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Old 08-12-2019, 16:27   #6957
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Fair enough. I look forward to someone actually tacking the question.
Well, the simple answer is that Amazon is expanding and they are currently exploring the art of streaming without the glitches. You know as well as I do that streaming is hardly perfect at the moment and latency is a headache.

However, we are getting there, and I have no doubt at all that sports streaming will take off one the issues are resolved.

I really don't understand the mindset that because something hasn't happened yet that it never will. History proves that theory wrong. There has to be a start point for everything, surely!

As for Amazon and the Premier League, it is now being reported that Amazon is very pleased with their coverage, and it would seem that this will encourage them to put more than a toe in the water this time.

I was pleased to see that the matches were free of extra charge, and Amazon probably covered most of the cost of this by the increased number of subscriptions they took as a result.

If they do bid for and get the rights next time around, it will be very interesting to see how much they charge subscribers for that. I would not be at all surprised if the cost came down from the prices Sky are charging their customers.
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