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Coliseum Sports - EPL Overlords

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over 12 years ago

Noooooo. Not first row. This makes me sad.

over 12 years ago


I just got an email from Setanta informing me of a "change" to my subscription, i.e it's going up to $19.99aud per month.

This is on top of what I pay to Foxtel for Foxsports. Time for me to make a "change" to my subscription.


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over 12 years ago

Are we able to subscribe to Setanta here in NZ?

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

over 12 years ago
Lonegunmen wrote:

Are we able to subscribe to Setanta here in NZ?

No. 

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

over 12 years ago
patrick478 wrote:
Lonegunmen wrote:

Are we able to subscribe to Setanta here in NZ?

No. 


And here you already have to be a Fox subscriber before you can subscribe to Setanta.

"Sharing rewards the weak"- Steven Colbert

over 12 years ago · edited over 12 years ago · History

Sommet said recently theyre screening all this live


Bundesliga
N Power Championship League
Football League
Argentinean League
Europa League
Capital Cup
England Home Internationals
Community Shield 
Chelsea TV (we will buy the rights to another Premier League TV which will enable us to broadcast 2 delayed EPL games per week).
Scottish FA Cup
German FA Cup
Chinese FA Cup

over 12 years ago

Ooh, gotta watch the Bundesliga so we (and the MVFC crowd) can cheer on Stuttgart.

I have the opposite problem to many people. My TV is modern but neither computer is modern enough to have HDMI output. However, my Mac screen is HD-compatible.


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over 12 years ago

Your modern TV might be able to hook up to the interweb either by cable or wifi.


"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

over 12 years ago

Does your tv have vga input? Thats all i use to play movies, streams etc 

over 12 years ago

Tim Martin from Coliseum Sports Media was on Radio Live today at 3pm. You can go to www.radiolive.co.nz and choose audio and Sunday 3pm to listen to the whole interview. Very interesting.

over 12 years ago
patrick478 wrote:

If the talk about being able to watch games on Apple TV's is correct, then I would suggest that to be the best way to watch the streams if you don't want to plug a laptop into the TV, or don't own a laptop. They cost $159, which is cheaper than buying a laptop to be able to plug into the computer. They are fantastic little boxes, I assure you that you'll end using it for more than just football (streaming movies and music from your computer, YouTube etc). 


The best thing will be that it will always be plugged into your TV, so it will be no harder to start watching a game than it is to turn on the Sky decoder.



I dont have an Apple TV, but have been thinking about getting one for sometime, but waiting till Apple take the thing seriously and move it from the 'hobby' category. But this may make me move earlier...

I heard them talking about getting an app for Apple TV, but i assume they mean an app for iOS that will allow the football to screened using the app via AirPlay? as Apple TV has very few actual apps from what I can see...

Surely Colesium would have to have apps (iOS and Android) before the Season starts?


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over 12 years ago
Dougie Rydal wrote:
patrick478 wrote:

If the talk about being able to watch games on Apple TV's is correct, then I would suggest that to be the best way to watch the streams if you don't want to plug a laptop into the TV, or don't own a laptop. They cost $159, which is cheaper than buying a laptop to be able to plug into the computer. They are fantastic little boxes, I assure you that you'll end using it for more than just football (streaming movies and music from your computer, YouTube etc). 


The best thing will be that it will always be plugged into your TV, so it will be no harder to start watching a game than it is to turn on the Sky decoder.



I dont have an Apple TV, but have been thinking about getting one for sometime, but waiting till Apple take the thing seriously and move it from the 'hobby' category. But this may make me move earlier...

I heard them talking about getting an app for Apple TV, but i assume they mean an app for iOS that will allow the football to screened using the app via AirPlay? as Apple TV has very few actual apps from what I can see...

Surely Colesium would have to have apps (iOS and Android) before the Season starts?

Apple have a shitload of apps if you are in the US (Netflix, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL etc), so it would be awesome if Coliseum could work with Apple and get a PLP app on there for Kiwis. More likely scenario is that they will allow AirPlay from iOS devices, which could push me to buy an iPod Touch or something to do it. I wish my multitude of Android devices could airplay.

