AFL LIVE PASS OUTRAGE

[daisycutter 30,027]

3 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Not true. I listened to the radio off the app yesterday

what's wrong with old fashioned radio?  doesn't affect your data quota either

some phones even have a radio built-in (not internet)

[Sir Why You Little 37,498]

1 minute ago, daisycutter said:

what's wrong with old fashioned radio?  doesn't affect your data quota either

some phones even have a radio built-in (not internet)

Tunein is blocked from AFL Broadcasts

so one has no choice but to use the AFL Live site. 

Why carry a Radio when the iphone is in the pocket. If i am home the 1965 Hitachi Wireless is switched on. 

Sounds great for AM!!

[Pennant St Dee 13,473]

3 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

the live radio is only available on the AFL website .... no longer on the app

The radio stations should be complaining as they pay for the broadcast rights and internet streaming is now a very common way to listen.

It's there on my Galaxy

click on the chosen game and

at the middle of the bottom of the screen is a green play button. 

Click that and you get through to a list of stations you choose to listen to 

[daisycutter 30,027]

3 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Tunein is blocked from AFL Broadcasts

so one has no choice but to use the AFL Live site. 

Why carry a Radio when the iphone is in the pocket. If i am home the 1965 Hitachi Wireless is switched on. 

Sounds great for AM!!

sounds even better if you get a modern dab+ radio.....................some phones have a dab+ receiver built-in

or you can stay with the vagaries of afl/telstra who change the quality and rules week by week

[Diamond_Jim 12,779]

1 hour ago, Pennant St Dee said:

It's there on my Galaxy

click on the chosen game and

at the middle of the bottom of the screen is a green play button. 

Click that and you get through to a list of stations you choose to listen to 

thank you so much PSD ... there used to be a listen live button and/or a little head set so I missed that play button.

Back in Oz now and will be very interested if that little button still shows when I open the app overeseas

thanks again

[Sir Why You Little 37,498]

26 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

thank you so much PSD ... there used to be a listen live button and/or a little head set so I missed that play button.

Back in Oz now and will be very interested if that little button still shows when I open the app overeseas

thanks again

It will

[sue 9,281]

Frustrating to see the good quality of the Youtube live stream of the Casey match compared to the crud that the AFL Live Pass serves up much of the time.

[daisycutter 30,027]

7 minutes ago, sue said:

Frustrating to see the good quality of the Youtube live stream of the Casey match compared to the crud that the AFL Live Pass serves up much of the time.

jeez, if you thought the casey stream was good quality i'd hate to see the live pass quality

[sue 9,281]

25 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

jeez, if you thought the casey stream was good quality i'd hate to see the live pass quality

You would indeed.  At times it just gets so fuzzy that you can't see the ball and each player is a coloured blur.  And then it just stops occasionally.  It's not my network connection or home wifi, it's the crud that they serve up.  How they dare charge for it is beyond me.

[Maldonboy38 6,447]

The app today showing the 2016 season, and unable to find out what is happening in any game except last night's GWS V Doggies game. Continues to be a joke of a product. 

[Viscount Cardwell 188]

Agreed, tried to tune into the hawks v saints match, but can't get any coverage, an absolute joke, rang Barry from Telstra in Mumbai, he couldn't offer me an explanation !

[binman 44,897]

17 minutes ago, Maldonboy38 said:

The app today showing the 2016 season, and unable to find out what is happening in any game except last night's GWS V Doggies game. Continues to be a joke of a product. 

I was watching the hawks game. Paste tense. hopeless

[John Crow Batty 8,895]

Can't get into today's games. Stopped working about 20 minutes ago. On home page has the latest  news from Melbourne. The final game of last season when we were thrashed by Geelong. Unbelievable.

[Diamond_Jim 12,779]

I was using the app last night to check the scores and it appeared to be unstable (not auto refreshing) towards the end of the game.

Just wondering how others are getting on?

On a more general issue I found the YouTube replays that one could find last year to be far superior to what I now get from the app. Does youtube use better buffering or similar.

[daisycutter 30,027]

6 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

I was using the app last night to check the scores and it appeared to be unstable (not auto refreshing) towards the end of the game.

Just wondering how others are getting on?

On a more general issue I found the YouTube replays that one could find last year to be far superior to what I now get from the app. Does youtube use better buffering or similar.

it's a deliberate plot to force you to foxtel

[double dee 27]

Been using the crownbet app and chromecasting it. Not great quality but it works

[sue 9,281]

OK I'm paranid about the AFL and its shennagins. But is anyone else finding the picture quality of the game from China is far better than it usually is? 

So far I've seen no patches when the players become a blur and you can't see the ball.  At a quick glance it doesn't look much worse than a normal TV coverage. What's going on?

