Watch Rockets Playoffs Game from Web

I know playoffs games are on national TV, but I hate TimeWarner and canceled my TW cable long times ago. At the same times, some big Torrey Pines blocked satellite signals from my patio. Fortunately I can always find some good web sources for Rockets games. With a HDMI connection from my computer to 46" LCD, the quality actually were decent most of the times.


1). The best single source of information is this page, info normally available a few hours before the game. The site also contains all the p2p client software you'll need to watch the game. No virus there, even though sometimes Anti-virus software like Symantec Norton may tell you so.

http://myp2p.eu/competition.php?competitionid=&part=sports&discipline=basketball

2). My favorite source is CCTV5 high definition feed, which of course is not 720p, but about 900 Kbps is quite good. You need to use IE, and you'll need to install plugin and enable ActiveX control, just follow the browser's screen prompt. I assumed CCTV5 will broadcast all of Rockets playoffs game from now on.

http://sports.cctv.com/live/08/index.shtml


3). http://www.channelsurfing.net typically has some feeds for the game from TNT/ESPN and an audio feed from NBA.com. You can search the page or access the links directly, I posted some links I found stable below. (Not all the links works at each single game)

http://www.channelsurfing.net/

TNT:
http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-tnt.html

http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-nba.html

http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-nba-2.html

http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-nba-3.html


4). justin.tv, just search Rockets. used to be really good, but recently I found they have a lot of ads and other annoying stuff.


5). our beloved clutch forum, sticky thread for the game, just click the last page after game started, there were usually some links posted, you'll need to click it right away before someone else did it. Refresh it after a while if you can not find a link

Enjoy the games!


GO ROCKETS!


Guangzu

 

I choose CCTV5 mainly for the video quality.

I don't like the commentary either, one thing is that they are just lazy, they do not do play-by-play, just talk whenever they want to and silent when they don't. They also can not keep up with stats accurately, like "Scola just had his 3rd fouls, no 4th, wait yeah 3rd fouls in ". then talk about something else and forget to come back and finish that sentence

 

Yeah, very strange. I used to watch CCTV5 (for video quality), but it just showed me a black screen yesterday. Somebody just read my post and tried to piss me off? I don't know who block them, for one, it's CCTV official website, maybe some deals like last year with Beijing Olympics, almost all the p2p feeds were blocked here.

Anyway. I end up watch TNT feed on the link I listed above, quality was OK. It actually brought me to justin.tv, but whatever works.

I'm really happy we pulled up this one. I was betting with my office rival (Fakers fan), I said Rockets will win 5 and he's betting Fakers win 10 before the tip off.


GO ROCKETS!

 

You meant firewall? the links I listed are all through web browser, I don't know how your company block them if they allow you to browse the web. I guess they can block certain IPs, and you can use proxy server, but that getting quite nasty. Did you tried all the links above?

 

It worked fine (I'm in San Diego) before yesterday. I don't know if yesterday was just an exception or a trend, we'll see.

Last year during Beijing Olympics, almost all the p2p feeds were blocked to non-China area, the reason was due to license issues of NBC. It (block) was lifted after that. But CCTV may take some actions if NBA issue some kind protests, we'll see.