Spark Sport
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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.
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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.
@donsteppa Seems that they have different apps for different TV brands. The app for Sony TVs, delivered by the Google Play Store, only streams at 720p25, whereas their app for some other TVs streams at 1080p50. I use chromecast from my computer to my Sony TV to get full rate streaming.
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@donsteppa Seems that they have different apps for different TV brands. The app for Sony TVs, delivered by the Google Play Store, only streams at 720p25, whereas their app for some other TVs streams at 1080p50. I use chromecast from my computer to my Sony TV to get full rate streaming.
@tim said in Spark Sport:
@donsteppa Seems that they have different apps for different TV brands. The app for Sony TVs, delivered by the Google Play Store, only streams at 720p25, whereas their app for some other TVs streams at 1080p50. I use chromecast from my computer to my Sony TV to get full rate streaming.
Interesting. We have the app on one 2020 Panasonic TV, otherwise I chromecast to an older Panasonic in the lounge. The chromecast tends to be the more than watchable of the two, but not always.
Have just about thrown the newer TV out the window this morning after reboots and app reinstalls in vain, as well as ensuring it was the only device streaming on a fibre connection…
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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.
@donsteppa said in Spark Sport:
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.
The range of experiences is really wide
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@donsteppa said in Spark Sport:
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.
The range of experiences is really wide
@canefan said in Spark Sport:
@donsteppa said in Spark Sport:
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.
The range of experiences is really wide
Yep, I'm glad not everyone is at risk of destroying their TV
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The jostling for sport content continues as Sky has regained the EPL rights. I haven't bothered with Spark Sport outside of the RWC.
