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For people like me who weren't watching in HD to begin with, the quality is an improvement on Sky.
It's important to note that the biggest games involving the biggest teams are often on a Sunday arvo in the UK. I'll be watching those live like always, or perhaps I'll get up and watch them right before I go to work, because I can. If I chose not to get PLP that would not be possible, I'd find out the result no matter how hard I try, then might, just might, get enough time to watch it delayed after the children are in bed on the Monday night - provided Sky even screened it delayed of course.
I often watch games delayed, but never as late as 1pm, that will never be an option for me.
I'm also really looking forward to the multi-game options. Especially on the final day when it's all drama.
For the fairweather fans, today's news from Sky is great. For the more serious fan, it makes no difference.
But you can watch games from Sky at any time to suit if you buy a second-hand DVD recorder with hard drive on Trade Me for recording games - good ones with 160GB - 250GB HDD going for $70 on Trade Me - I bought a second one for the extra hard drive storage for $70 on Trade Me the other week.
I've had a DVD recorder with hard drive since they first came out years ago and have mostly used it for recording live football from the wee small hours on Sky. It's also good to be able to transfer games (and other stuff you record like movies) on to DVD's from the hard drive if you want to keep special ones or share with others (my parents don't have Sky so I copy games on DVD-RW for them - you can wipe and re-record on those discs).
Better, cheaper option than a "My Sky" box for recording stuff as you own it, not renting from Sky and can copy to DVD etc.