I have had good success with Roku and the Amazon fire stick. High quality picture. Sound was solid. No pixelization. Though there were 2 times coming back from a commercial last night where the picture was blurry for about 20 seconds.
The announcers have been okay.
TrickySU was a treat. Rosie does a reasonably good job. Production has been fine too. The ones from the South are certainly less prepared and professional.
Biggest problem for me is dealing with watching the same 2 or 3 commercials all game long.
Not Ice T, lemonade was bad the first time I saw it. It doesn't get better after seeing it 50 times.
The Time Warner ads are a little better but getting really old. Ironic that Time Warner is a major sponsor for these games and ACC Network Extra, when it effectively took them out of the business of televising SU sports.
I am using Verizon FIOS with a new wireless router for Wifi. If people are having problems with the quality of the picture, I wonder if the problem could be with the Wifi router.
Anyway, I have mixed feelings ACC Network Extra. It brought about long term stability for the ACC and ensured SU will be a major player in college athletics until at least 2036, so I am grateful for that.
I switched from TW to Verizon a year or so ago so now I have access to the games that were on TW only. Limiting distribution for some games to only TW customers in upstate NY was a bad solution for SU fans who live elsewhere and I am glad they have the ability to watch these games now.
Yes, it is easier to watch a game that is on SNY or YES or MSG than using WatchESPN but even with that kind of distribution, you still can't watch the game in many places. The thing I liked best about SNY was that they would have a pregame and post game show that would do a lot of analysis and film breakdown. Even TW would do this to some degree.
That is gone with ACC Network Extra. If this is to be a big success, this needs to change. You can't just pop up live 2 minutes before tipoff, show the game, have almost no halftime show and then end the broadcast the minute the game ends.
They have to spend some money, hire a sideline reporter to do interviews, record a couple of interviews before the game, and they really need to have a studio where they can do analysis before the game, at halftime and after the game. I hope this is in the works. If so, it will go a lot way towards making this work.
All games need to be televised to this standard. Does anyone know if this is eventually going to happen?
