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[spursfan77]

More games today including two big ones will be a real test. I’m surprised they didn’t put the Merseyside derby on a different day to our game.

 

[KILLA_SIN]

Amazon hire out their server to third parties, A previous company we had franchise with which was a Billion turnover business itself was building its platform on Amazon servers which it rented. So I don't believe they will struggle with demand

 

[Timbo Tottenham]

I’ve just noticed that our game isn’t in UHD

 

[tototoner]

So overall went very well, this is a communication our company ( Virgin Media) got on how it went, one for you techies out there

1 . Traffic - The 6 game event last night included 5 teams in top 6. It added a net 5 Terabits or 50% to our base peak traffic load between 8-10pm. This equated to 600K concurrent customers vs 350K on Tuesday. We had forecast 6 Terabits vs Amazon's 9. There were no gaming updates this time. Substitution was observed on Netflix with ~20% reduction in Netflix traffic during the games

2. Network - performance with internet peers and in the Core was good bar Amazon incorrectly driving some of our traffic to Europe and back into UK. The access network showed increased congestion from Tuesday rising from 5 to 8% of total VM customers, concentrated in ~ 1/3 of the network. Liverpool had the highest. The impact of this congestion is mainly a degradation in picture quality and format e.g. HD to SD

3. Customer experience - Amazon saw no major issues with our customer base and viewed it as big success. Our 10K customer Broadband test panel showed speeds reduced by ~ 8-15% during the event with the higher impact to top tiers. Amazon have still to give us bitrate information for last night but our estimate is 10% Ultra HD, 80% HD, 10% SD based on Tuesday's data. NB On both Tuesday and Wednesday in shared Amazon War Room BT have been called out by Amazon for significant problems affecting customer experience

 

[Spurs 1961]

The problem is you can’t record games like on Sky as they assume no one works

 

[nailsy]

The problem is you can’t record games like on Sky as they assume no one works

Extended highlights are available shortly after the game finishes. You can watch the entire match from midnight. All options are still available now.

 

[dagraham]

Extended highlights are available shortly after the game finishes. You can watch the entire match from midnight. All options are still available now.

It’s not really the same though. It’s rare that I’ll be able to settle down to watch an evening game in real time if it kicks off before 8pm. It’s just very handy be able to watch a match if you miss kick off. Even if I’m 20m late, with some fast forwarding on stoppages etc I can be back to live by HT.

 

[Gb160]

So overall went very well, this is a communication our company ( Virgin Media) got on how it went, one for you techies out there

1 . Traffic - The 6 game event last night included 5 teams in top 6. It added a net 5 Terabits or 50% to our base peak traffic load between 8-10pm. This equated to 600K concurrent customers vs 350K on Tuesday. We had forecast 6 Terabits vs Amazon's 9. There were no gaming updates this time. Substitution was observed on Netflix with ~20% reduction in Netflix traffic during the games

2. Network - performance with internet peers and in the Core was good bar Amazon incorrectly driving some of our traffic to Europe and back into UK. The access network showed increased congestion from Tuesday rising from 5 to 8% of total VM customers, concentrated in ~ 1/3 of the network. Liverpool had the highest. The impact of this congestion is mainly a degradation in picture quality and format e.g. HD to SD

3. Customer experience - Amazon saw no major issues with our customer base and viewed it as big success. Our 10K customer Broadband test panel showed speeds reduced by ~ 8-15% during the event with the higher impact to top tiers. Amazon have still to give us bitrate information for last night but our estimate is 10% Ultra HD, 80% HD, 10% SD based on Tuesday's data. NB On both Tuesday and Wednesday in shared Amazon War Room BT have been called out by Amazon for significant problems affecting customer experience

Interesting.
Some traffic going via Europe and BT basically being shit explains the issues some people were having I guess.

 

[dagraham]

Interesting.
Some traffic going via Europe and BT basically being shit explains the issues some people were having I guess.

I had no trouble accessing the steam or from drop outs. From doing a little digging I think the issue I had with the HDR not working and the weird motion issues were due to the Panasonic Amazon app. Which doesn’t surprise me as I’ve had similar problems before.

 

[Gb160]

It’s not really the same though. It’s rare that I’ll be able to settle down to watch an evening game in real time if it kicks off before 8pm. It’s just very handy be able to watch a match if you miss kick off. Even if I’m 20m late, with some fast forwarding on stoppages etc I can be back to live by HT.

Should remember that this is their first crack at it, the functionality you want is relatively simple to implement and I'd imagine will be implemented if they go big into PL football in the future.
Im not surprised they kept it simple, making sure there were no major fuckups and the vast majority of people got to watch the streams live with no problems was their clear priority.

Should also remember that Boxing Day is the busiest day of the year for internet traffic, so I doubt they'll be trying anything flashy for those games either.

 

[nailsy]

It’s not really the same though. It’s rare that I’ll be able to settle down to watch an evening game in real time if it kicks off before 8pm. It’s just very handy be able to watch a match if you miss kick off. Even if I’m 20m late, with some fast forwarding on stoppages etc I can be back to live by HT.

I thought highlights were available straight away? Watch them, then switch to the real time game maybe?

 

[easley91]

My only issue was BT having an outage at the time of our game, so had to use data via the phone. Even through that what I could watch it seemed fine on the phone. Watched Arsenal Brighton via the Xbox app and was seemless. Tuesday I used the fire tv in another room and that was fine, too. If this is the way football coverage is going then I am happy with it. It's about time every game is watchable in this country anyway to be honest.

 

[Tottenhamboy85]

Im with BT and it was excellent for me.

 

[Gb160]

It's about time every game is watchable in this country anyway to be honest.

It'll require law changes before that happens.
No reason why there won't be a greater choice available though.

 

[Marty]

It'll require law changes before that happens.
No reason why there won't be a greater choice available though.

One of two things will surely happen eventually. Either the 3pm blackout law is repealed or the PL move all games away from that time slot.

 

[Gb160]

One of two things will surely happen eventually. Either the 3pm blackout law is repealed or the PL move all games away from that time slot.

Eventually you are probably right.
Soon? Im not so sure.

 

[Marty]

Eventually you are probably right.
Soon? Im not so sure.

Well we know it won't happen before the current rights period expires in 2022, and I think you're right and we won't see much change in the next period (2022-25) either.

 

[tototoner]

Liverpool 16 Dec and Fulham 30 Dec on Amazon

Watch the Premier League on Prime Video: Amazon.co.uk

Prime Video has two full rounds of the Premier League LIVE and available to Prime Members at no extra charge. Every Premier League club will be featured across the two full rounds.

www.amazon.co.uk

 

[mightyspur]

Liverpool 16 Dec and Fulham 30 Dec on Amazon

Watch the Premier League on Prime Video: Amazon.co.uk

Prime Video has two full rounds of the Premier League LIVE and available to Prime Members at no extra charge. Every Premier League club will be featured across the two full rounds.

www.amazon.co.uk

I look forward to all the "why is my Amazon buffering?!", "this is a perfect stream" juxtapositions