Match Day Thread Chelsea v Southampton, Saturday 17th, 3pm BT PPV

I still use the provider from a year or so again - similar to Saints Player - they all use the same provider in the main anyway.

Since the restart I have now Sky & BT Sports and have watched it all on that. This weekend though I will be using my daughter's NBSC Sports sub (well through the Hulu app) through my point to point VPN to their house in Atlanta though. If that fails I fall back to IPTV

 

My son, myself and, I think, Dave had problems for that game.
I have used it for the England games against Belgium and Denmark, so keeping my fingers crossed that the problems are now solved.
I was wondering if Sky/BT have the ability to block specific areas, ie Southampton, as Chilco has been watching games I couldn’t get, but he is in Somerset.

 

Me to, I usually stumble on a free stream whilst surfing the net.

 

Whoever edited the title it's on BT PPV not Sky.

 

Seems simple to me, get somebody to pay for it, get the feed up on a pc and then screen share through Zoom or MS teams to a few other people. cost for a group of people would be about a couple quid each

 

I think the issue is they get your ISP to block known streaming sites at DNS level so it is not the channel, but the server that gets blocked. A VPN gets around it to I use a smart DNS provider https://www.smartdnsproxy.com to make it look like my DNS requests are coming from the US so the channels work natively (ie NBSC Sports/CBS etc) from their apps (if you have a log on to them) and also it means my ISP can't block the streaming sites for me either as I bypass their blocks.

I would recommend the smart DNS as it doesn't slow down your speed like a VPN does as it just changes your location for the request to view the site/stream. If you have a friend in the US that happens to have a subscription to the sites then you can use their logon as well so you will never have to worry about Premier league blocks.

 

IPTV, or TVID Pro as it’s now called, comes with its own VPN, so it usually gets round it. I noticed the other day that even though I was watching a Sky channel, the adverts were obviously Irish, so it must have automatically switched to Sky Ireland.

 

What a load of gobbledygook that was. I didn't understand a word of any of that. Why don't they just put it on the ****ing BBC?

 

Those were the days. Ignore the result all day, walk over to the TV (pre remote control days) and press the no1 button. Play with the coat hanger aerial on top to get a good signal and settle down to one match from the day on Match of the Day. Realise is isn't Saints and wonder what the score was as there is no internet.

 

I used to go down to the Echo office in London St in Andover at about 6:30 pm, and wait for the van with the Sports Echo in, with a report of the match.

 

Or stare for hours at ceefax....I remember when ceefax was regarded as witchcraft.

Btw...why did my phone decide that when I typed ceefax I must have meant Cretaceous!!!

 

Even I remember watching the 'goals go in' on Teletext as it ran through the pages.

 

Those were the good ole days, Kids don't know they were born.

 

I was confident on this one as Chelsea's defence isn't great and they have been inconsistent at best. I don't think Lampard knows his best XI. Especially with their new keeper injured and neither of the others fancied. Less confident without Armstrong and Djenepo, however fingers crossed.

 

Hate to be pedantic, but few remember being born and so it could be argued none of us know we’re born we just take it on trust.

Sorry. Saints to win 2-0 again, if a comment on the game is allowed!

 

I hate to be pedantic but I don't think it was said that people remembered being born just that they didn't know they had been born. To know and to remember are two quite different concepts I have no memory of my birth but I do know I was born as that is a scientific fact and anyway my Mum told me about it and as we all know Mums never tell lies.

 

Let’s call that a late equaliser and leave it there. There’s a rumour that this thread was about something else, although God knows what it was!

I wonder if this fan lock-out is getting to all of us. This behind-closed-doors stuff just doesn’t cut it. I need to spend my afternoons watching a game with people supporting a business that doesn’t know we exist. The distance afforded by TV makes it all a bit sterile. I’m starting to see the players as passing through highly paid mercenaries.

 

Blimey that takes m back to winter Saturdays in Netley. Watching the game up the rec, home for tea and then down the newsagent to get the Pink. My dad used to phone in the report from the game from a call box and it was in the paper when I collected it 90 mins later. Who needs fast internet?!

 

To go off topic, Lawro has us down for a loss

 

Yup, been having issues with it either freezing or just refusing to load. Gave up watching the Denmark game at half-time because it kept freezing. However, it sounds like I had a lucky escape there
Going down to see the ex in Somerset this weekend so may try the Saints game on the iPad to see. I think it’s my internet provider at home who just happen to be Sky (and they’re feckin useless .... looking to change but, of course, it’s impossible to actually speak to anyone to register a complaint these days ....)