Coliseum Sports - EPL Overlords

http://tvnz.co.nz/football-news/premier-league-2014-15-tvnz-5531819

http://www.voxy.co.nz/sport/tvnz-screen-english-premiere-league-live/5/198740

first game Tottenham v West Ham, Everton v arsenal the week after, manchester city v stoke city the week after.
highlights show tuesday nights, I assume after the late news at 11 o'clock. with the move to tuesday nights they should have highlights from all games of the round as the monday night (uk time) games will have been played.

re-subscribed - which I expect I will do as long as Hull City are in the Prem

for fans of the 'not big' EPL clubs this service beats the hell out of anything Sky ever gave us

This. If you support the likes of Newcastle, Everton, Villa, West Ham, Stoke than PLP is great value I think. 

iOS app update. Looks mainly like an aesthetic, to make it look like the new website plus there is a new logo.

Can you pay plp off over months or is it a one up front hit?

20 a month or 200 up front.

They have added a monthly payment option this season ($19.90 a month). Works out the same overall as the full amount up front over the 10 month season. However the returning subscriber discount is only for the full subscription up front.

Cool, I can accept that and so too can the wife.

Just checking, the $19.90 a month over the season, is it only for the 10 months of the season or do you get charged for 12 months?

I asked that on Facebook and they didn't answer but I would assume it would only be for the 10 months of the season which I guess is how they came up with the price to make it match the $199 for the full season. If it's monthly presumably you can cancel it at any time too.

Well, considering they have a month pass at $50, I assume the $20 a month option is tied into a contract as such and you will have to pay off the full $200 before you can cancel. That's what I think, otherwise why have the month pass ?

Ah right good point. They will have to confirm but surely it's for the 10 months of the season and not 12 months.

SEASONPASSREUP code is open to everyone as an early bird, so it's not just for resubscribers now. $150 for the season pass. This code is apparently valid til 19 August.
FOOTBALLUNITED code for week free trial, just go to purchase a week pass and chuck in the code and it'll be free.

Also on the monthly payments, the season subscription runs til 31 July which is more than the ten months of the season. So it may be 19.90 each month for 12 months. It would probably help if they updated the terms of service with the new products and pricing.

Wonder why the earlybird discount has been extended to everyone. Perhaps with a week to go they still have bugger all new subscribers.

I signed up to the monthly this evening. Watched last seasons goals and a review of the season. If the quality of the pictures is what I just experienced, I will be very happy. No lag or delay in these but then, they are not live. Fingers crossed.

Its about the same, in fact you can increase the quality in games to 4500 as the highlight shows only have 3000. Thats assuming your internet connection can handle it. 

The problem I think ajc is talking about is on the wide shots where the camera moves and follows the ball upfield, it (used to for me) stuttered a bit. 

If that didn't happen to you during the highlights, you should be ok. 

Cheers. Nice to have watched it on a 10" tablet from the confines of a warm bed on a frosty night.

Dude, an HD cable is $15, plug that in to your laptop and the other end in to the TV, that's it!! You not gonna get it over $15?

Have a read of my previous posts over the last 5 or so pages. But to summarise, that's what I have been doing but while it looks great on the laptop, when it's connected to the TV it has terrible motion judder that makes it look as though it was filmed on a handheld camcorder. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with my equipment as watching other services like Arsenal Player and Sky Go the same way does not have the same issue, and the TV is a 2012 full HD model while the HDMI cable is the one I use with my PS4 which has no issues. The more equipment comment was meaning things like a new Samsung TV or Iphone/Ipad + Apple TV, and even then there's no guarantee it works any better for me.

It was all the time just shaky not just on wide shots with the camera panning. Makes me think it's an issue with their encoding that makes connecting the laptop to TV not a suitable way to watch it, but then it's fine for you so that can't be it. I can't recreate the issue with other services so my equipment seems fine. Very frustrating. I'll see how the first round goes and if it's the same then try PLP's call centre and see if they can suggest anything other than "buy a new Samsung TV."

Have you tried checking your drivers for your video card? As daft as it sounds, while it may play fine on your laptop, rendering out the HDMI port is different again.

Pretty sure everything like that is up to date, but will definitely check. Thanks.

In their main market?

Arguably American sport should sit outside this debate completely because of the incredibly fragmented TV market in the US and, probably more importantly, the mass amount of content on offer.

And the majority of major US sport is still available on cable and network TV, so the fact these services exist they are still complimentary to the normal TV market.  I agree, it's very difficult to analyse when there is no consistent country wide approach to selling rights

EPL is still available on free to air (live) and on sky (delayed) in a similar way to be fair. 

Has collesium ever came out and said how many subscribers they had last year?

do they have to? 

As Tegal said it is virtually the same, so it is a completely fair comparison.

If you want to watch every game you can live, then you need the internet pass in the US for those sports. 

Re number of subscribers: Tim Martin said recently that they had a low target, a middle target and a high target and they fell just short of the middle target...

Do SKY ever shout out their subscriber numbers ???? No.

Commercially sensitive information. Tim Martin said as much when a caller asked him on Radio Sport the other day.

Yes they do - this from Aug 23 last year...

'The subscriber base comprises 822,545 residential digital subscribers and 33,353 commercial and other subscribers. Sky is now in 49 per cent of homes. The number of Sky residential subscribers using the MySky personal video has passed the half way mark, at 55 per cent compared to 46.7 per cent last year.'

Nice take down...NOW...

Is that directly from SKY HQ ?

I believe Sky have to make that information public for the investors, I am sure they cannot, not declare it.

Whereas PLP is privately owned they do not have to declare it.

OK, credit where it is due Dougie ! I was wrong.