A round-up of the action and highlights of the fourth day's play as England take on the West Indies in the Third Test at Edgbaston. Commentary and analysis by Michael Vaughan, Geoffrey Boycott and Simon Hughes.
I honestly don't think C5 care about their viewers. I reckon we are a mere after-thought as why else would they provide such a rubbish On Demand service? I would say it works successfully about 20% of the time. Interestingly, C5 are happy to subject us to the biggest load of bollards in terms of advertising yet when it comes to programme content or even trying to view clips of Yozzer interviewing Flower et al, it's technical issues galore! I do wish they would sort this out, it gets frustrating continually typing the same complaints into these comments pages without any redress. I would love to read the comments were it says 'This comment was removed by the moderator' - if you are reading moderator, leave them in and don't censor us, it is probably just a bit of bad language which I am sure no one on here objects to. And for God's sake, sort out your On Demand service!
This really is poor. I've only just had the chance to watch this and have been treated to a William Hill gambling advert 5 times - and have only managed to see 3 balls of the cricket.. I don't know what this says about the state of current cricket. Pretty self-explanatory really... BAH HUMBUG!
so posting a comment means I have to watch the adverts again.... brilliant.....Better to provide nothing than this, at least then people wouldn't have the false security that they don't need to set their recorder.
Pkayed fine for first 10 mins, then keeps sticking, don't think it's my connection as I don't have any such issues with bbc iplayer. Does this not buffer at all? A download option would help. As it stands, it's unwatchable. I would refresh the page but then I'd have to sit through the adverts for the nth time.
So, I watch the adds, then it freezes on the first frame of the cricket. So, I watch the ads (again), then it freezes on the cricket. So, I watch the ads (once more), then it freezes on the cricket. And so on... You get the point.
Sort it out C5.
I think this is a great service, to get these highlights online in a couple of hours is a great achievement, especially as play was still going at gone seven. People forget that in the BBC days we got half an hour's highlights at about one o'clock in the morning! Respect due.
Comments (18)
11 months ago
Player 1 Is Dead
I honestly don't think C5 care about their viewers. I reckon we are a mere after-thought as why else would they provide such a rubbish On Demand service? I would say it works successfully about 20% of the time. Interestingly, C5 are happy to subject us to the biggest load of bollards in terms of advertising yet when it comes to programme content or even trying to view clips of Yozzer interviewing Flower et al, it's technical issues galore! I do wish they would sort this out, it gets frustrating continually typing the same complaints into these comments pages without any redress. I would love to read the comments were it says 'This comment was removed by the moderator' - if you are reading moderator, leave them in and don't censor us, it is probably just a bit of bad language which I am sure no one on here objects to. And for God's sake, sort out your On Demand service!
11 months ago
Ben
This really is poor. I've only just had the chance to watch this and have been treated to a William Hill gambling advert 5 times - and have only managed to see 3 balls of the cricket.. I don't know what this says about the state of current cricket. Pretty self-explanatory really... BAH HUMBUG!
11 months ago
Bruce
The only time I can watch the highlights is off-peak (during the day). In the evening it freeze-frames. Can someone from 5 tell Mark Nicholas?
11 months ago
andrew
come on c5 lets see if you can stop this freezing
11 months ago
andrew
still the same watch 10mins then it freezes
11 months ago
DAN
c5 is crap
11 months ago
dan
yeh ch5 talk nah
11 months ago
dan
so posting a comment means I have to watch the adverts again.... brilliant.....Better to provide nothing than this, at least then people wouldn't have the false security that they don't need to set their recorder.
11 months ago
Dan
Pkayed fine for first 10 mins, then keeps sticking, don't think it's my connection as I don't have any such issues with bbc iplayer. Does this not buffer at all? A download option would help. As it stands, it's unwatchable. I would refresh the page but then I'd have to sit through the adverts for the nth time.
11 months ago
Salim
Excellent enjoyed the highlights. thanks C.V. on demand 5
11 months ago
TW
Great C5 can now turn around same-day highlights. Theme tune still needs work!
11 months ago
jfsebastian
So, I watch the adds, then it freezes on the first frame of the cricket. So, I watch the ads (again), then it freezes on the cricket. So, I watch the ads (once more), then it freezes on the cricket. And so on... You get the point. Sort it out C5.
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11 months ago
Chris
Bit annoyed they Ch5 have started including breaks in the online version :o(
11 months ago
Harold Pinter's Blow torch
This is a definite improvement channel 5 - well done.
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11 months ago
Orlando
I think this is a great service, to get these highlights online in a couple of hours is a great achievement, especially as play was still going at gone seven. People forget that in the BBC days we got half an hour's highlights at about one o'clock in the morning! Respect due.
11 months ago
N
This is better, channel 5. Much better. Thanks.