Rugby World Cup coverage here in Perth, Australia is underwhelming – Here, for example, is Chanel Tens newly launched website showing the match schedule:
Three issues:
1: The coverage is biased to Australia – nothing to do about that I suppose but endure, and go to rugbyheaven.co.nz
2: The timezone over here means that those times in that table above are wrong. Surely the website can either figure out where I am or give me the option of changing time zones?
3: They have free to air HDTV over here, and Ten is broadcasting the RWC matches in HD. I’ve got an HD receiver thing, an external powered aerial, and my mac, so I should be able to record and view (through a TV or projector or my HD screen) the rugby in glorious HD detail.
I can’t.
Apparently Fremantle has notoriously bad coverage and at none of the several places I’ve stayed in around here have I been able to get HD reception.
This sucks beyond all suckiness. So close, yet so far.
And of course we can forget about Free to air TV over the internet – apparently there will need to be several more of these world cup (of the various genres) things before the rights holders figure it out.
Lance Wiggs 