Foxtel to carry BlizzCon PPV in Australia

by Mike Schramm Sep 25th 2008 at 11:00PM

In Australia, and bummed you can't make it up to the states for BlizzCon? You too can experience it virtually -- while DirecTV has a deal to carry it on pay-per-view in the US, Foxtel has apparently landed the same agreement in Oz. For $14.95 a day (no word of getting it for free by signing up, which is the deal DirecTV is offering), you can experience all the festivities straight through your television. They're even offering that BlizzCon mount if you buy both days. One problem, though: it's all being shown live, apparently, so in order to see it all, you'd have to get up at 4am. But a little lost sleep is a small price to pay for experience all that is BlizzCon, right?

Of course, you could just stick to WoW Insider and we'll show you everything you need to see at the show for free. We don't have a mount to give you (yet), and we won't ask you to wake up at four in the morning, but we will have pretty in-depth coverage from right there on the scene. Or, y'know, you could do both. It's up to you, Aussies.

Tags: blizzcon, cable, deals, event, foxtel, mount, polar-bear, ppv, subscription, television

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Fan stuff, WoW Social Conventions, Blizzard

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

james Sep 25th 2008 11:12PM

Hooray for pay TV....

Can we Aussies get a server now?

proudmoore Sep 25th 2008 11:31PM

YAY,

Now to just swindle someone into letting me use their Austar account!

Debesun Sep 25th 2008 11:48PM

The next best thing to getting Aussie servers \o/

Kloepta Sep 26th 2008 12:19AM

/cheer for the home side. Anyway, 30 bucks seems like a bit of a rip for a PPV. oh well.

Marcusfarkas Sep 26th 2008 12:45AM

Actually Foxtell will rerun it between 3pm-12am the same day so you wont miss a thing :)

Lori Sep 26th 2008 1:25AM

"...you'd have to get up at 4am..."

What, you don't have a DVR yet?

Acts Sep 26th 2008 2:04AM

Looks like I will be getting my updates through Wowinsider. Well I do sit on this site from 9-5 Monday to friday at work. Could explain for my lack of productivity lol. I just fear anyone that comes near my desk. ;-p

james Sep 26th 2008 2:06AM

My god its like a mirror image of me......

Seanos Sep 26th 2008 2:08AM

Foxtel IQ ftw (kinda like tivo).

Kalerender Sep 26th 2008 3:18AM

It has a replay at 3pm in the afternoon, so you don't have to get up to start the show at 4am.

You can feed your foxtel/austar through a DVR to record it manually, not sure if mystar/foxtel iq will record it though since it's a pay per view event.

PimpyMicPimp Sep 26th 2008 3:50AM

Still no Canadian love :(

Actually, I'm glad. I would buy it solely for the mount and probably end up hating myself for it.

Madal Sep 26th 2008 4:16AM

Heh , you read my mind. It is what I am thinking =/

HUskeh Sep 26th 2008 4:11AM

You could just record it with IQ, then watch it at your leisure :P Yay for having foxtel at work, manager plays wow so i might be able to swindle him into paying for it =D

Axolotl Sep 26th 2008 5:34AM

I'd get up early for something involving WOW, too bad we don't get the feed here.
The 13th of November, I'll even attend a midnight release (got the be a first time for everything, deathknights would be what makes it worth it, been dreaming about those before they even announced them)