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#2793256 11-Oct-2021 14:08

Well my 12 months of SSN is up 30/10/21 and in the last 6-7 weeks (NRL final series) and some rugby & cricket I had grown very weary of the blotchy frame rate issues on green grass backgrounds etc. I actually found Sky sports 1 was often way better quality than SS3 or 4 (league especially). So I bit the bullet and have gone back to Satellite, ordered the deal for starter, sports and soho with mysky. I wasn't keen to pay the annual price for SSN as last year I got a deal for $299.

It gets installed tomorrow so I'll be able to do almost back to back testing of sports till my subscription runs out.

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Billyspleen75

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Master Geek

#2793263 11-Oct-2021 14:23

JPNZ:
Well my 12 months of SSN is up 30/10/21 and in the last 6-7 weeks (NRL final series) and some rugby & cricket I had grown very weary of the blotchy frame rate issues on green grass backgrounds etc. I actually found Sky sports 1 was often way better quality than SS3 or 4 (league especially). So I bit the bullet and have gone back to Satellite, ordered the deal for starter, sports and soho with mysky. I wasn't keen to pay the annual price for SSN as last year I got a deal for $299.

It gets installed tomorrow so I'll be able to do almost back to back testing of sports till my subscription runs out.

That'd be handy. Thanks mate

mobiusnz

457 posts

Ultimate Geek

#2793290 11-Oct-2021 15:47

JPNZ:

Well my 12 months of SSN is up 30/10/21 and in the last 6-7 weeks (NRL final series) and some rugby & cricket I had grown very weary of the blotchy frame rate issues on green grass backgrounds etc. I actually found Sky sports 1 was often way better quality than SS3 or 4 (league especially). So I bit the bullet and have gone back to Satellite, ordered the deal for starter, sports and soho with mysky. I wasn't keen to pay the annual price for SSN as last year I got a deal for $299.

It gets installed tomorrow so I'll be able to do almost back to back testing of sports till my subscription runs out.

Jast a passing comment on this I want to reiterate. I've found the quality playing through Apple TV Far exceeds playing with a browser. Its like they are using a far better codec or encoder or something - Its odd as theres no reason not to use the same streaming tech for both but my experience improved massively on Apple TV. And before that I had a late model i5 Intel NUC with 8GB of ram so no reason the PC wasn't up to the job.

Also TVNZ On Demand is very watchable with Apple TV where with browser it was noticeably low bit rate and blocky.

They seem to be putting more effort into their Mobile device platforms than the old browser interface as I'm picking up techie guys who have a PC hooked up HDMI to the TV are probably a shrinking group.

Matt Beechey Mobius Network Solutions

JPNZ

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#2793304 11-Oct-2021 16:11

mobiusnz:

Jast a passing comment on this I want to reiterate. I've found the quality playing through Apple TV Far exceeds playing with a browser. Its like they are using a far better codec or encoder or something - Its odd as theres no reason not to use the same streaming tech for both but my experience improved massively on Apple TV. And before that I had a late model i5 Intel NUC with 8GB of ram so no reason the PC wasn't up to the job.

I was using Apple TV, while I was 95%+/- happy with SSN, those small issues bugged me enough to switch. While using SSN on my ipad or phone it was often perfect so not sure how to explain. I do watch a LOT of sport and majority on the ATV to TV.

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mobiusnz

457 posts

Ultimate Geek

#2793306 11-Oct-2021 16:18

JPNZ:
mobiusnz:

Jast a passing comment on this I want to reiterate. I've found the quality playing through Apple TV Far exceeds playing with a browser. Its like they are using a far better codec or encoder or something - Its odd as theres no reason not to use the same streaming tech for both but my experience improved massively on Apple TV. And before that I had a late model i5 Intel NUC with 8GB of ram so no reason the PC wasn't up to the job.

I was using Apple TV, while I was 95%+/- happy with SSN, those small issues bugged me enough to switch. While using SSN on my ipad or phone it was often perfect so not sure how to explain. I do watch a LOT of sport and majority on the ATV to TV.

Ah ok. Assumed pc for some reason. I do ONLY watch rugby on it and pretty sure they’ve all been on sky sport 1 and they might give more bandwidth to that channel perhaps.

I did get a little bit of blockiness recently during some of the big AB test matches which I put down to Sky not having enough bandwidth for peak times now they are ramping up their streaming user base but watched a game on Friday night and it was flawless throughout. Nothing to complain about here.

