Sky Sports in NZ had Premier League for last few years by ‘hosting’ Bein. You had to pay extra for the Bein part on top of normal Sky subs. Was all fine and meant all comps on one provider with usual high-quality picture. Still had Tyler on commentary sometimes though.
This year, Sky lost the Premier League. It’s retained some Bein stuff, including Carabao Cup, and dropped the extra payment. I think Champions League will still be on Sky, not sure about FA. So I’m keeping it for that.
But to get to the point, Spark Sport now has the Premier League as part of an aggressive play against Sky. It’s also got F1 and the Rugby World Cup - and whoever controls the All Blacks will control the sport market. Sky still has other All Blacks games, at least for now.
Spark is an online streaming platform run by the biggest telco. My first experience was last weekend with the Wham game. It wasn’t flash. Watched first half live before going to bed and picture was okay, but not as well defined as on Sky. Second half when I got up on Sunday was a shocker - glitches and noises and generally like the telly in Poltergeist. I contacted them and they said it was because their feed turned bad and they switched to another one for the other games that weekend and it was okay.
But wider feedback was that there were problems with other games, although that seems to have been more to do with sheeite broadband here.
I have no definitive answers about Spark and I have no choice if I want to do things by the book!
Spark was offering a 7-day trial for free, though not sure how you could get that if overseas. If you can, might be a good way to test it?
Hope that’s of some use.