Footy fans outside the UK definitely get a better deal when it comes to watching football.
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well thats pretty standard seeing as the overseas rights dont cost anywhere near what Sky/BT pay for the domestic rights
I know. I'm just meaning its quite frustrating to have to fork out so much money to watch football.
Legal? Cheap?
I agree. And sports broadcasting in general seems infinitely better in a lot of countries than in the UK. The North American model of legitimate streaming platforms really is the way to go, but I'd predict The Premier League is a decade or two away from that, if at all.
Thanks, I'll bookmark it and check it out when the season starts. Will it have champs league?
The box was £120 then you use setup an account with NTV and choose the package you want. http://www.ntv.mx/?c=2&a=0&p=10 Will show you the packages available.
Do you use this place?
Streaming is fine if you have 100% reliable access to fibre optic broadband, which not everyone does.
Frankly, I'm more than happy to pay what I pay for Sky and BT given the amount of TV we watch in our house every month as a family. I suspect a lot of others are as well or nobody would subscribe.
I tried it and it is good, but not perfect. It may run better during the season.
The best app on Kodi that I have used is vdubt25. I follow the guy on Facebook as well. His streams are good, but he has tantrums when someone copies the streams and withdraws the app, but this is usually when there are no games on or international week. He offers it for free so I can't see how he loses out. Think he likes the attention. It is the best streaming service for league games as he uses a stream of MSNBC from the US. Where it fell down last year was CL games which are not on MSNBC.
My top tips for Sky or Virgin is this.
Threaten to cancel and carry it through as you have 30 days. Say you will swap to a competitor as it is cheaper with new customer offers and Quidco cashback. Within 3 days you will get a call so make sure they have the right number. You will usually get a good deal.
At the moment on Skys website there is a code 'BUNDLES50' which you can enter on the page you select your package.
Threaten to cancel and carry it through as you have 30 days. Say you will swap to a competitor as it is cheaper with new customer offers and Quidco cashback. Within 3 days you will get a call so make sure they have the right number. You will usually get a good deal.
At the moment on Skys website there is a code 'BUNDLES50' which you can enter on the page you select your package.
Sadly even though Ireland isn't in the UK we have to pay sky's exuberant prices.
But we also get saturday 3pm's with BT sport
If we're lucky. The limited selection is the real pain in the balls.
So that TV doesn't stop people within the UK going to the grounds to watch Football.
I wonder if this would genuinely happen
Just got my subscription through today, (Virgin Media customer) £3 increase a month, so that's £36 a year on top on of Sky subscription just to watch same shit we had on Sky/Itv. Ridiculous really, couldn't care less about watching european football at all this season, I'd rather stream it and keep BT Sport 1/2 and choose not to have the european channel instead of having forced on me. No doubt, Sky will raise their prices too.
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Sky will have to look at reducing price of sports package if all they have to offer is Premier League. Once they had La Liga and Champions League.
Money hungry feckers.
BT ruining the sports experience for everyone!
BT ruining the sports experience for everyone!
No chance
Its been proven thats it's bollocks though and OFCOM are investigating it.
They should do, whether they do is another matter.
Not for me they aren't. I don't have a Sky Sports subscription, but I do have BT Infinity broadband, which means that I can watch all the games on BT Sport for free.
BT can snatch this and that from Sky but still i dont see any quality in BT when it comes to pundits etc.
It sounds a bit like a loss leader from BT to draw the customers in, followed by gradually upping your bill.
I changed to bt infinity and phone to get it cheaper on sky. The CL was the clincher and I struggle to get good streams on sopcast these days.
Does it matter. I just mute before, halftime and turn over at full-time. I only have to listen to Michael Owen waffling on then.
Still missing out on all the games on Sky.
No,it doesnt matter,just saying,tho i used to watch complete thing.
Have the bought the rights to la liga?
They can always get new pundits. I'd imagine they probably couldn't get the "best" pundits with hardly any football to offer. Now they've got the La Liga package and CL I reckon they'll be able to get a few more.
For example what's the point in Sky having the Spanish pundits when they've got no football? All of them might as well go to BT really.
It's rumoured that they have a run at it as Sky pulled out.
They have Gary Lineker now for the CL football. As you say a few other pundits will be on the move.
Isn't the idea that competition (i.e. no longer just Sky) is good for the consumer?
Competition is better if the playing field is even. All that's happening at the moment is that both Sky and BT are taking different aspects of the game and charger us double what we would of paid in the past for the same service.
Sooner clubs can agree there own deals the better. I'd happily pay £200 a year to cover all united games live.
It's not worth it from Sky's point of view. In terms of ad revenue, it's only good for 2 games and with the new La Liga TV rights prices its practically a loss. Based on the viewing figures the competition adds and contributes to Sky Sports' total, it's just not worth it.
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