Watching Wiz games online

by Gilbert4SpaceJam2 on Oct 6, 2009 2:20 PM EDT Comment 17 comments

As a first year college student, I find myself out of the DC area for the first time but I still want to be able to watch Wizards games. I had a couple questions I was hoping BF readers could help me out with.

1. Is NBA League Pass Broadband worth it? And do they have video for all games, every night?

2. What other (cheaper) options are there for watching games online? Do they work well?

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1. Absolutely worth it.
2. No other legal options that I know of.

You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on Oct 6, 2009 2:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Other than slingbox

Which I don’t know much about.

You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on Oct 6, 2009 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

And League Pass has all the games? Like, I’m not gonna shell out the money for it and then find that they don’t have the Wizards games on it half the time?

Thanks for the info!

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by Gilbert4SpaceJam2 on Oct 6, 2009 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I would try justintv and/or atdhe

That is for channels where you don’t have to download anything. There is also a site that is very good for finding streams for different sports: http://www.myp2p.eu/index.php?part=sports

To watch some of the streams on there you will need download things like Sopcast, tvants, tvu, etc.

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by George Templeton on Oct 6, 2009 3:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

That's what I do

Better yet, if you want to get really ghetto with it, stream justin.tv or atdhe on a playstation 3 and watch it on the big screen.

by pantslessyoda1 on Oct 6, 2009 6:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I honestly

Thought I was the only person that did that :-)

by bigrm18 on Oct 6, 2009 10:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

hehe

Watching obscure basketball games that way while eating an entire Domino’s pizza was probably the lowest/highest point of my life. Add me on the PSN, too, since my friend list is only like six people deep – username is pantslessyoda1

by pantslessyoda1 on Oct 10, 2009 9:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I haven't used my PS3

In a while because my plasma TV broke :-(

by bigrm18 on Oct 11, 2009 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

NBA LP Broadband

I found Broadband unwatchable. Jerky picture, constant drop outs, fast forwarding is difficult if not impossible, the game frequently would start over from the tipoff…etc

I have a cable modem connection and have no trouble watching Netflix online for example, or any other broadband for that matter. I have a Mac, hopefully that’s not the problem.

I’d see if you can test it before buying.

by MR on Oct 6, 2009 3:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Slingbox is a relatively($100) cheap option

if you have parent’s still in the DC area. Plus if you don’t have cable at school you can also watch non wizards programming. Picture quality is solid but not ioutstanding atleast with the one I bought my pops 3 years ago.

by BayAreaBullet on Oct 6, 2009 4:26 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Slingbox baby.

I get the Wiz/Caps/Redskins all for the one time fee of $60.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laydODN6xVk

by hibachi on Oct 6, 2009 4:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

good price ..caps are worth it.

by raven on Oct 7, 2009 1:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I don’t have cable, so my options are a bar or one of these streaming sights.

by oatmealeater on Oct 10, 2009 6:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I've always thought

one could get a slinbox and pay for an additional cable box for whoever is hosting it. What’s that, like $8 a month? Set it up in some out of the way place and forget about it.

Not the cheapest solution, but not too expensive either.

by MR on Oct 12, 2009 10:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs