Free stream of Spring game?

Submitted by rickiew04 on

I was wondering if anyone knew of a website where we could stream the game for free? The Big Ten Network is charging $2.99 from their website.

BrayBray1

April 17th, 2010 at 10:54 AM ^

the MGoCommunity would have been on it like stink on shit, long ago. In other words...You're screwed until 8. (unless you shell out 2.99 or listen to it on WTKA)

RDDGoblue

April 17th, 2010 at 11:01 AM ^

I forked over a couple of bucks this past winter on a basketball game from BTN.com, and will never do so again. The quality of the stream was completely unacceptable, as was their customer service response when I emailed them.

There were many many posters in a thread on this board talking about how poor the stream was, but all that btn.com customer service could suggest to me was that it was an issue on my end, and that I should restart my computer, modem etc. I was able to stream espn360 that night, but btn.com insisted that the reason I was getting 3 seconds of stream and then never ending buffering was not their problem.

I can't say enough how much I recommend my fellow mgoreaders to go spend that $3 on something else, and just watch the game at 8 on BTN TV.

Slinginsam

April 17th, 2010 at 11:08 AM ^

I believe my cable bill increased by a couple of dollars a month to pay for the BTN. Why should we pay more for services for which we have already paid?

Or I am missing something?

formerlyanonymous

April 17th, 2010 at 11:21 AM ^

Their baseball streams have been of the highest quality, even if they have been in SD. Totally worth the $2.99. I suggest someone buy it, let the rest of us know how solid or crappy it might be, then go from there. To those complaining about basketball, I think it may be worth re-evaluating. That was during the first month of streaming on the new system.

Most of the BTN.com streams come without replay or graphics, at least for the StudentU productions. I would imagine it is a bit better for football related productions, but remember it's no guarantee.

With BTN showing $2.99 seems like a totally fair price to watch it live. The BTN is showing two games today live that actually count in the standings. The baseball is the top two teams in the league and softball features #2 Michigan. Of course they're not going to show a spring game live over that.

silverslugger

April 17th, 2010 at 11:45 AM ^

Huzzah! Tennis practice was cancelled so I can know listen to the game if my computer ever lets audio from WTKA work, because as of now, I'm receiving nothing but silence.

Thorin

April 17th, 2010 at 11:49 AM ^

Their stupid system won't take my foreign American Express card. Also, why is the WTKA "live" stream not live? Looks like I'm stuck with twitter until the torrent of the 8pm broadcast comes out.

formerlyanonymous

April 17th, 2010 at 11:52 AM ^

If anyone wants to stream the 8pm version on justin.tv, I'm not saying do it, but I'm not saying don't start early. Say, like 1pm ET. Not that there's an important baseball game starting at that time on BTN. Nor a important Michigan softball game on after that...

wildbackdunesman

April 17th, 2010 at 1:02 PM ^

I bought the BigTen Network feed for $2.99 and the feed quality is alright - not great, but not horrible. I don't know why they need to cut away from the national anthem to go to a BigTen logo screen while keeping the audio.

There is an "HD - higher bandwith" button you can clock on too.