http://sportsmania.eu/

http://sportsmania.eu/

what do they offer? 

standard quality:

• At The Races
• Bein Sports USA
• Box Nation
• BT Sport 1+2 + Europe
• Celtic TV
• Chelsea TV
• Eurosport 1+2
• Fox Sports Thai 1-3
• Golf NBC
• LFC TV
• MLB Network
• MUFC TV
• NBA TV
• NBC Live Extra Time 1-5
• NBC Sports Network
• Premier League Pass
• Premier Sports
• Racing UK
• Sky Sports 1-5 + F1 + News
• PPV Channel 1
• BBC 1+2
• ITV 1
• Kids Cartoons Channel
• Sky News
• USA Network

High quality:

• Arena Sports 1-4 (Serbia)
• Astro Supersport 1-3 (Malaysian)
• Box Nation
• BT Sport 1+2, Europe, ESPN + Extra 1
• Celtic TV
• CTH Stadium 1-6 + X (Thai)
• ESPN USA
• Fox Sports U.S. 1+2
• Golf NBC
• NBC Live Extra Time 1-5
• NBC Sports Network
• NFL Game 1-16
• NFL Network
• NFL Redzone
• NHL Network
• Premier League Pass
• Premier Sports
• Real Madrid TV
• Sky Sports 1-5 + F1 + News
• Sports Net 360 + Ontario + World (Canadian)
• TSN 1-5 (Canadian)
• WWE Network
• Willow Cricket
• PPV Channel 2+3
• HBO (US East)
• Random Movies Channel
• Cars
• Club Music
• Gaming
• Hi-Tech
• ITV 1
• Pop Music

Not all channels are live all the time, but usually are as their schedule is very full.

I would give a 10/10 in this section

How is the layout and ways to view?


 On theleft hand side are all the channel options, which are categorized by sports, entertainment etc.. Clicking one will provide a drop down option with all the channels in the that section.

Not the best layout as you would think that all sports related content would reside under the sports section, however channels such as skysports and BT have their own dropdown section, and often I would forget this fact and be scrolling up and down the 'sports' section trying to see where the channel was.

Not only that but the schedule page is not connected at all to the streaming page, causing you to look at the schedule, remember the channels it was showing on, heading over to the stream page and trying to locate those channels - annoying to say the least.

Android and iOS - No app but have a 'phone friendly site'
XBMC - Is supported(have not tried)


I would give a 7.5 - 8/10 in this section

So does it work?

Yes, however I have no idea where (which country) it is getting streamed from, and there is only one option for each channel. I have watched many a-game with no problems and some times games stop (for only a second) a couple of times in a match.

Is it watchable 100% yes... that is the short answer

I would give a 8.5 or 9/10 in this section

How much does it cost?

1 day pass - £4
1 week -  £6
1 month - £12
3 months - £17
6 months - £26
1 year - £50

this is a hard one to rate, compared to something like footyreport this is over-double the price.
However the content is much more than footyreport offer.

AND most sites are either down or not excepting new subscribers. So for what is available at the moment this is a good price.

I would give a 9/10 in this section

 Final Say:

So far this seems to be a nice site following in some ways in the footsteps of footyreport - being in the lower end of the price range.
Yet also having alot of content reminding me about some of the other more costly services out there.

They do have however a lot to learn about the layout.

My final rating would have to be a 8/10

MAJOR WORLD CUP UPDATE!!!

Ok so I have been enjoying the world cup thanks to plus1hd every match has been on (channel 15 720p, channel 2 and 5 480p).

But decided to go onto footyreport to check out their coverage, and was shocked to find out that not all the games where on!!!
(When they where on they showed them on channel 13)

So if you have footyreport (or anyother site subscription / or haven't but want one) sign up to plus1hd for a month and get all the world cup games.

Sky Sports 5

"Sky today announces good news for millions of its customers ahead of the new football season with confirmation that Sky Sports is to launch the first-ever television channel dedicated to European Football.

