Originally Posted by batdude_uk1:
“It is all well and good boasting about this, but how long will it be until we actually get some proper details about how they plan to show all of the matches?
Unless they plan to have a red button service, or a way to watch all of the matches at once, and make them recordable, then I just don't, or won't see why people should be celebrating, as it will be a lesser service than we have had previously.
BT had better find some way to actually answer these questions, otherwise this will be a huge loss for the consumer.”
Well it doesn't help when (at time of posting) BT were only awarded these rights 84mins ago and people like you are acting BT better explain EVERYTHING about how they plan to cover the Champions & Europa League otherwise it's the end of sports broadcasting as we know it. It's likely that they haven't been able to sit down and explore in-depth their options in covering the group stages, what pundits they should get to cover the significant increase in games, etc.
The right's don't begin for another year and three/quarters, so I'm sure within due course of July/August 2015 - BT & us the viewing public will know fully how these games will be covered and shown besides the info we know
today.
Originally Posted by batdude_uk1:
“But how is that a step forward? We can at the moment (on Wednesday's at least) watch all the group stage matches, all at once, will this be possible via BT?
What about the Europa League? Will we be able to watch all of the group stage matches all at once?”
1) Being a smartass for a minute, you can't actually watch all eight Wednesday Champions League games at once. You can see all eight games on the Match Choice screen (if you can get the 'Red Button' service) but you only get audio of one of those games at-a-time
2) A Match Choice service has never existed for the Europa League.