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ITVN Drops Setanta On Demand Service

Started by The Gaffer · 10 months ago

ITVN today announced it has dropped its Setanta On Demand service because Setanta doesn’t currently have rights to broadcast the programming on an ‘on demand’ basis.
“We are hoping to offer a video on demand service in the new season,” ... Continue reading »

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nhfox
2 years ago

This is terrible news. The on-demand service made ITVN very user friendly. I hope ITVN modifies its service so that they make recording possible. In the meantime, I'm going to start writing to my cable company again to pick up Setanta.

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Corey Bingham
2 years ago

I'm keeping ITVN because my roommates love OnDemand with our cable company and therefore don't want DirectTV...this is a huge blow though. I really hope ITVN comes up with some solution for the recording issue...otherwise, I might just buy a dish just for Setanta...

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Anonymous
2 years ago

What a terrible business decision. A fledgling service which has had all kinds of problems with reliability:
(a) low bandwidth giving poor reception on all but the smallest TV sets

(b) buffering unless you have a fairly high speed connection

(c) server outages at the most poplar times for EPL games (Sat mid-morning)

(d) servers down due to maintenance work being done during the day rather than through the night

In all, ITVN is a terrific idea, but the execution is extremely patchy. To develop OnDemand without having secured the rights is just plainly foolish. Also, apart from occasional messages from their VP Sales, Fabian, in the ITVN forum, users are left to figure out for themselves when there are technical problems. At the very least they should indicate on their site when they are having problems. This may not be good for attracting new business, but at least they might stem the tide of current users abandoning them.

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