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Really? How long ago was that - currently only show England internationals, I don't recall this happening in the last few years.

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It was some time ago but they haven't had that much live tv rights since.

One was an live FA Cup match and they no longer have the rights.

Another was a UEFA match and they no longer have the rights.

Anyway - thankfully ITV did not get the UEFA rights so the football will continue to be available in up-to-date transmission formats.

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So much for UEFA's commitment to bring European football to a wider TV audience...

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SKY have also done it but must be ok for them eh despite that we pay a premium for it.
Also SKY had fake crowd noises during matches too.
ITV made mistakes yes but at least we don't pay for that service, i'm not defending ITV as they should be more proffesional.

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I've never seen Sky on an ad-break when a goal is scored.

I think all the channels are now adding fake crowd noise so as no to upset OFCOM - or at least the person who complains about anything they hear which may offend one person.

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SKY on several times have gone into a ad break during a match, although they are far better than ITV at coverage but we pay for SKY so i expect a lot better, ITV well what do you expect from a amature network.

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Can anyone who would like a free one month Now TV Entertainment pass please PM me.

They must be added by 31/12/19 and start immediately, so the code could be added at the beginning of December if you want it for over Christmas.

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Some foreign coverage may be forced on them? Has this happened on Premier League or Championship?

In anycase - all the big channels in sport have some UHD and 5.1 audio. Even BBC can do UHD.

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Neither BBC nor ITV are 'big channels in sport'

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No but the big sport events they do have deliver far bigger audiences then the Pay TV sports channels.

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As between them they carry the FA Cup Final, Wimbledon, England Internationals , Rugby World Cup - I would say they are big enough that they should offer at least 5.1 audio and UHD options.

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How long ago was it that this happened? Has it happened since?

We all live and learn.

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I don't disagree with you there.

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I seem to be watching less and less shows of late off Netflix as in my opinion the quality of many of its shows has dropped and I'm yet to see an original movie I've enjoyed that said we hardly use Amazon much these days for the same reason.

May look at some of the newer services to replace them once they launch.

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A new series of 'The Crown' starts today.

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Whilst not disputing the shows quality or appeal it's not something for me.

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Excellent show.

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On that we agree.:)

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I actually got around to signing up for the free trial of this and will be trying it on Android and Apple TV so will give my honest opinion on the service.

Anyone who doesn't have the service currently and is interested to know whether a particular show is on feel free to ask and I'll check.

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4 x more people trying to cancel Disney+ than Netflix https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/4x-m...-than-netflix/

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The tests are yet to come.

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Indeed especially as Disney+ is slowly rolling out worldwide it launched in NZ and Australia today.

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Exactly as quite a few countries will not have access to it until next March.

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That sounded sensational until I read the report.

So not as bad as first put forward and it only relates to google searches for how to cancel.

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It's no more sensational than Old Boy citing his opinion pieces!

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I have the $12.99 bundle hulu, espn+ and disney+ in one which i find superb value.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50461171

Disney+ user details hacked.

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It looks like they will have to up their game if they want to stay in the game..

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You would think companies would get a pentest company to check security before going live to highlight any security flaws.

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l pretty amazing how top companies are rather slack in the security measures they employ.

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Simple solution 2 factor authorization.
Why more companies don't offer this i'll never know especially big companies like Disney.

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l have 2 factor authorization for quite a few websites that l use.

Its so simple.

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Yes, but the American version is different from the one we will get. I would csrtainly want to look at the content if we were given the Hulu strand, but not otherwise. That's assuming they get tighter security!

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No one knows yet what version the uk will get i expect it'll just be disney+ for now until contracts expire.

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Isn't that why the launch in the UK is delayed until 2020? As I understand it, some of Sky's contracts run out at that point.

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Correct.

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Think so yes.

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Sky Sports 1080p

https://www.nowtv.com/boost

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Those prices are disgusting tbh.

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On the website Sky Sports has an offer of 6 months for £20 a month so with the boost a total of £23 which seems pretty fair to me. It also allows you three concurrent streams as opposed to the usual two.

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It's a shame that BT Sport costs so much more on Sky, though. Maybe that will change when the new arrangements with BT take effect next year.

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l doubt it...

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Do you know the frame rate?

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https://help.nowtv.com/article/what-is-now-tv-boost

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We are on about Now TV here.

Sky have signed a wholesale deal with BT to allow them to sell BT Sport to its customers this must be very close as the Now TV sports and entertainment channels briefly showed up on some BT You view boxes before disappearing.