Sky customers should visit www.sky.com/2yearsfree on June 12 to activate Sky Sports 5 and register for two years’ free Sky Broadband Unlimited.
Sky Sports 5 will screen up to 600 live European football matches next season featuring some of the best players, the best teams and the best competitions. Sky Sports 5 will be the seventh channel from Sky Sports and will be the home of European Qualifiers, UEFA Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey for Sky Sports viewers, plus a host of other European football programming including Revista De La Liga and Champions League Weekly.
  For the first time Sky Sports will also offer exclusively live coverage of Holland’s top division Eredivisie. The new 4-year deal announced today will bring live matches each week to Sky Sports 5, enabling viewers to follow the domestic campaigns of the Netherlands’ top teams including Ajax, Feyenoord, FC Twente and PSV Eindhoven.

Sky customers will be able to register for Sky Sports 5 from June 12 via red button, online and by calling Sky. In a further bonus, Sky Sports customers can also get two years’ free Sky Broadband Unlimited worth £7.50 a month. This, Sky’s best ever broadband offer, means people could save up to £330 – and get the great value of Sky’s totally unlimited broadband with no usage limits and no extra download charges."

The first question is why? no one gives things for free.

OK and the answer is simple...  BT Sports has a contract for the next couple of years to show the champions league and Sky Sports don't, so how do you stop a mass exodus? simple, offer something so that people stay such as live coverage of Holland's top division etc...

Sounds good right? No? Oh you don't have the sky package. 

So in that case how does this help you?

The simple answer is we shall see. 

Will all the paid sites that stream sky sports also include this channel?

And the reason that some paid sites lost a a few points in my reviews, was because of lack of content compared to other websites.

 For example the website footyreport did really amazing on the review but one of my only complaints was that games that where not on Sky Sports, BT Sports and ESPN you couldn't see, however on sites like plus1hd you can.

With this addition (if they add it) it will level the playing field between these services, and make some websites a much better option for some people... Either way we will have to wait and find out.

(English) Football!!

OK,

So you wanna watch the game but don't have Sky/BT? or maybe you don't even live in England but love the game.... your stuck right? maybe not, continue reading to find out how you can watch the beautiful game even in HD....

Free options:

there are many places you can stream the game for free but I am not going to get into that, there are plenty of ways to find these sites and you don't need me to tell you where to look.

OK for the sake of this post I'll say two: http://www.wiziwig.tv and http://www.liveonlinetv247.com

now the real reason for this post, the paid ones.

Why would you pay when there are so many free one?
 There are many reasons but the two most important ones are:

1. no more searching for a working link.
2.  You finally found a working link, and it goes down or stutters so badly that you want to change streams, but are scared that this is the best one you will find and you will lose it if you change. We all hate it when watching a game and suddenly the stream goes down.
So how do you stop that from happening?
well one is for the streamers (providing you with the link) to get better/more servers and two is not to overload them.

Better/more servers means more cost - that is one of the reasons these services cost money.... maintenance.

There are two ways a service can make sure that their servers are not overloaded.
1. have many different "links" to one game each from a different server.
2. open up multiple sites running from different servers.

So we want a site that charges.

However finding a reliable site that you can pay (am not saying that it is legal) is hard, the companies don't promote themselves (probably because it is illegal) and often you don't know if the site is good until you have signed up.

So I am going to post up the ones I know and write a mini review on them.

(I cant remember all of them at the time of writing and sometimes wont have time to write a mini review at the time, so expect a list of site names that will grow as I remember more of them, and there will be lots of edits to this post adding in sites and reviews.)

           Links of the sites (links to reviews of each one is is at the end of this post)

Edit: This is all probably irrelevant now. Check out the new post here.

• http://www.streamtvbox.com
• http://uktveverywhere.com/
• http://hd-streaming.tv/
• http://smoothstreams.tv/
• http://www.streamlivesports.net/
• http://live247.tv/fly/
• http://plus1hd.com/
• http://footyreport.net/
• http://www.en.aljazeerasport.tv/
• http://www.247tickets.cn/series/official-english-premier-league-live-streaming-service 
• http://zhibo.ssports.com/
• http://www.beinsports.tv/getbein
• http://www.tvandsportstreams.tv
• http://starstreams.tv/
• http://mystreams.tv 
• http://livespud.com/

                Reviews:

ww.hd-streaming.tv + www.footyreport.net review

www.plus1hd.com review

www.tvandsportstreams.tv + www.streamtvbox.com + www.offsidestreams.com review

http://www.en.aljazeerasport.tv + http://www.beinsports.tv review

http://livespud.com review