Wolves / Covid-19

[Deutsch Wolf]

There's nothing particularly innovative about their coverage, it's only simulcasting. Sky were doing that with the Champions League what, 15 years ago? Let alone overseas broadcasters long before that.

I'm not sure what I'm missing here when people rave about it.

 

[b3h]

I am basically a whore

You said it

 

[Kenny]

The big difference was they treated each game as a main game. So full set of TV presenters and guests.
Compare it to Sky when they have the mid week Championship games. In them they choose 1 or 2 as main games the rest they simply dump a commentator and if you are lucky a co comms so no proper half time/ full time stuff. Nothing ground breaking but enough to make it look good.
Normally you get channels going OTT when they get something new but Amazon stuck to the basics, so whilst not a shout it from the roof top praise they did at least avoid the shit that some have come out with (ITV and trying arty canera angles for instance)

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Easy enough to chuck budget at that when you're doing it for two gameweeks a season. Never going to happen for every single game across an entire campaign, not a hope.

Same as if they gobbled up more rights then it wouldn't still be £7 a month.

 

[Kenny]

Well people can only comment on what they did not what they may do.

You would presume if and when they get a bigger chunk they will simply add in an additional tier for Prime but they would need a BT level of games to justify it.

 

[Tom Hark]

Nope, I've got a Chromecast and the experience was dreadful. Inexcusable really. Wasn't just me either, was all over Twitter at the time.

No point me spending money on a brand new TV for the likes of Netflix that I'll never ever watch.

If your TV and laptop both have HDMI sockets you can buy a cheap HDMI cable from Toolstation and link them physically.

 

[sycophantia]

I liked the Prime coverage would happily see it increased, no doubt if they had substantial coverage then you would have to pay a premium, no different to other providers

 

[Tony Towner]

Football is a loss leader at the moment for Amazon as is any sports coverage they commit to. They are testing and learning. 40% of UK households had Prime before they had football.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

When it was just Sky we paid around £30 a month for how many games a season?

Now it's £30 (?) to sky, £5-15 to BT, £8 (at the moment) to Amazon and then any others that may get the odd game.

Ending the monopoly has cost the viewer a hell of a lot more - although we get more games.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Football is a loss leader at the moment for Amazon as is any sports coverage they commit to. They are testing and learning. 40% of UK households had Prime before they had football.

40%! Wow, didn't realise it was anywhere near that high.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

If your TV and laptop both have HDMI sockets you can buy a cheap HDMI cable from Toolstation and link them physically.

Aye, that's what I did. As I say it is very #firstworldproblems but they should have an app that works properly.

 

[Tony Towner]

40%! Wow, didn't realise it was anywhere near that high.

Yes and that's was in 2019 before lockdown. Given their business over the last couple of months I wouldn't be surprised if that hasn't risen to more than half now. Changing it from an annual to a monthly subscription was the game changer for them.

 

[Trips]

When it was just Sky we paid around £30 a month for how many games a season?

Now it's £30 (?) to sky, £5-15 to BT, £8 (at the moment) to Amazon and then any others that may get the odd game.

Ending the monopoly has cost the viewer a hell of a lot more - although we get more games.

Where you getting BT Sport for £5-£15 per month???

£22 for sky sports (I think), £25 for BT. With their PL ganes, and then Champions League and Europa League it isnt as horrendous as it looks.

 

[darlowolf64]

Where you getting BT Sport for £5-£15 per month???

£22 for sky sports (I think), £25 for BT. With their PL ganes, and then Champions League and Europa League it isnt as horrendous as it looks.

Because I have BT Broadband I get BT Sport for a fiver but it will rise to £9 in a few months

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I thought BT was about £5 with a deal through Plusnet/EE/Virgin or if you get BT broadband through them too, i stand corrected - i haven't got it myself.

£47 a month (excluding Amazon) is a lot more than what it was say 5 years ago when you could watch CL games on ITV and Europa on ITV4 etc. Sky had the Spanish games too, you have to pay another subscription for that now as well.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I enjoyed the Amazon coverage, although it helped that the Man City game was a bit of a classic! I too was casting via the app and Chromecast and I had to restart it a couple of times which was annoying. Hopefully it will be better this time around.

 

[Trips]

I've got my internet through sky and a deal they had, so unfortunately cant get BT that cheap!

 

[Tredman]

Bit harsh to blame amazon for crappy (google) chrome cast performance. It’s just not a very good method of watching stuff on tv.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Absolutely zero problem with BT, ITV, C4, YouTube, even cocking Quest.

It's their app. Trust me.

 

[Tredman]

Weird how Amazon are the only one of these who google actively blocked from their platform for a number of years