Very Happy with Sportsmania & FireTV

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:02 pm

Since I have got it all loaded properly and been exploring, I am very well pleased with the advice from folk on here and the beneficial outcome to my TV watching and wallet.

Thanks all. Recommended!

Sky rang today! Bibi.

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:04 pm

is spoortsmania worth it? I have an Android box that is great for TV and Movies, but awful for Burnley matches. Might get half a game at less than standard definition.

bfcmatt · Post by **bfcmatt** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:05 pm

Just here to second sportsmania. It is excellent not had a problem yet.

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:08 pm

They're cracking down on it Ian.

Expect a knock on the door soon by gentlemen in shades......

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:10 pm

bfcmatt wrote:Just here to second sportsmania. It is excellent not had a problem yet.

Can you still subscribe?

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:22 pm

ElectroClaret wrote:They're cracking down on it Ian.

Expect a knock on the door soon by gentlemen in shades......

Absolutely zero chance of gettin caught. Their server is in somwhere stupid like nigeria. The liklihood of being linked to a subscription is slim to none. Ive been using SM 3 years

CombatClaret · Post by **CombatClaret** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:27 pm

cutsy123 wrote:Absolutely zero chance of gettin caught. Their server is in somwhere stupid like nigeria. The liklihood of being linked to a subscription is slim to none. Ive been using SM 3 years

Covered this a little in the VPN thread yesterday. Your ISP knows every server you connect to because they're the ones who do it.

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:29 pm

CombatClaret wrote:Covered this a little in the VPN thread yesterday. Your ISP knows every server you connect to because they're the ones who do it.

Good luck to them haha. Millions of people illegally stream and download

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:33 pm

Isn't it only illegal for the company or persons to provide the service and not to stream it? The same argument was made when Napster users were taken to court by PRS and set a precedent if i recall.

CnBtruntru · Post by **CnBtruntru** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:44 pm

Foshiznik wrote:is spoortsmania worth it? I have an Android box that is great for TV and Movies, but awful for Burnley matches. Might get half a game at less than standard definition.

I think that is more to do with your location!

CnBtruntru · Post by **CnBtruntru** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:45 pm

ElectroClaret wrote:They're cracking down on it Ian.

Expect a knock on the door soon by gentlemen in shades......

Matrix springs to mind!

Pearcey · Post by **Pearcey** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:47 pm

Has anyone got sportsnation? Can't get sportsmania at the mo.

CombatClaret · Post by **CombatClaret** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:51 pm

Foshiznik wrote:Isn't it only illegal for the company or persons to provide the service and not to stream it? The same argument was made when Napster users were taken to court by PRS and set a precedent if i recall.

Napster sited fair use as one of their main defenses, but that was for P2P sharing as opposed to streaming.

The person who creates a stream/hosts from a legitimate source is creating an unauthorized public performance. Other sites will then show that stream and there in lies the grey area as linking is a fundamental part of the internet and not in of itself illegal.
Most will actually respond to DMCA take down requests but that a bit like playing wack-a-mole.

minnieclaret · Post by **minnieclaret** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:53 pm

Is your ISP gonna leak your confidential browsing history?
I'd hope not.

TVC15 · Post by **TVC15** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:00 pm

Pearcey wrote:Has anyone got sportsnation? Can't get sportsmania at the mo.

Yep I have - got it a couple of weeks ago.
Its exactly the same as sports mania - they just have 2 servers they use now. There was a thread on here explaining why.

The quality is great - much better than I anticipated. No buffering or freezing at all.

I paid £17 for a 3 month subscription after trailing it for £4 for one day to make sure it was as good as everybody said (though I should have paid £6 and got it for the week or month...can`t remember exactly)

On the previous thread Claretdom (i think) put on a useful link with the instructions.

CombatClaret · Post by **CombatClaret** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:02 pm

minnieclaret wrote:Is your ISP gonna leak your confidential browsing history?
I'd hope not.

Your ISP won't but now the Government requires ISP hold 12 month of browsing history somewhere on a server a 3rd party is going to hack and dumb a large amount on the internet, It's inevitable.
Even Apple or Google with their huge financial and technical resources can't stop a determined group of hackers, I don't trust TalkTalk are any better at security.

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:08 pm

So it's morally wrong to subscribe to Sportsmania?

Pearcey · Post by **Pearcey** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:15 pm

TVC15 wrote:Yep I have - got it a couple of weeks ago.
Its exactly the same as sports mania - they just have 2 servers they use now. There was a thread on here explaining why.

The quality is great - much better than I anticipated. No buffering or freezing at all.

