Ill chime in, i actually reverted back to cable.. (cheap 12 month deal if you stay away long enough) . last year i used a VPN , 4 bucks a month, bought nhl center ice package and watched it through my xbox..
pros:
-i started using my headphones and i LOVED it.. you could hear every step of a skate blade.
-never had to worry about setting dvr and games were available as soon as they started
-could watch any other game out there including playoffs
-no sals pizza commercials (serious question though, is it good?)
cons:
-wish they gave you nhl network with center ice
-the fast forward and rewind function was annoying and i missed a lot of the in-between period stuff (did not show nesn's intermission) . i did have the commercial breaks and intermission timing down perfectly by the middle of the season though.
-i had a rough time stopping a game and coming back to it, making me start all over again (and again guessing where it was i left off) and since my internet was based out of denmark.. i always had to fast forward through an extra hour
-internet speed is really high but you would still get the buffering thing once in a while, which was really annoying
-playoffs were only nbc announcers every round. which needless to say i had nightmares of pierre making sweet love to the kunitz line and mike babcock
overall was it cheaper.. .absolutely.. but not that much.. a local cable technician informed me to cut the cord for about 3-6 months and they would basically beg me to come back. which they did and my internet was so expensive that i had to bundle it .. i now pay 112 for high internet speed, cable and two boxes, one being a dvr. honestly the only thing i will miss is not having to remember to set the dvr and headphones.. i cannot stress how much i loved watching the games with headphones on, especially after the family went to bed.
long winded but i put way to much research into it and thought i would share with other people going throught it
