Coliseum Sports - EPL Overlords

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.

MLB & EPL.....hmmmmmmmmm I wonder how much NHL is ? That'd be my 3 favourite sports covered.

Any fever execs spoken to  Coliseum/PremierLeaguePass.com yet about Yellow Fever sponsorship? 

We're surely the target market being the biggest football fans and online. Get amongst it early whilst they are new. 

p.s Yellow Fever subscription rates?

What? No key Ring? - bastards!

It looks like 6 or 7 games a week will be on demand so not bad plus 5-6 Premier League programmes a week, Previews, Reviews etc.

I understand that as I'm in the same situation.  I'm saying blame sky for that. AP was talking about not getting the EPL on principle, which is what makes no sense. You should be cutting sky on principle if anything. 

Sky are also the ones who lost the EPL rights and is why we have to pay another $150 to seen the games. 

It's really interesting the way a lot of people talk about Sky like it is a SOE that is now being privatised! It's only because they've had a monopoly for so long that we feel like that.

In the long run this has to be a good thing, but in the short term it's definitely going to cause some pain and I'm still not sure what trade-offs I'm prepared to make to get the best value for money.

I wonder if this might force Sky to further unbundle their sports offering? I.e. structure their channels more clearly around a marquee sport (e.g. Rugby, cricket, league, football) and offer cheaper single channel subs. That would allow consumers to pay for exactly what they want and probably take a lot of heat out the angst. 

EPL season starts in 58 days.

Quite frankly the clincher for me as to Intarwebz sports as opposed to Sky is the "on demand" capability. I want to pay for my football coverage per game if I possibly can. I don't want to pay for, for example, idiotic things like motor racing or watching Melbourne B vs Melbourne B.

Site gives no indication of registrations - no email to say I have registered interest yet. And no spec for internet or computer spec. 

Just testing

While I don't watch much EPL and intially I thought I would purchage the online package, I now thing I will. Mostly because I want to see this work, I don't want Sky to retain a monopoly, and $150 isn't much over the course of a year.

Hopefully we don't have to stump up $150 at once tho. 

And what's to stop us sharing our log in? Obviously they could check if you on at the same time but might be good for a football club for one person to log in while down there and show footy on the big screen without having to pay a fee. 

I want to know the reasons behind not all games being available on-demand. If it is because there will be low demand for say, Crystal Palace vs Stoke, so it's not offered on demand, then I can understand that. But I can't think of any other reason why a third of the games will not be available on demand.

On a brighter note, sitting in the work toilets with my smartphone for midweek games is going to be much better than live text on the computer :)

I'm considering switching to Tclear at the same time I get this EPL service to try and off-set some of the cost. I'm told the T-Boxes are pretty poor but I can deal with that I guess. Can I get Sommet Sports on TelstraClear?

I was very interested in the idea of purchasing online packages for the different sports I like, as suggested by others, but this is a serious issue when you like a lot of sports. 

Apart from the costs starting to add up, are there even any options for rugby/nz cricket? Is watching the All Blacks on Sky the only legal way to watch them live?

Another thing I want to know is the likelihood of some kind of partnership with an ISP so that this can be un-metered. There were initially rumours that there was a partnership with Telecom, but haven't heard anything since?

We're currently using around 10 - 15gb per month. We had a 20gb plan, but they doubled this for us at no cost a little while ago so I think we have 40gb now. Assuming this service is metered, will my spare 25gb be enough to watch say 8 full games a month? Am I dreaming?

An hour of HD streaming will generally use between 1.5 - 2GB

We are currently using about 80Gb per month in my house.  If I want to watch 10 games per month, that will push me over the 100GB that I am currently paying for, so will require an increased cost.

I think the major problem with this is that a lot of people are going to want to keep Sky for other sports, so there will just be additional costs - $200 for the sign-up, increased bandwidth ($20 per month), potentially new and/or better hardware (at a minimum most people will need these cables to link the laptop to the TV, and they are not free).  You are looking at about $500, on top of the amount you are already paying Sky.

I haven't laugh so much in a long time.  $100m+ profit, can't justify $600k for a major offering.  The world has changed.  Internet is winning against satellite tv.  Happy to pay $150 against around $900 per year.  Might buy a sender or one of those WD TV boxes that has a grunty hard drive and plug that into whatever TV there is.  Almost inclined to just stream via iPhone or iPad early on Sunday morning while still in bed. That would be luxury.  

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8819272/Telecom-may-cut-football-watching-price

Telecom thinking about offering a discount, if not completely unmetered.

Shame we can't subscribe to Setanta here online.....

I also hope that when TVNZ show their one game a week they bring back the Big League Soccer theme and intro. That would make it worth watching. I tried finding it on youtube to blow your mind but I couldn't. 

I'M WITH TELECOM !!!! YAY !!!!!!!!

Not officially suggesting anything, but you can hire a good quality UK VPN for about $10 a month and there are loads of address forwarding services.