said i get it free on my laptop when i travel. Next maybe brush up on cable access. Over 90% of the US population has access to cable and high speed internet.
Does anybody who watches games on streaming sites really feel like someone is going to knock on their door and slap some cuffs on them? I don’t feel bad about it at all. But then again we grew up with a black box to watch blazer cable back in the day as a kid
Just because you can get cable doesn't mean you get root. And if you can get cable that doesn't have Root you're stuck paying for DirecTV as well as your internet. Or you could just click a link and not.
I’ve always found this confusing. I guess if I had to deal with it I would be able to follow all of this. I just watch every game through Comcast/Root. End of story.