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Years ago

Rogue websites on AFL's radar

Beantown - when your team is not being shown live and if I can get it online I will watch it via that medium!

Surely a big firm like SportingPulse who now supports not only BA but also FIBA with website and stats technology could come up with something. Even more so considering they are Australian based!

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Beantown

Years ago

LC, sorry, but I find it hilarious that with the amount of time AFL gets on FTA you can't get enough football! Oh for basketball to get one quarter of the coverage football gets!

Agree about Foxtel. Their problem is that they package things up so that you are forced to pay for a bunch of rubbish you don't want. If I could just choose the sports channels and maybe the History channel and a couple of intl news services (BBC/ CNN) for more like $30 a month, I'd have done it years ago.

I really hope someone runs the numbers on an internet NBL service and can find a way to make it commercially viable in the next few years. Most things I hear suggest they probably can't for the moment, but I live in hope!

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Years ago

I access online TV feeds where it is not available also, hence my original post.

I don't subscribe to Foxtel as the cost is prohibitive and all I really want is AFL, cricket and of course basketball.

NBA Broadband is fantastic and well worth it. I am a big supporter of the FIBA TV initiative also. But there is nothing for AFL online (that I know of), and the cricket either. therefore when it is not live on FTA, if it is being streamed online somewhere I will check it out and watch.

Even with the Foxtel, many NBL games will not be broadcast at all. The NBL could do worse than explore an NBA Broadband type solution.

On the weekend I checked out Justin.TV for a few AFL games not being shown on TV live, and all the AFL feeds had been shut down.

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Beantown

Years ago

HO, interesting to hear that bandwith in Oz is so expensive. Is this due to lack of competition or something? Or is it the limitation of existing infrastructure? Or a bit of both?

I'd love to see the NBL eventually do something like NBA broadband, but I'm not holding my breath for it!

I'm one of those people who will use pirate streams where no other service is available, or if I don't really care enough to want to pay for something.

But I have to say, I really want to see internet broadcasting of sports succeed, so I jumped on the bandwagon early and am pretty glad I did, because NBA broadband is a pretty high quality product for a very reasonable price (especially compared to cable TV).

Now that good, convenient music purchasing services exist online, I find myself using those as well. Its great to be able to hear a song online and then go and fork out the money to get a good quality recording if you like it enough. So much better than the old model controlled by mega music corporations!

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Matt Richards

Years ago

Why the fuck would you pay to watch motor sports? If you give me ten bucks a month, I'll take you to the side of the freeway for half a day and you can go nuts.

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Years ago

There is a very easy way to stop/minimise the impact of these such sites.

Offer a GOOD online subscription viewer service. Leagues can do it and charge a small fee - you would be surprised how many people will pay.

NBA Broadband was great last season and very good value for money.

Bigpond used to and probably still does a good job with V8's.

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Years ago

What were the results this week? what players played well?

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