hdinsider:

grolschie: https://twitter.com/SommetSports/status/355279468182507520

Cheers for that grolschie. Sommet seems to be a very different kind of broadcaster. Not too interested in pr or image or keeping websites up to date, strangely!

Jas777: Sommet,

It is not 'FREE' though. Someone has to pay for it, be it advertisers or the Sports body wearing the cost to get a foothold.
The issue with advertising is that people today try to avoid advertising by any means possible or they flick channels for the 1-4 minutes it is on then come back.
The other thing with advertising (and you can take this anyway you like) is that those who complain about no 'FREE TO AIR' sports are less likely to actually purchase the products of the advertisers.

Coupled with this is that using something like twitter or facebook to determine what the majority consensus is can be misleading.


The other issue which has been raised here is that those who currently are willing to pay for sports coverage and get that coverage in a certain way don't want to go back to older quality. They probably won't be too worried about the new sports coverage you have that isn't or hasn't been shown elsewhere but would be worried about sports you have got that were previously shown elsewhere.

Jas777: Sommet,

You said 'Viewers of sport like to watch the events live, therefore there will be less use of a PVR on this channel'

Are you sure? As a lot of your premium content apart from AFL isn't live in primetime hours. I don't know about others but if I record a EUROPA cup or League Cup game to watch I will fast forward thru all but the playing time thus a 2 hour broadcast is only between 90 and 100 minutes not 120 minutes.

sommet:

hdinsider:

sommet:

hdinsider:

grolschie: https://twitter.com/SommetSports/status/355279468182507520

Cheers for that grolschie. Sommet seems to be a very different kind of broadcaster. Not too interested in pr or image or keeping websites up to date, strangely!

How many other broadcasters do you have on here?

Maybe they're too busy updating their websites!

Since you're here though, please explain the requirement for MHEG5 to receive Sommet.

The broadcast is currently a test transmission and the website as it states is a interim website, this means that we are building.  Surely the time to judge is when they are both finalised?

The reason for this business was due to four mates sitting in a pub four years ago talking about the demise of live free to air sports on TV and that is it  different in the rest of the world.  Rather than moan and complain about it we decided to do something about it.  Our aim was clear "Free Sports for Kiwis!"

How about we focus on the positives on what we are trying to do?

grolschie:

hdinsider:

grolschie: https://twitter.com/SommetSports/status/355279468182507520

Cheers for that grolschie. Sommet seems to be a very different kind of broadcaster. Not too interested in pr or image or keeping websites up to date, strangely!

No problem. However, I have to disagree about the PR. While the website isn't great, Sommet Sports have been awesome with their communication with viewers on their Facebook page.

Four guys in a pub? Well done! And thank you Sommet Sports!!!

grolschie: Did you watch any of the AFL last night? If so, how did that compare?

Spyware:

grolschie: Did you watch any of the AFL last night? If so, how did that compare?

No. The only AFL have seen was D1-CIF level. My guess would be that they just push 360p low bitrate internet streams into encoder and get 576i produced from 288 lines of info. Logo hides over the air TV station of origin (not sure if logo on AFL though).