Watching Spark Sport (including launch and pricing)

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Master Geek
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#2322280 21-Sep-2019 22:39

Been watching games all day without a major issue. Now buffering all the time watching the all blacks.

Completely unacceptable and they have failed. They have to give this up and make it free to air.

Benoire

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#2322281 21-Sep-2019 22:39

jeffnz:

Benoire:

I'm not wanting Spark Sport to fail (My sons best friend dad works for them) and I dont actually care about the Rugby but the load is causing issues with my precious F1 :-(

lol I get it, a suggestion, why don't you F1 dudes switch off for another hour and we rugby nuts will leave you to it ;)

better deal, lets just all play nicely and watch at 720p/60 🤣

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#2322286 21-Sep-2019 22:41

kharris: Had a few resolution drops on ATV... seems to be struggling a little... checked the Panasonic TV app and that’s the same so I’m going to assume Spark is having a few issues. Internal network is fine.

At the streaming end it isn’t really ‘spark’ but more Endeveor (Neilson) I think. Potentially under provisioned but I doubt that so not sure what it could be.

I had a few bufferings but nothing in the other games. I’m on 2 Degrees 4K Apple TV.

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#2322287 21-Sep-2019 22:41

They have it on Duke now. :(

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#2322294 21-Sep-2019 22:46

Been working fine on atv4hd couple of times it went to low quality for half second then back to full it does look awesome when full HD

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#2322296 21-Sep-2019 22:47

F1 FP3 stream is still up and down in terms of resolution... 60 fps appears to be holding but meh, disappointed with Spark Sport at the moment.... Thank goodness this wasn't the race at the same time as the Rugby!

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#2322297 21-Sep-2019 22:48

wratterus:
They have it on Duke now. :(

Free to air live... nice... but I paid to see this live... so I’m not really getting value for money now am I?

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#2322299 21-Sep-2019 22:49

Yeps buffering now and then, and there and takes a few seconds to recover full res. Was going to plug in the ethernet cable but I know I've got plenty of wifi bandwidth so guessed the buffering was SS and not my end. Previous 3 games have not buffered a single time. Overall I'm still happy..still..

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#2322308 21-Sep-2019 22:59

I gave up when it got this bad.

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#2322311 21-Sep-2019 23:05

kiwifidget:

I gave up when it got this bad.

I have only had low res issues but it’s still annoying to watch.... swapped over to duke.

Kirk

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#2322312 21-Sep-2019 23:06

watching on duke now as impossible to stream just terrible. fiji vs aust was good then argentina vs france so much buffering and flickering only just watchable then all blacks game just got worse to being unwatchable so glad they changed to duke tv

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#2322313 21-Sep-2019 23:06

I've moved to Duke as well, constant resolution drops are annoying

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#2322319 21-Sep-2019 23:12

Yup, I'm on 800/500 fibre, but most of this game has been in such low resolution, it's almost unwatchable. Sorry Spark, this is a fail.

Earlier games were fine, so I guess it's down to the load on AB games. Not acceptable.

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#2322322 21-Sep-2019 23:15

I am assuming the press release on this one might not be so flash. Either that or a lot of spin,

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#2322323 21-Sep-2019 23:16

Guessing some Akamai endpoints are struggling ?

The amount of people demanding refunds when spark have a working backup plan in place..

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