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ESPN broadcast blurry

It's not a solution for everyone, but I find that the ESPN+ feeds end up looking crystal clear, oddly enough, when you watch them on Hulu. This assumes you have the Disney bundle, of course.

The actual feeds are fine, but they look subpar too often on ESPN+, whereas on Hulu, it's golden.

That's what I'm doing right now for the Caps-Leafs game.
 
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Whoshattenkirkshoes said:
How do they get away with it? Why do we have to watch this
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My best guess is that they’re metering upload and ESPN+ Mega Platinum 4K will cost $10/month once they have the infrastructure to support it.

How they get away with it? How does Comcast get away with their prices? They were once successful and have sat on that success for a long time,
 
Whoshattenkirkshoes said:
How do they get away with it? Why do we have to watch this
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Because Disney is a soul sucking monopoly.

Up until the mid 90s a company couldn't own half of entertainment.

I can't remember the details, but I know it's just been a downward spiral since the late 1990s.

It was most immediately felt in the music industry but it's spread as a handful buy up everything.

There's no where you can spend your entertainment dollar that doesn't end up in either netflix's/disney's/amazon's pocket. I mean I'm sure you could literally name CBS or whatever but I wouldn't hold my breath, it'd be odd if we have more than 2-3 entertainment conglomerates in 2030.
 
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its more than likely on your end. I, along with most people, have zero issue streaming the NHL or anything else, on ESPN+ and i stream ESPN+ far more than any other video service.

When the season started I would occasionally have issues but then stopped using wifi and all the issues went away. So again its more likely a problem on your end
 
Not really sure what the problem is without an image
Is it just that the streaming rate is slow?
 
3074326 said:
Interesting. I've watched a lot of hockey on ESPN+ and I've never had blurry video.
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Someone mentioned successfully getting better quality depending upon app used (Hulu in that case). Mine has been on Xbox One and PS5, both crap. On my iPhone it tends to be higher quality if I recall correctly. Perhaps it’s application based.
 
I might get a blurry stream for 20-30 seconds at the start of streaming, but it clears up. That’d be the case for me for every streaming service. As such, my guess is that the issue is on the end of the OP’s connection.
 
Dr Beinfest said:
Someone mentioned successfully getting better quality depending upon app used (Hulu in that case). Mine has been on Xbox One and PS5, both crap. On my iPhone it tends to be higher quality if I recall correctly. Perhaps it’s application based.
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This could certainly be the case. As with my 20-30 second blurriness, it’s only ever on one roku device. Everything else works great on my WiFi.
 
I have yet to watch a game on Hulu that remains clear the entire game, it's become so ridiculous and annoying that I hardly bother with legitimate methods of watching anymore because going down other avenues is quite frankly a better viewing experience the vast majority of the time. It's been a real disappointment.
 
I was watching Buffalo/Islanders the other day (Buffalo Feed) and they put up the commercial screen during the local commercials early in the third and forgot to take it down for a good 6-8 minutes of playing time. Not sure if this is an AI or just an underpaid lackey.
 
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Been streaming hockey on ESPN+ for a couple of years (yes, they actually did have it prior to this season but nobody knew) and never have quality issues. On my phone (Galaxy A21) sometimes I'll get buffering but on my TV (TCL Roku) never a problem. And when I'm not hardwired in, speedtest rates my wifi as "Slow", so I definitely subscribe to the theory that some people just have bad connections or device issues.
 
Legionnaire11 said:
Been streaming hockey on ESPN+ for a couple of years (yes, they actually did have it prior to this season but nobody knew) and never have quality issues. On my phone (Galaxy A21) sometimes I'll get buffering but on my TV (TCL Roku) never a problem. And when I'm not hardwired in, speedtest rates my wifi as "Slow", so I definitely subscribe to the theory that some people just have bad connections or device issues.
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I am one of those people that watched the NHL regularly on ESPN+ prior to this season.

The problem that most of the ppl complaining have is that they think their wifi speed is equivalent to whatever bandwidth they are paying for which is never going to be the case. To make it even worse they think they will get that speed regardless of how many other devices are connected to their wifi.

I live alone and have fiber internet but still ran into occasional issues when trying to stream live NHL in HD so I bought an adapter for my Chromecast and ran a wire to my router now everything plays fine

Sure there will be the a blip here and there as with any internet connected device but i would surmise 95%+ of the issues people have with ESPN+, or any other streaming platform, are entirely on their own end
 
sh724 said:
I am one of those people that watched the NHL regularly on ESPN+ prior to this season.

The problem that most of the ppl complaining have is that they think their wifi speed is equivalent to whatever bandwidth they are paying for which is never going to be the case. To make it even worse they think they will get that speed regardless of how many other devices are connected to their wifi.

I live alone and have fiber internet but still ran into occasional issues when trying to stream live NHL in HD so I bought an adapter for my Chromecast and ran a wire to my router now everything plays fine

Sure there will be the a blip here and there as with any internet connected device but i would surmise 95%+ of the issues people have with ESPN+, or any other streaming platform, are entirely on their own end
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It's not just that. I watch TV through Bell fibe, and yes, there is the very occasional blip, but other than that, every station, and every other feed for an NHL game is smooth, clear, and with good sound. If the feed is through ESPN, it's crap.
 
Jamason said:
It's not just that. I watch TV through Bell fibe, and yes, there is the very occasional blip, but other than that, every station, and every other feed for an NHL game is smooth, clear, and with good sound. If the feed is through ESPN, it's crap.
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A few ppl mentioned ESPN streams watched through HULU are much better quality for them than watching through ESPN. To me that says for whatever reason ESPN uses a lot more bandwidth than other services
 
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