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over 12 years ago

Yeah, I have an Apple TV and it has the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL services on it (I think). But my understanding at this stage is that Coliseum will actually just be using the AirPlay feature to mirror it on your TV. That should work fine but if Coliseum can work with Apple to get their service actually embedded into Apple TV then even better.

over 12 years ago
terminator_x wrote:

Yeah, I have an Apple TV and it has the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL services on it (I think). But my understanding at this stage is that Coliseum will actually just be using the AirPlay feature to mirror it on your TV. That should work fine but if Coliseum can work with Apple to get their service actually embedded into Apple TV then even better.

Either way, it's a ridiculously simple but effective way to get the games on your TV.

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

over 12 years ago

I just watched Portland vs Colorado on our TV using MLSLive, the quality was superb. It's not quite as good as the HD we get on ESPN, but it's far superior to illegal streams. I would say it sits somewhere between SD (Sky Digital) quality and HD, and didn't lag at all.

If PremierLeagePass is the same quality, then I'll be more than happy with it.


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over 12 years ago
terminator_x wrote:

Yeah, I have an Apple TV and it has the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL services on it (I think). But my understanding at this stage is that Coliseum will actually just be using the AirPlay feature to mirror it on your TV. That should work fine but if Coliseum can work with Apple to get their service actually embedded into Apple TV then even better.

I have Apple TV and have the MLB and the NBA but not the NFL or the NHL services.  Wondering if it is because I bought mine in the UK?

I was actually looking at this the other day and thinking that there doesn't seem to be any way to get new apps or channels on the Apple TV, although that might just be because I am a bit thick.

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over 12 years ago
Frankie Mac wrote:
terminator_x wrote:

Yeah, I have an Apple TV and it has the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL services on it (I think). But my understanding at this stage is that Coliseum will actually just be using the AirPlay feature to mirror it on your TV. That should work fine but if Coliseum can work with Apple to get their service actually embedded into Apple TV then even better.

I have Apple TV and have the MLB and the NBA but not the NFL or the NHL services.  Wondering if it is because I bought mine in the UK?

I was actually looking at this the other day and thinking that there doesn't seem to be any way to get new apps or channels on the Apple TV, although that might just be because I am a bit thick.



I might be wrong about all of those tbh. At least some of them are there.

Yeah, I haven't actually used my AppleTV a whole lot. This new Coliseum thing is about the first time I've really thought it might be very useful. Apple don't seem to put a whole lot of effort into the AppleTV though. Possibly because they are going to go fully into making actual TVs?

over 12 years ago
terminator_x wrote:
Frankie Mac wrote:
terminator_x wrote:

Yeah, I have an Apple TV and it has the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL services on it (I think). But my understanding at this stage is that Coliseum will actually just be using the AirPlay feature to mirror it on your TV. That should work fine but if Coliseum can work with Apple to get their service actually embedded into Apple TV then even better.

I have Apple TV and have the MLB and the NBA but not the NFL or the NHL services.  Wondering if it is because I bought mine in the UK?

I was actually looking at this the other day and thinking that there doesn't seem to be any way to get new apps or channels on the Apple TV, although that might just be because I am a bit thick.



I might be wrong about all of those tbh. At least some of them are there.

Yeah, I haven't actually used my AppleTV a whole lot. This new Coliseum thing is about the first time I've really thought it might be very useful. Apple don't seem to put a whole lot of effort into the AppleTV though. Possibly because they are going to go fully into making actual TVs?

If you set the region in the setting to United States, all those apps show up. You can't actually use them though, because they are geo-blocked.

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

over 12 years ago

If you have the relevant subscription to nba/NHL/MLB you're able to sign in on the Apple TV and watch the live games. If you don't have a subscription you can watch highlights on the nba and NHL apps I don't know about MLB cause I don't use it. Also on the latest update if you set your Apple TV to the us or uk you get a sky news uk app where you can watch sky news uk live or a heap of videos from sky news

over 12 years ago

I have watched baseball through MLB.tv on Apple TV as they have a free game every day.  Problem is that I cannot even see the NFL app, although I might have a play around with the location and see if that changes anything.

