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NHL Center Ice

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I'm wondering if anyone here is a subscriber? Do you guys get all the Leafs games? Are there regional blackouts where you don't get any local games?

I'm seriously considering cancelling cable altogether and get this if I get all the Leafs games.

Thanks for the help!
 
If you're in Ontario, minus Ottawa, ( aka Leafs region). All Leafs games will be blacked out on Center ice for you. If you're outside of the Leafs region, the Snet-Ontario games and LeafsTV games you will get, but any games nation wide on TSN or on CBC will be blacked out. I live in Winnipeg and get center ice online and half the Leafs games get blacked out due to being available on cable in my area.
 
I wasn't aware of that. Going away to university this September and planned to order Centre Ice to watch Leafs games. I assume the blackout restrictions are the same for the Raptors with NBA League Pass? Oops.

I know there used to be LeafsTV interactive where you could pay to watch all the non-CBC games streamed online, however Rogers and Bell scrapped that when they took ownership to try and drive people to their own tv cable packages.

These blackout restrictions are stupid and quite honestly, archaic. Chances are, if someone is able to watch games on TV they will. The vast majority of subscribers to GameCentre or LeafsTV Interactive probably don't have the opportunity to watch Leafs games on tv. Due to these restrictions they'll now lose my money that I was ready and willing to fork over for the opportunity to watch Leafs games online. Those choppy, delayed, and low-quality streams from illegal streaming websites don't cut it.
 
I live in Alberta, I've had it the last two years.  In 2012 I got all the games no problem.

Last season Leafs games the were exclsuive on LeafsTV were blacked out, but then I complained to Telus and they lifted the blackout, although the LeafsTV games were in stupid regular D instead of HD.

It's good value if you live oustide of Ontario, because the only Leafs games I would get otherwise are the national TSN games or CBC.  AND with PVR i can tape the games since they start at 5 pm her and ffwd all the commericals when i get home from work.

Winning!
 
KoHo said:
I wasn't aware of that. Going away to university this September and planned to order Centre Ice to watch Leafs games. I assume the blackout restrictions are the same for the Raptors with NBA League Pass? Oops.

I know there used to be LeafsTV interactive where you could pay to watch all the non-CBC games streamed online, however Rogers and Bell scrapped that when they took ownership to try and drive people to their own tv cable packages.

These blackout restrictions are stupid and quite honestly, archaic. Chances are, if someone is able to watch games on TV they will. The vast majority of subscribers to GameCentre or LeafsTV Interactive probably don't have the opportunity to watch Leafs games on tv. Due to these restrictions they'll now lose my money that I was ready and willing to fork over for the opportunity to watch Leafs games online. Those choppy, delayed, and low-quality streams from illegal streaming websites don't cut it.
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On the other hand those illegal streams have been getting better it seems.  It's still a big drop off but I feel like the gap is narrowing.  I personally love cbc games because they're of course streamed in HD.  My problem is I live in the leafs blackout area but don't want to bother with cable for anything else.  It's an expensive way just to see hockey. 

I've contemplated getting a vpn and going the center ice route but we'll see.
 
I live in the states and I think there was only 1 or 2 games for whatever reason I didn't get over last two years on center ice
 
To deal with the local black out issue, use a service like unblock-us. 

Works great for getting around this regional stuff.
 
Question:  If I get NHL center ice (on dish network), does that give me access to NHL gamecenter?

Anyone know?

Also, has anyone tried streaming gamecenter live through an apple tv.  I find that when I watch the highlights on my TV through apple TV, the refresh rate isn't quite high enough. Hence when there is a lot of motion on the screen, it looks a little glitchy and it bugs me.  I'm wondering if this is just because the highlights (free) are stored in a compressed form.  And perhaps the games themselves are streamed higher quality, making the picture effects that are bugging me go away.

Thanks for any advice.
 
Online and tv are both separate. I know with shaw direct if you get NHL center ice, they gave you online for free. Maybe contact dish network and ask them if they do this as well, otherwise I think you're out of luck.
 
princedpw said:
Question:  If I get NHL center ice (on dish network), does that give me access to NHL gamecenter?

Anyone know?

Also, has anyone tried streaming gamecenter live through an apple tv.  I find that when I watch the highlights on my TV through apple TV, the refresh rate isn't quite high enough. Hence when there is a lot of motion on the screen, it looks a little glitchy and it bugs me.  I'm wondering if this is just because the highlights (free) are stored in a compressed form.  And perhaps the games themselves are streamed higher quality, making the picture effects that are bugging me go away.

Thanks for any advice.
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Can't answer the first part, but I stream Gamecenter Live through my Xbox and it looks awesome to me.
 
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