Streaming live TV

Lemonandice20

I don't know how people do this, It would drive me insane. I'd prefer to pay 15 euro for example to a watch a top boxing match on boxnation than try to watch it on unreliable streams.

It's nice knowing you can relax on your couch and know that you will have crystal clear quality on a 50 inch screen rather than watching a crap stream on a laptop.

My name is URL

Nice try Sky Box Office

kneemos

Watch the stream on the TV.

Mr. Incognito

50 inch flatscreen, 15 quid boxing pay per view.

Well,

Laaaaa diiiii daaaa.

Lucifer MorningStar

Nah, I prefer the illegal way

wretcheddomain

Lemonandice20 wrote: »

It's nice knowing you can relax on your couch and know that you will have crystal clear quality on a 50 inch screen rather than watching a crap stream on a laptop.

You're just desperately trying to justify the exorbitant and unnecessary cost.

There are many high quality streams that can be projected much greater than a 50 inch screen.

Banjo String

Chromecast. €40

Nuff said.

Lemonandice20

kneemos wrote: »

Watch the stream on the TV.

You can't be sure what the quality of the stream will be like even of you do hook itnupnto your TV.

Sir Arthur Daley

Tap into your neighbours box, been doing it for ages.

Riesen_Meal

Lemonandice20 wrote: »

I don't know how people do this, It would drive me insane. I'd prefer to pay 15 euro for example to a watch a top boxing match on boxnation than try to watch it on unreliable streams.

It's nice knowing you can relax on your couch and know that you will have crystal clear quality on a 50 inch screen rather than watching a crap stream on a laptop.

I prefer to pay 8 sterling for 2 months of HD streams off the back of a lorry, I have all the big PPV and all the sky sports channels in glorious HD on there.....

Even works on my phone and PS4

My name is URL

Banjo String wrote: »

Chromecast. €40

Nuff said.

Hows the quality of stuff you're streaming to that on a big tv?

michael999999

Lemonandice20 wrote: »

I don't know how people do this, It would drive me insane. I'd prefer to pay 15 euro for example to a watch a top boxing match on boxnation than try to watch it on unreliable streams.

It's nice knowing you can relax on your couch and know that you will have crystal clear quality on a 50 inch screen rather than watching a crap stream on a laptop.

You don't get many PPV fights if you think there 15 euro?

Banjo String

My name is URL wrote: »

Hows the quality of stuff you're streaming to that on a big tv?

Honestly. If the stream is in hd, it displays it in hd on the telly.

I have a certain android app (cough cough) on my phone, all up to date movie releases and loads of TV boxsets, anything from the classic Oz, to game of thrones.

I can watch them on demand. All for free.

I seriously couldn't recomend a chromecast enough. Anyone that sees mine, quickly buys their own.

My name is URL

You can get (dodgy) Sky for about €25 every 3 months. That's with every channel included as well as Box Office events.

I don't have or want Sky but if I did that's how I'd be going about it!

Lemonandice20

michael999999 wrote: »

You don't get many PPV fights if you think there 15 euro?

On Boxnation it's 15 euro per month, so I just sign up for the month and then cancel.

Banjo String

Anyone else get the feeling the op has some affiliation with "boxnation"? :pac:

michael999999

Banjo String wrote: »

Anyone else get the feeling the op has some affiliation with "boxnation"? :pac:

Boxnation you say?

And what does that channel be showing?

Banjo String

michael999999 wrote: »

Boxnation you say?

And what does that channel be showing?

Something to do with boxes, I'd imagine.

Fannys?

Lemonandice20

Lemonandice20 wrote: »

On Boxnation it's 15 euro per month, so I just sign up for the month and then cancel.

A day in the life of a Box factory.

michael999999

Banjo String wrote: »

Something to do with boxes, I'd imagine.

Fannys?

A nation of Fanny's?

Nemeses

michael999999 wrote: »

A nation of Fanny's?

Or lack of!

I gladly pay for sky and sky sports. I watch almost all the premier league games they broadcast, I watch loads of golf and of course the darts. That's not even counting all the stuff in watch on the entertainment and documentary channels.

When a match isn't televised I'm forced to get a stream and to be brutally honest it's pure peasantry. Streams are complete sh*t. How people are happy to put up with them for all their sport viewing is beyond me.

Bipolar Joe

Honest question, why is sport, of all things, better in HD? I don't get it. It's people running around on grass, mostly.

B.A._Baracus

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Honest question, why is sport, of all things, better in HD? I don't get it. It's people running around on grass, mostly.

