Spark Sport

[Bones]

@Bovidae aha, nothing like as bad as he made it sound. Sweet as.

[Snowy]

"Coromandel town, Tairua and Havelock North, where its plans to build additional cell sites in time for the RWC have had to be delayed because of "strong community opposition"."

That must be good for neighbourly relationships.

[nzzp]

Well, the streaming I'm getting from Spark is top notch, HD-quality and smooth as a baby oiled rugby ball

[Damo]

@nzzp said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:

Well, the streaming I'm getting from Spark is top notch, HD-quality and smooth as a baby oiled rugby ball

Yep was very good for me.

I guess the test will be tonight.

[Bovidae]

About 60,000 customers watched the opening ceremony and Japan-Russia game on SS. I'd be interested to know how many watched the FTA coverage in comparison.

[No Quarter]

Like others I found the coverage good. Bring on tonight!

[Paekakboyz]

2min to sign up and tested the Japan game. Quality was fine and stoked our hdmi cable wasn't one of the blocked ones.

Time to start amping for the game tonight!!

[Machpants]

Fucking stream stuttery as fuck with laptop plugged in, use same laptop too cast to TV and it's lovely. Weird. Was starting to rage...

I'd only previously watched on iPad (1014 and a couple of old games)

[raznomore]

On a messenger forum with the boys and they are all complaining about the lag, loss of picture and loss of audio.

I got banned for posting “yessssssss!” For both tries and they were 30sec behind.

[Machpants]

Lots of failing back to shit res, so annoying

[Paekakboyz]

Switched to Duke for second 40. Better stability as you'd expect. Stink the stream had some stutters. Not a great look in spite of the effort to resource it.

[ARHS]

Had to switch to Duke as quality too bad on streaming. Was not impressed with the streaming issues in their trial match and Japan match last night.

[Machpants]

Don't have Duke so not very impressed, my broadband is fine, that was Sparks shit

[No Quarter]

I had a few moments of buffering and fuzzy display maybe 10 or so times, but overall was watchable so stayed with the stream. Am on fibre.

Spark will be very disappointed they had to concede to free TV. Wonder what they’ll do for the next game.

[rotated]

Did it work well for anyone? Obviously seems like there were a lot of issues based on Twitter but those enjoying at home with no issues are hardly going to complain.

[Mokey]

Our feed froze and buffered a few times, not a very crisp picture either. Not bad, but I expected better.

Bit embarrassing for them to have to go to Duke.

[Duluth]

@rotated said in [Poll] Will you use Spark to watch RWC?:

Did it work well for anyone? Obviously seems like there were a lot of issues based on Twitter but those enjoying at home with no issues are hardly going to complain.

No issues for me

[Bovidae]

I stayed with SS but watching an SD picture at times wasn't good. I wasn't that impressed in the Japan-SA game with the buffering.

At least the ads looked good in HD!

[Machpants]

I had 30 ish period of dropping from HD, and a half dozen of doing to blurry as fuck. Not really acceptable

[Nepia]

What kind of broadband does everyone have? What speeds? In Oz, realistically the most you can get is 100/50 and for a bunch of apartments 50/25 is the best - most people I know (personally) in NZ have at least 100/50. So is it app issues? Issues with it all getting to NZ?

Also, watched the game at my mates place using Kayo and we probably had three times when it dropped back to SD so it does happen elsewhere (at my place doesn't usually drop back).