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Just recieved that offer also recieved entertainment pass at £3.50p/m for 6 months, skycinema at £5p/m for 6 months.
So all in for £33.50p/m is cracking value i feel.

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Will SKY make Skysports cheaper for BT customers in return?
To add though btsports is coming to the nowtv stick/box.

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The Champions League money has to come from somewhere!

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Exactly as so much for OB saying those trusty old Pay TV sports channels were going to go the way of the dodo.:p:

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Argos currently have the Now TV stick with a month entertainment and a month cinema and a 1 day sports pass for £14.99.

They also have a 6 month Entertainment pass with Now TV stick for £29.99.

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BT is looking tonget Disney+ onto its platform soon. Hopefully, Virgin Media will do the same, from launch preferably.

https://www.rxtvlog.com/2019/11/bt-w...-platform.html

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Well we shall see if Virgin Media will do the same as for all we know they might already be in talks about it.

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I would be disappointed if they were not.

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You mean in 5 months at the earliest. No-one in the UK can get it before March 31st.

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I think we’ve dodged a bullet, given the problems they’ve had. Hopefully by next spring it will actually work, and not leak subs details like a sieve.

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Yeh at least they will have had time to iron the kniks out.

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Yes, I appreciate that it's not here yet, but it would be good to get it at launch.

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True, although Disney has claimed it's not their fault, and that it's customers who are re-using their passwords that have caused this.

Not sure if I believe that or not, but it's what they have claimed.

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I don't disagree but your post appeared to suggest it would launch sooner on BT boxes.

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Sorry, I didn't mean to give that impression!

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No harm done OB.

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Anyone seen the Premier League now advertised on the Amazon Fire Stick home page ?

Be interested to see how they cope and what quality we get , I've just looked at games and it appears there's 6 on Wednesday 4th December including Man United v Spurs and Liverpool v Everton which should get a high number of viewers.

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Yes l have seen it advertised on Amazon Prime's home page and the test will be how good the Streaming quality will be and as you have pointed out can they cope with a lot of viewers.

l won't be long before we know those answers.

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I hope the quality is better than The Man in the High Castle when I binged the latest series. Poor darks and obvious compression artefacts.

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The Man in the High Castle has always suffered from what looks like an artistic decision to wash out the colour palette. It tends to make low-light scenes (of which there are many) look like muddy monochrome. I daresay it looks fabulous on the ludicrously expensive monitors in their post production suite but on my own modestly expensive Samsung tellybox it's quite frustrating at times.

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l have watched quite a few series on AP where the quality has been pretty good but streaming live football will be a different kettle of fish.

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Interestingly no mention of what we can expect SD , HD or UHD ?

As I say the 4th December will see two games which I'd expect would see large viewer numbers and then there are another 4 matches on top of that so let's hope Amazon have anticipated this.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...-mersey-derby/ (apologies sub needed to read whole article)

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Looking at the link there and from what l can read it suggest that they have some pretty big concerns on whether they can cope with a large numbers of viewers.

l can't see that they are just going to show it just in SD as thats a no no for starters as viewers will expect far better definition then just SD.

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I agree with what you are saying.

I read an article stating they had tried to get the Liverpool Derby on to Free to Air TV - but the T&Cs of their deal prevented this from happening

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Beggars can’t be choosers. :)

Would have been an absolute joke if having been handed the rights they got to put a key game on free to advertise Amazon at Christmas.

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They seem to be able to show the tennis in what appears to be HD quality, cant see why the football wont be the same.

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They would be silly if they can't show it in HD but the bigger question is will they cope with the demand especialy for certain matches which will be very popular.

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NBCsports cope just fine i can't see any reason why Amazon wouldn't cope.

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It's the demand for the service that they appear to be the most worried about. In my opinion, they should have secured a back-up set of satellite and cable channels just in case of problems on this new venture. However, they seem to have left it too late now.

If this goes well, it will be interesting to see what Amazon's next move in the sports arena will be. If it turns out to be the disaster some are predicting, it will be back to the drawing board. I think we are coming to a fork in the road which will determine our future direction in terms of sports streaming, at least in the short term.

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Exactly they can't do much now as the horse has already bolted.

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No one has really predicted a disaster as the vexed question one has to ask is are Amazon just trying to get a few more Prime members on board in the run up to Christmas or is this a dip into the water for the future.

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Tennis in comparison with Football is a minority sport and therefore not the same demand.
If Amazon really have not thought this through and got back up server capacity it will be massive own goal.

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One they would struggle to recover from if that was to be the case.

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NBC Sports is also available across cable and satellite in the US which eases the demand.

