Sunday Ticket - Canada

A question for the fans living in Canada....

I used to get Sunday Ticket through my local cable provider, but that is now not possible, as a new company out of the UK (DAZN) has the NFL rights for Canada. Has anyone signed up for this streaming site or used them in the past for other sports? Looks like they have soccer, tennis, etc.

Just curious what experience others have had.

 

Yes I am using them now. I have a fiber optic broadband connection at 75MB download. Working well for me thus far. I do however wonder if once the season starts there may be server issues because of the demand. The HD quality is really good.

 

Thanks guys.

I'm not super 'tech savvy' and I don't currently have a smart TV, but my plan was to use my phone or iPad to stream the games and hook it up to my TV. I've used this method before to view online content on my outdoor TV and it's worked pretty well. I'm not sure how the fiber optic line factors in, pardon my ignorance.

My cable company is now scrambling and offering a way to watch 'all' games with their time shift channels on CTV and the TSN channels. Not sure how that would work out.

Obviously, I just want to make sure I don't miss a single Steelers game.

 

Direct TV US.....I know this does not help ur situation....

But FYI for US Next year. I always Call To cancel my NFL Ticket at the end of the year so it does not auto-renew on my account.

At the beginning of the following season, I call and ask if they can add NFL Ticket at no charge. It's been successful three years straight.

 

There's a joke in there somewhere about Bell being shockingly expensive and offering only one-year contracts...but I'm too lazy to make it.

 

I'm with Bell; they recently bought out our local company.

I just had a chat with one of their representatives and apparently, with the time shift CTV channels and the 5 TSN channels, all NFL games will be available. So, looks like I'll add the time shift channel options and see how it goes. Maybe it's something you can do too, NB?

I might consider signing up with DAZN, for the 1st month, just in case.

 

Yeah, I'm skeptical too, but that's what they told me. I'll get DAZN for back up.

I'll keep you posted!

 

I have Cogeco here and its awesome.. Very fast.

 

Will end up being cheaper at 20 a month then having it through my cable company.. firstrow does not work anymore so thats not an option

 

I just got DAZN this week, and will be streaming it from my laptop. Initial tests were good quality (I have Fido, owned by Rogers). I too am curious to see how it holds up with demand on regular season Sundays.

 

I just off the phone with Direct TV begging for a loyalty discount rate for Sunday ticket and they gave me $20 a month off which saves me about $120 for the season, that's better than nothing!!! Bring on the Brownies

 

I watched the second half on Thursday on DAZN, and the video quality was good, but not great.More like standard def rather than HD, and only one bounce out. I missed the first half because I could not get to the home page. For some reason it keeps booting me to the "U.S. - this service is not available in your country" even though I am very much in Canada. I have been in contact with their IT via email (they do not have a phone number ) and they have yet to fix it. Ironically, in order to assure that I do not miss the game tomorrow, I subscribed to a VPN service to change my IP address to Canada . I really hope they fix it soon because I am less than impressed.

 

I have both cdn and us time shift packages and have not got access to all games in previous years

 

So, how did it go on Sunday? I've heard some rumblings that DAZN was pretty bad. How did you guys make out?

The Steelers game was on a few channels with my extended cable, but I still have doubts, as I tried surfing around to see if I could find all of the games and I couldn't locate the Ravens - Bengals match up.

Hopefully this doesn't happen with any Steelers games because they're more of a draw than those turds, but I don't like not knowing that I'll be able to watch, no matter what. And DAZN doesn't seem like it would even be a good safety net.

 

That sucks. And it really shouldn't happen. No idea why the NFL went this route.

For what it's worth, with the time shift channels, I was able check in on the Raiders vs Titans on CTV west, I believe it was. There were WAY too many of the east channels picking up the Bills vs Jets game. It was on at least 6 channels.

 

Just remember to cancel your NFL ticket at the end of the season with Direct TV so you are not on the auto renew list next year. That way, when you are talking to a "retention specialist" at the beginning of the following NFL season, they'll be able to give you the ticket at no charge.

 

Went ok for me. Had some issues wirelessly but lan cable plugged into my desktop I was able to watch it. Picture quality was really quality. Twice the screen would start shaking and had to reload. Minor annoyance. I was happy just to watch. Next game ( Vikqueens) I will be at Heinz enjoying it first hand Oh and had some people tell me they watched the game on TSN4

 

See you at the peace bridge 645Am I had no problems with it watch it a work again today

 

After having to connect to DAZN through a VPN, I couldn't watch the first quarter because the Steelers game wouldn't load. Eventually it did in the second quarter. The quality was decent. Bumped off once but got right back on.
Today tech support sent me a work around which seems to be working so far.
I am now watching the Vikings game on it and the quality is pretty good. I am still skeptical though. let's hope they fix these issues quickly.