I paid £17 for a 3 month subscription after trailing it for £4 for one day to make sure it was as good as everybody said (though I should have paid £6 and got it for the week or month...can`t remember exactly)

On the previous thread Claretdom (i think) put on a useful link with the instructions.

What games do you get on it? 3pm Saturday kick offs?

Asbury Park · Post by **Asbury Park** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:20 pm

Is it safe to use a debit card to purchase a membership for this service? Thanks in advance!

TheOriginalLongsider · Post by **TheOriginalLongsider** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:26 pm

Pearcey wrote:What games do you get on it? 3pm Saturday kick offs?

Everything! Ive seen every Burnley match this season, plus F1, plus boxing, plus speedway plus darts.....

When you watch it, as long as you have a good internet speed, it will be like watching normal tv. Occasionally it freezes up, but usually i just have to go back one screen and select the match again if this happens.

bartons baggage · Post by **bartons baggage** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:29 pm

Hipper wrote:So it's morally wrong to subscribe to Sportsmania?

Nah it's morally wrong to subscribe to Sky though.

bartons baggage · Post by **bartons baggage** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:31 pm

Asbury Park wrote:Is it safe to use a debit card to purchase a membership for this service? Thanks in advance!

Yeah it's safe.
Just send me all your card details first though.

Mayoclaret · Post by **Mayoclaret** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:44 pm

Asbury Park wrote:Is it safe to use a debit card to purchase a membership for this service? Thanks in advance!

If you are worried you might think about using a a pre-loaded card (the sort you might have for holidays etc).
I had a bit of cash left on mine so thought I would try it - & it worked fine!

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:56 pm

Asbury Park wrote:Is it safe to use a debit card to purchase a membership for this service? Thanks in advance!

Yes. We have 3 memberships for each room in our house. Even with 3 sticks on the go thers no buffer and everu game in hd

Even if u miss a game its there on demand

criminalclaret · Post by **criminalclaret** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 8:33 pm

cutsy123 wrote:Yes. We have 3 memberships for each room in our house. Even with 3 sticks on the go thers no buffer and everu game in hd

Even if u miss a game its there on demand

Why have you got 3 memberships? As long as it's coming from the same IP, you can use 1 subscription as many times as you want on the same WiFi. I've watched a Burnley game on mg TV whilst streaming another on my laptop

Pearcey · Post by **Pearcey** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 8:47 pm

Signed up and I'm delighted! Call to Sky imminent! Cheers lads.

SussexDon1inIreland · Post by **SussexDon1inIreland** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 8:52 pm

I am overall happy with sportsmania I use it on my smart tv using a web browser on the Tv and watch for example 1500 Saturday kick offs watching here in Ireland and it mostly works have the odd problem but I think that I should get one of those kodi sticks
When my 6 months sub expires I will renew if I can

Asbury Park · Post by **Asbury Park** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:17 pm

Ok, so I've signed up to Sports Nation for 3 months, and just watched the first half of the Man Utd - St Etteine game (via kodi on my firestick) in the best quality stream I've probably ever had with zero buffering. So far so good!

TVC15 · Post by **TVC15** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 10:00 pm

Pearcey wrote:What games do you get on it? 3pm Saturday kick offs?

You get pretty much every single game - all sky and BT channels

Pay per view for boxing

All Premier League games - saturday 3pm K.Os and any other time

All champions leagues

American channels like Fox

If you like other sports - american sports or golf etc again you have all that available.

Sutton-Claret · Post by **Sutton-Claret** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:44 am

I would love to get rid of Sky, however I would just miss the reliability of it and the ability to record etc

NRC · Post by **NRC** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:57 am

Can you sign up from the US? My service provider has rumbled I was getting NBC Sports and shouldn't have been as I don't subscribe to TV. It's payment is in sterling.....

Venkys4eva · Post by **Venkys4eva** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 9:11 am

This may have already been covered but do you need a vpn for sportsmania?

I actually have a vpn network but stopped using it because it was to slow for streaming.

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 10:06 am

criminalclaret wrote:Why have you got 3 memberships? As long as it's coming from the same IP, you can use 1 subscription as many times as you want on the same WiFi. I've watched a Burnley game on mg TV whilst streaming another on my laptop

You can only use 1 subscription per device at any one time. They catch on and ban u for life. Ive had mates whov been banned within days of using the same log in on 2 or 3 tvs

Not worth it for the price u pay

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 10:07 am

Sutton-Claret wrote:I would love to get rid of Sky, however I would just miss the reliability of it and the ability to record etc

