Off the topic, but I hate this attitude.
Not from you personally, but from corporate America.
Hell, I can't even buy a fucking laptop now with a DVD drive because faggots like Bill Gates have determined that they are obsolete and everyone streams anyways.
Now if you want Sunday Ticket, you have to feed the Google machine and deal with streaming?
I think it's funny when people get so wide-eyed about consumer technology and forget that it has nothing to do with the cool apps and features, it's about selling more boxes at Best Buy. How much money do you think manufacturers and retailers make selling $59 Blu-ray players and cheap off-brand Chinese flat-screens.
I have nothing against technology and the forward march thereof. As I take inventory I suspect that I am not a technophobe but I'm certainly not a fan of computers. In my house with only two people we have HD 3D plasma, 1 desktop, three lap tops, 4 cell phones, IPad, a full digital recording studio, and nearly 1,000 albums streaming from a file server some in 24/96 hi-rez, video streaming, networked home theater, thousands of radio stations playing on my stereo and controlled from a tablet etc etc but a lot of the time the new technology answers questions that nobody asked. It's always more complicated, and the more computerized it gets the more glitchy it becomes without fail.
Streaming NFL on computers, tablets, or TVs is always at the mercy of your ISP. We live in a suburb outside one of the largest cities in North America but the choices for ultra-fast hi-speed do not exist in my neighbourhood.
For folks in rural areas sometimes hi speed Internet of any kind is simply not available. Satellite continues to be the only viable alternative.
The consumer electronics companies cannot make money on tried and proven technology and need to be in a constant state of product churn in order to survive. I don't pay for R&D by being an early adopter of every new electronic fad.
My time is too valuable to be a beta test guinea pig for all the "new and improved" tech that will supposedly make me a more fulfilled and happy person. Only a deep run into the playoffs by Da Boys will scratch that itch.
The only possible benefit I can see from some some of these video streaming services is that my wife will finally get so frustrated with them that she'll leave me alone to watch a game or two on the weekends.
PLUS.. What sort of intrusive new privacy-robbing processes will Google institute to monetize the billions that such services will cost to license and deliver. It's coming out of somebody's hide and that always ends up to be you and me, the consumer. Sorry for the rant.