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[LosingNow]

Who would have thunk..

when I was in India, I could not watch any game that was on NEO Sports (due to extremely poor coverage) and watching the WC on Sony-Max was a horrible experience..

Now while I am watching the game on Willow with ability to replay highlights etc (on demand).. look at what the audience in India is going through.

The strange ways of BCCI..

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DTH, cable guys, DD all black out cricket
TIMES NEWS NETWORK / Indranil Basu
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NEW DELHI, May 18: Huge swathes of the population were denied on Friday the chance of watching the India-Bangladesh Test. It wasn't on either DTH platform, Tata Sky or Dish TV. Some cable operators who had signed up were showing the match, but on the whole, few and far between.

Those who switched on DD National to see if the match was being shown there, didn't find it either. When they went a step further and checked out DD Sports, they were in for a surprise.

There was indeed live cricket on show, but India wasn't one of the teams playing. Instead, what they got to watch was the Sri Lanka-Pakistan One-dayer being played in Abu Dhabi.

In this virtual cricket blackout hides a story — the story of a continuing broadcasting mess. While DD has made it mandatory for all private broadcasters to share their ODI feed with it, it hasn't for Test matches.

So, legally, there isn't anything wrong with the match not coming on DD. Otherwise, too, mandatory sharing of all cricket involving India with DD would probably kill cricket broadcast commerce.

But what about the other intermediaries — the DTH players and the cable wallahs? There is no ‘must-carry' clause for them, although there has been talk about it for a long time.

[fineleg]

willow tv streams in india too, right? (if folks want to pay like in US)

[LosingNow]

willow tv streams in india too, right? (if folks want to pay like in US)

FL:
I could not subscribe to Willow when in India for the domestic games...and my hunch is that even this BD series cannot be (someone from India can attest to this)
So unless you have an IP address that identifies you as US-based, it is not possible to watch the stream..

[justforkix]

willow tv streams in india too, right? (if folks want to pay like in US)

the rates are exhorbitant if converted to INR. Also, such high streaming B/W is not affordable outside of work.

[justforkix]

Who would have thunk..

when I was in India, I could not watch any game that was on NEO Sports (due to extremely poor coverage) and watching the WC on Sony-Max was a horrible experience..

Now while I am watching the game on Willow with ability to replay highlights etc (on demand).. look at what the audience in India is going through.

The strange ways of BCCI..

--
DTH, cable guys, DD all black out cricket
TIMES NEWS NETWORK / Indranil Basu
PrintCommentMail


NEW DELHI, May 18: Huge swathes of the population were denied on Friday the chance of watching the India-Bangladesh Test. It wasn't on either DTH platform, Tata Sky or Dish TV. Some cable operators who had signed up were showing the match, but on the whole, few and far between.

Those who switched on DD National to see if the match was being shown there, didn't find it either. When they went a step further and checked out DD Sports, they were in for a surprise.

There was indeed live cricket on show, but India wasn't one of the teams playing. Instead, what they got to watch was the Sri Lanka-Pakistan One-dayer being played in Abu Dhabi.

In this virtual cricket blackout hides a story — the story of a continuing broadcasting mess. While DD has made it mandatory for all private broadcasters to share their ODI feed with it, it hasn't for Test matches.

So, legally, there isn't anything wrong with the match not coming on DD. Otherwise, too, mandatory sharing of all cricket involving India with DD would probably kill cricket broadcast commerce.

But what about the other intermediaries — the DTH players and the cable wallahs? There is no ‘must-carry' clause for them, although there has been talk about it for a long time.

This problem was probably local to Delhi. I got it live in BLR without problems.

I am now able to get Neo Sports after I switched to Tata Sky and the reception is excellent compared to Cable (even with set top box). And with Tata Sky, you get all those features that are there on Willow (replay, interactive stats lookup, changing viewing camera angles among those provided by the broadcaster). With Tats Sky getting more and more popular, Cable monopoly will not last long.

Yes, the commercials disturbance in between virtually every other ball during WC was terrible.

The good news is that Sony is no longer anything related to cricket. ESPNStar has rights to all ICC tourneys till 2015, i.e., guaranteed quality coverage. Also, Eng, Aus series willo be only on ESPN. So, at least year will be fine