NZ Cricket to Spark Sport

Forums › Online streaming services › NZ Cricket to Spark Sport

1 | ... | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16

1547 posts

Uber Geek

#2613129 30-Nov-2020 10:56

kiwifidget:

As an aside, the upcoming tests will be on SparkSport only?

If that was a question then yes. All NZ Cricket within NZ is on Spark

Panasonic 65GZ1000, Onkyo RZ730, Atmos 5.1.2, AppleTV 4K, Nest Mini's, PS5, PS3, MacbookPro, iPad Pro, Apple watch SE2, iPhone 15+

colinuu

246 posts

Master Geek

#2615281 3-Dec-2020 08:15

kiwifidget:

My folks are on a rural wireless connection and watched most of the game.

They switched off when WI was 8 wickets down.

Thanks to the magic of michaelmurfys unifi site I can say that the SmartVu unit went through about 4-5GB of data.

I did have to restart the app several times but that gives an indication of how much data a T20 game needs.

Hmmm. I signed up to SS 7 day free trial, and ran the second T20 for 3 hours yesterday morning (using our under-utilised AM data allowance). Data was a fairly constant 3.4GB per hour, pointing towards 15GB for the full match, correspondingly more for an ODI and way over the top for a 5 day test. We could manage the occasional T20 or ODI with capped data, but watching the whole series would be impossible.

ALTRON

577 posts

Ultimate Geek

#2615379 3-Dec-2020 08:57

Have been watching the BC's on spark sport via

Kodi (vero 4k)

Panasonic tv app

Both work great, excellent picture quality.

noticeably better than sky sport now and GO. (possibly because spark isnt as stingy with the video bitrate? )

Apsattv

2389 posts

Uber Geek

#2615473 3-Dec-2020 11:34

Fire up the VPN NZC youtube

Day 1

Jas777

838 posts

Ultimate Geek

#2615544 3-Dec-2020 12:55

ALTRON:

Have been watching the BC's on spark sport via

Kodi (vero 4k)

Panasonic tv app

Both work great, excellent picture quality.

noticeably better than sky sport now and GO. (possibly because spark isnt as stingy with the video bitrate? )

Possibly, but seeing as Spark is streaming only and SKY is more towards the statellite/box customers you would want Spark to be better.

mentalinc

3229 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

#2616885 6-Dec-2020 11:11

Does anyone have an magic talk m3u8 link or similar?

CPU: AMD 5900x | RAM: GSKILL Trident Z Neo RGB F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC-32-GB | MB: Asus X570-E | GFX: EVGA FTW3 Ultra RTX 3080Ti| Monitor: LG 27GL850-B 2560x1440

Quic: https://account.quic.nz/refer/473833 R473833EQKIBX

l43a2

1779 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified

Trusted

#2616887 6-Dec-2020 11:17

mentalinc: Does anyone have an magic talk m3u8 link or similar?

https://livestream.mediaworks.nz/radio_origin/radiolive_128kbps/playlist.m3u8

Sharesies

Trade NZ and US shares and funds with Sharesies (affiliate link).

kiwifidget

"Cookie"
3421 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#2616893 6-Dec-2020 11:50

I set my folks up with a SmartVu last year for the RWC.

It worked quite well.

But it's not coping with the cricket.

It does one session ok, but when you get into a 2nd one its overheating so bad the app wont even launch.

Delete cookies?! Are you insane?!

Dochart

804 posts

Ultimate Geek

#2616896 6-Dec-2020 11:57

I really hate how the cricket been shown on Spark Sport. Everytime they go to next session for Test Cricket you have to back out of the first session then click on the next session and watch live. Why can’t they just have one event for the whole day.

Anyway to let the Spark Sport team know about this inconvenience?

Apsattv

2389 posts

Uber Geek

#2617035 6-Dec-2020 16:02

Easy tell them you are canceling and watch it on youtube.

vexxxboy

4244 posts

Uber Geek

#2617054 6-Dec-2020 16:56

the one i was watching was through Supersport , which i think is South African and broadcast throughout Africa. It was ok.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

Apsattv

2389 posts

Uber Geek

#2617071 6-Dec-2020 17:25

vexxxboy:

the one i was watching was through Supersport , which i think is South African and broadcast throughout Africa. It was ok.

Thats sounds like a dodgy link!

Best you move to JAPAN or another location and watch it on NZC official youtube channel, you wouldn't want to be supporting piracy!

vexxxboy

4244 posts

Uber Geek

#2617115 6-Dec-2020 19:56

Apsattv:

vexxxboy:

the one i was watching was through Supersport , which i think is South African and broadcast throughout Africa. It was ok.

Thats sounds like a dodgy link!

Best you move to JAPAN or another location and watch it on NZC official youtube channel, you wouldn't want to be supporting piracy!

sorry how different is watching Supersports, who have the rights to broadcast in South Africa, than watching sport on Kano or even watching from Japan on You Tube .

Common sense is not as common as you think.

outdoorsnz

674 posts

Ultimate Geek

#2617307 7-Dec-2020 09:54

Dochart: I really hate how the cricket been shown on Spark Sport. Everytime they go to next session for Test Cricket you have to back out of the first session then click on the next session and watch live. Why can’t they just have one event for the whole day.

Anyway to let the Spark Sport team know about this inconvenience?

I was watching ondemand and got a little confused on this! Watched the afternoon session and then switched to the evening session thinking the timeline would be where the last session ended! But no, I had to fast forward over stuff that I had already watched... With the English cricket, pretty sure that was how it was, one session to the next.

colinuu

246 posts

Master Geek

#2618373 8-Dec-2020 21:37

colinuu:

Hmmm. I signed up to SS 7 day free trial, and ran the second T20 for 3 hours yesterday morning (using our under-utilised AM data allowance). Data was a fairly constant 3.4GB per hour, pointing towards 15GB for the full match, correspondingly more for an ODI and way over the top for a 5 day test. We could manage the occasional T20 or ODI with capped data, but watching the whole series would be impossible.

SS don't seem very concerned about increasing their viewer base. On Sunday I cancelled the free trial, giving my reasons for doing so. I kind of expected to receive an email saying 'sorry to see you go, is there something we can do to help change your mind' or some such. But, so far, nothing at all.

1 | ... | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16