International broadcast rights: we have a winner

[Rich o man]

what ISP are you with? I have Singtel and mine is running fine today (touch wood).

Did you try and change the quality to low to get it going?

I am with starhub.
Changed it to Medium and was able to get a reasonable quality stream.
Tried to watch replays of NAB Cup Games on an Ipad and could not. I could watch the 2012 GF replay though.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Seems there is no aussierul.es? And this alternative doesn't work for me unless I want to pay over $100 for replays.

**** it.

 

[Mr Magic]

The global media heavyweight known as Rightster has won the rights to show AFL games outside Oz and NZ.




No pricing details, although NAB Cup will be free.

It's not on the AFL website. Maybe they're busy. But here's a report from Next Web:
http://thenextweb.com/media/2013/02...ootball-deal-and-hires-skypes-scott-leishman/

I assume NZ-based fans will have the lucky opportunity to be serviced by Telstra.

ARE you ****ING serious!!!!!

MASSIVE

 

[dazbroncos]

No live feed here in the states, great way to keep people interested in signing up for the site if this is what we can look forward to.

Watched both Cats games live here in LA - same service.... worked well...

Go Catters

 

[Mr Magic]

AFL is paying me to travel around the world and test the service.

Where are the best places to watch it???

Can you provide a geographical report please?? It may sway me on where I reside overseas when the time comes. Even if you can give city info that might help me if I decide to purchase a house

Capacity to be live is critical for me and reasonable coverage for all games!!

 

[riffraff]

Watched both Cats games live here in LA - same service.... worked well...

Go Catters

Yeah I ended up getting a live stream on my Ipad, doesn't stream live on my PC or my wifes apple mac for some reason but will show the replays without any dramas.

 

[londontiger]

Its been good so far, but if you are getting download speeds less than 10mb, you are going to get occassional buffering.

And for those in the UK, here are the live games of the season proper for March on ESPN UK (Round 1)

Friday 22nd March - Adelaide vs Essendon 9.30am GMT
Saturday 23rd March - Freo vs West Coast 8.30am GMT
Thursday 28th March - Carlton vs Richmond 6.30am GMT
Sunday 31st March - Hawthorn vs Geelong 5.00am GMT

 

[yaco55]

Where are the best places to watch it???

Can you provide a geographical report please?? It may sway me on where I reside overseas when the time comes. Even if you can give city info that might help me if I decide to purchase a house

Capacity to be live is critical for me and reasonable coverage for all games!!

Don't stress too much if you move to the Asia or pacific Regions.

Australian Network usually cover 4 or 5 games each round.

You can choose from a variety of services for the remaining games.

 

[Demon 16]

Where are the best places to watch it???

Can you provide a geographical report please?? It may sway me on where I reside overseas when the time comes. Even if you can give city info that might help me if I decide to purchase a house

Capacity to be live is critical for me and reasonable coverage for all games!!

South Eastern Mongolia is getting the best reports so far.

 

[Jordan85]

I watched my beloved Crows and despised Power live on the weekend from Los Angeles... streamed without too many hiccups. I did encounter buffering a few times, but it quickly fixed itself. Watching games on-demand later, it streamed flawlessly.

I did notice a few issues though... leading up to the first Adelaide game, the web site was very slow to load. isup.me reported the site as down, however, once the game came on, I had no problems. Also, the AFL TV web site states that quarters should be available on-demand shortly after conclusion of that said quarter... However, they took close to a day to get Adelaide v Port up.. I certainly hope they fix this... Many of the live games will be on at ungodly hours for me.. But if I don't watch it live, I want to be able to watch it on-demand ASAP... I should not have to wait 24 hours for a game to be up.

Impressive crowd at AAMI btw!

 

[LeverPuller]

Figure this would be the place to ask - anyone know any bars in New York showing the NAB Cup live? Want to watch my Dees...

 

[Roo182]

So just watching the NAB cup, the Roos Melbourne game ran fine, but the next game has absolutely shit itself. Anyone else cop this?

 

[Perry Pie]

So just watching the NAB cup, the Roos Melbourne game ran fine, but the next game has absolutely shit itself. Anyone else cop this?

Yes, I had buffering problems in London in the Rich/Roos game. Reduced quality to low and it ran ok. Last 10 mins of the game (after it had been stable for a while) I upped to medium with no issues, now back on HQ and its going OK.

 

[specq]

NM vs Melbourne game on replay was fine this morning here in the United States (Minnesota), but the next two are coming up "This video isn't available in your location."

I went outside to check, but I'm still in Minnesota.

 

[whiteoak]

Seriously, seriously, seriously shit in Tokyo tonight.

Constantly buffering.

 

[kreglze]

Yeah same I have my charger and ethernet cord in and still buffering.

 

[whiteoak]

Changed from High to medium and it is ok. But medium is pushing the description of the quality of the picture thus far.

 

[Perry Pie]

In London its working OK (second half of Hawthorn Bris game). But the quality has visibly reduced. On high its worse than medium was the other day, medium is low quality and low is - well - very low (think old school dial up quality). Looks like quality is sacreficed to reduce buffering (which is the right thing to do if there is no choice, but I will be peeved if this is the case when I start to pay for the main season).

 

[whiteoak]

In London its working OK (second half of Hawthorn Bris game). But the quality has visibly reduced. On high its worse than medium was the other day, medium is low quality and low is - well - very low (think old school dial up quality). Looks like quality is sacreficed to reduce buffering (which is the right thing to do if there is no choice, but I will be peeved if this is the case when I start to pay for the main season).

Yep. If this happens in the season proper there will be hell to pay.

In saying that, it appears to have improved markedly for me in the last 10 minutes.

 

[Perry Pie]

Yep. If this happens in the season proper there will be hell to pay.

In saying that, it appears to have improved markedly for me in the last 10 minutes.

end of the first half og the GC Bris game - constant buffering now on medium quality (which is really low quality). Poor. Ran the speed test - its at 17Mbps so its thier end.

 

[whiteoak]

end of the first half og the GC Bris game - constant buffering now on medium quality (which is really low quality). Poor. Ran the speed test - its at 17Mbps so its thier end.

Did the same. It is their problem.

 

[hawkman]

Watch the first half of the GC Hawthorn game, first 10 minutes were good, the next 10 were spent constantly buffering, gave up after that

 

[Roo182]

Mine only went through those initial buffering hiccups early on Friday's games, but seemed to fix themselves for the rest. I can only imagine they're working overtime to iron out the creases.

Has anyone else found that the crowd sounds are way too loud? I can hardly hear what the commentators are saying, and constantly hear the continuous doldrums from the crowd. Is it recorded in mono?

 

[Roo182]

Anyone else having trouble with iPad/iPhone? Working on my laptop, but says "Cannot Complete Operation" on both other devices.

 

[Mrmojo]

Anyone else having trouble with iPad/iPhone? Working on my laptop, but says "Cannot Complete Operation" on both other devices.

Yup, I had the same problem on my iPad and iPhone. Working fine with Firefox on ubuntu though...I sent them an email and they responded very quickly saying they were looking in to it.