LL
London Lite
Founding member
DV
Keep an eye on the buildup and analysis segments as the day goes on, if you are staying for the duration, a number of AV Synch issues have been reported.
Keep an eye on the buildup and analysis segments as the day goes on, if you are staying for the duration, a number of AV Synch issues have been reported.
DV
Some BT Network issues for the first 25 mins of the 1500 KOs. (Downpour and Gale outside) Prime Video stream also stalling on the EGEG stream, yes it's a second screen and AppleTV is solid for BOU-ARS, I'm hoping for a better 2H of these matchs.
LL
London Lite
Founding member
Didn't work on the Chromecast 3rd Gen at all. Shield has been near perfect all day, same for phone and PC.
MA
I was casually watching the Man U/ Newcastle and Leicester/Liverpool matches on a Samsung telly with embedded Prime. I didn't spot any quality problems. (Plusnet FTTC on a (capped at) 40 meg connection)
I watched the vast majority of the Man Utd/Newcastle match on a Fire TV stick and it was fine throughout bar the moment when Martial’s first goal went in when the quality went down and it froze for about 2 seconds. This is on FTTC Sky Broadband.
I was casually watching the Man U/ Newcastle and Leicester/Liverpool matches on a Samsung telly with embedded Prime. I didn't spot any quality problems. (Plusnet FTTC on a (capped at) 40 meg connection)
DO
The Premier League didn't want to sell the matches to broadcast telly though. Just be happy BT ended up with the other package designed for internet companies after they went unsold.
This is useless please put the matches on proper broadcast telly.
The Premier League didn't want to sell the matches to broadcast telly though. Just be happy BT ended up with the other package designed for internet companies after they went unsold.
NJ
It is not "useless". It worked. I note your posts earlier in the the thread that saw you have issues and in fairness Amazon did have issues when they first ventured into this with the tennis but they have largely resolved the bulk of these now and the bulk of the football streams worked happily. I'm sorry they didn't work for you but maybe you should take steps next time to help improve your chances. Wired connections tend to help where available.
Neil Jones
Founding member
This is useless please put the matches on proper broadcast telly.
It is not "useless". It worked. I note your posts earlier in the the thread that saw you have issues and in fairness Amazon did have issues when they first ventured into this with the tennis but they have largely resolved the bulk of these now and the bulk of the football streams worked happily. I'm sorry they didn't work for you but maybe you should take steps next time to help improve your chances. Wired connections tend to help where available.
DV
There’s now a real prospect that AZPV will take the fight on and bid for ‘normal’ packs going forward. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a hybrid bid with BT when these come up again. With a subset of the matches ending up non-exclusively on OTA services and the whole via Internet delivery. A joint bid for 40 matches of which say 16-20 ended up broadcast OTA would work well.
The Genie has escaped the bottle now.
The Genie has escaped the bottle now.
NJ
Neil Jones
Founding member
It's documented Amazon jumped into this as a loss leader and an experiment to see how feasible it was. Apparently they only paid somewhere near £90m for the 60 games they got, which is peanuts compared to what Amazon as a whole makes across everything it does - that's about £1.5m a game. Sky paid near enough £10m a game, but of course forked out just over three and a half billion pounds for 384 games over the same period.
And let us not forget: Decent internet connections are on the whole widely available in the UK, you can get a decent fibre deal for about £25 a month all in (or less if you put some effort in). Amazon costs £6.66 a month for Prime (and maybe a one off purchase for a Firestick), so if Amazon were to get more games next time round, It would only be costing a customer at current prices £32 a month and the internet connection doubles up. Sky is already at £53 a month minimum for Entertainment and Sports, but again you can probably get this cheaper if you put some effort in.
I wonder if this is where we're going. It's going to be interesting.
And let us not forget: Decent internet connections are on the whole widely available in the UK, you can get a decent fibre deal for about £25 a month all in (or less if you put some effort in). Amazon costs £6.66 a month for Prime (and maybe a one off purchase for a Firestick), so if Amazon were to get more games next time round, It would only be costing a customer at current prices £32 a month and the internet connection doubles up. Sky is already at £53 a month minimum for Entertainment and Sports, but again you can probably get this cheaper if you put some effort in.
I wonder if this is where we're going. It's going to be interesting.
LL
Prime Video can be purchased monthly on its own for £5.99 per month, the same price as Britbox or £7.99pm for the full Prime package, which makes it an attractive proposition if Amazon decided to bid for another package with more matches if they heavily subsidised their EPL coverage without raising prices. The end game is to sell Prime subs, so that customers will buy physical goods which is a different proposition to Sky, BT etc where they sell premium prices to get bums on seats.
As for fibre broadband, I pay £24.95 for 76/20 FTTC which from a price-point of £32 when I first went fibre is pretty good.
London Lite
Founding member
It's documented Amazon jumped into this as a loss leader and an experiment to see how feasible it was. Apparently they only paid somewhere near £90m for the 60 games they got, which is peanuts compared to what Amazon as a whole makes across everything it does - that's about £1.5m a game. Sky paid near enough £10m a game, but of course forked out just over three and a half billion pounds for 384 games over the same period.
And let us not forget: Decent internet connections are on the whole widely available in the UK, you can get a decent fibre deal for about £25 a month all in (or less if you put some effort in). Amazon costs £6.66 a month for Prime (and maybe a one off purchase for a Firestick), so if Amazon were to get more games next time round, It would only be costing a customer at current prices £32 a month and the internet connection doubles up. Sky is already at £53 a month minimum for Entertainment and Sports, but again you can probably get this cheaper if you put some effort in.
I wonder if this is where we're going. It's going to be interesting.
And let us not forget: Decent internet connections are on the whole widely available in the UK, you can get a decent fibre deal for about £25 a month all in (or less if you put some effort in). Amazon costs £6.66 a month for Prime (and maybe a one off purchase for a Firestick), so if Amazon were to get more games next time round, It would only be costing a customer at current prices £32 a month and the internet connection doubles up. Sky is already at £53 a month minimum for Entertainment and Sports, but again you can probably get this cheaper if you put some effort in.
I wonder if this is where we're going. It's going to be interesting.
Prime Video can be purchased monthly on its own for £5.99 per month, the same price as Britbox or £7.99pm for the full Prime package, which makes it an attractive proposition if Amazon decided to bid for another package with more matches if they heavily subsidised their EPL coverage without raising prices. The end game is to sell Prime subs, so that customers will buy physical goods which is a different proposition to Sky, BT etc where they sell premium prices to get bums on seats.
As for fibre broadband, I pay £24.95 for 76/20 FTTC which from a price-point of £32 when I first went fibre is pretty good.