Footballs coming home
Coliseum Sports - EPL Overlords
This will suck big time if it goes back to Sky. I dont have Sky, dont want it or need it. The problem is that to be able to watch the football on Sky I have to buy a package which includes a bunch I dont want and dont need to have to pay for. The beauty for me of the PL Pass was I paid only for the football. I got to pay for the only thing I wanted. To watch the EPL via Sky means paying for 10 months of content I dont actually want in the package offered. SO roughly 10 months at $60+ ? per month which is roughly $600+ per season compared with the $159 for the whole season I currently pay.
So if Sky have won it back I will return to free streaming.
does seem like a lot of things that will be easy to fix, to be fair.
Article reads like something out of the Onion:
"It's got that light, bright background with thin black text. Your eyes just can't adjust. You're squinting for a long time, then you look away and you're seeing stars."
does seem like a lot of things that will be easy to fix, to be fair.
Article says no new release until "early Jan" - Development speak for Feb probably!
FFS I hope they don't migrate me before that release.
does seem like a lot of things that will be easy to fix, to be fair.
Article says no new release until "early Jan" - Development speak for Feb probably!
FFS I hope they don't migrate me before that release.
The real complaints I have with the new update is that it's a mission and a half to find anything in the new OnDemand section, and then you have to download it to your box rather than just streaming it.
does this also mean they've added on demand to fanpass? Or is that still an expensive piece of shark?
does seem like a lot of things that will be easy to fix, to be fair.
Article says no new release until "early Jan" - Development speak for Feb probably!
FFS I hope they don't migrate me before that release.
The real complaints I have with the new update is that it's a mission and a half to find anything in the new OnDemand section, and then you have to download it to your box rather than just streaming it.
it's a progressive download so you can start watching the content once it's downloaded enough that you won't catchup to the download by the time you have finished watching - I have a crap internet connection and if I download a 30min show it's ready to watch in 10 seconds - not bad really.
This from Stuff yesterday - Sky buying back from rights from Coleseum for Golf, I wonder if this will be what happens with the EPL in some form or another...
Live coverage of the world's best golfers on the PGA Tour is expected to return to Sky Sport in 2016.
Sky Sport lost the rights to the PGA and LPGA tours last year, so subscribers were were unable to watch leading Kiwis Lydia Ko and Danny Lee this year.
Coliseum Sports Media (CSM) secured the exclusive rights to broadcast the PGA Tour on an online platform but the company is expected to announce a revamped structure this week for next year.
Stuff understands that CSM will sell a share of their broadcasting rights to Sky Television for a number of tournaments in the interests of increasing the audience.
Tim Martin, the CEO at Coliseum Sports Media, could not be reached for comment on the company's plans for 2016.
The uptake of the PGATOURLIVE in New Zealand has been a success for CSM as golf fans changed their watching habits in a new era of digital coverage.
In 2014, Sky Television came under fire when it failed in its bid to renew the rights to the PGA Tour golf for three years, as well as the European PGA Tour and Asian Tour for an unknown period of time.
It has been one of the most successful years for New Zealand golf on the professional tours.
World No 1 Ko won five times in 2015 to claim the Player of the Year and season-ending title race and Lee claimed The Greenbrier Classic, the first win by a New Zealander on the PGA Tour since Michael Campbell's win at the US Open in 2005.
yeah golf did strike me as an odd demographic for online streaming to target.
lol really
really mate, think that people who play golf can't afford the internet or can't afford a computer or two or maybe three?
Or maybe they don't have the time to watch a round of golf, oh wait it would take them longer to play a round then Danny Lee
Now tell me your lol. Oh you think they are old? and do you think that many premier league supporters are not?
those who watch entire rounds of golf do tend to be retired (I imagine). That's just the demographic. Those people are also *usually* more resistant to change, or hesitant/slower with new technology or a way of doing things. Speaking generally of course.
Yes, there would be *some* EPL viewers who fit into this category, but a much larger % (and probably more in terms of raw numbers too) of younger people would watch EPL, than would watch live golf.
Therefore golf seemed an odd choice for an emergent technology in this phase of its product cycle.
