Is SeagullsPlayer owned directly by the club ???

TheBigUnit · Feb 14, 2015

Is SeagullsPlayer owned directly by the club

My SeagullsPlayer yearly subscription is up for renewal and I wondered if it is owned directly by the club? It is arguably quite expensive for the patchy service it provides; but if the club gets 100% of my subscription the price is easier to swallow...as I know it is directly supporting the clubs finances. :bhasign:

PILTDOWN MAN · Feb 14, 2015

Seagull1993 said:
Is SeagullsPlayer owned directly by the club

My SeagullsPlayer yearly subscription is up for renewal and I wondered if it is owned directly by the club? It is arguably quite expensive for the patchy service it provides; but if the club gets 100% of my subscription the price is easier to swallow...as I know it is directly supporting the clubs finances.

no.

Hampster Gull · Feb 14, 2015

Green Cross Code Man said:
The club get something (proportional to subscribers) but don't own the rights. The club said last year or the year before that they and a number of other clubs were very unhappy with the service provided as so many subscribers were paying for a service that was not fit for purpose. Then the fl collectively renewed the contract. I think that's a kick in the teeth for the fans. I won't resubscribe unless they change the company, anyone who knew anything about the internet would realise from simply glancing at the club web templates, that they are completely useless.

This with a few bells attached

Green Cross Code Man · Feb 14, 2015

The club get something (proportional to subscribers) but don't own the rights. The club said last year or the year before that they and a number of other clubs were very unhappy with the service provided as so many subscribers were paying for a service that was not fit for purpose. Then the fl collectively renewed the contract. I think that's a kick in the teeth for the fans. I won't resubscribe unless they change the company, anyone who knew anything about the internet would realise from simply glancing at the club web templates, that they are completely useless.

TheBigUnit · Feb 14, 2015

Green Cross Code Man said:
I won't resubscribe unless they change the company...

I'll go with that.

Eeyore · Feb 14, 2015

I've never heard Paul Barber with a good word to say about it. But the club are tied into the contract. It's the reason I'm reluctant to sign up.

Official Old Man · Feb 14, 2015

If you need it only for the live commentary on the web there are other ways. I have an expensive Slingbox hooked up to my Sky box that means I can watch Sky anywhere in the world. By hooking it up to my FM radio I can hear BBC Sussex. Must be a cheaper, easier option for Radio somehow.

Uncle C · Feb 14, 2015

I remember the good times said:
If you need it only for the live commentary on the web there are other ways. I have an expensive Slingbox hooked up to my Sky box that means I can watch Sky anywhere in the world. By hooking it up to my FM radio I can hear BBC Sussex. Must be a cheaper, easier option for Radio somehow.

Slingbox discontinued as far as I can see.

Green Cross Code Man · Feb 14, 2015

Brighton Lines said:
I've never heard Paul Barber with a good word to say about it. But the club are tied into the contract. It's the reason I'm reluctant to sign up.

I'm sure that Mr Barber said they were unable to do anything until 2014 when the contract was up. Then the league gave them another 5 years.

Official Old Man · Feb 14, 2015

Uncle C said:
Slingbox discontinued as far as I can see.

Nope. still available and mine is working. An ideal box would be one with a built in freeview & FM receiver (BBC Sussex not on freeview yet) plus input from a source and fully controllable externally.
UPDATE
Slingbox Pro HD @£200 has two switchable inputs plus a freeview tuner. Now all we need is BBC Sussex on freeview please.

jabba · Feb 14, 2015

I think it's funny that they don't take American Express.

Ian Bairds Fist · Feb 14, 2015

I remember the good times said:
Nope. still available and mine is working. An ideal box would be one with a built in freeview & FM receiver (BBC Sussex not on freeview yet) plus input from a source and fully controllable externally.
UPDATE
Slingbox Pro HD @£200 has two switchable inputs plus a freeview tuner. Now all we need is BBC Sussex on freeview please.

Do Squeezeboxes work or do they get match coverage blocked, like the BBC Sussex website?

Official Old Man · Feb 14, 2015

Ian Bairds Fist said:
Do Squeezeboxes work or do they get match coverage blocked, like the BBC Sussex website?

No, I believe the squeezebox takes its feed from the web. So it will tune to BBC Sussex on the web which is not on air for matches. However you do it the source has to be an FM or DAB signal fed into a box that you can log into anywhere in the world. I use my surround sound system that has a built in FM tuner.

grubbyhands · Feb 14, 2015

It is simply toilet. I feel very sorry for those who's only choice of match coverage is Seagull Player. I had it for 2 or 3 years but never again.

Terry Butcher Tribute Act · Feb 15, 2015

I get the impression the club are trying to get everyone on their youtube channel and make money through advertising on that, meaning Seagulls Player is just an inconvenience

Cadiz Seagull · Feb 15, 2015

grubbyhands said:
It is simply toilet. I feel very sorry for those who's only choice of match coverage is Seagull Player. I had it for 2 or 3 years but never again.

Speaking personally, Player is fine for me. But all I use it for is the commentary and the highlights and both have been perfectly OK for some time now, other than when someone forgot to turn it on a couple of weeks ago.

And great value for the price of a couple of tickets for the whole year.

But then I listen on a desktop or a laptop and I suspect that's where the problem lies. On a computer it's fine, it's other devices that it doesn't seem to be able to handle.

Is there anybody on here who listens on a desktop or a laptop that has problems?

middletoenail · Feb 15, 2015

I hate it, it's truly crap. But for expats like me there really is no other option until we make the prem.

Rugrat · Feb 15, 2015

middletoenail said:
I hate it, it's truly crap. But for expats like me there really is no other option until we make the prem.

I got rid of mine a year ago but the app that goes with it (download from FL site) still works fine, so a loophole they've not found

glasfryn · Feb 15, 2015

now I live in Eastbourne I can get radio Sussex, but when we lived in Wales I relied on PLAYER and to be quite honest it was shite and to be quite honest it still is by the sounds of it
lots have complained long and hard and for a while it was really OK but is now beginning to slip back to what it was a few years ago.
lets hope the club continue on the youtube with the highlights but as for the commentary there seems to not a lot those that pay can do, maybe another plea to PB might do the trick

KZNSeagull · Feb 15, 2015

Cadiz Seagull said:
Speaking personally, Player is fine for me. But all I use it for is the commentary and the highlights and both have been perfectly OK for some time now, other than when someone forgot to turn it on a couple of weeks ago.

And great value for the price of a couple of tickets for the whole year.

But then I listen on a desktop or a laptop and I suspect that's where the problem lies. On a computer it's fine, it's other devices that it doesn't seem to be able to handle.

Is there anybody on here who listens on a desktop or a laptop that has problems?

Nope - fine for me too and has been for ages. The only time I had issues was when we kept losing the feed, which Paul Barber sorted out at least a year ago (when he got loads of subscribers money back).

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