Macho
Striker
If i seen the post earlier i would have mate.
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If i seen the post earlier i would have mate.
Tommy Tolpuddle
Midfield
I'm thinking of signing up to FSS. Do you just pay £40 in full for a year's subscription?
I've only got 10mb Virgin however it is a wired connection directly to my laptop which is hooked to big TV.
Will this will be enough? Don't see the point in upgrading the broadband as Virgin are putting it up to 20mb for free in November anyway.
I've only got 10mb Virgin however it is a wired connection directly to my laptop which is hooked to big TV.
Will this will be enough? Don't see the point in upgrading the broadband as Virgin are putting it up to 20mb for free in November anyway.
Crook Mackem
Striker
would think so, sure it says on their page somewhere that you need 2mb connection.
i just payed mine on the credit card last week, think the 40 quid deal is only on though for a few more days
I get about 6mb and it works fine.
MackemPunk
Striker
£39.99 for a season ticket, £49.00 for a full year.
10mb should be fine.
Crook Mackem
Striker
if yr telly is hd then you can just use a hd cable
otherwise one of these
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most newish tellys have a pc port on the back
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micky_jarrow
Guest
Cheers mate, I have one because I use it to play movies from my laptop on the TV.
PTR
Striker
Sopcast, you mean that chinese spyware app that you gladly install for them?
You can always try it for a month and see what you think. Although you usually lose the "Season Ticket" option if you do that.
£40 a year to watch every Sunderland game is fine for me.
When we play the bigger teams, and therefore we're on the major European Satallites, then yes, you can often find a perfectly good stream (maybe even the same one as FFS uses). But its when we're not playing against the bigger names that FSS comes into its own.
I've never known us miss a league match since I've used it.
I also watch the boxing PPVs, and often watch Sky Sports (1-4 + News) which are on 24/7 as well.
Billy Fish
Striker
That will only play video, you'd need some audio jacks as well for the sound
Crook Mackem
Striker
aye good point, forgot about that
TiredEyes
Winger
Sopcast, you mean that chinese spyware app that you gladly install for them?
Dunno where you get this from but AVAST, Malwarebytes and Spybot strongly disagree with you.
I signed up for a month to trial FSS,
You need a 3Mb connection minimum.
However, I have a 3Mb connection and it buffers occasionally, I'd say you need 5mb connection minimum to be fully confident of not getting buffering problems, especially on the HD streams.
When the games are being streamed via SKY sports HD they are no better than the free HD streams available ... and imo, navigation within the site is poor. I'm interested to see a game when it isn't being shown on one of the major satellite TV channels.
PTR
Striker
There was a lad on here who had a family member who worked for Norton/McAfee.
They looked at this app, and it was just one big data logger that sent info back to China.
Remember, Avast, MWB etc look for known-spyware signatures. Sopcast is an application that you installed knowingly. Its a different situation entirely.
davoak
Striker
Cant see it mate as its wanting me to download something.
This is the pic on mine, full screen (37") from FSS, its obviously not as good as watching sky hd but its still gonna take some beating i reckon
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i refuse to believe it can be beat from any free streams
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PTR
Striker
Yeh, cos I'm always installing applications from totally un-vetting and unknown companies from China, who's sole purpose is to allow something illegal to happen!
Why do you think they provide these applications free of charge?
TiredEyes
Winger
Yeh, cos I'm always installing applications from totally un-vetting and unknown companies from China, who's sole purpose is to allow something illegal to happen!
Why do you think they provide these applications free of charge?
"un-vetted" = those who don't pay Microsoft.
Lets hope you're not using firefox/chrome/torrents/AVG/AVAST/Open Office/VLC player/winRAR/Java/Flash etc, etc.
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Crook Mackem
Striker
Either way, for less than 4 quid a month, you are guaranteed excellent coverage of every premier league match, all box office events, pretty much every other sport, as well as the sky channels 24 hours a day.
No scrambling about or foreign commentary and all with a very very good picture.
Everyone will make their own choice, but having gone down both routes, its a clear decisive victory for FSS in my opinion.
I would suspect most people saying otherwise have never actually used LOF or FSS
No scrambling about or foreign commentary and all with a very very good picture.
Everyone will make their own choice, but having gone down both routes, its a clear decisive victory for FSS in my opinion.
I would suspect most people saying otherwise have never actually used LOF or FSS
PTR
Striker
At least I know who those companies are. There are mainstream providers who have a business model and a community that hold them accountable
Sopcast on the other hand is an app made by people I don't know or understand, and the whole point of the app is to open ports on your PC to allow data to flow between people who wish to illegally pass information to eachother.
No money changes hands, so the people who make it don't get paid in that way - so why do they do it?
I think I know exactly why.
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