I'm not too shocked that it didn't work out so well. Give it a few years and golf will be perfect for this kind of platform
using that logic they shouldnt worry about the premiership but concentrate on surfing and cage fighting
Edit: can't be bothered.
Does anyone know if you can use your PLP subscription overseas? I am in Australia for one game. I think we have Fox Sports in the hotel, but not completely sure, wondering if I'll be able to just log into PLP on my tablet in the room and watch? Has anyone tried this? I don't have VPN or anything... so if any geoblocking issues I guess I'm toast...
It will be geoblocked so you'll need to use a vpn or something. Just try a free trial of Unotelly our something if its only 1 game.
Great advice! Thanks ajc
Golf wasn't driven (or won) by Coliseum, it was the PGA that wanted to see whether the technology could work. We were simply their test market - Sky offered them plenty for the rights but they gave it to Coliseum for fudge all solely to see how it would go... our market has comparatively little eyeballs/dollars to lose if it sucks arse compared to Asia/Euro/US markets.
that is a good point, had forgotten about that aspect of it.
Premier League Pass is garbage this morning. Pausing even 5 seconds.
It's doing my head in.
Premier League Pass is garbage this morning. Pausing even 5 seconds.
Was working horribly on my android but fine on google chrome...
I was so frustrated this morning.
Their twitter account is blaming a supplier.
Didn't get to watch the Arsenal game until late last night due to work and then something else after. Didn't have any problems with the picture but the sound was ridiculously out of sync. Commentary was a full 5 seconds ahead of the play so I knew what happened to every chance before seeing it.
Watford Chelsea game not available to watch on android this morning - Everton game cutting out also
Yeah watched Everton game this morning and commentary completely out, and connection lost a few times. Great service.
Does this kind of thing happen often or just a once off this weekend?
Does this kind of thing happen often or just a once off this weekend?
Skips , jumps and stutters almost all the time. Not usually as bad as it has been the last few days. Normal response from PLPs social media is "crystal clear on our end"
Most likely they are winding down now with someone else taking over the rights for next season.
I wonder if this week Neulion were allocating a lot of their resources to the superb owl.
From Geekzone:
The marketing manager for Sky TV told Tony Veitch that Bein sports had won the rights for all of Australasia. She was of the opinion that they would on-sell the rights for NZ and she intimated that Sky were in a good position to get them. Fingers crossed...
yeah id say given their relationship with BeIN, they have the advantage.
Which means only being able to watch the live games sky decides you want to watch, and the rest either delayed or not at all.
Although given PLP issues on the weekend can see why some will be breathing a sigh of relief! (Particularly if you're not too fussed on which specific game you want to watch)
yeah id say given their relationship with BeIN, they have the advantage.
Which means only being able to watch the live games sky decides you want to watch, and the rest either delayed or not at all.
Although given PLP issues on the weekend can see why some will be breathing a sigh of relief! (Particularly if you're not too fussed on which specific game you want to watch)
bein do have a streaming service available in oz - could setup something similar here
yeah id say given their relationship with BeIN, they have the advantage.
Which means only being able to watch the live games sky decides you want to watch, and the rest either delayed or not at all.
Although given PLP issues on the weekend can see why some will be breathing a sigh of relief! (Particularly if you're not too fussed on which specific game you want to watch)
bein do have a streaming service available in oz - could setup something similar here
Ideally they'd set up the streaming service for those who want to watch a lot of games and want to choose which ones they watch, and also sell limited rights to sky who will deliver their normal service of a couple of live games per match day for those who aren't too fussed what they watch.
As I've said previously - Sky can do viewers choice on their existing platform (as Foxtel have done across the ditch for years using the same hardware).
The fact they didn't was likely more a factor of cost (satellite capacity) than capability.
Beinsports have won the Oz and NZ rights for EPL from next season:
http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/news-discussion-and-football-blogging/topics/epl-rights-in-nz-won-by-beinsports-for-next-season?page=1#post_1113277
yeah id say given their relationship with BeIN, they have the advantage.
Which means only being able to watch the live games sky decides you want to watch, and the rest either delayed or not at all.
Although given PLP issues on the weekend can see why some will be breathing a sigh of relief! (Particularly if you're not too fussed on which specific game you want to watch)
Fanpass as an option for that possibly?