elsiegee40 Posted October 5, 2009 Posted October 5, 2009 BBC SPORT | Football | Internationals | England match to be internet only Now I'm no great footy fan, but share house with those who are. Our internet connection speed is cr@p at the best of times (about 1 Meg at best) and if lots of people watch this game, it'll be worse. OH says he won't pay a fiver to see a match in fits and starts... Looks like our router won't be on that night. Anyone for ludo?!
kitsch Posted October 5, 2009 Posted October 5, 2009 BBC SPORT | Football | Internationals | England match to be internet only Now I'm no great footy fan, but share house with those who are. Our internet connection speed is cr@p at the best of times (about 1 Meg at best) and if lots of people watch this game, it'll be worse. OH says he won't pay a fiver to see a match in fits and starts... Looks like our router won't be on that night. Anyone for ludo?! Ludo? That's more like it... Football? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 1
IanT Posted October 5, 2009 Posted October 5, 2009 Internet only! wtf!! and there asking for £4.99! they can get lost! I know where you can watch it free anyway!
Michael Posted October 5, 2009 Posted October 5, 2009 Our internet connection speed is cr@p at the best of times (about 1 Meg at best) To be honest your 1Mbps connection is easily enough bandwidth to stream youtube-like content. The bottleneck will be the company streaming the content. They're going to need a beast of a network infrastructure and servers to stream to potentially millions of viewers. Is it commercially viable like the article says? I think people will pay just to experience what it's like (this one time) and depending on that experience will directly influence decisions people make in future. What made me laugh is some of the stereotypical comments some idiots made on the news. They made it sound we're still using 14" CRTs for computer screens. They've clearly never heard of youtube, BBCi Player and 4oD which millions of people watch every week. A typical program can easily be 30 minutes, so watching a first half of 45 minutes isn't so unrealistic. I have a feeling the television boffins don't like the fact advertising trends are changing. Why pay huge sums upfront when you can pay in much smaller chunks online?
pooley Posted October 5, 2009 Posted October 5, 2009 Justins tv is a good place to watch it I'd imagine
bossman Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 @Michael: They have put a limit of 1 million connections, which would be £5 million approx in revenue. Not bad for a poxy england match P.S. I won't be watchin it would rather pour hot candle wax over my eyes than watch England's over paid bunch of inarticulate Neanderthals kicking a bag of wind around (badly at that). :rolleyes: 1
webman Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 The bottleneck will be the company streaming the content. They're going to need a beast of a network infrastructure and servers to stream to potentially millions of viewers. Not forgetting the UK broadband "infrastructure"... That's precisely the reason why I can't see TV-over-the-Internet working at the moment.
SteveBentley Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 Luckily this match is pretty meaningless from an England point of view as we've already qualified. I can't see the pubs being too impressed though, as this doesn't appear to be available to them to show.
sidewinder Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 thats the thing, its meaningless, hence why only this company got the game, bbc/itv knew there would be little interest in it £4.99 is bad enough, on the day they're charging £11.99!!! I wouldnt pay that to watch any football game ever on TV, internet, anything. Not sure who in their right mind a) wants to watch it b) is stupid enough to pay a fiver Hope the company loses out big time on this. They're taking the p1ss with the prices
dalsoth Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 You could always try myp2p.eu or something such like that as they always have every premier league game available and other sports. They use specific software such as sopcast and also media player via the web for live sports. I would and do pay for my sports but i can't help it when they don't always show all the games.
gshaw Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 I refuse to pay for any type of streamed content full stop, just as well the game doesn't really matter and tbh the highlights will suffice. I hope someone restreams it elsewhere, no international game should ever be charged for... end
pscott Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 Will any pubs be showing the game, whats the situation with this?
elsiegee40 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Posted October 6, 2009 (edited) Will any pubs be showing the game, whats the situation with this? It won't be available in pubs, but some cinemas will be showing the game... at a price and you'll need to smuggle your own popcorn in to avoid being fleeced for that! BTW the £5 price is only if you book your internet screening of the game now... if you wait until match day it's something like £15! EDIT Checked... it's £11.99 on match day Edited October 6, 2009 by elsiegee40
RabbieBurns Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 Its on Polsat Sports, possibly find a few pubs that have got a subscription to that. Come on the Ukraine
RabbieBurns Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 PS. I can only imagine how bad a 1mbit internet stream will look on a 40ft cinema screen, youtoube looks crap when I play it on my 46" TV. imagine it stretched another 10 times?
HodgeHi Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 I think you need your head looking at paying yet again to watch something. How many times do the UK customers have to pay to watch something? We pay TV license, then we pay to subscribe to the likes of Virgin/Sky, then we have to pay for pay to view TV on the subscribed TV, then we subscribe to our internet connection, only to pay for stuff that's being streamed across it???. Why? I wouldn't mind (wait, that's a lie) so much if i could even watch something on BBC iPlayer the following day after its been aired on a 10Mb connection without it constantly stopping.
elsiegee40 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Posted October 6, 2009 Come on the Ukraine Flippin' Scots! 1
torledo Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 i wouldn't watch this match even if it were on free tv. Because it's totally meaningless. anyone who pays £4.99 to watch this on t'internet shouldn't be allowed to open a bank account. Or be given money.
webman Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 I wouldn't pay to watch any match on any medium; because, as bossman so eloquently put, it's just "over paid bunch of inarticulate Neanderthals kicking a bag of wind around".
RabbieBurns Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 I wouldn't mind (wait, that's a lie) so much if i could even watch something on BBC iPlayer the following day after its been aired on a 10Mb connection without it constantly stopping. Must be your connection.. I can even watch iplayer fine over here via my vpn at my folks adsl line. No buffering anything, hit play, and it plays.
gshaw Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 Just remembered about the joys of traffic shaping as well, if this ever goes mainstream the ISPs will have a field day when everyone tries to watch at once
CHR1S Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 Ok, firstly why all the negative rubbish about our national team and how bad they are? We are playing some of our best football in ages! Secondly, you go and watch overpaid film stars dont you? Finally, as a football fan I am very annoyed at the approach taken for such a "meaningless" match. I expect (yes expect) all England matches (and Scottish/Welsh/Irish) to be free. Anyhow... Ill be watching some dodgy stream from another country
sandeep2504 Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 I don't think they are overpaid. A lot of people who complain they are overpaid still pay £40 for a replica shirt and pay sky a ridiculous amount a month for watching the games. "over paid bunch of inarticulate Neanderthals kicking a bag of wind around" i take it you don't like football then?
webman Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 I don't think they are overpaid. You think that the "skill" involved in being a footballer warrants their astronomic wages? Compare that to often-stressful life-saving careers such as fire fighters and life-boat personnel. "over paid bunch of inarticulate Neanderthals kicking a bag of wind around" i take it you don't like football then? Correct.
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