Guinness Pro 14- Tv Viewing Options

BeardySi wrote: »

Not sure it's been mentioned but Virgin Media in NI (and presumably the rest of the UK) have Premier Sports as part of their standard packages (I'm on their minimum TV package and I've got it!).

I'd resigned myself to having to watch most of the season on crappy streams till i realised that! Happy out now

It's only free for two months it was added to our VM package as a retention sweetener when the U.K. tv channels left vm in July

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/28/premiership-rugby-clubs-join-forces

Clubs in England coming together to sort out their financial losses - with no note on how to sort it.

You do wonder if the home nations should come together and form their own league.

thomond2006 wrote: »

So Eir are not showing Ospreys vs Edinburgh live on Friday night, instead Cardiff vs Leinster is live on both ES1 and ES2. Ospreys vs Edinburgh is deferred. I thought the idea was that all Pro14 games would be shown live?

The eir sports app shows that same game on eir1 and eir2.

thomond2006 wrote: »

I thought the idea was that all Pro14 games would be shown live?

Nope, as discussed earlier.

EIR are showing all the games but not all are shown live

white_westie wrote: »

Just wondering have you investigated this option yet?

I am waiting until games actually start.
Hopefully some NI based poster (or Welsh) might have signed up for the Premier Sports App and will give a review of its quality etc.

So far, I think most NI based viewers are saying they will be viewing Premier Sports as part of their TV package!

I have used a paid VPN before and have had absolutely no issues with them (for the love of god don't use a free one) The better ones are about €10 if you pay monthly or sign up for the year for €70-80

It is important to get a paid for one as it wont throttle your speed (as much) Virgin gives me 100mbps, you need a lot of this to stream live sports in decent quality.

I signed up for Premier Sports for a month and it seemed to be fine streaming some random Nascar stuff at the time. Sound sync was about 1 second off which is annoying watching someone talk, but in the context of watching a match, it should be fine.

I haven't tried Rugbypass yet

You can easily cast the app to TV via chromecast.

Winters wrote: »

I toyed with the idea of just getting the broadband (40pm) and using the Eir Sports app but wanted to be able to record and also you cannot easily (if at all) cast the app to your TV so im happy I went for the TV package as well.

The app if fully compatible with Chromecast, they even make a big song and dance about it on their website.

Is Freesports available to viewers in ROI only via Freesat and Freeview (DTT via an aerial) for those who can receive Freeview via N. Ireland or Wales?

Henry Ford III wrote: »

I don't find the picture quality very good tbh. That's either from a p.c. or high end android phone via the Eir Sport app.

Heard others say the same but I've never had any issues with picture quality, streaming constantly at atleast 720p

I've looked at the Eir vision box too, but you're paying all that extra money for channels that are 90% FTA anyway. Only advantage I see is recording the Eir Sport channels.

MJohnston wrote: »

They're still way, way behind Virgin Media in terms of broadband quality though, for most parts of Dublin. Fibre-to-the-home might change things, but that's not really available here. Personally rugby alone just isn't enough to get me to switch away from the stability and speed of VM's broadband to the flakiness of Eir.

Think that's why they may do well in Dublin now - the fibre to the home (took the engineer about 6 hours to run the cable underground across the estate:D) is superb, on a par with VM, so far!

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Anyone have the settings for Freesports HD? I've found the SD channel, but I can't find the HD one.

I don't think freesports is available in hd yet on freesat. They were testing for a while but it never launched on schedule. There are pretty crap games on freesports anyway and if not in HD the picture is worse than tv3.

Buer wrote: »

Have done the same. Went from Virgin to Eir. Gain the Eir/BT sports packages and multiroom whilst still saving €330 for the year.

The missus will be thrilled when she discovers I have 5 live Pro14 games this weekend to watch.

hence the multiroom! - you are not alone!