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How did England’s online-only qualifier pan-out?

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Posted 12th October 2009 at 2:07pm by Jonathan Leggett

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Saturday saw Capello’s Lions capitulate for the first time in a competitive fixture since the Italian took over the national team. But while the team were misfiring on the day, going by my experience at least, our broadband network held out rather well in the face of the all-out assault on bandwidth.

Just Like Being There

Using my BT 8Mb landline connection, pictures were as clear as my TV. And on the one occasion that the connection did go down, it was back up within 40 seconds or so. Better still was that all I missed as a result was Sven Goran Eriksson’s platitudinous non-analysis.

It’s hard to know how far my happy experience was replicated for the 300,000 or so fans who were estimated to have shelled out to see the game. But judging by some of the complaints registered on messageboards, not everyone’s enjoyment was so unimpaired. Complaints range from grainy pictures to garbled commentary. Meanwhile, for their part rights holders Kentaro claim that there were no major issues on the day.

Either way, with experts agreeing that online-only broadcasts will become more and more common in future, it definitely looks like we’re going to have get used to this kind of thing.

How was it for you? Was England’s sub-far performance ruined further by slow streaming speeds? Or was your experience a much happier one? Let us know in the comments section below.

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  • Tom, 12th October 2009.

    I'd be interested to know if many people watched or tried to watch it on a mobile broadband connection?

    And if so, how was it? and what provider they were with?

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  • Jeff, 14th October 2009.

    I used mobile broadband and gave up after about 20 minutes. Anyone know if there's a chance of a refund from Perform?

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  • Barri Winstanley, 14th October 2009.

    Nope... I would not pay to watch. In fact not having football clogging up my TV was probably the only good thing about this idea.

    and here is a note to any other sports... you do the same thing and you and your advertisers will be ignored.

    Too mnay people trying to cream the ordinary man in the street.. not me mate!

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  • Paolo, 15th October 2009.

    Well we'd bettere get used to having to watch sport this way. I reckon it'll be especially common for niche sports where there's no call for a TV broadcast.

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  • Matty, 16th October 2009.

    I had a 'mare! The players faces were so pixellated you couldn't tell who they were! It was as if they were criminals who'd given evidence against thier old mates ! LOL!

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  • Bren Birkett, 15th November 2009.

    You're just asking people who tried to watch. What about ones like me that know there's no point as I can't even watch BBCi player on an evening or weekend only through the week.
    Once it gets to the evenings and weekends it just keeps buffering as my connection slows right down.

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