ESPN - anyone gonna get it?

JokerD

Peter Reid must have been watching X-Men recently, sideburn city:D

Villain

Great pucture and main Commentator is good but Royal is a pain

Eire-Dearg

Royle is easy on the ears - anything beats Lou Macari and that bloke who did the City game.

Great coverage so far.

Eire-Dearg

Royle is easy on the ears - anything beats Lou Macari and that bloke who did the City game.

Great coverage so far.

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anybody watching the Psv v Ajax match

Mikeyt086

****ing belter of a game! 3-3 with 25mins left!

tbaymusicman

I want it but come one im already paying through the nose for sky sports and its non stop repeats:(:(

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Mikeyt086 wrote: »

****ing belter of a game! 3-3 with 25mins left!

I know some class game

Stargate

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

****ing belter of a game! 3-3 with 25mins left!

what was final score mikey ? i missed the end :rolleyes:

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so thoughts on ESPN so far ?

myself im kinda disappointed

thought they be more Bundesliga and Russian league and only seen one Live Dutch Eredivisie game so far

never seen a Live Portuguese Liga match either

OPENROAD

Not happy with it, apart from actual Premiership matches. nothing else on it for me, I would have thought they might have Premiership preview show at the very least. On the plus side Rebecca Lowe and Kelly Cates.

SantryRed

I'm really happy with it. Seria A games on the tv. UFC shows, also being a big American sports fan helps, they're supposed to be getting some of the NFL games off Sky too.

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SantryRed wrote: »

I'm really happy with it. Seria A games on the tv. UFC shows, also being a big American sports fan helps, they're supposed to be getting some of the NFL games off Sky too.

ya Seria A is a big plus but one match tomorrow ?

could they not show the juve match too


I might be getting rid of it tbh,amount of re-runs and days without any live soccer or anything live is pretty bad

dor83

Headshot wrote: »

I might be getting rid of it tbh,amount of re-runs and days without any live soccer or anything live is pretty bad

How long do you get it for, do you have to sign up for a year or is it month by month? I want to get it for Serie A but I'm leaving the country in October and don't want to have to pay for a full year if thats the contract they insist on. If I can get it and then cancel it in October that would be perfect.

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dor83 wrote: »

How long do you get it for, do you have to sign up for a year or is it month by month? I want to get it for Serie A but I'm leaving the country in October and don't want to have to pay for a full year if thats the contract they insist on. If I can get it and then cancel it in October that would be perfect.

dont think its a yrs contract mate

dor83

Headshot wrote: »

dont think its a yrs contract mate

Thanks, I'll get on the phone to them on Monday and hopefully have it for the Milan derby next weekend.

Mossy Monk

They need another channel. They are unable to give decent coverage to all the leagues they have at the moment and they may get La Liga games yet.

Leprechaun77

It seems ok at the moment. The picture quality on the SD channel is not great, but is vastly improved in HD. I'd imagine that the coverage will get better when all the leagues start and get into full swing. The jury is still out, but the €12 sub makes it more bareable

dor83

Headshot wrote: »

dont think its a yrs contract mate

Rang today and it's a month by month so I got it for the next couple of months.

gimmick

can you get it billed separately from your Sky bill ie from different accounts?

dor83

gimmick wrote: »

can you get it billed separately from your Sky bill ie from different accounts?

I honestly don't know mate, I have it all on my brothers account because he gets a discount.

mayordenis

I got it today - defo month to month thing - I reckon they won't bill it seperately though

Kev_ps3

Got it this week. One thing ive noticed watching the HD channel for the spurs hammers match is that the picture quality isnt as good as Sky HD.

yabadabado

gimmick wrote: »

can you get it billed separately from your Sky bill ie from different accounts?

i would be interested to know this aswel.Thats how i have setanta set up,taken from the credit card.the less showing up on the bill the better!

Headshot

Is it possible to get espn on freesat,iv a humax foxsat hdr ,also if you can get espn,would i beable to get espn hd?

