Spark Sport: Rugby World Cup 2019

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#2322370 21-Sep-2019 23:31

quickymart:

If they manage to fix the issue before the end of the game, does it get taken off Duke and everyone goes back to streaming it? Or does it stay on Duke now until the end of this game?

Stays on Duke

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#2322372 21-Sep-2019 23:34

Cheers John.

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#2322374 21-Sep-2019 23:38

freitasm: @frednz which ISP?

Using Spark fibre.

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#2322376 21-Sep-2019 23:38

Started on 2015 Android TV app, moved to Chromecast Ultra over WiFi, after fifteen minutes, a quiet moment to change. Stream was stable, few drops in stream quality but no stops, went back a few times at half time then went back to live. Has maintained 30 seconds behind Duke once it came online. Room for improvement SS. ISP Vf Fibre

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#2322377 21-Sep-2019 23:38

Had the same drop in quality for brief periods as others on my Panasonic with Spark VDSL. Seems issues were fixed mid second half and stream was great (maybe as the load dropped with viewers switching to Duke?). On the whole not a bad experience.

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#2322378 21-Sep-2019 23:41

frednz:
freitasm: @frednz which ISP?

Using Spark fibre.

As suspected. It seems pretty much people complaining about this were on Spark (ISP).

I am thinking the worst business decision was to brand the service Spark Sport - now people won't be able to differentiate one (stream) from another (ISP).

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#2322380 21-Sep-2019 23:43

i found my stream unwatchable, also Spark Fibre

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#2322381 21-Sep-2019 23:43

Must say I (personally) think it's pretty ridiculous seeing all the people demanding a full refund - for one game. I wonder if the same people were on the phone to Sky screaming about rain fade when that happened and demanding compensation as well? Having said that, if Spark wanted to give a partial refund, that might be different. I dunno.

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#2322382 21-Sep-2019 23:44

Had a lot of sporadic quality issues. Also audio lagged on their first try and seemed like video skipped a few times but otherwise was perfect quality also no others using the internet

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#2322385 21-Sep-2019 23:48

The last 20 minutes have been perfect when it works it’s perfect a couple of drops of resolution in the first 40 on atv4hd Spark fibre

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#2322387 21-Sep-2019 23:52

I was watching on ITV, via a Chromebook and I had to restart the stream probably 7 times throughout the game. It had worked perfectly for the France Vs Argentina.

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#2322389 21-Sep-2019 23:59

I started watching on a PC via Chrome connected to a TV but it would stutter every now and then I got so frustrated I moved to watching using the ITV app on a phone. The picture never froze during the game but every now and then the picture quality would deteriorate a bit with some blockiness and fuzziness in the picture. But then again ITV are not delivering to this part of the world so there would be no local CDNs caching content here.

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#2322391 22-Sep-2019 00:01

quickymart:

Must say I (personally) think it's pretty ridiculous seeing all the people demanding a full refund - for one game. I wonder if the same people were on the phone to Sky screaming about rain fade when that happened and demanding compensation as well? Having said that, if Spark wanted to give a partial refund, that might be different. I dunno.

I cannot fathom how you could possibly compare this to a meteorological event.

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#2322392 22-Sep-2019 00:03

Had many dropouts using Gigabit Fibre via Orcon.

FIL called he had issues on VF Fibre.

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#2322393 22-Sep-2019 00:04

freitasm:
frednz:
freitasm: @frednz which ISP?

Using Spark fibre.

As suspected. It seems pretty much people complaining about this were on Spark (ISP).

I am thinking the worst business decision was to brand the service Spark Sport - now people won't be able to differentiate one (stream) from another (ISP).

That’s not the case... I’m on Vodafone and had resolution drops... many friends also had issues on other ISP’s.

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