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FA set to clamp down on streaming

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  • #52
    _blank_
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    Fair play to the FA, protecting their product.

    What are they supposed to do?

    The Premier League limits them to the amount of games they can show for a reason.

    They actually want people at games, rather than sitting at home.


  • #53
    Charlie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,815 ✭✭✭Charlie


    Des wrote: »
    Fair play to the FA, protecting their product.

    What are they supposed to do?

    The Premier League limits them to the amount of games they can show for a reason.

    They actually want people at games, rather than sitting at home.

    But that attitude is kinda burying their head in the sand, like music industry did for so long. The FA could embrace the Internet and streaming and offer their own product which I am sure alot of people would be happy to subscribe to in preference of dodgy foreign streams that often are too pixelated or too slow. They won't ever be able to stop the illegal ones, so why not at least make money off the idea, then allowing you're product to be raped.

    I doubt very much that the type of people who watch matches on streams are the people who would otherwise be attending lower league games.


  • #54
    Mitch Connor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,447 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    spockety wrote: »
    Yeah I tried that last Saturday only to discover that Spurs V Liverpool was not one of the choices on Football First! >:(

    How do you find out in advance which matches are going to be on it??
    Assuming you are using Sky...

    go into the sky guide, cycle through the Football First, hit select - should now expand to list the games that are going to be shown.

    Certainly works on my Sky+ box. If you do not use Sky+ then that may not work.


  • #55
    Charlie
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    The reason the Spurs/Pool game wasn't on FF is because it was the 5.15 game on Setanta. AFAIK, the 5.15 game shown on Setanta is never shown on FF. Apart from that though, FF will show every other game played on a Saturday.

    As Tauren notes though, you can use the Sky Guide to see a full list of matches covered.


  • #56
    Mitch Connor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,447 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    charlie mchugh wrote: »
    The reason the Spurs/Pool game wasn't on FF is because it was the 5.15 game on Setanta. AFAIK, the 5.15 game shown on Setanta is never shown on FF. Apart from that though, FF will show every other game played on a Saturday.

    As Tauren notes though, you can use the Sky Guide to see a full list of matches covered.

    I have certainly seen a 5.15 United game on Football First, but then I remember being surprised that it was on given it had been a Setanta match - i know other occasions have not had United on Football First if they had been the late game on Setanta.


  • #57
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,999 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    FFS, 160,000 viewers is not much when you consider the amount of countries that people are viewing from, maybe 15,000 of them are from UK/Ireland. Of these I'd imagine that maybe a third already pay subscriptions but want to watch their own teams instead of some boring game which does not interest them. And of the rest maybe half would pay for the game if they could not get it free.
    So lets say a fiver a game. It would not even pay for top players weeks wages.


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