Dororke: I can only think your footage Richard was perhaps adapted down. I don't pretend the clip is perfect but I wouldn't say it's terrible. The best descriptive word I can come up with is adequate.
As to the pitch looking terrible well in my feed I can see exactly why. It's. because the pitch is in a terrible state. Huge divots everywhere and heaps of sand thrown down to try and cover up the huge patches where grass has been cut up. I can see this clearly on my 50" plasma as clear as I can see the individual raindrops during what must have been a severe weather event.
Might it be you're not seeing it as good as it can be perhaps. A good test would be to watch some NFL replays and fix the setting to 3Mbps. Now compare that to the EPL clip. Is it similar? If not it could indicate that your feed might be being adapted down and not showing at the best available. Just a thought.
I have just uploaded a clip to youtube which shows how it looks on my TV. The start of the video shows MySKY HD - then I jump to the test stream.
I will admit - the closeup shots of players are almost acceptable (though not even close to HD) BUT we do not watch football in closeup shots. Most of the footage in a game is one camera panning left to right and this is where the stream is "terrible".
Unfortunately the sample video provided does not really show any football at all..... But in the youtube clip I posted it shows them walking on to the field and you can see how blocky the picture is. Even when you see the crowd in the stands the facial definition is poor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkP0vTdhb2A#at=10
It defaults to 360p - so if you have a fast connection hit the cog icon along the bottom and change it to 1080p and then hit full screen.
Hopefully there are no legal problems in posting this footage - if there is someone please let me know and I will take it down.
But it does answer my primary question in that the content is mostly served (logically) from NZ servers and not NY, or London or any other far away place. So no bottlenecks are likely through the southern cross fibre link. I just had this mad image of 10,000 ex pat poms all trying to access content at the same time across the oceans.
