Fan Activism for charity thread. Tottenham Versus Brighton Nov 1st pay per view.

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will you pay the PPV charge

  • yes

    Votes: 19 17.3%

  • no (inc streamers)

    Votes: 91 82.7%
  • Total voters
    110
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I'll put this on here again.

If you register with smile.amazon.co.uk (or your local equivalent) and do any amazon shopping through that address, amazon donate 0.5% of your order values to the charity you choose on their list.

No idea if the Tottenham Foodbank is on there, but I chose CALM (same as my PPV donation).
Its worth doing either way, and if the foodbank aint on there, maybe someone can point them to it to register
 
Although I was intending to buy, I'm now going to stream. I actually streamed the UFC this evening and it was picture perfect. I recently upgraded my broadband to Virgin Media and it's running at 200mb.

If you've got really fast broadband, streaming is a no brainer IMO.
 
SA96 said:
Although I was intending to buy, I'm now going to stream. I actually streamed the UFC this evening and it was picture perfect. I recently upgraded my broadband to Virgin Media and it's running at 200mb.

If you've got really fast broadband, streaming is a no brainer IMO.
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I think it's more to do with the host than the broadband speed you have. I suspect your UFC stream would have been perfect at 5 mb/s. I think you only need more than that if you want a decent frame rate at 720/1080/4k. And again that will depend on whats being served up to you.

Generally the highest bit rate you'll get on a dodgy stream is 4000Kbps which is 4Mbps. So with nothing else going on on your 200Mbps connection you ought to be able to stream somewhere in the region of 50 of those streams at the same time.

As a comparison, Netflix requires about 17Kbps for their 4K transmissions. So again, according to my maths, without overhead and anything else happening on your connection, you should be able to watch 11 4K Netflix streams simultaneously on a 200 Mbps service.

But yeah, you're right, streams are generally fine, if you can find a good one.
 
Rocket said:
I think it's more to do with the host than the broadband speed you have. I suspect your UFC stream would have been perfect at 5 mb/s. I think you only need more than that if you want a decent frame rate at 720/1080/4k. And again that will depend on whats being served up to you.

Generally the highest bit rate you'll get on a dodgy stream is 4000Kbps which is 4Mbps. So with nothing else going on on your 200Mbps connection you ought to be able to stream somewhere in the region of 50 of those streams at the same time.

As a comparison, Netflix requires about 17Kbps for their 4K transmissions. So again, according to my maths, without overhead and anything else happening on your connection, you should be able to watch 11 4K Netflix streams simultaneously on a 200 Mbps service.

But yeah, you're right, streams are generally fine, if you can find a good one.
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Yep, it was 4000 kbps but I've had broadband in the past with Sky which ran at around 7/8 mbps and it's never been as good. There always used to be some buffering but with Virgin's M200, it's flawless.

If it wasn't for my family members, I'd probably cancel Sky and BT, but my dad sometimes watches the sports and he's not very tech savvy.

Streaming for PPV events is going to be my approach.
 
SA96 said:
Although I was intending to buy, I'm now going to stream. I actually streamed the UFC this evening and it was picture perfect. I recently upgraded my broadband to Virgin Media and it's running at 200mb.

If you've got really fast broadband, streaming is a no brainer IMO.
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Do not bloody buy this game even if you have the money, these basteds shouldn't get away with it
 
SA96 said:
Although I was intending to buy, I'm now going to stream. I actually streamed the UFC this evening and it was picture perfect. I recently upgraded my broadband to Virgin Media and it's running at 200mb.

If you've got really fast broadband, streaming is a no brainer IMO.
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Even your standard Broadband with 40meg Down is perfect for streaming , I have even managed to stream when out and about using 4G!
 

Sky Sports and BT Sport 'want to scrap Premier League's controversial pay-per-view scheme charging fans £14.95-a-match after fans complain about the pricey service'​

www.dailymail.co.uk

Sky Sports and BT Sport 'want to scrap Premier League's PPV scheme'

Both Sky Sports and BT Sport are open to scrapping the controversial pay-per-view scheme for Premier League games, claiming the £14.95-a-match service is 'damaging its reputations'.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

Yes I know only Paper speculation but maybe the protests are getting somewhere. Not seen any announcements re PPV for November.
 
spursmalc said:

Sky Sports and BT Sport 'want to scrap Premier League's controversial pay-per-view scheme charging fans £14.95-a-match after fans complain about the pricey service'​

www.dailymail.co.uk

Sky Sports and BT Sport 'want to scrap Premier League's PPV scheme'

Both Sky Sports and BT Sport are open to scrapping the controversial pay-per-view scheme for Premier League games, claiming the £14.95-a-match service is 'damaging its reputations'.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

Yes I know only Paper speculation but maybe the protests are getting somewhere. Not seen any announcements re PPV for November.
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The annoying is that unless they agree to do it cheaper there will be no legal way of watching and the clubs won’t make a penny.
 
spursmalc said:

Sky Sports and BT Sport 'want to scrap Premier League's controversial pay-per-view scheme charging fans £14.95-a-match after fans complain about the pricey service'​

www.dailymail.co.uk

Sky Sports and BT Sport 'want to scrap Premier League's PPV scheme'

Both Sky Sports and BT Sport are open to scrapping the controversial pay-per-view scheme for Premier League games, claiming the £14.95-a-match service is 'damaging its reputations'.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

Yes I know only Paper speculation but maybe the protests are getting somewhere. Not seen any announcements re PPV for November.
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You know when the tv companies don’t want to make any money out of it that it’s not a good idea!
 
Brian Fantana said:
You know when the tv companies don’t want to make any money out of it that it’s not a good idea!
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They were never going to make any money out of these PPV matches. Everything over their costs would go to the clubs via the PL. All they saw was the bad publicity from the £15 fee that they weren’t even getting.
 
Coys1955 said:
They were never going to make any money out of these PPV matches. Everything over their costs would go to the clubs via the PL. All they saw was the bad publicity from the £15 fee that they weren’t even getting.
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The clubs are using COVID as a way to further agendas they have had for years.
If they were broke I could understand or were giving it to the lower league teams, except they aren’t - spending this transfer window was only down 10% on last year.
 
So apparently they're going to push on at 14.99 despite the boycotts.....

Fuck 'em.... Stream ahoy, me'hearties!
 
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