So ESPN is showing the Miami/Virginia Tech game primetime Saturday night, and ESPNU is showing the entire game with one camera - the Skycam. It'll be a continuous shot throughout the entire game.

Is it possible to see ESPNU around here? I know that it's not available on campus. Gameplan doesn't include ESPNU games in their package. I heard that Time Warner has a contract with Fox Sports to carry THEIR college stations, which is why TWC doesn't carry ESPNU. Are there any other options? I'd just really like to see what it's like, even for just a little bit.

11/2/2005 1:09:57 PM

dump cable, they are asses


Direct TV has it, I watch it all the time

11/2/2005 1:19:02 PM

wtf is skycam

11/2/2005 1:20:19 PM

^^I friggin' love the DirecTV sports package. My dad gets it; that's all I watch when I'm staying with them.

11/2/2005 1:23:59 PM

^^???

the camera that seemingly floats above the field, on four cables. Its the camera that always gives you the shot of the huddle from above, and the perspective from just over the shoulder of the QB. Pretty hot shit.

11/2/2005 1:41:28 PM

oh, you mean the watch Marcus Vick run for his life as he avoids Miami's defensive line and looks into the stands for 15 year old girls cam.

11/2/2005 1:45:40 PM

ha
oh

you mean THE XFL CAM


i was thinking blimp

and i was like "who the fuck wants to watch a blimp game???"

11/2/2005 2:01:57 PM

That will be pretty cool as long as I can get the HD feed at the exact same time as ESPNU feed on my other TV.

11/2/2005 2:04:06 PM

but skycam is the suck

11/2/2005 2:23:44 PM

jack astor's in cary

11/2/2005 2:58:56 PM

i'm suprised they haven't used ESPN 2 to show Michael Vick on the sidelines the entire game, show the game, not the older vick

11/2/2005 3:45:56 PM

i'd rather have the choice of not watching michael, put him on his own channel!

11/2/2005 6:21:18 PM

the people who control the skycam suck

11/2/2005 11:17:19 PM

Quote :

"I heard that Time Warner has a contract with Fox Sports to carry THEIR college stations, which is why TWC doesn't carry ESPNU. Are there any other options? I'd just really like to see what it's like, even for just a little bit."

That has nothing to do with TWC not having ESPNU, its a decision completely between TWC and Disney. Its not like when a stadium either carries Pepsi products or Coke products, they are free to carry both, assuming they can work out a deal. Rumor has it that TWC is hoping to add ESPN2HD and ESPNU by early 2006, but rumors often mean jackshit.

11/3/2005 12:46:33 AM

^ I hadn't heard that information before, it's good to know. The way my friend explained it, it was an "exclusive" contract for the college stations.

11/3/2005 1:39:07 PM

ESPN is charging out the ass for their special programming (HD, ESPNU, etc). Don't be surprised if within 2-3 years that ESPN programming is strictly a premium channel package like HBO. They know that they can command that and its driving up cable prices.

11/3/2005 1:56:33 PM

how many more years before we see "The Ocho"?

11/3/2005 2:32:59 PM