As of right now (5:48pm CST) I just got off the phone with a nice and competent DTV representative. In her research, tonight's game is on 2 LP channels, 759 and 760. 759 is listed as a "capacity casualty." She couldn't find out what that means, but it seems obvious that it will be blacked out on that channel due to the game not being sold out. I assume we DTV'ers will be blacked out on that LP channel. The other channel, 760, is show as "TBD." I suppose there is a slight bit of hope in that status, but if I had to bet, I'd bet it, too, will also be blacked out at game time. Call me cynical, but I haven't seen any benevolence on the part of any of the parties concerned in this debacle. What should have been addressed and settled way before the season started is dragging on, with fans stress being used by which (?) side as leverage? It stinks. The Rockets home opener and all their fans across the country won't get to see James Harden debut at home. Thanks, Rockets, Comcast (of which you, the Rockets, own in part), and DirecTV for keeping fans uppermost in your minds and negotiations. The customer is always right. Too bad you don't care about the customer.
Nope, it will be blacked out on Direct because they havent come to an agreement for Direct to carry CSN. Has nothing to do with whether it is sold out or not.
http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/150808/1/watch-houston-rockets-vs-portland-trailblazers.html CSN link enjoy guys
Houston feed: http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/150808/1/watch-houston-rockets-vs-portland-trailblazers.html
if u don't mind the mandarin commentary: Taiwan tv, pre-game report already started: http://www.azhibo.com/zhibo/weilaitiyu-flv.html clear version from the same tv station, only for IE and sopcast installed: http://www.azhibo.com/zhibo/weilaitiyu-sopcast.html
Quick tip for first time link watchers, make sure you have adblock plus otherwise you'll get pwned by viruses. And do not click the close button on the ads those serve as hyperlinks, if you wait the ads will go away. If you're on a mac like i am you have ut better because the viruses aren't as prevalent. And on first row todays game is on link "one".
I agree. It's hard to imagine that the game wouldn't be sold out with Harden's performance in the first 2 games.
I meant to add to my response that it seemed odd that the DTV rep. would even have notation of "capacity casualty" associated with the first channel.