Watch Diamond League, Universal Sport, La Liga $10 a Month: Dish World Subscribers Post Your Experiences Here

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  • cofounder

    wejo

    Member since 08/12/2009.

    9,840 posts. Last post 20 hours ago.
    9 years ago 05/16/2014 6:44pm EDT

    There is now a way to watch Universal Sports (and the Diamond League, World Relays, Boston Marathon, etc), a ton of international soccer and international news, live/on deman, on desktop, ipone/ipad, android and roku for $10 a month via Dish World. Info here:

    http://www.letsrun.com/news/2014/05/live-legal-streams-diamond-league-10a-month/

    I found out Dish World by it being mentioned in another thread.

    Since we haven't used the service except for about 10 minutes this is a thread for people to post about it. We do get a commission if you sign up and our trust is all we've got with you so we want to hear your experiences. There is a 48 hour free trial if you want it.

    One LRC visitor wrote me to thank me for alerting him to the service. I asked him if he had signed up yet and his experience.

    He said, "Works well. The picture quality isn't always really good but it's good enough. Certainly a good deal for the money compared to signing up for cable or one of the dish companies. In addition to watching it on my laptop or iPad I can watch it via my Roku on the TV which is nice."

    I think I'll sign up and watch the La Liga tomorrow and report on that.

  • cofounder

    wejo

    Member since 08/12/2009.

    9,840 posts. Last post 20 hours ago.
    9 years ago 05/17/2014 5:15pm EDT
    re: wejo

    Here's an email from another visitor:

    I watched it on my MacBook Pro. The stream was ok, not perfect. I'm traveling in Colorado now and will watch the Shanghai meet from a faster connection.

    Looking forward to my early breakfast of world class T & F tomorrow.

    Dishworld is a the only way to go if you don't have a home cable subscription to Universal Sports. Because I travel so much and practically live out of hotels, the internet only option is golden for me. And--- I might add, a steal at ten bucks a month.

    If I could say one thing to the young guns on the message board: try to support running, runners, people, and their efforts. Quit trying to tear down everyone. Fair criticism is welcome but don't reinforce the-know-it-all-running geek stereotype

  • Passenger

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 05/17/2014 5:52pm EDT
    re: wejo

    Worked perfectly for me last time and was high quality. I'll definitely keep paying for it.

  • cofounder

    wejo

    Member since 08/12/2009.

    9,840 posts. Last post 20 hours ago.
    9 years ago 05/17/2014 9:06pm EDT
    re: Passenger

    I just watched the La Liga - Atletico Barcelona match on demand on BeIN Sport on Dish World.

    It worked great. The on demand service was flawless. The stream was very good on my ipad.

    I then switched over to Universal Sports to see what it is like and there is some swimming on live now. The stream isn't as good as BeIN Sports. I real quickly found the Doha Diamond League meet and watched the end of the 1500m again.

    One thing I noticed with a much more limited time on Universal is it said my stream was 2 MB/s. When I was on BeIN Sport (the soccer channel) it said 3.6 MB/s. Fishing around the Dish World site I see that BeIN streams HD while Universal doesn't. See this:

    https://help.dishworld.com/entries/23543241-Are-there-HD-channels-on-DishWorld-

    Universal might be maxed out at 2 MB/s but I'll try and find out. If you want to see a great soccer match get the free 48 hour preview (no CC required). Watch the soccer and Diamond League tomorrow and see if you like it.

  • Big Gulps Huh?

    RRRR

    Member since 08/30/2007.

    968 posts. Last post 1 month ago.
    9 years ago 06/11/2014 12:04pm EDT
    re: wejo

    Just wanted to put in the good world for the Dish World app. I downloaded it after seeing it mentioned on LRC, and it's been a great way to watch DL meets. Great to have an affordable option to watch, that doesn't force us to sign up for a new cable provider.

  • Floyd Pink

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 06/11/2014 1:19pm EDT
    re: RRRR

    It's not working out so great for me. I watched the last meet, kind of a crappy video but viewable, but today I am getting nothing but a blank screen.

  • LRC web guy

    erik

    Member since 10/18/2013.

    714 posts. Last post 1 month ago.
    9 years ago 07/03/2014 1:02pm EDT
    re: Floyd Pink

    Just signed up for the Dish Trial. Lausanne coverage just started. Working great so far!

  • Floyd Pink

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 07/17/2014 11:49pm EDT
    re: erik

    I had problems watching the one event (listed above) but since then it has worked fine. The quality of the picture could be better but it beats looking around online and wading through ads etc. everytime I want to watch a track meet.

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