Spark Sport
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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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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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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...!
@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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@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.
@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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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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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?
@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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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.
@rotated said in Spark Sport:
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.
It seems obvious to me that getting the cricket was a foot in the door. They would want to target other sports as well and build a whole network. Sky seems to have batted them off on other fronts and Spark don't even have all the cricket!
I wouldn't be surprised to see Spark pull up stumps.
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Would it be the Spark feed and commentary that we are getting in Aus? Fleming, McMillan, Baz and a female or two whose name(s) I don't know. They seem ok to me.
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@rotated said in Spark Sport:
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.
It seems obvious to me that getting the cricket was a foot in the door. They would want to target other sports as well and build a whole network. Sky seems to have batted them off on other fronts and Spark don't even have all the cricket!
I wouldn't be surprised to see Spark pull up stumps.
@hydro11 said in Spark Sport:
@rotated said in Spark Sport:
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.
It seems obvious to me that getting the cricket was a foot in the door. They would want to target other sports as well and build a whole network. Sky seems to have batted them off on other fronts and Spark don't even have all the cricket!
I wouldn't be surprised to see Spark pull up stumps.
Yeah. It was meant to be the answer to Voda and Sky (or to keep some of that market) but I think that combo hasn’t been profitable either. The other thing was to convert their customers to fibre packages but with the wholesale of that coming meaning any startups can offer high speeds and no limits there’s not much to offer package wise.
I don’t like a monopoly but fragmentation is worse. Getting rid of exclusivity and competing on price and stability would be the best thing. -
Would it be the Spark feed and commentary that we are getting in Aus? Fleming, McMillan, Baz and a female or two whose name(s) I don't know. They seem ok to me.
@crazy-horse said in Spark Sport:
Would it be the Spark feed and commentary that we are getting in Aus? Fleming, McMillan, Baz and a female or two whose name(s) I don't know. They seem ok to me.
Yes
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Unpopular opinion on here for some people, but I find spark technology and streaming better than sky. The ability to start from the beginning is great, quality for me has been high including on some ropey holiday internet services.
If only the cricket had been as good
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Unpopular opinion on here for some people, but I find spark technology and streaming better than sky. The ability to start from the beginning is great, quality for me has been high including on some ropey holiday internet services.
If only the cricket had been as good
@nzzp said in Spark Sport:
Unpopular opinion on here for some people, but I find spark technology and streaming better than sky. The ability to start from the beginning is great, quality for me has been high including on some ropey holiday internet services.
If only the cricket had been as good
I like the convenience too
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Would it be the Spark feed and commentary that we are getting in Aus? Fleming, McMillan, Baz and a female or two whose name(s) I don't know. They seem ok to me.
@crazy-horse said in Spark Sport:
Would it be the Spark feed and commentary that we are getting in Aus? Fleming, McMillan, Baz and a female or two whose name(s) I don't know. They seem ok to me.
Their commentary is fine, it just seems they have massively cheapest out on comms and lunch/tea production compared to last year.
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Unpopular opinion on here for some people, but I find spark technology and streaming better than sky. The ability to start from the beginning is great, quality for me has been high including on some ropey holiday internet services.
If only the cricket had been as good
@nzzp said in Spark Sport:
Unpopular opinion on here for some people, but I find spark technology and streaming better than sky. The ability to start from the beginning is great, quality for me has been high including on some ropey holiday internet services.
If only the cricket had been as good
Agreed. No issues from me either.
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My user experience frustratingly continues to be that the Spark Sport app was developed, and is maintained, incredibly badly.
It runs terribly, including this morning, on devices that run Netflix etc smoothly. Spark has been unwatchable - yet again - since just after the guard of honour for Taylor. Reinstalling and restarting everything under the sun makes no difference.
The sooner Spark Sport gives up and sells out to Sky the better as far as I’m concerned.