Personally I think it's fine to watch live sports in a decent or some what pixalated stream. But never a movie or tv show.

Lemonandice20

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Honest question, why is sport, of all things, better in HD? I don't get it. It's people running around on grass, mostly.

It's nicer to look at.

kneemos

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Honest question, why is sport, of all things, better in HD? I don't get it. It's people running around on grass, mostly.

Hurling is a lot better,you can actually see the ball.

Bipolar Joe

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Honest question, why is sport, of all things, better in HD? I don't get it. It's people running around on grass, mostly.

Because it a much clearer picture and gives you more of a feeling of being there and you can see little things you would miss on an SD picture.

Sport is by far the best use of HD imo.

sbsquarepants

Lemonandice20 wrote: »

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It's nice knowing you can relax on your couch and know that you will have crystal clear quality on a 50 inch screen rather than watching a crap stream on a laptop.

Better again to sit ringside and sip crystal with a few starlets. Why don't you do that?

The reason you don't do that, is the very same reason other people stream it.

sbsquarepants

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Honest question, why is sport, of all things, better in HD? I don't get it. It's people running around on grass, mostly.

Most sports it doesn't make too much difference, unless you have an enormous telly. The tennis is way better in HD though - particularly when Sharapova is playing!

BeerWolf

I'd rather stream over regular TV any day... unfortunately I'm stuck with Mobile Broadband [20GB Vodafone + 60GB THREE] so my data allowances are limited thus I can't stream all the time.

P.S. - OP, you can stream in HD you know, same quality as HD Sky and such.

shruikan2553

You're doing it wrong. HD stream and a HDMI cable with a decent internet connection.

shruikan2553

shruikan2553 wrote: »

You're doing it wrong. HD stream and a HDMI cable with a decent internet connection.

HD streams my hole, for non-televised 3 o'clock kick offs I often look for streams and I'm happy to get something in which I can make out the team I'm supporting such is the horrific quality level of streams. Then the thing might have to be refreshed about 10 times a half to keep it playing.

Its 100% worth the money to sit down, pick up the remote and switch on the channel and enjoy the match in perfect quality. I then also have licences for my iPad and iPhone so no matter where I am I can watch sport or watch two sports at the same time, one on the tv and other on a device (a regular occurrence for me believe it or not).

The thought of relying on streams for all my sport watching would depress me.

Paully D

You can pay ~ under €7 a month for certain sites and get access to all Premier League games, NFL games, NBA games, golf events, pay-per-view events, etc. When hooked up to the TV, there's very minimal difference between those streams and what you get from TV stations. Certainly not the difference the cost difference between the two justifies.

Free streaming sites are woeful in streaming terms, but a good pay site is 1,000,000 times better.

People paying €70+ a month for Sky for the pleasure of watching hundreds of stations showing repeats, sports stations only showing the most popular teams every week, and paying even more money to watch the main boxing events etc are having their eyes taken out.

Paully D

Paully D wrote: »

You can pay ~ under €7 a month for certain sites and get access to all Premier League games, NFL games, NBA games, golf events, pay-per-view events, etc. When hooked up to the TV, there's very minimal difference between those streams and what you get from TV stations. Certainly not the difference the cost difference between the two justifies.

Free streaming sites are woeful in streaming terms, but a good pay site is 1,000,000 times better.

People paying €70+ a month for Sky for the pleasure of watching hundreds of stations showing repeats, sports stations only showing the most popular teams every week, and paying even more money to watch the main boxing events etc are having their eyes taken out.

Its easy enough to get half priced deals. I only pay 36 euro a month for the full entertainment pack and the sports pack and during the season I was paying an extra tenner for BT and setanta so for 46 euro a month I have the majority of matches and all the other sports I watch.

I also watch lots of the tv programs shown on various channels so to me its easily worth 36 a month.

Messing around with a laptop, hooking it up to the tv etc for streams, not being able to just flick around channels with the remote and having to download all the shows I follow is just too much effort and non-user friendly for me. I just like the traditional way of watching tv and being able to channel surf and come across programs I haven't heard of, particularly documentarys on discovery etc.
All my stuff is nicely organised in my sky+ planner and loads of stuff can be downloaded to the box now with on-demand.

Also having sky go licences is a massive plus as I don't have to miss stuff no matter where I am.

Personally I can never see myself being without a sky pack.

Ranchu

Eugene Dead Signature wrote: »

Its easy enough to get half priced deals. I only pay 36 euro a month for the full entertainment pack and the sports pack and during the season I was paying an extra tenner for BT and setanta so for 46 euro a month I have the majority of matches and all the other sports I watch.

