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  • DonsteppaD Offline
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    #715

    Finally caved and resubscribed. The Spark Sport app on android is fucking hopeless. It will play the highlights packages, but nothing live.

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    • DonsteppaD Donsteppa

      Finally caved and resubscribed. The Spark Sport app on android is fucking hopeless. It will play the highlights packages, but nothing live.

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      @Donsteppa said in Spark Sport:

      Finally caved and resubscribed. The Spark Sport app on android is fucking hopeless. It will play the highlights packages, but nothing live.

      eh? I'm casting live from the app as I type. PM me if you want some screenshots

      alternatively, try the desktop app

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      • nzzpN nzzp

        @Donsteppa said in Spark Sport:

        Finally caved and resubscribed. The Spark Sport app on android is fucking hopeless. It will play the highlights packages, but nothing live.

        eh? I'm casting live from the app as I type. PM me if you want some screenshots

        alternatively, try the desktop app

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        #717

        @nzzp said in Spark Sport:

        @Donsteppa said in Spark Sport:

        Finally caved and resubscribed. The Spark Sport app on android is fucking hopeless. It will play the highlights packages, but nothing live.

        eh? I'm casting live from the app as I type. PM me if you want some screenshots

        alternatively, try the desktop app

        Yep, it works on the laptop but not my phone at the moment.... bah humbug.

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        • DonsteppaD Donsteppa

          @nzzp said in Spark Sport:

          @Donsteppa said in Spark Sport:

          Finally caved and resubscribed. The Spark Sport app on android is fucking hopeless. It will play the highlights packages, but nothing live.

          eh? I'm casting live from the app as I type. PM me if you want some screenshots

          alternatively, try the desktop app

          Yep, it works on the laptop but not my phone at the moment.... bah humbug.

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          #718

          @Donsteppa cool.

          It seems fundamentally different to Sky. There are no 'channels' - you have to go looking for the sport you want.

          Note that there are three separate streams - one for each session. For some reason Spark don't automatically load the next one either. That said, I think the quality is better than Sky Sport Now

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          • DonsteppaD Offline
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            The doubly annoying thing is that app works and casts properly on Mrs Steppa's identical phone, but not on mine... restarts and reinstalls just end up in more swearing at the app 🙂

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              An ironic solution, boot up a five year old Samsung phone, install app, and it will cast from that. Just not from a 2020 model...!

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              • nzzpN nzzp

                @Donsteppa cool.

                It seems fundamentally different to Sky. There are no 'channels' - you have to go looking for the sport you want.

                Note that there are three separate streams - one for each session. For some reason Spark don't automatically load the next one either. That said, I think the quality is better than Sky Sport Now

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                @nzzp said in Spark Sport:

                @Donsteppa cool.

                It seems fundamentally different to Sky. There are no 'channels' - you have to go looking for the sport you want.

                Note that there are three separate streams - one for each session. For some reason Spark don't automatically load the next one either. That said, I think the quality is better than Sky Sport Now

                Yeah, having to switch between sessions seems unnecessary. It's not like it makes up part of a 24-hour channel that requires compartmentalising into segments.

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                • HoorooH Offline
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                  Hooroo
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                  #722

                  Do folks realise it’s streamed live in the TAB app?

                  That’s how I’ve been watching the last few days

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                  • HoorooH Hooroo

                    Do folks realise it’s streamed live in the TAB app?

                    That’s how I’ve been watching the last few days

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                    @Hooroo wtf! Had not heard that. Cheers!

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                    • PaekakboyzP Paekakboyz

                      @Hooroo wtf! Had not heard that. Cheers!

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                      @Paekakboyz said in Spark Sport:

                      @Hooroo wtf! Had not heard that. Cheers!

                      Watch and Bet function

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                      • Daffy JaffyD Offline
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                        Daffy Jaffy
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                        #725

                        if you are physically or virtually in the UK you can watch it streaming live on the NZC You Tube channel.

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                        • RapidoR Offline
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                          #726

                          The session highlights package are things of beauty.

                          Full of plays and misses, lbw appeals, inside edges to pads, dropped catches ..... plus the boundaries and wickets obviously.

                          Compared to sky lazy effort day-highlights . Which were just boundaries and wickets, including 3 or 4 replays of each boundary even if it was just a mundane punch-block with a modern super bat.

                          The Spark day highlights are mediocre, short, though.

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                          • DonsteppaD Donsteppa

                            An ironic solution, boot up a five year old Samsung phone, install app, and it will cast from that. Just not from a 2020 model...!

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                            #727

                            @Donsteppa said in Spark Sport:

                            An ironic solution, boot up a five year old Samsung phone, install app, and it will cast from that. Just not from a 2020 model...!

                            I've had some pretty inconsistent results casting to my Sony 4K TV with the NZ sports apps.

                            Have ended up finding that Spark Sports works best on the app I installed on the TV. And Sky Sport works best played from the app I installed on the PS4. Casting either has been really choppy.

                            Casting to my little 32 inch Kogan TV has been seamless every time for both though.

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                            • No QuarterN No Quarter

                              @Donsteppa said in Spark Sport:

                              An ironic solution, boot up a five year old Samsung phone, install app, and it will cast from that. Just not from a 2020 model...!

                              I've had some pretty inconsistent results casting to my Sony 4K TV with the NZ sports apps.

                              Have ended up finding that Spark Sports works best on the app I installed on the TV. And Sky Sport works best played from the app I installed on the PS4. Casting either has been really choppy.

                              Casting to my little 32 inch Kogan TV has been seamless every time for both though.

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                              @No-Quarter said in Spark Sport:

                              Have ended up finding that Spark Sports works best on the app I installed on the TV. And Sky Sport works best played from the app I installed on the PS4. Casting either has been really choppy.

                              interesting - I tried SkySportNow on the PS/4 and the quality seemed a lot worse than casting. Plain old HD though, none of this fancy dancy 4k/8k stuff 🙂

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                                Anyone else finding the Spark Sport app ends up with the audio out of sync with the visuals about twice a cricket session, or just me? Sometimes it seems to end up about two deliveries behind CricInfo after it has been running for a while too.

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                                  #730

                                  Dropping in for a now customary Spark Sport rant. After watching so much cricket lately on Sky, going back to a match on Spark Sport is such a let down.

                                  Jerky coverage and about three dropouts so far from the Super Smash in less than half an hour today. No such problems with any other streaming service at any time...

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                                    Is all well with this service? They have a bare bones cricket commentary team doing 1 hour stints, the tea session is a single camera into the comm box with no b roll. Massive change in commentators between the two tests too.

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                                    • MN5M Online
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                                      It’s absolute bullshit that I can’t watch cricket on sky sport and there’s five channels of bullshit instead

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                                      • MN5M MN5

                                        It’s absolute bullshit that I can’t watch cricket on sky sport and there’s five channels of bullshit instead

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                                        @mn5 said in Spark Sport:

                                        It’s absolute bullshit that I can’t watch cricket on sky sport and there’s five channels of bullshit instead

                                        Five channels of coverage? How?

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                                          @mn5 said in Spark Sport:

                                          It’s absolute bullshit that I can’t watch cricket on sky sport and there’s five channels of bullshit instead

                                          Five channels of coverage? How?

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                                          MN5
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                                          @rotated said in Spark Sport:

                                          @mn5 said in Spark Sport:

                                          It’s absolute bullshit that I can’t watch cricket on sky sport and there’s five channels of bullshit instead

                                          Five channels of coverage? How?

                                          On Sky

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