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Message: [QUOTE="Kimlo, post: 2696637, member: 2021"] I'm loving the sound of the new deal! Shame they couldn't go all out on origin, but having the middle game as a stand alone weekend is a huge improvement on its own, because between game 1 and 3, that's 6 weeks of uninterrupted club football which means we don't have a 6-8 week period of competition football with missing players and byes and all that rubbish that usually comes with origin. Ideally this means, there's 2-4 origin interrupted games per year per club, with the two byes covering half of those. Four FTA games is great, and every single game being live is great, it means I don't HAVE to give Foxtel my money to get decent NRL coverage. More importantly though, I'd love for someone like Google to pick up the rights and have world class digital coverage, because Telstra's 2003 video quality streams are just a joke. I think they'll likely get 400m-500m or so out of Foxtel, to get all 8 games simulcast live in HD, and likely 150m-250m or so from Skysports and the digital rights is an unknown, depends how many players want to take a shot at it. We could conceivably see a company like Netflix take a stab, having all Rugby League games streamed live on Netflix would be a huge win for them. I just hope Telstra doesn't end up with it. [/QUOTE]

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