Re: end of sky and RL? : Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:17 am  

Aren’t the Bulls are meant to be looking at streaming games next season via subscription with Mr Gledhill commentary? Wondering how much per game and what the quality will be. Has someone who can’t travel far it could be an option if cheap enough, can always turn the volume down too

[Bullseye]

Re: end of sky and RL? : Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:20 am  

Think that's the plan. Think Mick is a decent commentator too. Better than the bloke at BCB who can't get the player names right.

Re: end of sky and RL? : Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:45 am  

Mick's commentary has always been brilliant. I'd sign up if he were commentating.

[Bulliac]

Re: end of sky and RL? : Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:03 am  

If the games are still shown on BulsTV as well as live then yes, I'll gladly sign up for that. I go to far more 'live' games than I miss though, so streaming isn't something I'd be over bothered about.

Re: end of sky and RL? : Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:12 am  

If I could have a trial of the streaming first, I may be interested. After the god awful quality of the RFL's streaming of England games though, I wouldn't be willing to sign up properly until I'd seen the product.

Re: end of sky and RL? : Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:28 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

If I could have a trial of the streaming first, I may be interested. After the god awful quality of the RFL's streaming of England games though, I wouldn't be willing to sign up properly until I'd seen the product.

This mornings RFL stream of the Women's Rugby League World Cup opener was disappointing.

Re: end of sky and RL? : Thu Nov 16, 2017 3:01 pm  

MicktheGled wrote:

This mornings RFL stream of the Women's Rugby League World Cup opener was disappointing.

It was farcical at start. Repeating adverts for Concerts,missed about 25 mins of first half before they got it sorted. However after that it was ok, decent commentators,replays of incidents.Better than Sky commentary IMO.

Re: end of sky and RL? : Thu Nov 16, 2017 3:18 pm  

MicktheGled wrote:

This mornings RFL stream of the Women's Rugby League World Cup opener was disappointing.

Not surprising in the slightest, but that also likely shows that it's not just sheer weight of traffic that caused the issues with the previous England men's games. With the greatest respect to the Ladies, I doubt they had anywhere near the same numbers watching that game, especially on a weekday morning when most of us are at work.

The technology is only worth paying for if it works. Something the RFL's last attempts at streaming seem to have forgotten.

Re: end of sky and RL? : Thu Nov 16, 2017 4:06 pm  

The problems the RFL had this morning were with the servers in Australia, so a degree of sympathy.

Re: end of sky and RL? : Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:38 am  

Technology is a funny thing. First you have the race to the top such as a few years back, everyone had to have a banging full spec hi-fi to listen to their music, or lately the latest Ultra Mega UHD OLED VOLED ZOLED 6 metre TV.

But the people abandon listening to music properly in favour of tinny earphones, awful radio reception and speakers and streaming; and choose to watch films on a mobile phone.

If you could stream a match so that it was in HD and generally of comparable quality to the latest HD at least, then it may be a way forward, but the present shakiness and poor quality of most streaming is unattractive to me.