Piracy fear forces Premier League to black out Albania

[Fano]

Tring refused contract

Albania has joined North Korea in becoming only the second country in the world where broadcasters have not been invited to tender for live Premier League games as the world's richest football competition does everything in its power to stop TV piracy.

New TV deals in more than 200 overseas nations will earn Premier League clubs more than ?2billion for the three-year cycle from 2013-2016 inclusive, bringing in around ?5.5bn in total from TV when domestic deals with Sky and BT are included.

This cash is largely spent on massive salaries for stars from Robin Van Persie to Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez to Demba Ba.

But the TV deals keep their value only when piracy is kept to a minimum - and imported decoders from Albania have become a major problem in Britain, where it is currently possible to watch Albanian TV's live coverage of Premier League games.

As long as the League do not offer rights for sale in Albania, that problem will cease, although Albanian fans of English football will then be faced with a blackout - unless they acquire their own imported decoders from neighbouring Greece or Macedonia.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/art...k-Albania.html

[pee_bee]

I did not know that the premier league actually payed the players wages. Any country - Albania, Korea ?? - will not lose out on viewing premier league football - courtsey of the WWW.

[karlpowell]

what a load of bollocks ... conax is not hacked so this can only mean piracy from card sharing as the tring package can be viewed on a reasable size dish in the UK but so can sat BG on 23.5 e and they have some prem games, what about sky IT snd sky germany ?

tring are in the shit at the moment and from what I have read on other forums (no idea if this is 100% true) and are having problems paying for there transponders maybe this is why they have not been invited..

[rigsby71]

It's all going down the route of...

card paired to HD box with no way of sharing...

granted there are loads of options at the moment, but it wont last for long if these providers want rights to show Premier League football.

This will be one of the Premier League's main criteria now as it would cut most piracy out.

[cris808]

Once the card/box pairing comes into play the amount of internet streams is going to quadruple.

There will probably be an increase in pay sites like LOF and FSS etc.

IP box servers will also start appearing more.

[marcus1975]

Once the card/box pairing comes into play the amount of internet streams is going to quadruple.

There will probably be an increase in pay sites like LOF and FSS etc.

IP box servers will also start appearing more.

IPTV boxes showing the prem footy will be on sale before the start off next season 2013/14

[excollier]

Oh well, it's only a game.

[karlpowell]

IPTV boxes showing the prem footy will be on sale before the start off next season 2013/14

they all ready are mate , 2 pubs near me use them.

[rigsby71]

I have one of these IP boxes now aswell.

If the sub lasts as long as it's meant to , then it will have been a good purchase.

I got the ADMC , OSN , & JSC Sports for 12 months so have been watching lots a varied sports, not just Premier league foortball.

Have to say, pretty good picture aswel
(a bit like the Tring HD channel)

I even got a vonnets wifi working on it too.

[marcus1975]

I have one of these IP boxes now aswell.

If the sub lasts as long as it's meant to , then it will have been a good purchase.

I got the ADMC , OSN , & JSC Sports for 12 months so have been watching lots a varied sports, not just Premier league foortball.

Have to say, pretty good picture aswel
(a bit like the Tring HD channel)

I even got a vonnets wifi working on it too.

HOW MUCH ?

[marcus1975]

they all ready are mate , 2 pubs near me use them.

What i ment to say at an affordable price.

[rigsby71]

Depends where you get it from.

Of the two places i have seen selling them...

One place has them at ?324.99 (but no OSN Sports but gets Irish tv instead)

The other place has them at ?399.99 (Admc , OSN sports, JSC Sports, Dubai Racing)

I got the OSN option as it has many sports that we in the UK are used to watching like , rugby,golf, tennis, darts, cricket plus more.

So in reality, not much more than a SAT BG card.

[Adam_UK]

Depends where you get it from.

Of the two places i have seen selling them...

One place has them at ?324.99 (but no OSN Sports but gets Irish tv instead)

The other place has them at ?399.99 (Admc , OSN sports, JSC Sports, Dubai Racing)

I got the OSN option as it has many sports that we in the UK are used to watching like , rugby,golf, tennis, darts, cricket plus more.

So in reality, not much more than a SAT BG card.

Can you tell us where you bought it from ? Have been looking around for these boxes with the packages you have.
Thanks

[rigsby71]

Adam_UK.....PM sent to you.

[john evans]

rigsby,can you pm where you bought the box thanks