Igloo or Sky

I currently have Sky, but was waiting for Igloo to come out so I could 'downgrade' as it were. On the surface it appears to be a good option especially if you have broadband and a router handy to the Igloo box. BUT.. $14.99 per Phoenix game makes $59.96 a month over the summer. Wow. Plus the Warriors, Super 15 and ABs and most likely AWs will also be $14.99 per match. In a busy month I could see myself spending well in excess of $100. Oh the dilemma...

Igloo website. 

edit - The other thing I've just realised is that iSky is very good for when I miss the occasional 3pm Sunday kick off, I don't know if Igloo would let me watch the game delayed. Must investigate..

edit 2 - Oh, you can plug a USB stick in and record it, probably better quality than streaming.. Oh the conundrum.

For me Sky would still be cheaper 

link you posted doesn't work - try this http://www.igloo.co.nz/

Fixed, thanks.

BTW don't think you can record - doesn't the USB only allow live TV pause and buffer?

You can't record Igloo. It is an encrypted signal. Did some homework on them two weeks ago.

https://www.igloo.co.nz/igloo/info/faqs.html

2nd question down! ;)

I'll email the igloo site and tell them their FAQ is bollox for you then - if you read them.

I don't think you get it. Read OP

Checked out igloo the other day, its ridiculous how expensive it is. Can't see how anyone could possibly be interested in the service? 

I did Ahmad but if you read further it says that programmes on demand etc have a 48 hour window into which they can be seen.

I was addressing the OP from the outset. Your posts haven't been. This isn't about recording to an external recorder 

You're both right but Ahmad's response was directly related to my comment. Their demands are ridiculous in terms of one off payments, $20 to watch the AW play New Caledonia? I don't think so. $15 EVERY TIME I want to watch the Nix, Crusaders and Warriors? You're out of your freaking mind.

Now Sky wouldn't want Igloo to be too successful would they?

Honestly I thought Sky had a real opportunity to cash in on some of the people who were stuck between wanting to watch sport and not being able to afford Sky. Not for the first time in my life I'm going to ditch Sky for winter and get it back on at the start of the next A-League season. I'd rather pay an average of $40 a month for 12 months than $75 a month for 7 or 8 months and not have all that other crap I don't watch anyway. Also why haven't they introduced a season pass for $100 a team or something? 

I agree with you both on how pricey igloo is. If they offered Discovery, Nat Geo & CI channel as well, I may have been interested but they don't. The pay per view is a bit rough too. There was a chance to be competitive and it's been missed.

PS: Shame Sky don't have a football dedicated channel. They do it for Rugby and sure there's a huge Rugby audience but then how many times do you want to watch counties v otago from 1995 etc (Just an example). There's football going on around the world 24/7 and it'd be great to watch the South American games again that Sky used to show 10 years or more ago. And Scottish football.

I'd like to see more from AFC nations as well. You can watch them on the TAB website but I don't really gamble and don't want to have an account with them just to view some football. I think if there was a football channel it would actually do quite well. Thing is though, is the Rugby Channel owned by Sky or is it a private venture?

Owned by Sky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rugby_Channel 

Looks like there's a dedicated Freeview sports channel on the way. Commencing 18th April according to the Freeview Wikipedia Entry. . Claim that they will cover football. No firm details yet though.

http://www.sommetsports.co.nz/

I've heard they'll be playing every AFL game each week. 

Exciting stuff, as I imagine they'll show a lot of sports that sky don't bother with. Wonder if the likes of tha ASBP will make it on there eventually too. or even NZ NBL basketball (the saints already stream their games live on their website for example) - and it's also worth noting that NBL has started a full month late this year, and happens to tip off the week that this sommet sports channel starts. 

as with all free offerings it will be horrid - delayed coverage at best - if you want to watch a nix game at 11pm then go hard,.

I doubt they'll show anything sky does, that's what they'd use prime for. 

It'll be fringe sports and competitions that sky don't bother with. Which is quite an exciting prospect for viewers and some sporting organisations. 

agreed, so basically a big waste of time - unless you're interested in non mainstream sports in which case that's awesome.

Will this channel be available through Sky?

maybe? most of the freeview channesl are aren't they?

Sure, if you're only interested in super rugby, the all blacks, cricket and EPL football I guess you wouldn't be interested. 

They already have AFL which has a pretty big following. If it can get sports like that on its roster, plus bring some lesser competitions into the publics viewing (like the NBL and ASBP) then I'd hardly call it a waste of time. I'd also hardly call basketball, AFL and football non mainstream sports. 

Last night I watched the Nix game and all of a sudden during the halftime break someone switched the channel to a 6 Nations replay on ESPN. I asked if it could be switched back to the Nix as I had requested for this before the game started and was told it wouldn't be a problem (and I'd made the point that there was no other live sport on at the time apart from Golf which no-one was watching).

Response from Gerard was "you mean that girls' game?". And when I gave him a blank confused stare he continued, "where they use their feet and the don't handle the ball?".

I'm hoping for a chance to get one of the AWs on Friday night to introduce themselves to him.

That sort of teacher would justify Novopay.