No more basketball for me on TV anymore

[Scotty]

ok so i havn't had Foxtel for very long and before that the only way i could see any NBA was the 3 min highlights on NBA.com-so on the 3rd of April we got a free month of Foxtel IQ (http://www.foxteliq.com.au/) with all the channels. So i got it a bit before the playoffs started so i was happy i could finally watch some NBA. So it was all good although i knew i would only have it for a month (which was about 8-10 games) i think. Then last Monday i went to camp and came back yesterday and when i got back my Dad told me we had decided to keep the Foxtel so i was like Fuck yeah, but then he told me we havn't got all the channels anymore just the basic ones and movie ones-shit like that. So i asked him if we have ESPN anymore and we dont so now that's the end of the basktball for me. It's so gay why couldn't we keep ESPN until the playoffs finished then get rid of it, i couldn't give a fuck about it after that. Anyway it makes me think how much it sucks to only have basketball on one channel.

Our previous channels (all)-
now-

i think if we had all channels like we first did it would cost about $110 p/month, where as what we are fetting is about $70 p/month. You can get what we are getting plus two other packages (you can see the channels are in packages) for another $15 bucks.

is anyone else in a situation where they pretty much cant even watch basketball at all?

[Nick]

I don't have foxtel, but i can still watch basketball.

I can't really talk about it on the forum though, as it isn't exactly "legal"

[Scotty]

hmm really *pulls out note pad* are you sure you dont wanna discuss it?

[J@3]

Yes he is. I'm in the same boat as Nick, though we're thinking about getting Foxtel.

[Riot]

Atleast you have Fox News.

[Scotty]

indeed i do, that just makes it all the worth while.

thanks Riot

[Axel]

Yes he is. I'm in the same boat as Nick, though we're thinking about getting Foxtel.

Same boat here, though it isn't Foxtel, but rather Dish Network.

I know more people who get "free" TV than I do people who pay for it legitimately.

[Andrew]

If you forego the movie channels, it's only around $75 per month including ESPN (as well as the Comedy Channel).

[Scotty]

yeah but my Mum pretty much wanted the movie channels the most because of classic movies on TCM and that-We wouldn't get it if we didn't get the movie channels-yeah and it sucks we dont have Comedy Channel either (Family Guy, South Park etc.)

[Andrew]

Sometimes I'm tempted to get the movie channels as well but I can't afford it right now. Personally I can do without them, most of the movies I'd want to watch again and again I own on DVD anyway.

[Scotty]

yeah i dont watch them either. FBO(Foxtel Box Office) is shit, $6.00 for a movie, is way to much

[Andrew]

Agreed, you can rent a new release DVD with all the extra features for about the same price (or less).

[Fitzy]

maybe you should ring and ask them
my aunty works on the phones there

[[Q]]

ESPN sucks. they charge too much for service... that's why I didn't get ESPN last year in the dorms...

[Matt]

well i got Foxtel too....i'm fronting the $80 bill a month myself, that's like 20% of my monthly earnings ( i refuse to work more than 11hrs a week ) but for the love of NBA....i'd rather have NBA than go out and get shitfaced on the weekend or have the fridge full of beer.

NBA > anything else.

[Jugs]

My Parents pay for Foxtel So I gets to watch NBA (when I can )

[KIG1]

ESPN sucks. they charge too much for service... that's why I didn't get ESPN last year in the dorms...

Man your crazy. You can't be in the dorms and not have ESPN. How'd you live.

[[Q]]

ESPN sucks. they charge too much for service... that's why I didn't get ESPN last year in the dorms...

Man your crazy. You can't be in the dorms and not have ESPN. How'd you live.

oh I was so pissed because I missed half of the playoff games last year

[Anthony15]

get comcast and enjoy

[Scotty]

My Parents pay for Foxtel So I gets to watch NBA (when I can )

umm my parents pay for Foxtel aswell
it's not like i'm gonna pay $85 p/month at age 14

[Matt]

none of my friends have foxtel....so i tape ppl NBA & football (spanish & EPL).

Apart from NBA & Sth Park i practically dont watch it.

[Scotty]

none of my friends have foxtel....so i tape ppl NBA & football (spanish & EPL).

Apart from NBA & Sth Park i practically dont watch it.

NBA and south park are on 2 channels i dont have

[Fitzy]

south park is on sbs for me

[Scotty]

oh yeah that too.

ok i've had found a few alternatives, but if they dont work then i might have to do this

There's this new channel on Foxtel called Sport Center, except it's not like the other channels. What it is, is when you go into it-it shows all 9 sports channels at once (screen is divided into 9) and when you move your cursor on to one of the channels it gives you volume for that channel. So even though i dont have ESPN, in one of those 9 squares is ESPN. So i could watch the basketball in 1/9 th of the screen if i was desperate.

[[Q]]

wow that would be like getting nosebleed seats at 9 different sporting events.