Watched any footy through a T-box?

[Hearts to hearts]

I've been picking up delayed replays of our games on Bigpond at my desk for a while, and wondered if the comfort of watching on the TV would make a T-box worthwhile?

I gather from next season they'll have replays running immediately after games finish - and live for Saturday twilight games only (or all games live if you pay extra to subscribe to Foxtel), which makes it slightly more attractive too.

As North's FTA share seems likely to stay low, it appears to be a good time to investigate options.

Reviews online of the T-box are very mixed so I thought I'd ask some people I know, kind of. Has anybody here given the T-box a try for watching AFL?

 

[croode]

Have T-box for 3 wks now, and connected to big pond cable. So far it's been good for recording free to air, but cannot record the big pond or foxtel channels. I am trying out Foxtel on T-box, start up package for $10 per month (for 1/2 doz channels) plus entertainment package ($15 per month).
Will try out sports package later.

The t-box foxtel packages are cheap and you're not committed to them long term. But the packages don't seem to contain all channels as are on regular foxtel, not that you may want them anyway.

The big pond AFL channel seems ok, but haven't seen much NM games so far.

I'll see how it goes when the proper season get's underway. Might look to switching to regular foxtel if they have good specials then.

Hope this makes sense.

 

[grimface_87]

I trialled Foxtel on Xbox 360 in June (which is basically the same thing, but played through Xbox instead of T-Box) and was quite impressed. Picture quality was probably around SD quality on the highest setting, but the connection was very good (no choppiness) even over Wi-Fi. Changing channels took around 2-5 seconds of buffering but none after that.

Overall, it was quite good and will be even better value next year when it has every AFL game live.

Edit: Note that the BigPond sports channels are included in the basic package ($20 month to month) and it is $10 extra for sports channels. Also, you need an Xbox Live Gold membership to subscribe

 

[Hail Hale]

Have had a T Box for 7 months and watched every North game on it the next day. The quality varied depending on whose feed was taken. The other problem that occaisionlly happened was that the buffering was an issue, but that may be my connection.

All in all, as a person who doesn't have Foxtel I find it good value and very watchable especially if we get some live games on it.

 

[roosRool]

As North's FTA share seems likely to stay low, it appears to be a good time to investigate options.

Reviews online of the T-box are very mixed so I thought I'd ask some people I know, kind of. Has anybody here given the T-box a try for watching AFL?

I was worried about that when I first looked at the T-box, but after a season of watching North games, and every official piece of media on demand, I'm sold. The game analyser is awesome to for skipping through highlights etc. I will say this for Telstra, if you ring with any sort of issue they will fix it or give you bonus stuff etc (I had a change of address rurally, so 2 months no phone or internet, so reimbursed for all mobile internet etc)

Overall, you're paying a bit more (Telstra) but i think it's still pretty reasonable. The footy's not live but it's there the next day, forever available and free. Also does not count in your bandwidth. You could watch footy 24 hours for free

 

[BZAROO]

Don't waste your time with the shi Tbox. Just get foxtel. Every game live including every nab cup every afl final (gf on fta) across 4 sports channels. Fox sports 1 2 3 and fox footy. All in high definition I'll be recording every one of our games in hd on the 1 tb iqhd because I'll be at all of our Melbourne games. And with foxtel download you can download every game free to your iq, and before every live game this season you can download last time they met and watch that game before hand, unless we lost! Trust me I've done my research you are chasing your tail if you go anywhere else. Otherwise find a mate like me so you can spend the weekend at their place watching every game live! Can't understand why you wouldn't get it.....

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Can't understand why you wouldn't get it.....

Because my family spend enough time and money on both television and football, and we really don't want to be locked into another ongoing commitment. I'm also not fussed about live games - with two young children the odds of geting any more time than I do now to dedicate to watching games end to end, at one time (let alone the time they are being played) are long. And my days of dropping in on a mate to watch sport are long gone.

We already have Bigpond so the idea of the T-Box suits us - I'm just trying to find out whether it works in practice.

Seems Telstra will also be dropping games onto phones and tablets but - showing my age again - that doesn't sound like something the old bifocals will deal with well...

 

[Hail Hale]

The T Box is a good alternative if you can't afford Foxtel. I got mine for nothing when I bundled my internet, home phone and mobile into one package, so that may be worth investigating.

 

[arch11]

I watched the Syd Barker through the T Box instead of the computer screen and as mentioned in another thread it is unmetered so does not count against your internet usage. I will be definitely using it next year to watch replays of games given the free to air coverage we get here of North games (i think we got 3 last year from memory). It beats forking out for Fox when you are only watching three channels normally anyway

 

[BZAROO]

Sports for 50 bucks a month. Get foxtel. 13 bucks a week. Happy days!

 

[roosRool]

Oh yeah forgot...

T-Box = Dedicated North Melbourne Channel. Interviews, radio coverage, McKenzie, Curran let's go!!

 

[Daz]

Can someone please give me a rundown on what's on the Fox Sports channel for the T-Box?

It's not possible to get Foxtel installed on my house so I'm looking for alternatives.

Cheers.

