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Posted September 24, 2019 22:45 · last edited September 24, 2019 22:46

chopah wrote:

20 Legend wrote:

chopah wrote:

paulm wrote:

I've used:

- PLP (Coliseum)

- Fanpass

- SkyGo

- Bein Sports

- Spark

- Various illegal streams

And my experiences would be ranked in this order:

1 - Spark

2 - Fanpass

3 - PLP (on average - year 1 was bad, year 2 was great)

4 - Bein Sports

5 - SkyGo

6 - Various illegal streams

But let me tell you it was a close run thing between 5 and 6! SkyGo is so bad. 

Have you tried SKY Sports Now?

Reason I ask is in a strange way SKY need Spark to actually do a decent job of streaming as SKY are also in that market and going forward SKY will be able to offer the best of both worlds (as long as they hold onto, or re-aquire key pieces of content)

Sky Sports Now is repackaged Fanpass. Moving towards what Sky could and should have done years ago. Except they didn't, after Fanpass finally picked up some steam (it was great) they more than doubled the price and wrecked it... and to put the nail in the coffin the whole time they pushed SkyGo to their subscribers which is a much inferior platform.

But, Sky will only be able to offer the best of both worlds for a limited time. As streaming picks up pace, and less and less people rely on satellite television (thanks to Netflix, Disney, etc) the satellites will no longer have the economies of scale to continue using.

nope - that's not correct.

How much research have you put into your second statement there?  do you know how much of the south island (in particular) has no DTH or decent enough internet to support any delivery other than from a dish.

I get SKY have made mistakes - I get people don't like them and I get some people just want them to go away.

Chopah - if that's the case I'm genuinely interested to know what platform does Fanpass run on and what platform does SkySportNow run on?

Re 2nd paragraph, according to this 680,000 households of NZ's 1.8m subscribe to Netflix. That's over 25% of the way. Sky has what, about 750,000 subscribers? That number is going down, inline with trends across the world. I don't know Sky's economics are (apparently you might), but it's safe to assume there's a point where maintaining the satellite infrastructure just to service some number of South Islanders won't be economical.

Also - I had no idea you worked for Sky. Not really that vested in YellowFever users if I'm honest.

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chopah wrote:
20 Legend wrote:
chopah wrote:
paulm wrote:

I've used:

- PLP (Coliseum)

- Fanpass

- SkyGo

- Bein Sports

- Spark

- Various illegal streams

And my experiences would be ranked in this order:

1 - Spark

2 - Fanpass

3 - PLP (on average - year 1 was bad, year 2 was great)

4 - Bein Sports

5 - SkyGo

6 - Various illegal streams

But let me tell you it was a close run thing between 5 and 6! SkyGo is so bad. 

Have you tried SKY Sports Now?

Reason I ask is in a strange way SKY need Spark to actually do a decent job of streaming as SKY are also in that market and going forward SKY will be able to offer the best of both worlds (as long as they hold onto, or re-aquire key pieces of content)

Sky Sports Now is repackaged Fanpass. Moving towards what Sky could and should have done years ago. Except they didn't, after Fanpass finally picked up some steam (it was great) they more than doubled the price and wrecked it... and to put the nail in the coffin the whole time they pushed SkyGo to their subscribers which is a much inferior platform.

But, Sky will only be able to offer the best of both worlds for a limited time. As streaming picks up pace, and less and less people rely on satellite television (thanks to Netflix, Disney, etc) the satellites will no longer have the economies of scale to continue using.

nope - that's not correct.

How much research have you put into your second statement there?  do you know how much of the south island (in particular) has no DTH or decent enough internet to support any delivery other than from a dish.

I get SKY have made mistakes - I get people don't like them and I get some people just want them to go away.

Chopah - if that's the case I'm genuinely interested to know what platform does Fanpass run on and what platform does SkySportNow run on?

Re 2nd paragraph, according to this 680,000 households of NZ's 1.8m subscribe to Netflix. That's over 25% of the way. Sky has what, about 750,000 subscribers? That number is only going down. I don't know Sky's economics (apparently you might), but there's a point there where maintaining the infrastructure just to service some number of South Islanders won't be economical.

Also - I had no idea you worked for Sky. Not really that vested in YellowFever users if I'm honest.