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

over 12 years ago
Frankie Mac wrote:

I have watched baseball through MLB.tv on Apple TV as they have a free game every day.  Problem is that I cannot even see the NFL app, although I might have a play around with the location and see if that changes anything.


I don't think there is an NFL app
over 12 years ago
Just had someone from sky calling me up with a special deal selling my sky. If she didn't know what the English premier league was before she certainly does now.



Auckland will rise once more

over 12 years ago

Got this from Coliseum re: the quality of the streaming.

"Streaming will be in a band between 800 and 3000kbps, and it's coming through a managed CDN solution that should make it the best quality streaming New Zealand's ever seen.

There'll be some content up on the site on launch so you can try it out before you buy anything."

over 12 years ago

Been a bad few days for sky and a lot of other companies as well.

over 12 years ago

I watched about 10 minutes of live baseball on Apple TV today - it buffered twice for about 5 seconds.  I can see that becoming very annoying during a game of football.

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

over 12 years ago · edited over 12 years ago · History
Frankie Mac wrote:

I watched about 10 minutes of live baseball on Apple TV today - it buffered twice for about 5 seconds.  I can see that becoming very annoying during a game of football.


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over 12 years ago
Frankie Mac wrote:

I watched about 10 minutes of live baseball on Apple TV today - it buffered twice for about 5 seconds.  I can see that becoming very annoying during a game of football.

 

Bound to happen just as a controversial goal line goal may or may not be scored.

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

over 12 years ago

Great interview. Sounds like a cool guy.

over 12 years ago

Can't see why people are upset about this. I'm freakin excited

over 12 years ago

TRIPLE EXCITED!


over 12 years ago

Oi. you know the rule. no praising. just tell me how much of a s**t c**t I am.

over 12 years ago

Are you Brendan Telfer in disguise??  

over 12 years ago
2ndBest wrote:

Oi. you know the rule. no praising. just tell me how much of a s**t c**t I am.


"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

over 12 years ago
Jezzaa wrote:

Got this from Coliseum re: the quality of the streaming.

"Streaming will be in a band between 800 and 3000kbps, and it's coming through a managed CDN solution that should make it the best quality streaming New Zealand's ever seen.

There'll be some content up on the site on launch so you can try it out before you buy anything."

800kpbs is just over 6MB per minute. For 120 minutes of streaming about 750MB of data. At 3000kbps, 120 minutes is roughly 2,800MB of data.

Have they said that the quality can be chosen manually or does it adjust automtically based on the speed of your connection?
over 12 years ago
Bullion wrote:
Jezzaa wrote:

Got this from Coliseum re: the quality of the streaming.

"Streaming will be in a band between 800 and 3000kbps, and it's coming through a managed CDN solution that should make it the best quality streaming New Zealand's ever seen.

There'll be some content up on the site on launch so you can try it out before you buy anything."

800kpbs is just over 6MB per minute. For 120 minutes of streaming about 750MB of data. At 3000kbps, 120 minutes is roughly 2,800MB of data.


Have they said that the quality can be chosen manually or does it adjust automtically based on the speed of your connection?

Because it is NFL Game Pass, you'll be able to select the quality, or leave it on 'Best available'.

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over 12 years ago
patrick478 wrote:
Bullion wrote:
Jezzaa wrote:

Got this from Coliseum re: the quality of the streaming.

"Streaming will be in a band between 800 and 3000kbps, and it's coming through a managed CDN solution that should make it the best quality streaming New Zealand's ever seen.

There'll be some content up on the site on launch so you can try it out before you buy anything."

800kpbs is just over 6MB per minute. For 120 minutes of streaming about 750MB of data. At 3000kbps, 120 minutes is roughly 2,800MB of data.


Have they said that the quality can be chosen manually or does it adjust automtically based on the speed of your connection?

Because it is NFL Game Pass, you'll be able to select the quality, or leave it on 'Best available'.

That's good. I can imagine some people getting stung if they plan to use 4G LTE for streaming games on 'best available'.