EirSport secure the broadcast rights to the Guinness PRO14

nc6000 wrote: »

What's the best option for someone currently on Sky who wants to watch both league and european games?

Get eir sports on Sky.

Ditch Sky Sports if you don't watch football, golf or F1.

Hurrache wrote: »

If you're a new customer, but as an existing customer you'll always get half priced 6/9 month deals which will cover a season.

But your point highlights that nobody is going to pay that much purely for rugby. Had they an on demand service just for rugby as part of the broadcasting deal then that would be ideal for I'm sure a whole load of people.

Yea but the target market of people who care only about rugby is very small.

Hurrache

awec wrote: »

Yea but the target market of people who care only about rugby is very small.

But I'm extremely important and demand packages tailored to me god dammit!!

ionapaul

Cookiemunster wrote: »

TG4, the home of Connacht Rugby?

Those of us who have Virgin and are Connacht supporters are hoping that TG4's championing of the Westerners doesn't change too much when it comes to their selection of the FTA match each week; I presume that TG4's game will always have one of the four provinces playing? Would be kinda funny if they were forced to broadcast the South Africa derby match or similar

icdg

Incidentally Sky still have Ireland summer tours (to Sanzaar countries) exclusively, and the Lions. And non exclusively Ireland Autumn internationals.

awec wrote: »

Get eir sports on Sky.

Ditch Sky Sports if you don't watch football, golf or F1.

Even then sky just have English football, eir have the 5:39 game and champions league.
F1 is on channel 4 and eir

So ya if you are huge into english soccer and golf.. otherwise sky has nothing anymore.

Do eir sport carry all of the BT Sport football?

It always bugged me when I wanted to watch football that was on BT, but now that they have pro14 and european rugby on eir I can justify a second sports subscription to the wife.

awec wrote: »

Do eir sport carry all of the BT Sport football?

It always bugged me when I wanted to watch football that was on BT, but now that they have pro14 and european rugby on eir I can justify a second sports subscription to the wife.

Yup you get the full bt sports pack with eir, so all the 5:30 prem games and champions league

Squatter

A heads up for some: earlier this season I was paying the monthly sub for the BT sports package (including EirSport) on Sky, then on Black Friday they offered a full year's sub for some incredibly low price, so I promptly signed up. Maybe it will happen again, later this year!

Tigerandahalf

https://www.pro14rugby.org/2018/05/03/qa-for-eir-sport-broadcast-partnership/

Above is a link to all info one might need re how to view games.

They seem to be saying all games will be on eirsport 1 and 2. All in HD.

If the app can be used while on holidays abroad it will be a great service.

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

https://www.pro14rugby.org/2018/05/03/qa-for-eir-sport-broadcast-partnership/

Above is a link to all info one might need re how to view games.

They seem to be saying all games will be on eirsport 1 and 2. All in HD.

If the app can be used while on holidays abroad it will be a great service.

Fixture scheduling is going to be interesting...

bennyl10 wrote: »

Fixture scheduling is going to be interesting...

I guess they will want to avoid overlaps, so my guess would be

Friday ~7:30

Saturday ~2, ~5, ~7:30

Sunday ~2, ~5

The Sunday games will be interesting, directly competing against Sunday football could hit viewing figures hard.

irishbucsfan

awec wrote: »

I guess they will want to avoid overlaps, so my guess would be

Friday ~7:30

Saturday ~2, ~5, ~7:30

Sunday ~2, ~5

The Sunday games will be interesting, directly competing against Sunday football could hit viewing figures hard.

Wonder what times the South Africans prefer

Tigerandahalf

awec wrote: »

I guess they will want to avoid overlaps, so my guess would be

Friday ~7:30

Saturday ~2, ~5, ~7:30

Sunday ~2, ~5

The Sunday games will be interesting, directly competing against Sunday football could hit viewing figures hard.

I wonder will teams be given choice re times for their home games.
I'd say Ulster would hate to lose the Friday night home game.
At least they should try to have a consistent time for home games if possible.
Fans wouldn't be happy to pay for a season ticket if games were on at various times from week to week.

I wonder could some games be broadcasted at the same time. Sitting down on a Friday night to watch Edinburgh v Zebre wouldn't have much appeal.

Wheeker

As someone who refuses to pay for TV when 99% of what I watch is available for free via Saorview & Freesat, what are my options to watch PRO14 in 2018/19? I'm living in RoI with Virgin Media broadband. As an Ulster fan I've been spoilt to-date with virtually every Ulster match being available via BBC2NI on Freesat.

