Looking good for me too. Clear, no buffering at all, good audio.

Watching through iPad on Apple TV... Have to say, looking very nice so far indeed...

And just as I say, it crashes... Wait, no, user error, auto lock... Heh...

Anyone know if there's a discount code to get it for $79 or is it only $99 now, unless you had it last year?

Cost me $81.37! The credit card was charged from overseas so ANZ kindly ripped me off with a $2.37 overseas taxation fee on top.

It's $79 if you were an early-bird subscriber last year. $99 for the season if you're joining fresh.

For the sheer volume of games you get, I think $99 is peanuts. And hopefully growth in their support base can be reinvested in the league and product.

Oh the humanity!

Wow, very impressed, quality was fantastic and was not expecting such a dramatic improvement. Only one game down but fingers crossed standards will continue. And if so Apple TV will be on top of the shopping list!!

Buffering was a bit of a problem forme but that is obviously my Telstra internet connection.

Replay working incredibly well for me.

I had issues with the replay randomly going back to the start of the game, or jumping way ahead.

Quality was great though.

I watched replay And paused at half time and it wouldn't work again so I had to restart and get back to cheerleaders shaking something!

Quality felt like last year for me but as long as I don't miss a single game all season then it's worth every cent

Having the new NBN installed helps with buffering etc..

Internet download speed at an average of 36.8Mbps will do that for you!

Last year live games were all good for me, and I have average internet, but the replays were horrendous at times. Will be very pleased if they work better this year.

" It seems they are starting with all the lower socioeconomic suburbs"

Because they're the ones who vote Labor.

That was relevant.

Well most of the country won't be getting the NBN now and well be stuck with this shit copper network under a Telstra wholesale monopoly again.

Years of NBL TV buffering! Yah!

Don't blame me I voted Labor!

Back on topic, feed was great last night, just don't pause it as someone else mentioned as it stuffs the feed and you have to restart it,

Mate the copper network is going to cost a shitload to maintain going forward, so over the long term the coalition's plan costs a bucket load more. The on-going maintenance costs plus the fact that we will need to upgrade to fibre eventually anyway, it's a joke.

Just a cheap political plan by the coalition that saves a little now to cost a lot more later. Plus the inequity of a digital divide and a possible return to a telstra wholesale monopoly. Absolutely disgusting.

I hope they come to their senses and just roll out fibre to the home, take the political hit and admit defeat on this, so we don't burden future generations with shit broadband, digital inequality and at a higher cost.

Plus if you want to talk about spending mate the Howard government is the place to point the finger. It's one thing to spend money on infrastructure assets and short term stimulus when the private sector contracts, it's another thing all together to piss the benefits of the mining boom away like the Howard government did. Algeria had a bigger surplus as a percentage of GDP at the end of 2007 for god's sake.

NBL TV not as good tonight for me.

'109, One HD did the Friday game and that was unwatchable in patches for me. Couldn't tell who was who on court. At other times, the audio was out of sync. This was on an iPad through Apple TV.

Thursday was great almost the whole way through, though I watched that on my office connection and through the browser.

Surely they have dedicated connections at the venue? What's causing it to be so varied?

A separate issue and probably worse for the league was the struggle of live stats for the first round. If it was because of their attempt to integrate FIBA live stats with their silly website (Match Centre and so on) they deserve the trouble for trying to complicate things. Fans just want simple and reliable stats.

I never have an issue with live games via the PC, link them up to my TV at 1.0mb and they run fine. On tablet is a different issue though.

Thing is, the web stream is delayed when it's on TV so it was either tablet or delayed. Frustrating.