Category Archives: Livestreaming

Where to watch livestreaming of the World Cup Cricket

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World Cup 2011 on Willow TV

I'm watching the World Cup at Willow TV

The World Cup starts tomorrow. Time for you to choose where to watch the games online.

I have written several posts about cricket livestreaming and I am not going to repeat myself and rewrite them here. You can just go and check the category page for livestreaming to get some background on Willow TV and ESPN Player.

Because for this World Cup, it was one those two who were going to get my money. (Check out this post if you want to know why I don’t like those peer-to-peer livestreaming sites.)

Willow TV vs ESPN

As you may know, I have been a big fan of Willow TV for some time now, but I also love the high quality ESPN Player offers.

To me, when both livestream the events I like to follow, it has always been a matter of choosing between Willow TV’s multi-platform (now including PlayStation, Google TV, etc, etc ..), multi-channel livestreaming combined with an awesome on demand service and ESPN’s top notch quality, which allows for decent full screen watching.

But I haven’t had to debate this subject with myself this time. It was settled from the moment Willow TV promised a glorious 3mbps livestream for the World Cup.

Willow TV added extra quality to the mix and I was sold.

Money, money, money …

Well, until I saw the price they asked for their World Cup package: a staggering 95 Euro (129 us dollars) … Compare that the 14,99 Euro to watch the entire World Cup at ESPN and suddenly there was a whole new argument on the table: money.

Don’t get me wrong; the complete package Willow TV offers is probably worth all that money. It really is an impressive set of features, but I won’t use all of them and the World Cup doesn’t mean that much to me.

So all this means I subscribed to ESPN Player? You’d think so, but no. I made another switch and eventually went for Willow TV’s Blockbuster package for 2011.

Blockbuster

It is a great name for a great deal: the World Cup package and a monthly subscription for the rest of 2011. The price: 147 Euro.

No small sum indeed, but I would have probably subscribed to their monthly package anyway, which would have cost me about the same.

A win-win situation for me.

How about you? How are you going to watch the World Cup? Are you going to watch it online at all? Are you willing to pay for it?

Livestreaming of the Ashes on web, mobile and iPad

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screenshot from Willow TVSince the start of the Ashes I have been getting a good of deal of traffic from people looking for information on livestreams.

I have written several posts about where and how to watch live cricket online and to make it easier to find the most useful posts, here is a summary of those posts and an update on cricket livestreaming on the iPad.

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BBC offers the best coverage of the County Championship climax

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I am not a big fan of county cricket, but this year’s finish is quite exciting, with Nottinghamshire, Somerset and Yorkshire still in the race to claim the title.

As I am writing this, we’re well into day two of the final round, and I want to make sure you’re following the action at the BBC, who offer the most comprehensive live coverage of what happens at the different grounds with text updates, wicket alerts and seven audio livestreams.