[jnrmac 20,392]

The AFL live add is pathetic. Quality is appalling. Stream is shocking and the app keeps crashing.

 

[sue 9,281]

1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

The AFL live add is pathetic. Quality is appalling. Stream is shocking and the app keeps crashing.

 

 that's what I usually experience (not the app crashing, just the quality and stalling). But oddly not today from China.  Are you referring to that match or another?

[Diamond_Jim 12,779]

I usually listen without headphones but I listened to the replay of last night's game with a pair of good head phones. The sound and picture were slightly out of synch, You could hear the umpires whistle signalling the mark when the ball was mid air.

Could also hear the bottles being dumped in the trash near the commentary box !!

[CanberraDemon 214]

On 4/16/2017 at 1:36 PM, daisycutter said:

what's wrong with old fashioned radio?  doesn't affect your data quota either

some phones even have a radio built-in (not internet)

I can tell you what's wrong with the old fashioned radio in Canberra - there's no effing coverage. Last year we got Friday night, Sat arvo plus all Giants and Swans - this year eff all!!!

Thanks for nothing AFL. Western NSW gets the AFL / Croc media broadcasts all weekend but the nation's capital gets sweet FA of the national game!

[daisycutter 30,027]

27 minutes ago, CanberraDemon said:

I can tell you what's wrong with the old fashioned radio in Canberra - there's no effing coverage. Last year we got Friday night, Sat arvo plus all Giants and Swans - this year eff all!!!

Thanks for nothing AFL. Western NSW gets the AFL / Croc media broadcasts all weekend but the nation's capital gets sweet FA of the national game!

sorry to hear that, cd. doesn't make sense.

[La Dee-vina Comedia 17,137]

10 hours ago, daisycutter said:

sorry to hear that, cd. doesn't make sense.

Makes sense if you occasionally remind yourself that the F in 'AFL' doesn't always stand for 'football'. Particularly if the A is for 'awful' and the L is for 'lousy'.

[Diamond_Jim 12,779]

There was a great thread last year on internet v Foxtel v FTA as the future sports platforms but I could not find it so I thought I would post here.

The Guardian article below reveals that Amazon (UK version) is now going to offer the Eurosports Channel as an add on it to its TV services. By itself not earth shattering but another blow to the cable channels in this case Sky TV.

The pricing is interesting...

"Amazon will offer the channels at an extra cost to Amazon Prime members, who pay £79 a year or £7.99 a month for on-demand video including exclusive shows such as American Gods, The Grand Tour and Man in the High Castle.

The individual pricing for the new channels ranges from £1.49 to £9.49 a month, with subscribers choosing and paying for individual services, rather than for a bundle as with the traditional pay-TV model used by Sky. Netflix’s standard video on-demand service costs £7.49 a month while Sky’s cheapest package of channels is £22."

On the pick and choose model the article makes the following comment:

“The main challenge Amazon has is that it is offering all of the channels standalone, which is potentially extremely expensive,” said Broughton. “The a la carte model has been tried a few times in the pay-TV market before. Research suggests that people say they want to pick and choose but in practice they prefer buying a big bundle and get ‘all-they-can-eat’ TV. In time, Amazon may look at aggregating some of the channels it is offering into a pay-TV style package.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/23/amazon-netflix-sky-uk-itv-eurosport-hayu

 

[AzzKikA 2,371]

1 hour ago, Diamond_Jim said:

There was a great thread last year on internet v Foxtel v FTA as the future sports platforms but I could not find it so I thought I would post here.

The Guardian article below reveals that Amazon (UK version) is now going to offer the Eurosports Channel as an add on it to its TV services. By itself not earth shattering but another blow to the cable channels in this case Sky TV.

The pricing is interesting...

"Amazon will offer the channels at an extra cost to Amazon Prime members, who pay £79 a year or £7.99 a month for on-demand video including exclusive shows such as American Gods, The Grand Tour and Man in the High Castle.

The individual pricing for the new channels ranges from £1.49 to £9.49 a month, with subscribers choosing and paying for individual services, rather than for a bundle as with the traditional pay-TV model used by Sky. Netflix’s standard video on-demand service costs £7.49 a month while Sky’s cheapest package of channels is £22."

On the pick and choose model the article makes the following comment:

“The main challenge Amazon has is that it is offering all of the channels standalone, which is potentially extremely expensive,” said Broughton. “The a la carte model has been tried a few times in the pay-TV market before. Research suggests that people say they want to pick and choose but in practice they prefer buying a big bundle and get ‘all-they-can-eat’ TV. In time, Amazon may look at aggregating some of the channels it is offering into a pay-TV style package.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/23/amazon-netflix-sky-uk-itv-eurosport-hayu

 

Seriously why can't they offer packages AND allow people to pick & chose their own channels?