PRO: You get access to the replay archive, this season’s games aren’t available until 2 or 3 days after they air. However, you do get any game, any team, from the last 2 or 3 seasons, full length, any time you want it. Yes, I did go back and watch game 3 of the 2008 Finals like 5 times so I could see “The Shift” by Brooks Orpik. I also watched Jordan Staal’s hat trick game against Detroit early last year several times.

CON: You are not garaunteed to get the FSN-P video feed (in fact I would say it’s unlikely that you’ll get them from my experience). They really like to put Boston’s home announcers on for some reason. You will want to kill yourself because of it, trust me. And no, it doesn’t synch up with Mike Lange’s audio from the website so don’t even think about it.

PRO: You get to watch the Pens play hockey!!!!

CON: ….as long as they’re not playing on a national feed, or in a local market.

Note for anyone in NYC or the surrounding area: EVERY GAME AGAINST THE DEVILS, RANGERS, ISLANDERS, (possibly Sabers) AND EVEN SOME CANADIAN TEAMS WILL BE BLACKED OUT. So you better have access to MSG+, TSN, CBC or whatever network it’s on.

PRO: Video quality is OK. It looks decent on my 24" monitor, not HD, but as good as watching on a regular old television.

CON: You don’t get the playoffs, so you better have versus.

CON: Customer service is a joke. You will be on hold for the entire game. So if your feed dropped for some reason, just keep refreshing and hope for the best. I would say that I only lost the video feed for an extended period of time maybe two or three times. Each time I missed a period and a half or so. Still, for $160 I don’t think that’s acceptable. I experienced other drops that I fixed just by refreshing the page at least once a game. A minor annoyance, but not a deal breaker.

Conclusion: I shelled out for cable this year to get MSG+ to watch games against Devils, Rangers, Islanders, but I am still considering gamecenter for the other games. It’s cheaper than going out in manhattan to watch games.

Just bought it to watch last night’s Pens/Flyers game. Glad I did, it was a great game (and I got FSN-P Feed, woo!). One note, they’re not showing any of the network tv commercials anymore. You just get a screen saying the game will be back shortly. I kind of miss seeing the local Pittsburgh commercials, made me feel more at home (now I have to go to youtube for the ‘superstar’ commercials, lol). DVR functionality requires you to download and install a separate program (I didn’t bother). I didn’t have any video problems that weren’t fixed with a browser refresh. Replay archive features all reg season and playoff games from the past 2 seasons. I am totally going to go watch finals game 6 from 2 years ago and then finals game 7 from last year. I suppose I would recommend it this year.