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[Football] BT enters final stage of talks to offload Premier League rights
- Thread starter PeakGull
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Billy in Bristol
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Just paid £5 to get on a big screen, least I can get it refunded.
studio150
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No doubt this will just mean more cost for the viewer, as the sporting rights are fragmented even further.
southstandandy
WEST STAND ANDY
- Jul 9, 2003
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I refuse to line the pockets of Sky, BT, Dazn or whoever so little difference to me. Yes, I do catch the odd match in a pub if I'm out, but the streamers can do one as far as I'm concerned.
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
The DAZN takeover of BT Sport is off as of this morning. DAZN have pulled out.
It now looks as if Discovery will buy it up.
It now looks as if Discovery will buy it up.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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I don't care who the supplier is, as long as they keep the expertise of Peter Walton on the commentary team so they can ask him if he agrees with the ref's decision.....which he will.
southstandandy
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- Jul 9, 2003
- 5,644
Who are Discovery?
keaton
Big heart, hot blood and balls. Big balls
- Nov 18, 2004
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They own a lot of documentary channels and Eurosport. Seems to be that BT Sport and Eurosport will be bundled together
nicko31
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Really is a joke the way the rights are split across multiple providers in the UK, total price is just crazy...
Funny isn't it. Ever since I've been watching football, the mantra "all we want is consistency" has been trotted out by pundits everywhere. Then the minute they get a referee in the studio, there isn't a single disagreement from him over the decision. Ever.
Postman Pat
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Would solve a lot of their issues with lagging service via streaming - would have a 'live' stream and multiple channels to broadcast.
Good place to show their sports documentaries too, some of which are excellent.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
What issues with streaming do Amazon have? They broadcast flawlessly in 4k for me.
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
AWS is an amazing platform for reliability, so reliable in-fact that Netflix actually use Amazon to host their services. Bad company morally, but they do offer an amazing service. Anyone with issues probably have local network problems to troubleshoot.
Postman Pat
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There is a delay on the streaming service, so when watching a game people were getting notifications of goals before they had happened on screen.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
That is not a fault of Amazon nor any other streaming platform. That is a feature of ALL streaming platforms.
Postman Pat
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Indeed, hence my point if they took over the BT coverage it would become effectively live and remove most of the delay.
I guess this is something that Sky have considered with their Sky Glass service to look at ways to remove the latency. I also saw that Amazon were aiming for a 5 second max latency on their coverage, but will obviously depend on how people are streaming.
Amazon is on average about 10 second delay to real time for me which is incredible no other streaming gets close. I've had games where it's been about 5 seconds. Would be great if they got more EPL games.
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