I also watch lots of the tv programs shown on various channels so to me its easily worth 36 a month.

Messing around with a laptop, hooking it up to the tv etc for streams, not being able to just flick around channels with the remote and having to download all the shows I follow is just too much effort and non-user friendly for me. I just like the traditional way of watching tv and being able to channel surf and come across programs I haven't heard of, particularly documentarys on discovery etc.
All my stuff is nicely organised in my sky+ planner and loads of stuff can be downloaded to the box now with on-demand.

Also having sky go licences is a massive plus as I don't have to miss stuff no matter where I am.

Personally I can never see myself being without a sky pack.

These sports streaming sites have apps with better picture quality than SkyG0. They also show every match in the premier league so you can choose whatever you want to watch. I play mine from my phone to Apple Tv with superb picture quality. For the 40 or 50 quid a year I've been spending on it over the last three years there is no way I could justify going back to spending over a grand on my old sports package.

If you have a jailbroken apple tv you can get apps on that where you can stream any tv programme or film imaginable completely free and in great quality.

Paully D

Eugene Dead Signature wrote: »

Its easy enough to get half priced deals. I only pay 36 euro a month for the full entertainment pack and the sports pack and during the season I was paying an extra tenner for BT and setanta so for 46 euro a month I have the majority of matches and all the other sports I watch.

I also watch lots of the tv programs shown on various channels so to me its easily worth 36 a month.

Messing around with a laptop, hooking it up to the tv etc for streams, not being able to just flick around channels with the remote and having to download all the shows I follow is just too much effort and non-user friendly for me. All my stuff is nicely organised in my sky+ planner and loads of stuff can be downloaded to the box now with on-demand.

Also having sky go licences is a massive plus as I don't have to miss stuff no matter where I am.

Personally I can never see myself being without a sky pack.

You don't really get the majority of matches either though. With that package, you're purely limited to games that Sky Sports/BT/Setanta show, which usually consist of the top teams. All well and good if you support a Liverpool or Manchester United, but if you were relying on the aforementioned stations to watch a bottom half team you'd be doing well to see them live on TV more than 5 times a season, and would never see them at the traditional 3pm kick off. Same goes for the NFL/NBA, with the sites you can choose which game you want to watch, which is a service the stations don't offer.

I'm taking from a purely sports point of view, though I can understand why you'd prefer to just pay the money for the Sky + etc if you watch a lot of TV series'. It's really not a huge operation to set up a laptop through the TV though. Simply connect a HDMI cable, sit back and relax.

I'm presuming from your previous post that you've only ever used the free streaming sites to find games. A paid site offers all 3pm games plus many, many more in excellent quality. There's a world of difference. Don't think that it's either the horrible quality free sites or Sky as your only options.

inforfun

I have no other choice than to watch streams in order to see the matches i want to see.
All leagues that you get with sky/bt/setanta i have little or no interest in.
Well, not enough to pay a ****load of money for it anyways.

Lemonandice20

Ranchu wrote: »

These sports streaming sites have apps with better picture quality than SkyG0. They also show every match in the premier league so you can choose whatever you want to watch. I play mine from my phone to Apple Tv with superb picture quality. For the 40 or 50 quid a year I've been spending on it over the last three years there is no way I could justify going back to spending over a grand on my old sports package.

If you have a jailbroken apple tv you can get apps on that where you can stream any tv programme or film imaginable completely free and in great quality.

Yea but you have to know in advance what you want to watch, I often just want to flick around the channels until something catches my interest. How do you do that with streaming?

Often I don't even want to watch an entire movie, I just watch 20 minutes or so of one I already saw or a new one and then switch to a different movie that's on.

Darkglasses

Paully D wrote: »

You can pay ~ under €7 a month for certain sites and get access to all Premier League games, NFL games, NBA games, golf events, pay-per-view events, etc. When hooked up to the TV, there's very minimal difference between those streams and what you get from TV stations. Certainly not the difference the cost difference between the two justifies.

Free streaming sites are woeful in streaming terms, but a good pay site is 1,000,000 times better.

People paying €70+ a month for Sky for the pleasure of watching hundreds of stations showing repeats, sports stations only showing the most popular teams every week, and paying even more money to watch the main boxing events etc are having their eyes taken out.

I agree completely but bad internet can scupper that. Trying to watch a good quality stream on internet as slow as Christmas is one of the most frustrating things I've ever encountered

swimming in a sea

I stream everything of the internet, but not much live TV so don't have to deal with poor quality. I can't go back to normal TV as the adverts drive me crazy, 42minute programs taking an hour.