Sports Extra (TNT/Premier)

mollser

This is all a bit nuts, so to get the same sports available in HD as we had before costs a feckin fortune - SS €34 + €15 for HD + Setanta €20 = €69 a month? That's €828 per annum, about €1,700 pre tax income??

My goodness.

Good job that most the sport I watch is on free tele, Rabodirect rugby, 6N, Ireland international football, cycling (ITV4) and Champions League football!

This sports tv industry is going to eat itself, can't see that Setanta package being of much interest to Irish subscribers I must admit.

I wonder will Setanta rethink their strategy with UPC in about 6 months time when the subscription take up, I suspect, will be rather poor. Much better having UPC pay them €3 per DigitalMax subscriber (say 200,000 of them) and earning €600k per month + incremental advertising revenue, rather than hoping they get a min 30k subscribers (I really have my doubts) to make the same money.

Perhaps the devil is in the agreement with BT, that they have to pay them x per subscriber?

I'm out anyway, might jack in UPC tv while I'm at it, nearly all the top channels are available freely anyway.

kooga

Zardoz wrote: »

What deal did you get ?

no deal really just got them to issue me a setanta sub card so i can use in my sky box. waiting for the card

TheRedDevil10

Brian017 wrote: »

Moto GP and Live A-League football are the only other 2 that I can think of

Would have no interest in those at all.

Was the women's tennis on ESPN ?

Elro

TheRedDevil10 wrote: »

Would have no interest in those at all.

Was the women's tennis on ESPN ?

Yes it was.

paulboland

irishfeen wrote: »

Rang Setanta there about half an hour ago, the Scottish lad answering the phone didn't seem to have a clue what was going on. I asked him whats the story with Setanta Ireland/1 in HD and whether they would launch before the PL kicks off... he got all mixed up saying the PL games are in HD and I said 33 of them are not. He was taken aback and had to ask someone and finally came back and said there is no plans to have HD channels on sky.... :rolleyes: ... I just said ring back when they are in HD and i'll subscribe thinking he'd offer me something... he just said OK and put the phone down.

Setanta Ireland HD is UPC exclusive and it's free no need for a subscription
It's not available on Sky in HD


Setanta Sports 1 is not available in HD on any provider

Setanta Sports Sky Subscribtion
Setanta Ireland
Setanta Sports 1

HD Channels
BT Sport 1 HD
BT Sport 2 HD
ESPN HD

positivenote

late to this thread, but have always had sky sports from UPC with ESPN. But am I right in saying thta now for the same cost there is no ESPN? and if i want to get the equivalent (BT) it will cost me an extra 16 euro p/month? so basically were paying the same for less? cancellation may be on the horizon...

paulboland

mollser wrote: »

This is all a bit nuts, so to get the same sports available in HD as we had before costs a feckin fortune - SS €34 + €15 for HD + Setanta €20 = €69 a month? That's €828 per annum, about €1,700 pre tax income??

My goodness.

Good job that most the sport I watch is on free tele, Rabodirect rugby, 6N, Ireland international football, cycling (ITV4) and Champions League football!

This sports tv industry is going to eat itself, can't see that Setanta package being of much interest to Irish subscribers I must admit.

I wonder will Setanta rethink their strategy with UPC in about 6 months time when the subscription take up, I suspect, will be rather poor. Much better having UPC pay them €3 per DigitalMax subscriber (say 200,000 of them) and earning €600k per month + incremental advertising revenue, rather than hoping they get a min 30k subscribers (I really have my doubts) to make the same money.

Perhaps the devil is in the agreement with BT, that they have to pay them x per subscriber?

I'm out anyway, might jack in UPC tv while I'm at it, nearly all the top channels are available freely anyway.

Most people use Sky Satellite
not Upc for TV in Ireland

Setanta will have lot of new Subscriptions from sky users in ireland
With BT Sport having the premiership football

The amount of upc customers taking the setanta pack will not affect them only add to the increased subscriptions they now are getting from sky users
Most will be sky users and as majority of digital tv in Ireland is sky users

I don't think they will care about upc customers as much as they will towards getting sky users subscribe
The deal lasts 3 years that's 3 years of new subscriptions they did not have before

What happens after the 3 years we will see if BT Sport still use Setanta or let subscribers go direct with them as they do in the UK

For now and next 3 years I say Setanta are very happy
UPC was important to them before as there was no real inventive for sky users to use them now there is

Rock Lesnar

antod wrote: »

Did you see the promo for the Danny baker and Danny Kelly show thats one show to definitely miss.

I did and mother of god it looks bad although at least they showed some enthusiasm, unlike Owen, James and McManaman

teR_

What sort of prices are you all getting to subscribe to this on sky?

Just rang an few hours ago she was saying 20 quid a month and I asked her was multiroom included she said no, that it will cost and extra €3 pm to add the multiroom box?

Is that what everyone's hearing?

paulboland

teR_ wrote: »

What sort of prices are you all getting to subscribe to this on sky?

Just rang an few hours ago she was saying 20 quid a month and I asked her was multiroom included she said no, that it will cost and extra €3 pm to add the multiroom box?

Is that what everyone's hearing?

€19.99 a month no connection fee if you join online
You then get a message with confirmation of your subscription

Get free multi room on second sky box call customer service on this number to get your free multi room

I got this and a third sky box €2.99
Total per month for 3 Sky Boxes subscriptions was €22.98

Note I have seen some customers got email join Setanta and get 2 months for €12.99 then €19.99 a month

You can have up to max 4 sky boxes with Setanta in a home

dubmick

got it for Eur 8.49 a month through Setanta. Was going to cancel at 20 euro a month.

