World Cup 2007 fears
We are getting worried about the possibility that there may be no-show of World Cup Cricket 2007 here in Holland. We are even preparing our minds for that half-hour highlights (if possible at all). It would be such a shame if we cannot watch it live, considering our love for the game. We thoroughly enjoyed the last contest.
Is it time to turn to the web? I don’t know, at least as yet. I still have faith in the conventional media — the television. Assuming the worst possible scenario, if we were to catch a live webcast (Is there such a thing planned? Does anyone have this kind of info?), we could hook-it up to our TV. Even if it does not work that way, we would be quite happy to put this machine on the kitchen counter.
Update: We called up our Cable television provider and they said they don’t provide hook-up to ARY Digital, the only broadcaster in the country. That’s bad news.
Plan B — Sneha has dug-up some info about P2P internet TV — Sopcast. If you have any others in Europe or the US (or just anywhere), we are all ears. I could even put my 20Mbps fat pipe to some community use. I am also willing to run a list for all those cricket fans, who might be in a fix like we are in now.
The TVU player served me well during the Football WC so I guess they might have something for cricket as well. There are plenty of streaming sites these days so I am sure they’ll try to include cricket as well.
Feb 10, 07 at 23:01Patrix, thanks for the suggestion. We’ll definitely look-it up.
Feb 11, 07 at 15:53For plan B to work, there should be someone who is ready to stream the feed to the internet. I have used p2p player and it works like a charm provide there are enough(??) user online.
I doubt if someone in US/INDIA/UK or any other countries pipe there digital stream to internet over P2P player..
I hope someone does it…..
Feb 21, 07 at 17:05Yes, I am aware of that. Hence my pledge (if in case I get conventional connection), I’ll put it on tap, as I said earlier:
Feb 21, 07 at 17:10I have been looking into this as I am in Malta and the cable company here isn’t carrying it either. Two places online that are streaming it for a cost http://cricketon.tv/ for $15 per match or $149 for the lot. Or http://www.willow.tv/ at $200 for all games. I found willowtv test stream much faster but they are both a bit to expensive if you ask me. If I can’t find anything better I thing I will splash out for a satellite system and purchase a 2 month subscription for 100 euro at from http://www.arydigital.tv/ who are carrying the cricket. But would love to find a p2p streaming system as well but unfortunately for me Malta internet sucks so how reliable would it be?
Feb 23, 07 at 20:02Looking into it further these sites say they are going to have links to live feeds.
http://www.bollystop.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=229
http://www.cricketlivelinks.com/
I am going the satellite route myself as will be gutted if I miss the important matches because my internet connection sucks.
Feb 27, 07 at 11:08We might go the satellite way too, thanks for your inputs, BB.
Feb 27, 07 at 18:06Check for cricketstreamz.com 50$ for all matches
Mar 2, 07 at 11:46