They had a little production problem on their main TV channel as well. During the Betis-Barca match, they were trying to be slick in showing the split screens of the other matches they covering (Inter-Roma & OL-PSG) and they managed to miss the precise moment of a crucial goal (I won't say for whom) because their transition graphic animation thingy was on the screen at that time. I rarely watch BeIN for live matches. Do they do this split-screen thing often?
I had technical difficulties too so decided to watch barca game on tv and had other two spoiled with the score updates. Not sure what the point of it was when the full replay is on in two hours. They are just hurting their future viewership.
The 9am SerieA matches on Sunday everytime a goal is scored they break from the live match to show it. Also once Inter-Roma came in it worked great.
beIN doesn't do the "Multicast" very often (except for Sunday morning Serie A). To their credit, each of the 3 matches they were covering were available on their own on a beIN-CONNECT channel. Now, the fact that beIN-CONNECT has it's own issues and so forth is another topic. In principal, however, I like the idea. You have your main English channel multicasting 3 very important matches from Europe and if you don't want the spoilers or don't care for 2 of the games, you can just switch to a specific stream to watch your match uninterrupted. FuboTV viewers could watch 1 game and record the other 2 without dealing with the spoilers. SA www.soccertvblog.com
That's exactly what I planned but beinconnect had issues so couldn't do it. I don't have a problem with them doing it for Serie A 9 am games because those will never be replayed.
I had problems with the Monaco match yesterday on my iPhone.It was not able to load up after multiple tries.
Could be so so many factors. It's the nature of Internet streaming I'm afraid. There's a long way to go before streaming will be as easy AND reliable as the old cable/satellite/dvr model. If streaming were likely to save us all buckets of $ we might be willing to put up with the challenges and growing pains. But do you think the greedy companies are going to let us see those savings? I don't.
But streaming is easy and reliable, so long as the people doing it pay for the infrastructure to make it happen. These errors should not be consistently occurring with connect, and yet they do. I don't have troubles with any of the streaming apps I pay for, including FS2Go which has lesser quality, but I don't experience issues on it the way I do with connect. They just half-assed it and went cheap with it, and then they got lackadaisical people who simply don't care to run it.
You must live in a blessed world. The rest of us have had streaming quality & reliability problems with all the major soccer providers, from time to time. (NBC, ESPN, FOX, BeIN). And if you then add in the oftentimes uncontrollable vagueries of Internet & Wireless speeds that compounds the issue. And I'm not even emphasizing here the ease at which you can turn on your TV to a certain channel... literally 2 seconds after touching the remote you're watching the game. I have no doubt that streaming is the future. But it's still a nascent industry compared to cable tv. When comparing the amount of glitches, drop-outs or complete failures, there's really no comparison yet between the two. I look forward to the day when we can say they're comparable.
Not to be flip, but I've had more problems with cable channels (specifically TNT and TBS) in the past year than with WatchESPN and FoxSportsGo streaming. Those platforms have been tremendous. NBC's pisses me off a lot, so that point is taken.
What problems have you had with TNT and TBS? Before the last commercial before Juventus vs. Genoa started, George Mettelus mistakenly said that "second half kickoff" was coming up.
Freezing, not displaying in HD via Verizon Fios. Even with cable or satellite you're still reliant on connection, bandwidth, hardware and software.
Mettelus is, unequivocally, terrible at being on television. He's always trying too hard to over-pronounce team and player names. His pacing is terrible, and he constantly sounds like he's clearly reading a script, and then you know the exact moment he starts to ad lib. His "commentary" is even more atrocious. He's a nightmare, and I have no idea how he got on a channel as amateur as bein, let alone television period. His only redeeming quality is that I know when he does an opening to a match that one of the actual professionals will be doing the commentary.
Well, NBC embraced Klopp's F bomb with an edited bleeped out version the very next day during pre-game banter and laughter. Maybe beIN should do the same thing. Maybe bleep it out in a promotion of passion or something.
Kinda curious why they're not showing the Friday Ligue 1 match anywhere. Can't remember the last time they didn't at least have it streaming. It's not like they have anything else to show on Connect.
Since BeIn has Serie A rights, I figured this is the best thread for a Guardian article about English commentary of Serie A: https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...lian-football-premier-league-serie-a-language
I think that article explains a lot about why & how the Italians play the way they do and their mentality on the field. By the way some of those Italian terms are also used in South America. I think since there is such a huge Italian population in Argentina they picked up the lingo and spread it all around.
I think it is also kind of interesting that the manager would describe the opponents' play as a symphony,. I know that many decades ago in Colombia they used to call Millonarios a blue ballet when they played. Shows that the Italian culture is more into the instruments and that collaboration (must be due to the history of operas) while in South America it is more dance oriented.
The writer of this mentions he's in the US which means he's subject to Cordero and Bonetti on BeIN, which is about as unsymphonic as commentary gets.
I think it's important to also highlight some of the reflection at the end of that article about stadiums being full and fans singing versus shots of nearly empty stadiums and fans creating less noise. Tim Vickery has commented in the past on the BBC World Football Phone-in that television producers in Brazil often told him that they loved to program English football because the fans were right up on the pitch and were always very loud. Of course, English fans will say that the rising cost of tickets has changed the crowd dynamic and only certain sections now produce the energy. But it's worth noting the multi-use stadiums in Italy mean horrible running tracks that distance the crowds from the pitch also mean TV shots are not going to include fans at all unless a producer goes for a wide-shot or zooms in on a section of the stadium. South America suffers the same fate in many instances. The drama of the spectacle is lost for the TV viewer.
How bad are their Serie A ratings that they choose to show ‘90 in 30’ shows through most of today’s 15h00 CET matches and show Barca play a minnow on both channels, which doesn’t start until 16h15?