Deal is only for two months.

marco2068

bt sports isn't working for me even though i've had setanta for the last year and a half. neither is espn.

I'll have to ring them tomorrow, i can't believe their call center closes at 6pm. you'd think most would be trying to subscribe when they came home from work after 6

Cantona's Collars

Elro wrote: »

Sorry if this was already answered but does anyone know what will be on ESPN now that all of its programming has moved to the BT Sports channels? I'm hoping it'll mostly be the stuff that was on ESPN America but I can't find any info it.

ESPN will be showing the American sports.

paulboland

Elro wrote: »

Sorry if this was already answered but does anyone know what will be on ESPN now that all of its programming has moved to the BT Sports channels? I'm hoping it'll mostly be the stuff that was on ESPN America but I can't find any info it.

Goto BT Sport Website
They lists what sports will be shown
On
BT Sport
Espn

With Setanta you get extra sports that's on there channels
Setanta still have 33 prem games
Irish games etc see Setanta for sports they have

A lot of Espn America was broadcast on espn
You often had the same program's been shown same time

Some of the espn America will be on espn as before
Except MLB games will not be shown
If you want MLB baseball you can get this on iPhone or online streaming I not sure but I thinks it's €20

Digifriendly

paulboland wrote: »

Some of the espn America will be on espn as before
Except MLB games will not be shown
If you want MLB baseball you can get this on iPhone or online streaming I not sure but I thinks it's €20

Chicago vs LA Dodgers was shown last night on ESPN.

lertsnim

ESPN will be showing baseball but the level of coverage looks to be pitiful compared to what ESPN America had. A shame really

jack presley

lertsnim wrote: »

ESPN will be showing baseball but the level of coverage looks to be pitiful compared to what ESPN America had. A shame really

I don't know if that's true. This weekend it's pretty poor but that's probably because the X-Games are on and as that's an ESPN flagship event, it's always going to get priority. I can't remember for sure but I'd say it was the same on the corresponding weekend last year on ESPN America. It's the same with the Little league World Series. MLB coverage always took a hit on that weekend as well.

I had a look at the schedule and there seems to be more coverage next week, although the usual Saturday 6pm game does seem to have been dropped for German football which is probably what will happen going forward.

lertsnim

Hopefully you're right and there will be more coverage

Crash Bang Wall

Hi,

Does anyone know the channel numbers for bt sport on UPC?

Just signed up but cant find the channels

Thanks

jay0109

Crash Bang Wall wrote: »

Hi,

Does anyone know the channel numbers for bt sport on UPC?

Just signed up but cant find the channels

Thanks

409 and 410

Rizzo the Rat

I signed up yesterday for the annual package via Sky.
2 issues: picture quality on BT Sport 1 HD for the Liverpool match was poor. Blurred image when close ups of players near the advertising hoardings. Anyone else find this?
Also I rang today to get the package added to my multi-room box for free and was told it was not possible and I would have to pay. Anyone else got it free on the multi-room box by calling them?

Elro

Just signed up for the monthly package to see what the BT coverage is like before deciding whether to go for the full year or not. Now for a weekend of watching the X Games.

Ronan Raver77

BT picture is defo not FULL HD

radiowaves

Ronan Devitt wrote: »

BT picture is defo not FULL HD

That's hardly fair.

No channel broadcasts full HD but BT are putting out 1920x1080i - as good as any other. The difference with most (and why even RTÉ Two HD looks good at 1440x1080i) is the amount of channels sharing transponder space.

Are you watching on cable or satellite?

It's funny really - viewers on UK forums have been blown away by BT's HD picture, as have I. Other Irish viewers (or a couple here) appear to feel differently.

If you're viewing on cable it will obviously suffer a slight drop in quality.

One innovation I do like is showing the cutaways (of players on the bench for example) in-vision so that you miss no action on the pitch, I hope that continues into their PL coverage. And they don't seem as obsessed with replays as Sky are - a very good thing in my opinion.

Zardoz

Ronan Devitt wrote: »

BT picture is defo not FULL HD

Almost all live sport is shot in 720p so it will never be Full HD.

lertsnim

Is Setanta Sports 1 now completely separate to Premier Sports? I ask as Setanta Sports 1 has rugby on now and I presume that Premier Sports will have the GAA on. No more blank screens perhaps?

irishfeen

lertsnim wrote: »

Is Setanta Sports 1 now completely separate to Premier Sports? I ask as Setanta Sports 1 has rugby on now and I presume that Premier Sports will have the GAA on. No more blank screens perhaps?

No still the same SS1 is now blocked in Ireland as RTE's coverage of the GAA is being played out in the UK.

ftakeith

http://www.live-footballontv.com/live-german-football-on-tv.html

improved bundesliga live coverage on bt/espn

it will be september how this coverage will be set up when serie A starts

Irishmale0399

Anyone able to tell me if the BT Sports HDs & ESPN HD are in the Setanta package over sat with Sky. Dont seem able to find anything to confirm it on the Setanta website....the are only mentioning BT Sports....etc. without HD

ckelly10

Hi guys might sound like a stupid question but how do you sign up for bt with sky? tried signing up on bt website but couldn't it said it didn't recognise my postcode. then tried ringing an 0800 no. but haven't got through all day must have the wrong no. or something! Any help would be greatly appreciated