I read the comments while I waited for the ads to finish, and thought, well, the ads are running perfectly, perhaps the cricket will as well. Of course, it was utter cr@p. Shan't bother again. Only did so this time because I forgot to set the recorder. At least with a recording I can skip the ads, & watch whenever, and keep the recording for as long, as I like. Has anyone at 5 ever used iplayer?
I was using Google Chrome and like many of the comments, quality was poor, so switched to IE and I have to say the improvement was marked.
What browsers are you guys with poor quality using?
With regard to the freezing issue, I have found that if I pause for more than 5 minutes, I too see this issue, however, if you close the browser and re-open, the playback will at least resume from point last viewed.
Yes there are bugs and no it's not great, but at least we are able to watch the cricket, which at the end of the day is the most important thing.
Well done Channel 5 for buying the rights - at least I don't have to pay for Sky, which I think is destrying access to our national heritage.
Took about 90 minutes to watch a 45 minute broadcast due to the regular pauses in transmission. As others have noted, the adverts seemed to work well. Picture quality not good.
The usual unreliability that I have come to expect from Channel 5. The don't seem to be interested in fixing their technical issues to allow everyone to watch their programmes online on demand, instead all they do is get their moderator to remove tetchy comments complaining about their bad technical skills and show adverts followed by 'freezing' cricket with a bad picture! I wish the commentators and summarizers would read this - not everyone is able to watch the cricket highlights at 7pm (if they are working for instance), so having the chance to catch them later online is very handy. So a message for Mark Nicholas - the next time you are waffling on about the Channel 5 website on the highlights package, why don't you try experiencing it for yourself before extolling its virtues - it's not the great user experience you make out. I really don't think Channel 5 give a hoot about getting this sorted.
Comments (20)
11 months ago
gary
do not get pauses like this on bbci player even when you watch it live. give the cricket to the bbc player 5 this is wrong
11 months ago
Tony
Watched the ads and then got: This video stream is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Error Code: VE_FMS_CONNECT_FAILED What's the point!
11 months ago
CB
I read the comments while I waited for the ads to finish, and thought, well, the ads are running perfectly, perhaps the cricket will as well. Of course, it was utter cr@p. Shan't bother again. Only did so this time because I forgot to set the recorder. At least with a recording I can skip the ads, & watch whenever, and keep the recording for as long, as I like. Has anyone at 5 ever used iplayer?
11 months ago
Cmonst
I was using Google Chrome and like many of the comments, quality was poor, so switched to IE and I have to say the improvement was marked. What browsers are you guys with poor quality using? With regard to the freezing issue, I have found that if I pause for more than 5 minutes, I too see this issue, however, if you close the browser and re-open, the playback will at least resume from point last viewed. Yes there are bugs and no it's not great, but at least we are able to watch the cricket, which at the end of the day is the most important thing. Well done Channel 5 for buying the rights - at least I don't have to pay for Sky, which I think is destrying access to our national heritage.
11 months ago
Steve Berry
Took about 90 minutes to watch a 45 minute broadcast due to the regular pauses in transmission. As others have noted, the adverts seemed to work well. Picture quality not good.
11 months ago
Richard
Wife refuses to allow cricket if she is awake in the house so this is my lifeline, but it isn't working!!!!!!!!!!!
11 months ago
pahoehoe
what adverts? I don't see any
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11 months ago
Ade
I can't get it to work at all!!!!!!!!!!!
11 months ago
jay
poor quality, the highlights need to be given to someone who knows what they are doing.
11 months ago
Peter
Excellent quality on my PC, thanks 5 :)
11 months ago
400 not out
The usual unreliability that I have come to expect from Channel 5. The don't seem to be interested in fixing their technical issues to allow everyone to watch their programmes online on demand, instead all they do is get their moderator to remove tetchy comments complaining about their bad technical skills and show adverts followed by 'freezing' cricket with a bad picture! I wish the commentators and summarizers would read this - not everyone is able to watch the cricket highlights at 7pm (if they are working for instance), so having the chance to catch them later online is very handy. So a message for Mark Nicholas - the next time you are waffling on about the Channel 5 website on the highlights package, why don't you try experiencing it for yourself before extolling its virtues - it's not the great user experience you make out. I really don't think Channel 5 give a hoot about getting this sorted.
11 months ago
Jamesisapayne
This is incredibly poor quailty. adverts play fine but the cricket stutters and ive seen more pixels on a c64 game. not a good advert for c5
11 months ago
ROBERT DUKE OF R ICKMANSWORHT
ADVERTS ARE GOOD PICTURE. CRICKET POOR
11 months ago
Harry
ENGLAND SUKS. Joke loool
11 months ago
Stephen
So where is it? All I get is adverts for cars - stop advertising and give me some cricket! I do not want to buy things!
11 months ago
Bob
Any news on when this may be available?
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