I will be able to get TG4 & FreeSports for free via Saorview & Freesat respectively, but that's only 2 matches a week. I had assumed I could subscribe to the Premier Sports online Player (GBP£9.99 p.m.), but this is geo-locked & unavailable in RoI..... I suppose VPN may be an option? Looks like I can't get Eir Sports at all, even if I took Virgin Media TV. So I would have to switch to Eir or Sky & pay an additional €27.50 p.m. for EirSports- seems v.expensive! EirSports has no online web stream like Premier Sports? Very disappointing.... :mad:

Wheeker wrote: »

As someone who refuses to pay for TV when 99% of what I watch is available for free via Saorview & Freesat, what are my options to watch PRO14 in 2018/19? I'm living in RoI with Virgin Media broadband. As an Ulster fan I've been spoilt to-date with virtually every Ulster match being available via BBC2NI on Freesat.

I will be able to get TG4 & FreeSports for free via Saorview & Freesat respectively, but that's only 2 matches a week. I had assumed I could subscribe to the Premier Sports online Player (GBP£9.99 p.m.), but this is geo-locked & unavailable in RoI..... I suppose VPN may be an option? Looks like I can't get Eir Sports at all, even if I took Virgin Media TV. So I would have to switch to Eir or Sky & pay an additional €27.50 p.m. for EirSports- seems v.expensive! EirSports has no online web stream like Premier Sports? Very disappointing.... :mad:

Well, the whole point of Eir Sport is to get people to switch their broadband provider over to them, why not do that?

ionapaul

I guess a lot of us are locked into 12 month contracts with Virgin, etc... I know we have at least 6 months left on our contract and anecdotally Virgin nail you to the wall if you break your contract early.

irishbucsfan

Have my broadband through my employer so no choice for me. I’ll have to use Premier Sports

Hurrache

Former Former wrote: »

Well, the whole point of Eir Sport is to get people to switch their broadband provider over to them, why not do that?

Better deals, speeds and packages with other providers. Plus the aforementioned issue of people already being locked in with contracts.

As an Eir BB subscriber, I'm pretty happy with this news. All Pro14 rugby and all European rugby rolled into my BB subscription is pretty sweet.

Being able to hook up my old Sky box and watch in proper HD is nice, even if there are no pause or record features. The Eir Sport app via Chromecast is OK too (again, no live pause).

All in all, an OK outcome.

Wheeker

Former Former wrote: »

Well, the whole point of Eir Sport is to get people to switch their broadband provider over to them, why not do that?

Well I suppose historically NTL/UPC/Virgin Media has always had much faster broadband than Eir(com). I'm on 240mb at the mo with VM whereas Eir can only offer up to 100mb. But yeah, I hear you, switching to Eir looks to be my only option..... Having said that I've always had an IP "landline" phone from VM- I've no traditional landline connection so I may have to pay for a line installation as well......

Wheeker wrote: »

Well I suppose historically NTL/UPC/Virgin Media has always had much faster broadband than Eir(com). I'm on 240mb at the mo with VM whereas Eir can only offer up to 100mb. But yeah, I hear you, switching to Eir looks to be my only option..... Having said that I've always had an IP "landline" phone from VM- I've no traditional landline connection so I may have to pay for a line installation as well......

Nothing historical about it, Virgin still has much faster broadband than Eir.

The Specialist

People switching to Eir for this deal are in for a nasty surprise - you will never come across a more incompetent, utterly useless shower of bastards. Once they have your cash, good luck getting anything resolved with them.

Streaming all the way for me anyway, they will never get another cent of my money no matter what tricks they pull.

Wheeker wrote: »

Well I suppose historically NTL/UPC/Virgin Media has always had much faster broadband than Eir(com). I'm on 240mb at the mo with VM whereas Eir can only offer up to 100mb. But yeah, I hear you, switching to Eir looks to be my only option..... Having said that I've always had an IP "landline" phone from VM- I've no traditional landline connection so I may have to pay for a line installation as well......

Do you need 240 MB though? I switched from Virgin 240 to Eircom up to 100 (usually works out 90+) and haven't noticed any discernible difference.

Pretty much every house in the country has an Eircom line, it only needs to be activated.

The Specialist wrote: »

Streaming all the way for me anyway, they will never get another cent of my money no matter what tricks they pull.

When people just steal what they want, everything is bad value in comparison.

The Specialist

Former Former wrote: »

When people just steal what they want, everything is bad value in comparison.

The Specialist wrote: »

Sign up to Eir and let us know if you're still using the word "value" in about 3 months

Signed up 6 months ago...
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=105739926&postcount=215

Still very happy with the decision to move.

irishguy1983

Being with EIR 2 years - great value for money...Sky have better TV platform but in terms of bang for your buck EIR is the best...