I've been building up to today's match by trying to watch the Bournemouth game. There are several problems with this:
1. The screen is too small. Why is it such a narrow thin strip of a screen? There is no depth to the action. In other words, if a player gets the ball by the touchline it is not possible to take a look into the box to see where he may play the ball. This makes the match difficult to follow. This problem is still there even if the screen is enlarged as the picture does not expand, it just gets larger.
2. The quality is not very good in general. It's difficult to see the players' numbers, let alone their names. I don't see why this should be the case as the quality is better than this when I stream a match live on the interent.
3. Sitting down to watch a whole match on the computer is hardly ideal. I have my computer attached to the TV by an HDMI cable so normally I drag the picture across to the TV for a match. Using player however this just makes the quality even worse.
Does anybody else attempt to watch the whole match on Player? Does anyone on here have anything to do with the service e.g. are you one of the commentators?
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I stopped subscribing last season (due to Emma's commentary) but have just started again. I was hoping that I'd also be able to watch the games this season without a magnifying glass.
from twitter. You're supposed to be commentating on the match".
I tweeted him something similar in the fist half, but it didn't stop him.
Don't mind them filling in the gaps in play with some chat (although reading out twitter profiles is about as uninteresting as it gets) but you could hear from the crownd noise hat they were talkig about frigging twitter instead of the match - there were at least two attempts on goal that he had to recap the commentary on because he was too busy trying to up his followers count.
I'm going to start a thread for the commentary now.
The threads gone off topic, that's all. It wasn't Finchy that was doing it was the main commentator, Jamie Reid.
It sounds like unecessary bitching but he read about 30 different people's twitter profile's throughout the game - he obviously decided before the game it might be a fun way to promote some user involvement and fill some dead gaps in the game, which is fine but he went a bit OTT and was definitely doing it when there was match action to describe.
While a good commentator can make a game come alive in comparison to a poor commentator (and I don't think Jamie is a bad commentator at all, when he sticks to the job in hand he does a nice job) I would always say it's important that they remember they're a commentator not a DJ or chat show host and therefore focus on describing the match - after all, the Player subscribers do so to listen to the match, not specifically Jamie Reid or Emma or Finchy or whoever.
Good commentating should always include a bit of discussion and opinion but it should be when there's nowt happening and should stay on the subject of the match imo.
No problems at all with Finchy's performance today.
Could we please keep this thread to the subject of WATCHING the games on Player please?
jimmy this thread might answer a few questions for you....
http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/42631/commentary-on-the-charlton-bournemouth-game#Item_22
That said, those of us who are actively involved in the content put on Player are going to continue to try and improve and increase the service as much as we can week in, week out.
We were dealt this hand, but we'll do what we can to make the most of it and feedback to that extent is always welcome both on here or to charltonlive@gmail.com.
As for who's responsible, who sees the revenue/fees etc, lord knows. That one is way above me.
I agree with all of this LFE.
Lots of room for improvement.
Liam: is there no-one you can ask about this?