Every event is saved in an on demand section forever

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 10:08 am

SussexDon1inIreland wrote:I am overall happy with sportsmania I use it on my smart tv using a web browser on the Tv and watch for example 1500 Saturday kick offs watching here in Ireland and it mostly works have the odd problem but I think that I should get one of those kodi sticks
When my 6 months sub expires I will renew if I can

As long as ur registered u can renew wenever. Even before it expires.

aggi · Post by **aggi** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 5:17 pm

Technically it's not illegal to watch (at the moment, post-Brexit there's a chance that will change). This isn't the case for all kodi add-ins, those that use peer to peer which is a fair chunk, are illegal. The issue is it's not clear which is which so use them at your own risk.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:06 pm

Sutton-Claret wrote:I would love to get rid of Sky, however I would just miss the reliability of it and the ability to record etc

I wondered about that too. However, the quality is VERY good and there is a section where past matches are readily available in full. watched Burnley V Chelsea a couple of times since watching it live at the Turf!

I also get BBC Scotland, which is a bonus! (I have the hots for Jackie Bird!)

Question which has just popped into my head - can I get Claretplayer on my Firebox?

Mayoclaret · Post by **Mayoclaret** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:34 pm

IanMcL wrote:I wondered about that too. However, the quality is VERY good and there is a section where past matches are readily available in full. watched Burnley V Chelsea a couple of times since watching it live at the Turf!

I also get BBC Scotland, which is a bonus! (I have the hots for Jackie Bird!)

Question which has just popped into my head - can I get Claretplayer on my Firebox?

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For those who subscribe to CP there is a downloadable app (link below) so you can listen/view it through Android Boxes.

http://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/news ... tions.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:02 am

Got very confused trying to get it on last night! All the help was very technical!

Fretters · Post by **Fretters** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:35 am

I have a fire stick and I'm thinking of upgrading to the box so I have a question for the techies.. is it easy to install Kodi yourself? Once I have that I can easily install Exodus and Sportsmania which is all I'd need. It's £80 for the box without Kodi so I'm wondering if I can save myself £30 by putting kodi on myself.

Mayoclaret · Post by **Mayoclaret** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 1:38 pm

Fretters wrote:I have a fire stick and I'm thinking of upgrading to the box so I have a question for the techies.. is it easy to install Kodi yourself? Once I have that I can easily install Exodus and Sportsmania which is all I'd need. It's £80 for the box without Kodi so I'm wondering if I can save myself £30 by putting kodi on myself.

You can easily save yourself 30 quid by installing kodi - there are loads of video tutorials (eg via youtube) out there. One below is an example. If you can already install Exodus & Sportsmania yourself then you shouldn't have an issue with Kodi installation. Good luck!

https://seo-michael.co.uk/tutorial-how- ... firestick/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Fretters · Post by **Fretters** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 4:43 pm

Mayoclaret wrote:You can easily save yourself 30 quid by installing kodi - there are loads of video tutorials (eg via youtube) out there. One below is an example. If you can already install Exodus & Sportsmania yourself then you shouldn't have an issue with Kodi installation. Good luck!

https://seo-michael.co.uk/tutorial-how- ... firestick/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks

Ordered a fire box from Amazon for £80 then realised it's out of stock until the 28th!

Turfiteclaret · Post by **Turfiteclaret** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 5:57 pm

One quick question. What do you think would happen to BFC if we all stopped paying BT and Sky and watched the coverage via these streams? Any of you salt of the earth "supporters" remember ITV digital?

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:23 pm

Fretters wrote:Thanks Ordered a fire box from Amazon for £80 then realised it's out of stock until the 28th!

I bought mine in Argos for £79. Ready stock at the time

Fretters · Post by **Fretters** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:39 pm

IanMcL wrote:I bought mine in Argos for £79. Ready stock at the time

I'm not desperate for it as I have a fire stick. Going to Argos would involve moving!

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 10:54 pm

Not in Burnley then.

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 8:51 am

Turfiteclaret wrote:One quick question. What do you think would happen to BFC if we all stopped paying BT and Sky and watched the coverage via these streams? Any of you salt of the earth "supporters" remember ITV digital?

Well at least we might see reasonable prices again. Until then, people will find ways to bypass having to watch football shows with Michael Owen and Robbie Savage as experts, when there are cheaper alternatives.

Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 10:35 am

Link to article in the LET regarding Kodi add-ons that could breach copyright laws with a
list of 116 of them.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/ne ... ight_laws/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sportsmania is not on the list, but Exodus is on there.

Caveat emptor ! !

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:11 pm

Fortunately, I only need Sportsmania.

bfccrazy · Post by **bfccrazy** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:24 pm

Heads up for all those with apple devices - you can now download kodi to your ipad/phones etx and get the add ons if you choose to.