Coliseum Sports - EPL Overlords

I dont have a laptop to plug a HDMI cable into.

But I dont need one.

I bought my TV off the club sponsor , SONY. Its has wifi and is on our home wifi network.

I'm looking forward to watching the EPL games in HD on our 100Mbs cable internet. 150gb per month for $95

Again, assuming that they have a laptop and that it has HDMI and their TV can take an HDMI input (or VGA)

There seem to be a lot of assumptions.

I reckon they'll strike a deal with an ISP. ISPs win out of this sort of thing taking off too, and it could be a good way for an ISP to take some market share. At the moment, its a pretty big cost barrier for a lot of their potential consumers, so am sure its something they're looking into. 

Has anyone read this? http://www.sportsfreak.co.nz/wp/

Sums it up quite nicely.

 

Well said Smithy

 

JV, youve been around long enough. Didnt you hear the same commments you are making when Sky started up in NZ.

Look I totally get all of this and again, I'm in the wrong demo so I know a few people that are low jack tech. My wife parents are still a alive and are definitively low jack tech with CRT and basic Sky.

Look I totally get all of this and again, I'm in the wrong demo so I know a few people that are low jack tech. My wife parents are still a alive and are definitively low jack tech with CRT and basic Sky.

18 years ago when Sky came around, I had zero issue with it. I suspect there was outcry at the time but then I don't remember if I am honest. Again, me myself have no problem with this because I understand the way of the future and free enterprise. I'm just not jumping on this wagon not for the sake of change but because at this point in time, it makes no sense to me for reasons I have outlined in other posts.

Something that hasn't been mentioned anywhere here yet is what the pubs and clubs will do. They will have to choose a game(s) to play on their screens if they reckon their clientele want to watch some football, as opposed to taking whatever happens to be on SKY. So a bunch of XYZ club supporters could lobby your local to play their team's games! If your local is populated by, say, Hull supporters who turn up every week, i guess you'll be watching a lot of Hull games, or finding a new pub.

This thread has had nearly 6,000 views in less than 30 hours. Just saying.

shhhh, some bastard will try to monetise it 

I for one cannot ditch SKY. There are to many other sports I enjoy, NRL, Cricket and heaven forbid even the odd rugby test match (for those Gareth lovers who are about to have a go remember he missed his first WP match as owner to watch a rugby game). I can afford a couple of hundred for this new venture but out of principle will not. >

Football coverage in Aussie this week...

Can you imagine the A league rubbing their hands together over their next contract renewal in NZ? There is no way Sky could afford to lose those rights and will no doubt bid well and truely over its net worth.

I'm interested.... what principle is that?

Why punish yourself?

The principle of a broadcaster breaking up skys monopoly over sport in this country? Those bastards. 

Would think you'd cut sky on principle, not these new guys. 

I just don't believe in competition when it is going to cost me two hundred more bucks. Sorry

Agreed, it sucks. But this sort of structure would actually make it cheaper - you pay for what you want, if you want MLB get an MLBTV subscription, if you want NBA get an NBA league pass, if you want EPL pay for the coliseum service. As smithy pointed out, an entire EPL season costs the same as 1.5 months of sky - meaning you could subscribe to entire seasons with all games of many different sports, and still work out cheaper than sky. 

The problem lies with sky holding a monopoly over sports,bundling them as one package and charging a fortune. 

So if you were to go by principle, sky would be the one to cut. Vote with your wallet. 

All I can say is, haha Sky you pack of cunts.About time.You had it your way for so long (monopoly) and now its your turn to take it.The winds of change be blowing. $200 who cares.   heeheeheeheee 8) 8)

sky are about to learn a big lesson - upsetting football fans is not a good idea. There are a lot of silent fans out there whom just love live sport, Sky will have successfully alienated them too. As for the new venture, what other games are they going to show? Are they just going to charge a few hundy for only EPL? If so, they too might learn a very harsh lesson - taking football fans for granted and to the cleaners.

Football fans in general are a tolerant lot, we'll put up with the weird hours for games but just don't rattle our cages or try to mug us because we are not stupid and we know a rip when we see one. i say to the new suppliers - head this warning, it could cost you ha heap of money.

And take it for granted that this couple of hundred will climb very rapidly in a short space of time once you are hooked in. Someone mentioned no adverts earlier, only a matter of time. I will only buy this package once they get the A league as well - when it becomes a monopoly and principle goes out the window.

Even after what I typed, I Agree with Smithy where he simplifies it cost wise. 

I guess we'll just have to wait and see what these new guys are going to charge and if it is via Telecon, is the streaming going to be free as part of their arrangement. I will be ringing up Vodafone though as their Super High speed package deal equals what I am paying now. If I dump Sky, I won't be paying anymore than I am now. 

Just a matter of what these other guys offer and for how much, will determine my next course of action. Add in, how to keep a playful 2 year old from pulling the leads out of everything when he sees it set up + his 9 month old sister who's now crawling around like a climbing crab. Such is life.

Play pen.

The Platinum package is $230 isn't it? the $150 will be for the middling package.

The biggest problem for me (not that it will affect me in any way at the moment) is that they are saying only a portion of the games will beavailable on demand. Sky, and mySkys, great asset was the ability to record any fixture you wanted to watch at a later date or time. Doesn't sound like this will be possible here.

Don't subscribe to sky on principle.

Redtube eh?

Sky has always been overpriced and the various pick & choose have always been stink. All I ever wanted was the News, Sport & Doco channels & dump the rest, but no, you got stuck with a lot of extra crap you didn't want. Then you had mysky, then hd, then isky or whatever it's called. So many options, if you grabbed the whole lot, it'd cost you shit loads per month. I think Sky have shot themselves in the foot - taking the audience to the cleaners and for granted.

Sky has always been overpriced and the various pick & choose have always been stink. All I ever wanted was the News, Sport & Doco channels & dump the rest, but no, you got stuck with a lot of extra crap you didn't want. Then you had mysky, then hd, then isky or whatever it's called. So many options, if you grabbed the whole lot, it'd cost you shit loads per month. I think Sky have shot themselves in the foot - taking the audience to the cleaners and for granted.