Behold Fanpass, Sky's streaming video service that actually works – and today it's free
Read about it and weep, Sky Go users.
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Good news for people stuck in an office in front of a PC today: Sky TV has made its Fanpass.co.nz service (usually $15 a day or $20 a week) free for today if you enter the promo code HOWZAT.
Fanpass includes streaming versions of Sky Sport 1, 2, 3 and 4, which means you can watch the first day of the Black Caps vs Australia test.
As always, Fanpass seems rock solid. On social media, I've seen nothing but raves.
Regular Sky subscribers get no access to Fanpass – at least, not unless they pay the same daily and weekly fees as a non-Sky subscriber.
They do get Sky Go. And I don't have to tell you about Go's record.
I recently asked Sky TV chief executive John Fellet why his company can't give Go users free access to Fanpass when Go stuffs out.
He replied, "Great idea but a different set of rights and a different set of costs."
What's the difference between the two platforms?
Sky Go is an inhouse product.
Fanpass is outsourced to a company called NeuLion in New York, which manages the entire process from encoding to managing the video. Neither party will detail its content delivery system but, from what the geek set tells NBR, NeuLion puts more resource into fail-over.
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Behold Fanpass, Sky's streaming video service that actually works – and today it's free
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