TennisTV.com

[jazzyfunkybluesy]

Is anyone a member to this new service where you can watch live matches? I signed up but was wondering if they are covering all of the tourneys, excluding the slams of course. Also can you replay a match if it ran live at 3:00 am in you time zone?
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[Luminous]

Is anyone a member to this new service where you can watch live matches? I signed up but was wondering if they are covering all of the tourneys, excluding the slams of course. Also can you replay a match if it ran live at 3:00 am in you time zone?


I was thinking of signing up, How have you found the service?

[TennezSport]

We use the service here to show matches on our store monitors. We have been using the service for a couple of years when they used to be MastersTV only showing the Master events then. Now they have expanded to all of the ATP events and some WTA events from what we understand.

The service is pretty good but the only issue that we noticed is that you have to have a really good access speed like Cable or FiOS to get good streaming. A computer with good video card and loads of memory also helps. If not, you will get a lot of freeze frames and interuptions.

The price has also gone up to $129 from $79 but they are showing more tennis. Hope this helps.

Cheers, TennezSport :cool:

[Luminous]

We use the service here to show matches on our store monitors. We have been using the service for a couple of years when they used to be MastersTV only showing the Master events then. Now they have expanded to all of the ATP events and some WTA events from what we understand.

The service is pretty good but the only issue that we noticed is that you have to have a really good access speed like Cable or FiOS to get good streaming. A computer with good video card and loads of memory also helps. If not, you will get a lot of freeze frames and interuptions.

The price has also gone up to $129 from $79 but they are showing more tennis. Hope this helps.

Cheers, TennezSport :cool:

Hi TennezSport

I hadn't though about speed issues and freezing.Hows the video quality?


Would you say it was worth the price? I still thinking of signing up. :)

Cheers
Luminous

[TennezSport]

Hi TennezSport

I hadn't though about speed issues and freezing.Hows the video quality?
Would you say it was worth the price? I still thinking of signing up. :)

Cheers,
Luminous

Hey Luminous,

The video quality is very good as long as you have the access speed. Looks like broadcast quality. If it's worth the price is really what its worth to you. There are cheaper alternatives like channelsurfing.net but the quality does suffer there a little there sometimes.

Cheers, TennezSport :cool:

[Luminous]

Hey Luminous,

The video quality is very good as long as you have the access speed. Looks like broadcast quality. If it's worth the price is really what its worth to you. There are cheaper alternatives like channelsurfing.net but the quality does suffer there a little there sometimes.

Cheers, TennezSport :cool:

Hi TennezSport,

Thanks for the information, I'll looking to getting it, i'd rather pay more and get the better quality service!

Regards Luminous

[jazzyfunkybluesy]

Yes the TennisTV is well worth the 85 bucks a year. Like Tennezsport was saying you need at least 1 Mbps download speed to have a seamless feed. Not 1 commercial, you can pipe this into your tv if you have svideo or hdmi on your pc. Two of the best commentators Robbie Koenig and Jason Goodall usually driving. More complete coverage than any tennis channel, espn, or fsn. I can recommend.
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[swraman]

hi,

What connection are you guys on to get tennistv.com in good quality?

Maybe im just picky, but I feel like the quality is horrible! They use Flash video now, and it looks TERRIBLE when I fullscreen it. Last year, atpmastersseries.tv used WMV to stream, and it looked decent.

Now with flash the video is trash. I dont know why they have 3 streams; the 450K stream looks like trash, and the 800 and 1MB streams look identical.

And I dont know why they call it a 1MB stream, it uses around 100KB/s, 10x less than they claim which is very deceptive. Im very unhappy with this service.

[TennezSport]

We are using business quality cable access to get our connections. We have a guaranteed CIR locked at 1MB, so we very rarely get any problems. Plus we are using the TOTL NVidia graphics cards with 8G of RAM on card and 4G in the computer. This setup gives us a very clear pic. The only problem we have is when it gets really windy we get signal drops that can be annoying.

This is why I stated that the quality realy depends on your access speed and computer capability and your video card is essential to get the best results. Hope this helps.

Cheers, TennezSport :cool:

[swraman]

wow those are some specs!

I dont think that is my problem though...Im on a ~2MB cable connection with a quad core and a 1GB Radeon 4850 and 4GB memory.

Ive even tried on my less powerful laptop (c2d/nvidia7900/2GB) on a >10MB connection, and it looks the same.

here is what I see when I full screen it...is this what you see and I am just being extremely picky?
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sraman/files/images/tennis.jpg

[TennezSport]

wow those are some specs!

I dont think that is my problem though...Im on a ~2MB cable connection with a quad core and a 1GB Radeon 4850 and 4GB memory.

Ive even tried on my less powerful laptop (c2d/nvidia7900/2GB) on a >10MB connection, and it looks the same.

here is what I see when I full screen it...is this what you see and I am just being extremely picky?
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sraman/files/images/tennis.jpg

Yeah, I see what you mean. Setup sounds OK but what is your CIR out of the 2MB connection??? That is no where near what we are getting for resolution; our is crystal clear with only a little fuzziness on the white lines (which I think is an issue with our monitor).

Cheers, TennezSport :cool:

[swraman]

Hmm...Im not sure what my CIR is for cable, but I know for a fact that I can get a constant speed of at least 700KB/s.
Do you know how much bandwidth your connection actually uses when you stream the live events on the so called "1MB" feed? as i said before, mine uses only ~100KB.

So the fullscreen quality when you watch is not as bad as the screenshot I posted? Are you using default Adobe Flash plugin or something else?

Where are you geographically located?

Sorry for all the questions...tennisTV.com is just about the only online service i pay for, and frankly i think it is one of the worst online services I have used; their "support" is completely useless and just full of default emails.

Thanks
Raman

[TennezSport]

Hmm...Im not sure what my CIR is for cable, but I know for a fact that I can get a constant speed of at least 700KB/s.
Do you know how much bandwidth your connection actually uses when you stream the live events on the so called "1MB" feed? as i said before, mine uses only ~100KB.

I am a bit confused, are you getting 700kbs or 100kbs??? Because we pay for a specific CIR, so we are guaranteed 500kbs to 1MBs.

So the fullscreen quality when you watch is not as bad as the screenshot I posted? Are you using default Adobe Flash plugin or something else? Where are you geographically located?
Thanks
Raman

No, we are getting a very clear picture that we show on a 22" HP and 37" Toshiba monitor. We use the default Adobe plugin but our video card is spec'd for TV quality video for the 37" monitor.

We are located in Northern NJ and have a fiber hub just outside our location, so it's only about 100' to get the cable to us from the fiber hub. Hope you can work it out.

Cheers, TennezSport :cool:

[swraman]

I know my connection can run at a constant speed of 700KB/s; when I download other files I get a constant rate of 700KB-1MB/s.

But when I am watching tennistv, my connection is only using 100KB/s (even on the 1MB stream), according to a bandwith monitor. the video quality also looks like it is about that bitrate.

I guess I will try to use a much faster internet connection and see if it makes a difference. Im not sure where my local hub is that my apartment is connected to =/.