Nup you can chrome cast to your tv. Also works with Apple TV, web browser and Fetch TV.

It's pretty bloody good when you consider it includes every single game plus all the other programs around it for a full month for $15. Plus it will lead into next EPL season without phone lock in contracts etc.

I'd really like to see more sport on there tbh.  If it's not a Saturday night, there's little I actually watch on it sports related.

Even international cricket, rugby, second tier leagues, hurling... the their winter olympics coverage with 7 was alright, but the Commonwealth games was a terrible experience with ads randomly coming in over medal ceremonies

I think that will come - not sure why the Optus deal for cricket doesn't use the Optus Sport app but yeah, it shall come.

So no one can tell me why the Optus EPL coverage is so impressive? Just because it's not foxtel? Fair enough. 

It will also be $15 for EPL apparently.

Why? You don't need to do that now anyway. Im with Vodafone and when they open up this offer in a couple of weeks I'll just sign up via the play store. I already have the app from last year's August free month and it was awesome!

I'd say it's based on the amount of content they put out.

The games are the same, but they have a dedicated channel just to show repeats of the games, reviews, highlights, news and other shows with guests.  Overall it is fairly alright and considering we were going to get the NBN we decided on Optus for the football and it's been worth the money.  There's a bunch of crap on there, but overall it's not bad.  You can also access Netflix and Stan if you're really desperate for entertainment.

Or you can get a Chromecast which costs like $50 and you can instantly stream at a press of a button from your phone without ever having to get up and link the laptop to the tv. 

Come on it's a one off $15 fee for a full month's worth of content for the biggest sporting event in the past 4 years. If people are deciding whether it's worth it then this is the least of their worries in their lives. Saving $15 elsewhere on "luxury" items should be very doable. 

Oh I know. I have Fetch TV. I just think their overall coverage leaves a lot to be desired and feels a bit cheap. No Australian analysts or points of view,  endless goal montages, absolutely no content other than EPL. I can't believe people are actually "impressed". Foxtel was a million times better. 

Yeh I agree.  I often feel like i'm just watching a syndication (and I know I probably am).  Closest thing i've seen them do to what you described was to have Michael Bridges and Mark Schwarzer tour a British jersey shop recently.

I do hope more content is coming soon but I signed up for the live premier league, and that's what I got, so i'm happy.

Other than to talk about aussie players (the very few that there are in the EPL), why would it matter if it's anchored by aussies or not? I'd rather listen to the locals dissect and analyse the games tbh. Bigger tv personalities anyway. 

I wouldn't want to watch NBA and all the pre and post game by some aussie crew for example. I'd rather listen to local Americans as it's their league.

I dunno, I'd much rather listen to Bozz than, say,  Alan Curbishley. The Foxtel crew could be entertaining all on its own. I also liked the discussions about Australian football as it relates to the European leagues. Now all the analysis is hopelessly dry, boring, and completely England-centric.  And there's barely any content apart from the epl replays. Other than the actual live games, I just don't get any use out of Optus sport. It's far from impressive. 

I've got the chromecast dongle but it's the app that needs the casting ability built into it. Does the optus app you'd stream this on your phone with have the little chromecast icon in it?

And $15 is cheap as chips. 

Bargain

Was gonna upgrade my phone with Optus but this has kinda pushed that decision back...

Fair call I guess. I don't feel as repulsed as you. At the very least they have some serious pre and post game discussions that last a lot longer than 15-20 minutes. I found when games were on late in the evening on Foxtel the crew would shut shop at half time because it was too late to have a post game review with interviews at 2am. That's the main issue I have with an Aussie team presenting here. 

Yes it has Chromecast capability. I've done it many times previously. Ie it has the little chrome cast icon to project to the large screen.

Chuck it up on the screen on a satty night and watch it till you fall asleep data free. 

Yet people are wanting it on foxtel so we can go back to extortion and data charges. 

Fuck that shit.

Thing is $15 a month for the EPL is probably too much. With the big club's channels  - United, City, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal -  you get all the big games each week, albeit delayed by 10 hours. With most of them in the middle of the night, and SBS having one of the Saturday games you still get a lot. 

I also wonder what this means for SBS's game. If Optus have all WC games now, they don't need to do another deal with SBS for the next WC after the current deal expires in a years time. So no more EPL outside of the Optus paywall...? 

Theyll give them one game and at the cost of shit tonnes of optus ads so thatll be fun. 

Optus also cconfirmed that they've extended their EPL deal for a further three seasons - source

Cheers mate.

People were whinging when Foxtel had the EPL, seems like they're now also whinging about Optus having  the EPL.. 

how? I remember trying to watch the foxtel stream and it would be dogshit. At least with optus we are acutally getting the full UK stream, post-game shows, highlights, updates.

Trying to catch up on the EPL when foxtel had the right was a fucking nightmare. Mooy's in half the fucking EPL ads on optus lol.

you obviously don't watch it. They usually have Ian Wright, Alan Shearer, Tim Sherwood(he has mentioned Ryan and Mooy quite a lot.. ), ex-players, etc.

You ever watched Bill & Boz? its the most cringeworthy sports show I've ever seen.

Can you watch matches on catch up ? 

Yes. 

Yep Optus Sports, Bein Sports and NPL on youtube/Facebook streamed via chromecast and you have so much football content for less than Fox.

Are they coming to New Zealand?

It's the ENGLISH premier league, not the A League. Do you just moan for the fuck of it ?