How much are you prepared to pay for Football?

[Fredo]

Good question.

I currently just pay to watch our games. I pay via Lfc.tv (£4.50 a month) and Sky when we are playing, if not I'll hook up a stream. I also have the chance to get to 1 or 2 games a year, if I can. I don't watch our games in pubs normally, only occasionally.

You raise an excellent point though, that we are funding a bubble. The society we now live in is one of consumption. The Internet has become a service which we can't do without, but we are not seeing a drop in prices despite the incredible scaling it gives to those companies involved in creating such a product (i.e the Premier League). I see that the PL have warned people now to stop uploading snippets of games from their phones onto YouTube, this to maintain their high prices. It will have to stop at some point.

[OConnor_LFC]

£15 per week seems steep. Do you mean £15 per month?

I think it's good that Sky finally has decent competition. However, the price for Sky Sports and BT Sport is too high (especially for a lot of **** sport).

Yes sorry £15 Per month.

[Catrin]

I'd be ok with £40 or £50 a month if it meant I could watch all our games, home and away, all competitions. Sky charges that and show maybe one or two games a month from us? It'll be more this season because of CL but still not that many. I wouldn't bother watching Hull v Burnley or Stoke v Southampton if it was free so there's no way I'd pay for it.

[dom9]

Good question.

I currently just pay to watch our games. I pay via Lfc.tv (£4.50 a month) and Sky when we are playing, if not I'll hook up a stream. I also have the chance to get to 1 or 2 games a year, if I can. I don't watch our games in pubs normally, only occasionally.

You raise an excellent point though, that we are funding a bubble. The society we now live in is one of consumption. The Internet has become a service which we can't do without, but we are not seeing a drop in prices despite the incredible scaling it gives to those companies involved in creating such a product (i.e the Premier League). I see that the PL have warned people now to stop uploading snippets of games from their phones onto YouTube, this to maintain their high prices. It will have to stop at some point.

You pay for Sky for individual games?

[Fredo]

Yes, in the form of Now TV. It's an Internet based service and costs £6.99 currently for 24 hours. It's in good quality almost HD.

[Fredo]

Sorry it's not for
individual games but it gives you access to all sky sports channels for 24 hours.

[dom9]

7 quid for 24 hours? I'm not sure whether that's a good deal or not. Maybe just about.

[Fredo]

Well providing we are on Sky 4 times per month it will cost me only £28. How much is the normal sky package?

[dom9]

£34

Or

£36

Or something like that

[Darkon]

C/P from the foory streaming thread:

I'm using a service that provide the equivalent of Netflix (series, movies), and for about £20 a month. I get a lot of sports - PL, CL, EL, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, UFC, NHL, NFL, Tennis and other stuff - don't watch it all obviously, but it's there...

All I can see and all legal. It's online streaming, so need something between it and my tv, aka laptop, playsation etc.

I think it's a finde price for sport, I don't mind paying for it, I would however think that about 40 - 50 is my limit for ALL the above.

[BobTheCharmer]

Tomorrow I will be paying the £6.99 to watch on now tv, otherwise if I go to pub it will be £20 wasted. Only **** thing is the lead from tablet to TV which works for films doesn't for Now TV. So I have to watch on 10" screen.

[dom9]

C/P from the foory streaming thread:

I'm using a service that provide the equivalent of Netflix (series, movies), and for about £20 a month. I get a lot of sports - PL, CL, EL, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, UFC, NHL, NFL, Tennis and other stuff - don't watch it all obviously, but it's there...

All I can see and all legal. It's online streaming, so need something between it and my tv, aka laptop, playsation etc.

I think it's a finde price for sport, I don't mind paying for it, I would however think that about 40 - 50 is my limit for ALL the above.

Is that a Danish service, or is it available in the UK?

[Darkon]

As far as I know it's Scandinavian company. It's named Viaplay, might have somthing similar in the UK, I don't know tbh.

[Fredo]

There's also BeIn sports which provides a similar service. I know G has it.

[Fredo]

Tomorrow I will be paying the £6.99 to watch on now tv, otherwise if I go to pub it will be £20 wasted. Only **** thing is the lead from tablet to TV which works for films doesn't for Now TV. So I have to watch on 10" screen.

Get yourself a Roku. It's got NowTV as an app on it, and you connect to your TV via an HDMI cable.