Spark Sport

Chris B.

No interest is signing up. Not worth the money for me when I have Sky Sport. I can get my cricket fix from the radio, going to games and Sky still have BBL and Aussie cricket. The Windies and Pakistan rarely put on good shows. The Aussies are the only interesting challenge for this summer.

I'm doing the same - back to the 1980s listening on the radio.

Will be the first time in 20 years I won't be watching NZ cricket on TV. Will be an interesting experiment to see whether it makes my summer better or worse.

Donsteppa

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

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

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.

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

Donsteppa

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

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...!

Smudge

@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.

Hooroo

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

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

Paekakboyz

@Hooroo wtf! Had not heard that. Cheers!

Hooroo

@Paekakboyz said in Spark Sport:

@Hooroo wtf! Had not heard that. Cheers!

Watch and Bet function

Daffy Jaffy

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

Rapido

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.

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.

nzzp

@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

Donsteppa

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.

Donsteppa

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...

rotated

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.

MN5

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

rotated

@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?

The Silver Fern

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