I’ll never understand their streaming services though as before I got the Apple TV we watched a game via SSN on chrome via NUC, then we opened it via a mates Skygo account as he was watching with us and they seemed to be smoother with better colour. Previously I’ve used Rugbypass and I found that good and the feature set was excellent and that’s owned by sky now too so you’d think they’d consolidate their streaming platforms but they don’t.

Rugby pass was good that you picked a match to watch and it then asked if you wanted to start at the start or join live which was great. SSN is a pain to watch a match that’s half way through as it would always join live and you’d struggle not to see the score before you scrubbed back to the start.

Matt Beechey Mobius Network Solutions

JPNZ

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Uber Geek

#2793318 11-Oct-2021 16:38

Yes I had some issues on a two of the AB's vs SA games, a quick swipe up to access channels then select another channel then quickly swipe back to SS1 and the frame rate was sorted. Still a PITA to do when Satellite has none of those issues.

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dougierydal

327 posts

Ultimate Geek

#2793630 12-Oct-2021 09:31

JPNZ:

Well my 12 months of SSN is up 30/10/21 and in the last 6-7 weeks (NRL final series) and some rugby & cricket I had grown very weary of the blotchy frame rate issues on green grass backgrounds etc. I actually found Sky sports 1 was often way better quality than SS3 or 4 (league especially). So I bit the bullet and have gone back to Satellite, ordered the deal for starter, sports and soho with mysky. I wasn't keen to pay the annual price for SSN as last year I got a deal for $299.

It gets installed tomorrow so I'll be able to do almost back to back testing of sports till my subscription runs out.

Hope you checked the deals on the 'Sky Deals' forum page, some bargains to be had if you're not a current satellite subscriber.

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JPNZ

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#2793637 12-Oct-2021 09:43

dougierydal:

Hope you checked the deals on the 'Sky Deals' forum page, some bargains to be had if you're not a current satellite subscriber.

You will probably see in that thread that I got the deal 😉

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JPNZ

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#2794318 13-Oct-2021 07:53

JPNZ:

It gets installed tomorrow so I'll be able to do almost back to back testing of sports till my subscription runs out.

Well last night I watched 10 mins of SS4, was a replay of Warriors win vs Canberra. Saw artifacting and frame rate drops on the SSN and Sky Satellite was perfect (as well as being about 10 seconds ahead).

My choice was justified in just that 10 mins of watching.

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JonoNZ

274 posts

Ultimate Geek

#2794319 13-Oct-2021 07:57

Yep, my recent testing of SSN concluded the same thing — it’s a disaster if frame rate worries you, and it should for sport content.

I have a Sky Satellite subscription just so I can AirPlay sport to my Apple TVs — a method which looks awesome btw, no frame rate issues and picture quality better than the satellite feed, tack sharp even on a 4K display.

JPNZ

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Uber Geek

#2794327 13-Oct-2021 08:37

JonoNZ:

Yep, my recent testing of SSN concluded the same thing — it’s a disaster if frame rate worries you, and it should for sport content.

I have a Sky Satellite subscription just so I can AirPlay sport to my Apple TVs — a method which looks awesome btw, no frame rate issues and picture quality better than the satellite feed, tack sharp even on a 4K display.

Do you airplay from browser or from tablet or phone on sky go?

Ive heard recently as tested by some on here that sky go is even better than SSN?

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dougierydal

327 posts

Ultimate Geek

#2794347 13-Oct-2021 09:36

JPNZ:

JonoNZ:

Yep, my recent testing of SSN concluded the same thing — it’s a disaster if frame rate worries you, and it should for sport content.

I have a Sky Satellite subscription just so I can AirPlay sport to my Apple TVs — a method which looks awesome btw, no frame rate issues and picture quality better than the satellite feed, tack sharp even on a 4K display.

Do you airplay from browser or from tablet or phone on sky go?

Ive heard recently as tested by some on here that sky go is even better than SSN?

I have a friend's SKY logins and use the SKY GO app on my phone/ipad to cast to the TV, either by Airplay/Chromecast or direct to the TV, and undoubtedly the image is considerably better than SSN

kharris

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#2794395 13-Oct-2021 11:08

I too noticed the blocky wide shots when it came to watching NRL. It wasn’t always like that and seems to be different for different sports/channels. Maybe it is to do with the source encoding. Maybe it’s is a different feed for satellite vs streaming

Kirk