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<blockquote data-quote="Leinster Fan" data-source="post: 990510" data-attributes="member: 76349"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/02/netflix-of-sport-to-target-premier-league-rights-after-uk-launch-dazn" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/02/netflix-of-sport-to-target-premier-league-rights-after-uk-launch-dazn</a>Not directly relevant to rugby yet but if these guys to break into the UK (and generally Ireland by extension) market it could well be. Don&#039;t know much about them, but tbh &quot;Netflix of sport&quot; isn&#039;t a realistic ambition. That said if they do end up getting a sizeable sports package for a fiver a month I might be able to deal with that. At the end of the day likely just another player in an already vastly overcrowded sports market. Streaming has made it far easier for people to consume TV and especially music but is probably going to end up screwing over sports fans because it&#039;s not set up for one player to grab a hold of everything like Spotify and Netflix did.Anyway a while before we see anything like that in rugby I&#039;d say, for now the far more immediate concern is the idiots in charge putting the Six Nations on Sky or BT, which would do irreparable damage to NH rugby. Would cost millions of casual fans and they&#039;re far easier to lose than to win back. It&#039;s not like they don&#039;t have a ready made case study staring them in the face with English cricket post-2005 about what this will do. If it does happen I&#039;ll just go without, it&#039;ll ruin my spring but I&#039;m not getting Sky/BT.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leinster Fan, post: 990510, member: 76349"] [URL]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/02/netflix-of-sport-to-target-premier-league-rights-after-uk-launch-dazn[/URL] Not directly relevant to rugby yet but if these guys to break into the UK (and generally Ireland by extension) market it could well be. Don't know much about them, but tbh "Netflix of sport" isn't a realistic ambition. That said if they do end up getting a sizeable sports package for a fiver a month I might be able to deal with that. At the end of the day likely just another player in an already vastly overcrowded sports market. Streaming has made it far easier for people to consume TV and especially music but is probably going to end up screwing over sports fans because it's not set up for one player to grab a hold of everything like Spotify and Netflix did. Anyway a while before we see anything like that in rugby I'd say, for now the far more immediate concern is the idiots in charge putting the Six Nations on Sky or BT, which would do irreparable damage to NH rugby. Would cost millions of casual fans and they're far easier to lose than to win back. It's not like they don't have a ready made case study staring them in the face with English cricket post-2005 about what this will do. If it does happen I'll just go without, it'll ruin my spring but I'm not getting Sky/BT. [/QUOTE]

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