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@Tim said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@Nepia Your laptop might have video image "enhancements" on by default in the video card driver. They make everything look like blurry, ghosty shit.
My laptop is fine with any other streaming and TBH it's probably not as bad as I was making out ... either way I think I'll grab an Apple TV tomorrow.
@Unite said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@Nepia I have Fox here in Aus but really only use if for sport so have been thinking about ditching it and moving to Kayo. One reason I haven’t is Fox are having a dedicated 4K channel for the RWC which sounds pretty good, all games will be in 4K.
I thought Kayo supported 4K but I guess it doesn't? I switched to Kayo for the same reason as you - I only used Fox to watch sport (have Netflix and Stan for other stuff). All 3 are still much cheaper per month than what I used to pay for Fox (and the odd one or two might be shared
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@Machpants said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:
Bloody annoying that in Ozzie they're getting the RWC in 4k. Are we getting 1080 or 720?
#firstworldproblems
Here, I'll be getting KayoSports again after a 2 month break simply for the fact that FoxSports can suck my balls. Kayo gives me just sport, which is all I want. Fox might have something similar but I'll never know.
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@NTA said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:
@Machpants said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:
Bloody annoying that in Ozzie they're getting the RWC in 4k. Are we getting 1080 or 720?
#firstworldproblems
Here, I'll be getting KayoSports again after a 2 month break simply for the fact that FoxSports can suck my balls. Kayo gives me just sport, which is all I want. Fox might have something similar but I'll never know.
TBF they do - it's called Kayo.
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I’m pleasantly surprised at the ‘No’ response.
I’m a no at this stage. Will watch SA delayed and make a decision then. If too hard to avoid results then I may purchase it.
In saying that, if the games are on in the middle of the night I definitely won’t buy it.
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@Hooroo said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:
I’m pleasantly surprised at the ‘No’ response.
I’m a no at this stage. Will watch SA delayed and make a decision then. If too hard to avoid results then I may purchase it.
In saying that, if the games are on in the middle of the night I definitely won’t buy it.
The games will be starting between 4PM - 11PM, perfect viewing time for NZ. It’s the delayed coverage that will start in the middle of the night.
E.G. ABs v SA will start at 11PM delayed, ABs v Canada will start after midnight delayed.
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Spark Sport to stream Japan vs South Africa rugby clash on September 6
With just weeks to go until Rugby World Cup 2019, Spark Sport has announced it will exclusively stream the warm-up test match between Japan and South Africa.
Set to take place on Friday, September 6 at 10:15pm (NZT), the test between tournament hosts Japan and one of the world cup favourites, South Africa, is the perfect opportunity for Tournament Pass holders to get familiar with streaming live sport using their Spark Sport app ahead of Rugby World Cup 2019.
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@Gunner said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:
No, because I can’t.
Live 15 minutes from Whangarei and we are on shitty bloody rural broadband, which is not fast enough.
F Spark and F the people who gave them the rights to it.
@Gunner - I'm somewhat holding out hope that on the last weekend before RWC, Spark will announce that people (at least those who are outside their broadcast zone) can subscribe to the Sky pop-up channel that they've set up for commercial premises.
I think I read somewhere that there's at least 40,000 households that don't have adequate bandwidth - so that's potentially $3 million they don't have a shot at accessing - along with a heap of "Hooroo's".
Makes sense for Spark to hold the line on "internet or nothing" for as long as possible, but at the last minute it also makes sense for them maximise revenue.
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@Chris-B that's worth holding out for I reckon. But there will be multiple levels of pressure if anything goes wrong with coverage, not that I want it to fail as streaming is ultimately a better model imo.
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@Paekakboyz Yep - but, if people from the media are reading this - don't go writing an article about it, because a decent Game Theory response from Spark would be to shut down the plan!
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Bad luck for anyone who has an 2017 or 2018 LG TV. They are now only supporting the 2019 models with their app. A broken promise here.
https://help.sparksport.co.nz/device-support/watching-on-lg-tv
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@Machpants that's really crap. 2017 and 2018 models are bloody far from obsolete. Not like people upgrade their TVs every year.
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I got the RWC package today
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The problem is likely at the tv hardware end. For some reason tv manufacturers don’t use anything like consistent or comparable boards for their “smart” aspects. They dick around with hardwired changes between models trying to create something unique from scratch that is meant to be a selling point of difference but ends up being a pain for consumers because unless app providers were involved at early development they have problems retrospectively fitting in.
On the other hand Spark have always (from lightbox implementation days on) had an obsession with chromecast. When the Apple TV app broke after the generation 4s used a different codec they took nearly a year to fix and just told Apple TV users to get a chromecast to fix the problem. -
Got a chromecast device yesterday, FML.
It can't pair to the wifi. Somehow believes the router and the dongle are on different wifi networks.I Have a Vodafone hub router/modem (with Vodafone TV already), it has both a 2.4 and a 5ghz wifi network, with slightly different names, suspect that is the problem.
But I'm going to return the chromecast today. Too hard.
Will just use an hdmi cable to laptop for Spark Sport for duration of tournament.
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@Rapido said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
Got a chromecast device yesterday, FML.
It can't pair to the wifi. Somehow believes the router and the dongle are on different wifi networks.I Have a Vodafone hub router/modem (with Vodafone TV already), it has both a 2.4 and a 5ghz wifi network, with slightly different names, suspect that is the problem.
But I'm going to return the chromecast today. Too hard.
Will just use an hdmi cable to laptop for Spark Sport for duration of tournament.
Not helpful but I found the chromecast easy to set up using the supplied instructions. I just hooked it into the wifi and cast off my phone
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@Stargazer said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
I think this is the best place to post this:
Hey @Tim - thats the Peter Griffin we went to school with!
