Quote from: armaghniac on September 15, 2011, 03:40:14 PMQuotebut I'd prefer not to have to pay the $29.99 PPV price Setanta are attempting to charge
Don't be such a tightwad. Sit down with a decent connection and enjoy the game rather than fiddling about with dodgy streams. How can the GAA make any money from TV rights if everyone robs their broadcasts?
Ah cop on.
I pay into every Roscommon game I can possibly get to and pay my tv license, the same license that pays for the vast majority of the GAA's media coverage. Why would I, or anyone else, want to pay for anything twice at that price? If international rights mattered all that much in monetary terms to the GAA they wouldn't have given a defacto global monopoly to Setanta outside the island of Ireland.
Not only that, but Setanta only seem to show GAA in SD, whereas if I wasn't out of the country at the weekend I'd be able to watch the finals in HD on Saorview - a good stream is going to be a step beyond anything Setanta can offer, in terms of analysis, commentary and picture quality.
People are going to stream it either way and $29.99 for a bad presentation of something that's free to the vast majority of people watching it doesn't set anyone's pulse racing.