 

[Twinkletoes]

It's not possible to get Foxtel installed on my house so I'm looking for alternatives.

Why's that Daz? You're renting and the landlord won't allow it? Or are you in a block of flats/apartments? I would've thought an Foxtel/Austar satellite dish could be installed virtually anywhere, if you can't have cable.

 

[Daz]

Why's that Daz? You're renting and the landlord won't allow it? Or are you in a block of flats/apartments? I would've thought an Foxtel/Austar satellite dish could be installed virtually anywhere, if you can't have cable.

Nah, they said it was just too dangerous to attempt to climb through one of my windows and across the roof without falling to their death. And the house is too tall for them to go up one of their massive ladders.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Nah, they said it was just too dangerous to attempt to climb through one of my windows and across the roof without falling to their death. And the house is too tall for them to go up one of their massive ladders.

There's no way I'd accept that, if I were in your shoes, unless of course you live in this:

I'd try to have it installed privately, at my own expense. They usually send out independent contractors anyway.

*used to work in the industry and never saw an installation refused due to the house height/shape/size etc, so I'm genuinely surprised Daz.

 

[Daz]

There's no way I'd accept that, if I were in your shoes, unless of course you live in this:

I'd try to have it installed privately, at my own expense. They usually send out independent contractors anyway.

*used to work in the industry and never saw an installation refused due to the house height/shape/size etc, so I'm genuinely surprised Daz.

The Foxtel lads said it was a breach of their OHS and they'd get sacked for it (if they survived). They did however give me the card of an independent contractor but that would cost as much as the actual Foxtel and I'm not sure I can afford it.

What complicates things further is my place is state heritage listed so there are limited places they can attack things to. I also blame the previous owners of the place who turned the hatch, designed to get to the roof, into a skylight.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Ahhhh ok, now it makes sense. It can be done but it'd be costly, and there was once access to the roof but that's been altered to become a skylight. Bummer mate.

 

[Daz]

The T-Box has given me hope, Toes!

 

[ansonholt]

The TBox has been really good value. We can pause and rewind live TV of course, but also having a dedicated North channel means we can watch replays of games we have been to where (of course) North have won, usually within a few hours. That's the real value, along with the radio and visual interviews they provide during the season and in the off season. Best part is it's all unmetered.

We just recently got the Foxtel package through the TBox for an extra $30. Not sold on that just yet, giving it time. We know it won't show the footy and we know we can't record the Foxtel channels, but it does give some more variety and allows us to watch overseas sports that we like such as NFL and NCAA football, and of course, Cricket. will be REALLY sold, though, if we can get the Big Bash League on FS Play. Not sure if that is going to happen yet or not.

In summary: not sure of Foxtel over TBox, but definitely am keeping the TBox itself.

 

[rbartlett]

To help you out - here is some initial information released by FOXTEL with their press release in April.
Press Release

- Rhett Bartlett

 

[king of the road]

Anyone watched the footy on their Xbox?

I'm thinking of getting one for the footy - only 30 a month for the footy once you have xbox live gold membership, no contract, no installation cost - every game live.

 

[Mordecai]

Anyone watched the footy on their Xbox?

I'm thinking of getting one for the footy - only 30 a month for the footy once you have xbox live gold membership, no contract, no installation cost - every game live.

$50 a month I think.

Quality is ok. Only good thing about it is that you can end it when the football is over.

 

[danj]

The TBox has been really good value. We can pause and rewind live TV of course, but also having a dedicated North channel means we can watch replays of games we have been to where (of course) North have won, usually within a few hours. That's the real value, along with the radio and visual interviews they provide during the season and in the off season. Best part is it's all unmetered.

We just recently got the Foxtel package through the TBox for an extra $30. Not sold on that just yet, giving it time. We know it won't show the footy and we know we can't record the Foxtel channels, but it does give some more variety and allows us to watch overseas sports that we like such as NFL and NCAA football, and of course, Cricket. will be REALLY sold, though, if we can get the Big Bash League on FS Play. Not sure if that is going to happen yet or not.

In summary: not sure of Foxtel over TBox, but definitely am keeping the TBox itself.

Couple of q's Anson
I don't usually get home from Melb until the day after the game, can you set it up to record and how much will it record?

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Couple of q's Anson
I don't usually get home from Melb until the day after the game, can you set it up to record and how much will it record?

The T-Box has 1 live game a week, however you can't record it.

Every game of every round is up on the either the AFL channel or the dedicated North channel, usually 12 hours after the game has finished so you won't have to record anything.

As for the price, I think to buy the T-Box outright it costs about $300 but I rang Telstra and bundled my phone, internet and mobile into one contract and got it for nothing.

 

[ozzyoslo]

Nah, they said it was just too dangerous to attempt to climb through one of my windows and across the roof without falling to their death. And the house is too tall for them to go up one of their massive ladders.

no electric platform or boom ?? yeah sure its an extra cost (to foxtel)
but when you take out the averages on overall customers they win some (in time and costs of installation) and then they lose some,your house for example.
whats the bet they give you a call in a years time when they're out of customers and they say its not a problem!!