| TownTV Review 19:00 - Aug 12 with 2060 views | BlueToad |
My first opportunity today to experience the new TownTV offering. Some thoughts.
Pros
I really enjoyed the build up, listening to Matt Holland and Darren Ambrose, clearly passionate about the Club. Miles better than watchin the LifeBouy adverts on repeat !!!
The presenter (dont recall his name) was pretty good.
The commentary team were decent. I love Ian Westlake on co-comms, thought he was excellent last season and really enjoyed listening to him today. Very insightful and nicely biased in the right places :)
Glenn was also very good. Took a little while to warm to him last season on iFollow but he's decent enough.
Great after match coverage.
All in all very positive all round so far.
Cons
The audio was about .5 seconds ahead of the action. It was quite bad during the build up but wasn;t that fussed. During the action though it was quite annoying as you kind of knew what was going to happen before it did - if you get my drift. Hopefully they'll sort this one out for next week.
Really annoyiing instances of action replays over running live action - happened quite a lot and in some critial passages as well.
Audio glitches throughout - nothing major until had a period of Dalek commentary for about 5 mins mid way through 2nd half.
A few minor buffering timeouts but nothing too bad - certainly not like some of the issues experienced last season with iFolllow.
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| TownTV Review on 19:04 - Aug 12 with 1992 views | pennblue |
I think it was fantastic for first game and it was great to get some proper post match and to hear from the manager. The way ifollow used to just 'cut off' straight after a game was not a great experience.
Holland and Ambrose work well together, I am sure they will improve as they get more experience too - maybe some media training to really polish up their skills.
So hats off to whoever made this happen, i think it was great |  |
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| TownTV Review on 19:05 - Aug 12 with 1985 views | Ryorry |
Surprised Glenn W got the gig after his awful rookie start for the first few games to last season, but tbf, he was willing to listen & take on board criticism, has clearly learned from that, and has hugely improved as a result. |  |
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| TownTV Review on 19:07 - Aug 12 with 1951 views | Kropotkin123 |
I didn't experience the buffering issues, but everything else resonates |  |
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| TownTV Review on 19:14 - Aug 12 with 1905 views | BlueinBrum |
First time seeing it for me too and completely agree with all your points. |  | | |
| TownTV Review on 19:17 - Aug 12 with 1883 views | John_Warks_Willy |
I like Glenn you know. He’s been on a learning curve, but there’s a lot of potential in there and it’s starting to shine through. I can def see why he was chosen, someone saw that in him.
Westlake very good too |  |
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| TownTV Review on 19:23 - Aug 12 with 1828 views | blaggers |
| TownTV Review on 19:04 - Aug 12 by pennblue |
I think it was fantastic for first game and it was great to get some proper post match and to hear from the manager. The way ifollow used to just 'cut off' straight after a game was not a great experience.
Holland and Ambrose work well together, I am sure they will improve as they get more experience too - maybe some media training to really polish up their skills.
So hats off to whoever made this happen, i think it was great |
I'm pretty sure Matt Holland has had a media career for about 15 years now, and Ambrose has a gig on TalkSport? |  |
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| TownTV Review on 19:29 - Aug 12 with 1785 views | Illinoisblue |
A fair summary. Hope they can sort the audio glitch out as it affects all the content they’ve put out so far. Just enough lack of synchronization to be annoying.
Westlake’s never had a bad game on comms. Perfect blend of insight, analysis and biased enthusiasm.
Glenn W… good but could do with loosening up a bit. Sounds a bit scripted at times. Although to be fair, he hasn’t had the years of affinity Brenner has built up.
Lol at the action replay graphic which flashed up IFollow. (Sure that’s an EFL footage thing, not a club mistake) |  |
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| TownTV Review on 19:31 - Aug 12 with 1766 views | tractordownsouth |
| TownTV Review on 19:05 - Aug 12 by Ryorry |
Surprised Glenn W got the gig after his awful rookie start for the first few games to last season, but tbf, he was willing to listen & take on board criticism, has clearly learned from that, and has hugely improved as a result. |
Yeah really like Glen, can tell he’s passionate about it. For the first game last year apparently he wasn’t told he was commentating for the audio as well as the video.
I’d ideally like him to be more descriptive but he’s decent and has definitely grown into the role. |  |
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| TownTV Review on 19:47 - Aug 12 with 1706 views | ParisBlue |
| TownTV Review on 19:29 - Aug 12 by Illinoisblue |
A fair summary. Hope they can sort the audio glitch out as it affects all the content they’ve put out so far. Just enough lack of synchronization to be annoying.
Westlake’s never had a bad game on comms. Perfect blend of insight, analysis and biased enthusiasm.
Glenn W… good but could do with loosening up a bit. Sounds a bit scripted at times. Although to be fair, he hasn’t had the years of affinity Brenner has built up.
Lol at the action replay graphic which flashed up IFollow. (Sure that’s an EFL footage thing, not a club mistake) |
Westlake is great, especially when laying into the incompetent referees (plenty of opportunities today) |  |
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| TownTV Review on 19:55 - Aug 12 with 1671 views | BlueToad |
| TownTV Review on 19:47 - Aug 12 by ParisBlue |
Westlake is great, especially when laying into the incompetent referees (plenty of opportunities today) |
Ha yes, he was giving the Ref pelters tday :) | |
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| TownTV Review on 20:49 - Aug 12 with 1545 views | burnbudgiesburn |
Fair summary
Another plus, a full pre and after show replay including the whole match up within an hour of full time.
Didn't think that was allowed, ifollow didn't upload a replay til 1am the next morning. | | | |
| TownTV Review on 21:04 - Aug 12 with 1477 views | SitfcB |
| TownTV Review on 20:49 - Aug 12 by burnbudgiesburn |
Fair summary
Another plus, a full pre and after show replay including the whole match up within an hour of full time.
Didn't think that was allowed, ifollow didn't upload a replay til 1am the next morning. |
EFL must’ve changed the rules, goals already tweeted out on twitter by the club as well. |  |
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| TownTV Review on 11:45 - Aug 16 with 935 views | grow_our_own |
Biggest problem is unlike last year's iFollow service, the new TownTV coverage has no rewind. Was great being able to catch-up eg missed goals if had to step away, or review controversial incidents in the game. Hope rewind is on QTV's roadmap to re-add. | | | |
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