Zonda999

Headshot wrote: »

Is it possible to get espn on freesat,iv a humax foxsat hdr ,also if you can get espn,would i beable to get espn hd?

Afaik, you couldnt do that.You could do that with setanta but not now. The only way of gettin ESPN on satellite is with sky

EDIT: Liking the new Sig btw!:D

eirebhoy

Headshot wrote: »

so thoughts on ESPN so far ?

myself im kinda disappointed

thought they be more Bundesliga and Russian league and only seen one Live Dutch Eredivisie game so far

never seen a Live Portuguese Liga match either

I think I saw an ad saying their Bundesliga coverage would start next week.

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eirebhoy wrote: »

I think I saw an ad saying their Bundesliga coverage would start next week.

Bundesliga has already started and ESPN have shown 1 or 2 matches

not a enough for my liking

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my mistake 3 matches but it's still crap

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/fixtures?league=ger.1&cc=5739

look at the matches today

love to see VfL Wolfsburg v hamburg

they do really need another channel

Crann na Beatha

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Iolar wrote: »

Do ESPN show Russian premier league matches?

suppose to

have only seen 1 I think

MisterAnarchy

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Got it this week. One thing ive noticed watching the HD channel for the spurs hammers match is that the picture quality isnt as good as Sky HD.

I was watching it on SD and the picture quality was poor.
It looked washed out,blurry and blocky.
Very hard to make out the players when the camera was zoomed out.
Sky picture for the Chelsea match was vastly superior.

Mossy Monk

Funnily enough it is Sky that is producing the games on ESPN.

Leprechaun77

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

I was watching it on SD and the picture quality was poor.
It looked washed out,blurry and blocky.
Very hard to make out the players when the camera was zoomed out.
Sky picture for the Chelsea match was vastly superior.

I have to agree with MisterAnarchy here, as mentioned in another forum also. I find the picture quality is shocking in Standard Definition on ESPN. The HD channel upscales it to make it a bit more acceptable. I just cannot believe nobody else has noticed this :eek:. The blur and clarity are shocking to say the least. Sky's SD picture is far better.

Villain

Its bad alright I checked it after the last post not quite as bad as Setanta picture was though, HD is fine

Leprechaun77

ESPN HD is fine, but not as crisp as Sky Sports HD....a bit strange really considering the circumstances

Charlie

ESPN is on Sky channel 417, a channel that was always low bit-rate. It should be no surprise that it is poorer than Sky Sports 401

Leprechaun77

Charlie wrote: »

It should be no surprise that it is poorer than Sky Sports 401

Well, Channel 417 aside, a premium channel shouldn't look that poor. If the bit-rate was too low, they should have used something else. Most people would not be aware of the bit-rate of each channel so I think it's a bit unfair to dismiss this as something along the lines of..."...well what did you expect?".

Charlie

Leprechaun77 wrote: »

Well, Channel 417 aside, a premium channel shouldn't look that poor. If the bit-rate was too low, they should have used something else. Most people would not be aware of the bit-rate of each channel so I think it's a bit unfair to dismiss this as something along the lines of..."...well what did you expect?".

Precious much?

Villain

Charlie wrote: »

Precious much?

Well tbf he has a point Charlie

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anybody watching the Milan derby

am i the only one who thinks the picture is crap

Mossy Monk

Headshot wrote: »

anybody watching the Milan derby

am i the only one who thinks the picture is crap

It is watchable on the HD channel but it is **** on the SD channel.

dor83

The picture quality is fine, and at least we get Italian and German football on tv now so we don't have to use streams anymore.

daithijjj

Quite possibly the best link i have seen ever on justintv

http://www.justin.tv/vip_tv_1/old

Eire-Dearg

I can get over the quality of coverage once I'm watching this game.

One camera seems to be ****ed, though, near the bottom left of the field.

cruiserweight

Anybody else see the fly on the camera during the Celtic vs Hibs game?