Kayo: A balanced and reasoned intellectual discussion

[FFB1]

If only Kayo (foxtel) offered foxtel subscription with just the sports package all would be resolved (for those who dumped foxtel for kayo, like me/us, and have a set top box gathering dust.

 

[9stacks]

This goes for Foxtel as well obviously but how bout they get rid of the live scores in the corner from other games...
It's 2023 for god's sake, we can check scores elsewhere if we need to.
Ruins it if you want to watch delayed

 

[MisterB]

Kayo, you are really starting to more than annoy me. Works fine on laptop browsers (even 13 year old laptops). Watching using the app on the tablet is like looking through a lense smeared with vaseline. But your ads are as clear as day. I know what you are up to.

Don't get me started on Chromecast. Buffers every 60 seconds.

Lift your game or you are gone.

 

[Chief]

This goes for Foxtel as well obviously but how bout they get rid of the live scores in the corner from other games...
It's 2023 for god's sake, we can check scores elsewhere if we need to.
Ruins it if you want to watch delayed

I haven't noticed this on iPhone.

 

[Beerfish]

Sorry I was looking for the '****ing kayo' thread?

 

[1990crow]

It's Murdoch. Of course it's shit.

 

[Shane Heard]

I hate kayo, but i also hate the idea of giving that shapeshifting reptilian rupert $80 a month for some shite 1980s satellite dish technology just to watch footy without buffering

Kayo is also owned (about 70%) by news corp.
You pay the reptile either way.

 

[Chief]

Sorry I was looking for the '******* kayo' thread?

Sir, I would thank you not to use such language in this thread.

 

[Underarm]

Leaptel. There has only been a handful of bad buffering nights my biggest gripe is the compression they use which doesn't look great on my 85"

85 inch TV? Don't be a cheapskate. You clearly can afford foxtel.

 

[MadMaxx]

The speed of your internet connection will be irrelevant.

This thread is down to Kayo's lack of back end investment. Servers, Media Streamers, network connects etc.

I am a watcher of F1 usually at 2 AM on a Monday Morning, and Kayo works fine then. It just cant handle the congestion of footy matches, because the cheapskates are pocketing the reventue, rather than re-investing in infrastructure to make the product better.

 

[Shinboner roo]

Dropped kayo like a hot potato when I was offered foxtel now/go all channels for $25 per month for 3 months, should just about get me through till the finals. Kayo runs ok through the sony but laggy as shite on the tv

 

[Fat Nyfe]

Kayo gets worse every year and as soon as there’s a decent alternative it’s goneski

 

[Toump Ass]

Seven seas baby!

Very rare dropouts, nice quality, easy website to use (no waiting for ads to load, there's no ads with the Brave browser anyway). Even got a 24/7 stream of FoxFooty.

Only issue is the telecast is delayed by about 30 seconds? Which mean my exquisite gameday thread commentary sometimes is a little behind, but that's your problem really.

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

Living overseas, WatchAFL is ******* awesome. $160 a year, every game live with fox footy channel as well (360, on the couch etc...) plus replays on demand for every game over the last 4 years

I moved back to Australia 10 years ago.. Even in 2014 WatchAFL was miles better than anything you could get in Australia. They had all the games and replays on demand long before anything local offered the same.

I remember watching Grand Finals in HD around 2010 in the UK. They were SD in Australia.

It bizaare

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

Kayo gets worse every year and as soon as there’s a decent alternative it’s goneski

There is. Its clearer, does not rely on your internet and includes a heap more shows and the ability to record everything

 

[Lockyer24]

Your issues are either spud internet, spud TV/media player or you are still watching the menu entry selections instead of the live channels.

I watch two channels at once on my Tv and it’s fine. It only drops out when my fat ass sits on the chromecast tv remote

 

[MadMaxx]

Your issues are either spud internet, spud TV/media player or you are still watching the menu entry selections instead of the live channels.

I watch two channels at once on my Tv and it’s fine. It only drops out when my fat ass sits on the chromecast tv remote

Just not right..

Stan
Binge
Netflix etc etc....


All get decent streaming, because they invest in the backend technologies for us all to connect to.

I work for Telstra, and can afford the best service possible given we get a decent discount. I have both a high end gaming PC, and a brand new Android based Sony UHD TV.. My home network has been rigged to optimse streaming, and wifi is not in the equation given the PC and TV and direct ethernet connected.

Sometimes Kayo is acceptable, and sometimes it is pixelated poorly rendered crap. None of the other streaming products I use have this issue. Even Binge that is also provided via Streamotion

The problem is not at our ends, it is with the provider, and the shit product they offer. They simply cannot cope with 10,000+ connections to the same stream at once for a live game of footy

 

[elbarton]

I moved back to Australia 10 years ago.. Even in 2014 WatchAFL was miles better than anything you could get in Australia. They had all the games and replays on demand long before anything local offered the same.

I remember watching Grand Finals in HD around 2010 in the UK. They were SD in Australia.

It bizaare

Monopoly, rent seeking capitalism. Australian big business fricken loves it. Why provide a good product when you can gouge the customer?

 

[Rich the babe Evans]

Just a question and didn't want to start a new thread for it. Is anybody else having trouble with their AFL app? All other apps on my phone work fine.

 

[deck]

I tried Kayo previously and my experience was it had dropouts during live games a few times at least every game.

Amazingly I have been forced on to Foxtel via IP now that cable is being killed off. I now can watch in 4K at 4 times the bitrate of a Kayo stream and it runs flawlessly.

Internet connection is exactly the same so the issues are clearly on the Kayo side of things. My router tells me they both use the same backend to deliver the service.

 

[Golden_6]

Just not right..

Stan
Binge
Netflix etc etc....


All get decent streaming, because they invest in the backend technologies for us all to connect to.

I work for Telstra, and can afford the best service possible given we get a decent discount. I have both a high end gaming PC, and a brand new Android based Sony UHD TV.. My home network has been rigged to optimse streaming, and wifi is not in the equation given the PC and TV and direct ethernet connected.

Sometimes Kayo is acceptable, and sometimes it is pixelated poorly rendered crap. None of the other streaming products I use have this issue. Even Binge that is also provided via Streamotion

The problem is not at our ends, it is with the provider, and the s**t product they offer. They simply cannot cope with 10,000+ connections to the same stream at once for a live game of footy

That isn’t a particular fair comparison. Kayo is a live streaming service and the others are not.

 

[freddy mercury]

I've NEVER had an issue with kayo.

 

[BIRDBRAIN]

I've NEVER had an issue with kayo.

Neither have I

 

[Mkcaptain]

Has the Kayo Smart TV app been a lot worse than usual for anyone else this weekend?

 

[chickenonachain]

I've NEVER had an issue with kayo.

Me to works fine never had a problem