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True.

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Had a quick look on the AP website.

Interestingly the games are there to choose live and are said to be available again from midnight.

I couldn't ascertain if this meant they were available to stream at any time after the midnight following the live showing and if this is the case how long they are available for.

I'm sure they must be in HD at least, anything less would be a massive own goal.

Don't forget AP will be monitoring numbers closely to see if it is viable to bid for a better package in the next round of PL rights.

It is imperative for them that the streamer has a positive experience.

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One would think they would be available for quite a few days.

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Amazons football coverage will be UHD and on vm https://www.rxtvlog.com/2019/11/virg...d-premier.html

ll Virgin Media customers with a V6 box can access the Amazon Prime Video app. It can be accessed by visiting Home > Apps& Games > Amazon Prime Video app or Channel 205 and then pushing the red button on the remote.

Not all matches are due to appear in UHD, but among those already confirmed are Burnley v Manchester City on 3rd December, Liverpool v Everton on 4th December and Arsenal v Brightonn on 5th December 2019.

(edit) - Newapollo beat me to it on coming soon thread.

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For anyone wanting SKY Cinema on nowtv 1 month is £4.99 at CDkeys https://www.cdkeys.com/top-up-cards/nowtv

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Its showing £5:99 for me

EDIT:
Now TV 1 month entertainment pass for £2:33 at Amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/NOW-TV-MONT...5119239&sr=8-9

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Britbox has highlighted some programme additions for its site during January and we have confirmation that it will shortly be launching on Roku as well as on certain smart TVs, Freeview Play and Chromecast.

Nothing of any interest to me on there - I've seen all the stuff that I like on the menu and I am not one to watch things over and over.

https://www.rxtvlog.com/2019/11/brit...additions.html

Apple +, however, seem to be adding some good stuff, even though there's not a lot on there yet. Nonetheless, if they keep adding material every week as they are now doing, this will be a draw for me.

I will get a year's free trial as I've just bought a couple of i-phones, so I will have plenty of opportunity to try it out.

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The only new streaming service l can see our household subscribing to is Disney+ when it launches in March.

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We went to see Frozen 2 last night. Disney were advertising the streaming service very hard indeed.

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l can see quite a lot of takers come March given that there is likely to a freebie for the first month as with nearly other streaming service.

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Yeah it went up to £5.99 yesterday evening still decent price though.

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We have a Now TV entertainment subscription in our household and every time we tell them we are leaving they offer us 3 months more for under a fiver.

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Check your amazon account 3 months prime for £11.99 for some people on monthly pay or not subscribed. https://www.amazon.co.uk/amazonprime...mpaignId=PROMO

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Same here mate, I got three months for £3.49 per month, bargain!

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Absolutely MM as our bigger loyalty out of the streamers has always been Amazon Prime for my partner and l as another family member pays for Netflix which of course we use as well.

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Same here. I use my auntie’s Netflix and I pay for Prime Video and Now TV and currently considering DisneyLife, so I can get ready for Disney+.

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Sky to create 2,000 jobs with new Elstree TV and film studio

https://www.theguardian.com/business...tv-film-studio

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Not the type of financial decision which suggest they are on the wane anytime soon.

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A monumental investment in the UK. Somewhat predictable for such a huge company to secure it’s own position in the content market for years to come.

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Not to want to encourage OB especially but they can distribute their content as effectively over IP as they can by satellite.

Whatever the future of broadcast TV, I think it's obvious to Sky that the days when they could more or less dictate the way the pay-TV market operates, by controlling the only nationwide distribution platform as well as rights to all the premium content, are over. If they're going to survive in a fragmented landscape with many distribution platforms and premium content spread thinly across them, then they need to find other ways of being distinctive. If they can produce quality content, that will help them no end.

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Amazon have nailed the 4K picture on the Burnley v Man City game first class stream via the V6 box

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That decision does not necessarily have anything to do with linear TV services.

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The Palace games looks good here to even though only HD.

The Burnley game is also in HDR on some devices.

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l agree with much of what you say as for several years Sky has been adapting their strategy in a changing marketplace with far more competition now then there was then and part of that strategy is less reliance on sport and more diversification in producing high quality content.

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Of course the untimely demise of linear isn’t the only um, bold, prediction on the forum. He has, in my view mistakenly, consistently underestimated the ability of the incumbents in the pay tv market to react. In the past consistently the mantra was about how companies are going to come in and steamroller over the top.

When in practice many of us have said that the incumbents, with their huge existing revenues, profits and customer base, are well placed to adapt to the future regardless of how that looks.