Sunday, April 20, 2008

The status of my search

For the past three years, I've been trying to get UCLA games on my mobile phone. For some reason, this is a Herculean task. Part of the problem is my residence on the East Coast. The rest is some combination of UCLA's inability to take advantage of the thousands of alumni who would pay for this service and the lack of options available to the biggest technology nerds. My options, as they now appear to stand:

1. Slingbox -- If you want to watch TV on the Internet, this is your service. I live outside of the local LA area, so to really have access to all the games, I would have to set up Slingbox on the cable box of a friend. More than likely it would have to be a second cable box, and then I'd need a smart phone to be able to watch it on my phone. However, the list of phones that really work with Slingbox are...very few. (More info here) Soon we should be able to watch on Blackberries, which means that this may become the most viable option.

2. CSTV.com: I'm not paying 8 bucks a month to listen to the UCLA games on the Internet.

3. Buying the games when they are shown on CBS. Ahhh CBS, how I love your free streaming video of the NCAA tourney. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of games shown on CBS for my team. Which means this is the best option on some days, but usually UCLA fans are S.O.L. for this option.

4. Sprint sports TV on your mobile. This is actually the worst option because it's a fake one. ESPN does not equal UCLA games on my mobile phone.

5. I'm probably missing other options, and...I will be researching those in the coming months, so that I will be set up in time for college football season.

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