So how many commenters on this thread actually experienced the issues with Spark that are being widely discussed?
Really interested to know, as more and more seem to be confirming they had no issues at all.
I did. For the All Blacks game I had pixelation and several freezes during the first half and one of the tries was missed while it was frozen. I switched to Duke for the 2nd half. I'm using a brand new Samsung Smart TV and Vodafone Fibre 100. I feel like I was prepared equipment wise and don't believe I made any user error as I'm very used to streaming. Granted it was over WIFI as the router is not quite close enough to the TV to use wired, but I have not had any issues using Netflix, TVNZ/TV3/Freeview On Demand or Lightbox by the same method. The only previous game I'd watched was Australia-Fiji earlier that same day and had no issue with it which to me suggests it was a capacity issue. It was fine for the England game the next night.
For the EPL I have only used it for 2 games so far - the 1st and latest Arsenal games as I was overseas on holiday in between those. No issues with either, while noting they were both on demand rather than live.