PPV Games

[Bert]

Just be interested to see the thoughts from our fan base. 

[1972 Fox]

I'll be watching a stream if possible but for a true reflection there should really be a third option on your poll.

 

i e. Not paying and not finding at stream (listening to radio coverage or not bothering at all).

[StanSP]

Stream 100%.

[Webbo]

I'll be watching a stream, like I do every other match. 

[AKCJ]

I will be pirating it. 

[AjcW]

It's interesting actually. If my subs were run through satelite i'd be more bothered about keeping it that way.... but my NOWTV and BT subs are both run through the internet, so i'm lagging behind live which means i've got quite used to people texting celebrating a goal  

 

Essentially the transition back to streaming wont be a big deal, and chances are everyone will be doing the same anyway, so no annoying alerts!

[Lako42]

I might not bother with any of it. Greedy ***** have killed the game. They have turned it into a product and I don't like the product.

 

I'll be spending a bit more time in the lower leagues if I want to watch football.

[demon_dog]

No thanks, I'll probably listen to it on the radio and then watch MOTD. 

Sod the money grabbing bar stewards. 

[Suzie the Fox]

[HybridFox]

Stream or radio. But definitely no cash in hand 

[Stuntman_Mike]

Just wondering if people openly saying they illegally stream is detrimental to this forum? 

 

I'm not particularly arsed because I'll be streaming myself, just feel it might be better keeping it a bit more under the radar rather than promoting the use of these sites 

[Big Dave]

If it was less money, I would pay for the PPV.  £15 is too much. 
I expect if it was priced at £5, you would have more than 3x the people paying it than at £15.

At £5 I would pay to watch a Leicester game on PPV, and may even be tempted for another non Leicester game if it looked interesting / I had nothing better to do.

[Spudulike]

I've reluctantly paid £9.99 twice already this season for NowTV 24-hour passes. I no longer have a Sky contract and it feels good. I have BT Sport wrapped up in my broadband package and I'm keeping that for the Europa League matches. 

 

Can't listen to Stringer as not within BBC Radio Leicester coverage range. My choices are PPV, stream or LCFC. COM commentary. Looking like the latter the moment. Grim. 

[majaco]

I pay for a Sky subscription to watch players who earn more in a week than I do in a year.  I am not paying the £15.  However, with travel, it cost more than three times to watch a game at the King Power.

[dayday]

I’ll watch all the Leicester  games down my local, apparently It doesn’t cost any more for the pubs.

[Leicester_Loyal]

2 minutes ago, dayday said:

I’ll watch all the Leicester  games down my local, apparently It doesn’t cost any more for the pubs.

Surely that can't be right?

[adejo92]

52 minutes ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Just wondering if people openly saying they illegally stream is detrimental to this forum? 

 

I'm not particularly arsed because I'll be streaming myself, just feel it might be better keeping it a bit more under the radar rather than promoting the use of these sites 

I doubt it - they don't enforce people watching illegal streams so its unlikely they'll do anything about people merely discussing  the matter.

 

I believe in most cases it takes the provider to take action such as Sky, and then they only take action against the people who run the servers.

Edited 12 October 2020 by adejo92

[Mark_w]

Probably radio, or I'll cave in and pay for it.

[urban.spaceman]

1 hour ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Just wondering if people openly saying they illegally stream is detrimental to this forum? 

 

I'm not particularly arsed because I'll be streaming myself, just feel it might be better keeping it a bit more under the radar rather than promoting the use of these sites 

It's like Napster back in the day - the users were breaking the law but it was the service that the music industry went after for facilitating an illegal service in the first place. And mainly out of spite because Napster were offering a service that was better than the status quo. Which was proved right - anyone here still buy their music at Tower Records?

 

That was 20 years ago. Streaming has been about for at least 10 years but the providers are still persisting with a vastly inferior service - a package deal rigged against the consumer; they expect you to pay 3 different providers for only 50% of the content that other countries are getting for much, much less.

 

Streaming has proved that the technology is available but the providers are dragging their heels. If they were to offer a single streaming service instead of Sky, BT and Amazon for decent price, I'm sure most people would sign up for it. But for me, the PPV fiasco shows that they're not yet capable of realising what's affordable.

[rachhere]

1 hour ago, dayday said:

I’ll watch all the Leicester  games down my local, apparently It doesn’t cost any more for the pubs.

Interesting. Not sure if I could cope with all the Villa fans at my local for the next game! 

[Saxondale]

One of this biggest issues up until this point, is that most games aren't actually available for viewing in the UK, yet they are in a huge number of countries in the world. 

 

So a Leicester season ticket holder who couldn't get tickets for a sell-out away end had no (official) way of watching the game, yet somebody in Abi Dhabi could, which is ridiculous.

 

The current developments do change this complexion a bit, but I'm fairly sure people in Abu Dhabi don't pay £15 a game.

Edited 12 October 2020 by Saxondale
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[Fox92]

Radio for me.

[dayday]

4 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Surely that can't be right?

That’s what my landlord seems to think, reckons because pubs have been struggling they’re waiving the fee.

[Mint_Fox]

4 hours ago, Spudulike said:

I've reluctantly paid £9.99 twice already this season for NowTV 24-hour passes. I no longer have a Sky contract and it feels good. I have BT Sport wrapped up in my broadband package and I'm keeping that for the Europa League matches. 

 

Can't listen to Stringer as not within BBC Radio Leicester coverage range. My choices are PPV, stream or LCFC. COM commentary. Looking like the latter the moment. Grim. 

LCFC. COM commentary. Beats listening to Stringer, I just want to throw things when he's on.

[Babylon]

If it was £5 I'd pay it no problem at all, £15 they can get fecked. 

 

I'd rather spend 20 minutes scratching around for a rubbish stream.