On-demand BlizzCon streaming will be available
by Eliah Hecht 
Jul 31st 2009 at 7:00PM
Earlier today we went over some of the options for attending BlizzCon when you can't actually attend BlizzCon. Mainly this consists of the DirecTV-sponsered stream, which is $40 pay-per-view both on DirecTV and over the Internet (even if you're not a DirecTV customer). The BlizzCon tournaments will also be streamed for free.
Here's an additional perk on the Internet stream: if you can't be at your computer right when the events start, you can see it on-demand during and after the show (the Blizzard folks are calling it "rebroadcasting"). This might also be handy if (as a purely hypothetical example) someone needed to review footage to confirm the details of a breaking story for a certain blog that is going to have all the BlizzCon details as they happen.
In fact, ideally, they'd give us full DVR-like capabilities on the broadcast, although I recognize that there's a level of technology required to support that. Still, it would be nice.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sleutel Jul 31st 2009 7:13PM
Hahaha, I literally emailed a question about this exact feature to the contact address for the Blizzcon streaming video website. You couldn't have posted this 30 seconds sooner? :D
Satn Jul 31st 2009 7:39PM
for $40 a person, they better damn well have the "level of technology required to support that"
Caine Jul 31st 2009 8:32PM
$AU50, definitely worth it.
Be sure to have a limitless supply of Pizza and Beer handy
teknomuffin Jul 31st 2009 8:50PM
This is totally awesome... I'm totally busy on the 22nd, and now I can watch it on the 23rd, in HD, not crappy-YouTube quality!
Eddy_D Jul 31st 2009 8:56PM
Plus you get the pet :)-
Hope its worth the money...
rawrawrawr Aug 1st 2009 2:52AM
I'm ordering from Australia, so i was worried i'd be up at some ungodly hour to watch it. Seems not =P.
ken_thomas61 Aug 1st 2009 11:34AM
Okay, what the hell ever happened to us just being able to watch blizzcon on youtube and various user-run sites? This "direct tv" PPV garbage is terrible. They save SO MUCH stuff to tell the community during Blizzcon and we don't even get to watch. We're ALREADY paying a subscription fee for the game, we should be able to watch for free. If they want to keep it so exclusive, they shouldn't save a bunch of important game announcements for blizzcon.
HisDivineShadow Aug 2nd 2009 5:59AM
Activision-Blizzard: Slave to the Almighty Dollar.