There was growing anger among England supporters last night at being denied the chance to watch Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against Ukraine on television. It’s claimed this is the future for TV watchers picking and choosing what we watch rather than a pre- planned schedule.
But on closer inspection this does not seem a good idea, firstly if you are watching it on your pc/laptop can you be sure of quality, also with certain areas all kinds of problems happen with the download speed if for example lots of people near you access it at the same time, will you be spending large parts of the game watching it buffering.
Secondly will you have the same comfort with all the family sitting around your laptop/desktop for up to a possible 2 hours which will be the duration of the broadcast.
And finally was this the right game to launch this experiment sure its an England game but it has no importance nothing rests on the result, The Three Lions have already qualified so where’s the excitement, the tension, the nail biting journey England games usually take us on. It’s being advertised at 4.99 if you book in advance and 11.99 .if you book on the day.
Kentaro, the sports marketing company that owns the rights to screen the game claim they expect a million people to watch, if I was a betting man I would guess they will get nowhere near that figure, I will be generous and say I would be surprised if they got a quarter of that, and would go as far as to say it could even be as low as 100,000. we will see on Sunday how good/bad a first attempt this was, my money is on the latter.
I too think it will be a failure. For a start, it's gonna be easy for some script-monkey to stream the match on illegal sites - so where are they gonna make their money from.
ReplyDeleteHope it fails - it will set a bad precedent if it succeeds.
Also, what's the 'internet' you speak of?...
ReplyDeleteIt's a new thing its pretty big at the moment but I don't think it will last, you should get it down your way soon.
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