Jaxson:

 

That conversation isn't going to end any time soon.  NZ does have high pricing for a lot of things, mostly because there are not a lot of players in the market.  The UK etc are all price moderated heavily by the likes of Amazon, where most items could be purchased cheaper online and delivered to you directly the next day.  Without a big player like that here we're at the mercy of local leaders, supermarkets, air travel etc.

 

 

 

Would be cool to see an Australasian distributor rights model, so one company could legit stream to Australian and New Zealand customers.  This old regional locked model doesn't really work now there's a viable alternative distribution system (internet vs terrestrial/satellite broadcast only).

 

 

 

Fanpass even at $40 doesn't really appeal.  I can get rugby via ESPN+ for $7.50 per month as it's not a popular sport worldwide.  Kayo is what $25 per month for all you can eat buffet, and both require the likes of dns4me to present as being based overseas.  Spark sport is $30 per month? something like that but doesn't have a lot of rights content yet, mostly F1 which isn't on Sky any more.

 

 

 

Sad story for me though is none of the sport is interesting me any more.  F1 looks like yet another snore fest of the same team winning, like the Rugby which is just overload in NZ with 3 or more competitions all fighting one another, domestic, super 25 or whatever it's up to now and then tri nations (or is it quad or five nations now) and some other all blacks tour each year etc.

 

 

 

I liked Fanpass and actually used it a bit back in the day.  Then Sky ramped it up to $99 a month or something and it all just got ridiculous.  Back to $60, or $40 if you want to lock it in is a step in the right direction, but no thanks.

 

Australasian is a good idea. I still feel that a tiny tiny tiny island like ours, less them 5 million its hard to get a good deal. Too small, no purchasing power, and so on. Even if we can get a proportionately same deal, our very low population means we are still vulnerable. If we need x volume of subscribers we can easily fall short. A larger nation won't be subject to numerical anomalies, it will average out better.