Comments on: ITVN Announces Setanta Sports Availability

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:56:00 +0000

Now how about getting Dish Netowrk to carring this channel, would that be hard to work out?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:12:00 +0000

Thanks for the reply- I’m prepared to sign up but have only 1 worry – If as customers increase the quality may decrease and bufering will increase, and If I want to cancel my service,**the will bill my CC for $100US** ahhh!! it is pittiful really! That’s my only avoidance for now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:28:00 +0000

Responding to above…
My bandwidth result at http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ varies 1100-1300 kbps. I have only watched up to 20 minutes at a time of…well, I think it was Aussie Rules Football, it wasn’t Rugby or Footie…and I did not get any rebuffering after the first few moments.

Bring on the start of the EPL!

I am still going to try and encourage Comcast to carry Setanta, as the ease of using their DVR, and the multiple tuners on the cable box, allows for a much nicer viewing experience. I am not sure if there are any copyright issues, but I will need to bust out the VCR to record the early Sat games, and this is nowhere near as convenient as the DVR.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:37:00 +0000

Have you watched any matches yet, or TV for extended periods? How is the buffering? What speed do you get when testing your internet connection here: http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/
Thanks so much!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 06:57:00 +0000

Just got my itvn box setup tonight, here are my first impressions...

The menus are clean, but you have to navigate at least 3 or so screens every time you turn on the box, which takes 30-60 seconds for me. It would be an awesome improvement if it remembered your channel so power-on would take you right to Setanta.

The picture quality is definitely acceptable. I am still so happy about getting to see Liverpool's games that even if the picture looks a little more contrasty, and somewhat less sharp, than digital cable, I am very happy with this service. I did increase the stream quality to 1000kbps.

I only have 1.5Mbps DSL, which averages 1.2Mbps on most bandwidth speed tests. I tested simultaneous browsing and downloading while the itvn is on, and browsing was unaffected. Downloading did cause the itvn stream to rebuffer. I am not certain how much buffer the itvn stores, this might be good to know. In any case, I share my connection with my family, so I will definitely be turning off the itvn box when not using it. I also wonder if my service provider will complain if I were to leave this on for extended periods of time.

Small note-- for some silly reason, I expected the itvn box to be wireless network ready. It only has an ethernet input, which will accept an ethernet wireless adapter if you have one.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:30:00 +0000

We should have a topic that people can comment on the service offered……… Yes?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:03:00 +0000

My order is placed – thanks for helping make this happen!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:57:00 +0000

I put epltalk.com in the referral code. I know that isn’t an official referral code, but someone at ITVN will see it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:53:00 +0000

Download at 386kbps? Did you use their speed test at http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ ………. if you did, that may be too slow… I got 4200kbps download, which will be plenty for their 1000kbs stream! Woohoo…. hopefully goes well with my ner DVR.. If you guys have questions, fell free to call them, be friednly and they will answer anything

By: The Gaffer

The Gaffer — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:44:00 +0000

Yup, it's Setanta USA and everything they carry including the English Premier League.

No worries.

Cheers,
The Gaffer