Some questions and answers regarding our P&B TV Service. We will add more posts here as and when additional questions are asked about our new video platform;

What exactly is P&B TV ?
The service is a collection of 11 sports TV channels (this number will grow as additional channels are planned) that display up to date sports clips and sports news from around the world. The content on these TV channels is updated on a daily basis and includes rights to some of the most exclusive sporting events including the English Premier League, The Champions League, International Football and the Coca Cola Football League.

There are 6 dedicated football channels, and another 5 channels dedicated to other sports on launch day.


What are the channels that are available ?
The channel line up is as follows;

English Premier League (default) - all the latest goals and news from the EPL
Premier League Classics - regularly updated classic games from the EPL
Coca Cola Football League - a selection of highlights from the Championship, League 1 and League 2
European Club Football - the latest Champions League and UEFA cup goals
Latin Football - all the latest goals from South America
Asian Football - all the latest goals from the Asian Leagues

ATP Mens Tennis - all the latest action and news from the mens tour
Autosport TV - the latest action and news from the world of motorsports
Golf - action and news from around the PGA tour
PDC - Professional Darts Corporation action and news
WTA Womens Tennis - all the latest action and news from the ladies tour

There are four other channels which will launch shortly;

International Football - all the latest goals from around the world of International Football
Rugby Union - Latest news and action from the egg chasing
Basketball - action and news from the world of basketball
Cricket - all the latest Cricket news and action

How do I access the service ?
Inside the P&B section of the forum you will find our P&B TV player embedded at the top of the page. It's there right now, look up !

The player defaults to the English Premier League highlights but you can use the channel drop down at the top of the player to select any channel of your choosing. When your channel loads you will see an additional selection of links at the bottom of the player that allow you to watch any individual clip you wish to load - or you can sit back and watch them all in order from start to finish. The choice is yours.


What do I need on my computer to be able to see P&B TV ?
You'll need broadband for a start and it will need to be of reasonable speed to get the most out of the service. You'll also need the latest version of the free Adobe Flash software which you can get for free from http://www.adobe.com/go/EN_US-H-GET-FLASH. If you can see the player loaded at the very top of this page then you are already good to go.


Is P&B TV free ?
Yes. It's 100% free. The service displays very short video adverts before each clip, and sometimes after a clip too. These 10 second adverts keep the service free.


Is P&B TV legal ?
Yes. P&B Sports Ltd have a contract in place to deliver this content for the duration of season 2008-2009. Everything on the player is licensed through the appropriate organisations and is completely 100% legal and above board.


Who updates P&B TV ?
The player is a commercial product which is maintained by a 3rd party who manage and maintain all the content and advertising on the player on our behalf. They will update the player with new content at around 2pm every day. Some channels will obviously update more frequently than others depending on what is happening at any particular time of the week.


Is this service available to all P&B members ?
Yes. P&B TV is available to guests, gold members and platinum members.


Is this service exclusive to P&B ?
No, the player will be appearing on some other websites such as The Sun, The Times, FHM and other high traffic websites.


Why is there no Scottish Football on P&B TV ?
The broadband rights for each football league are handled slightly differently. We hope that the SPL at least will appear on this platform at some point in the near future. Discussions are already started there and we hope that if this brand new platform proves to be a success (for consumers and advertisers alike) then we will see some Scottish football making it's way on to this service which would obviously be great news for us.


No Scottish Football ? What's the point of this then on a Scottish Football website ?
Our EPL section is very popular and we kind of guessed that our members would be interested in viewing football action from around the world and that the service would prove to be popular. Some of the best players in the world play in the EPL and of course we will have highlights from the Champions League, UEFA cup and International football so there will be some Scottish involvement.


How did you manage to get a license for this ?
P&B is growing in popularity all the time. We have over 9,000 active members on the forum (users who have posted in the last year), and every day we get around 10,000 unique people visiting the site. Those visitors generate around 4 million page hits a month so the site is becoming more attractive to sponsors and advertisers. This service is only offered to high traffic sites and networks so in actual fact the reason we have it is down to YOU - as you are the people creating the content on the site that makes people come back and visit and read the site regularly.



This is rubbish and I don't want to watch it !
Everyone has a choice ! We've created this particular section of the forum for those that want to enjoy P&B TV, and if you aren't interested then just collapse this forum from the main forum list and you'll never even see it.


Does P&B TV only appear in the forums ?
No, it also appears on our super duper homepage !


Can I switch the sound off ?
Yes, you can use the controls on the player to mute the sound if you want to sneakily watch P&B TV from the office


What else is this section of the forum for ?
We hope that users will post topics in this section of the forum, discussing some of the content that appears in the player. Every single topic opened in the P&B TV section of the forum will have the player located at the top of the page within easy reach.


Can the clips be downloaded ?
No. This is a streaming service only.


How long are the clips ?
This varies between 1 minute and 5 minutes. Some clips are just of goals, whilst there are interviews, press conferences or news round ups which will run for longer.


It doesn't work for me, how can I get help ?
If the player is not loading for you, and you have made sure you are running the latest version of Adobe Flash (see above) then you open a thread in the complaints forum and we'll take a look. If you are struggling then it's possible others with the same configuration as you are having similar problems. We've tested this extensively with IE7 and Firefox 3 and not found any issues but we appreciate some people are still running older versions, and we've not tested with Opera or any other browsers so do let us know if there are any issues and we will do our best to resolve.


Do you think there will be Scottish football on here in the future ?
That is certainly a possibility. If this method of delivery proves to be successful then we hope the number of channels will grow and that this could include Scottish football highlights which of course we would then run as our default. We'll just need to wait and see how it goes.


How long do you anticipate running this service ?
Our contract is initially for the duration of season 2008-2009 and this will be reviewed at the end of the campaign.


Will P&B TV always be free ?
Yes, the advertising on the service will fund it's existence for all users. There are no plans to charge additionally for this service.


Can Platinum members have the adverts removed ?
No, this is a premium service and must be supported by advertising at all times.


Can I choose a different default channel ?
No, the default will always be decided by P&B. You can of course change to a different channel but this will only be remembered for the page you are currently loading.


Whats with the cricket, basketball and tennis channels ?
We took all of these rights as a package, and we know that there is a wide variety of sporting interests within the P&B membership so we thought it would be good to carry the feeds for these additional channels even though these are not "core" to the football nature of the P&B site.

Read it now

whens two pints of lager and a packet of crisps on?

Good man. In fairness I knew I'd get asked that question straight away

This sub-forum overrides my skin. I take it that's deliberate

Is there a way to stop it from automatically playing when you visit the homepage or any thread in this section? I've heard "Manchester United at home to Newcastle United" about 16 times in the last 5 minutes.

ditto!

It is set to autoplay. You can mute it though, and of course the player only plays in the P&B TV section of the forum, and the HP.

Yes it is. It will change back when you return to the main forum.

I wonder if having the player at the top of EVERY thread in the P&B forum is a bit annoying. Should I only have it at the top of the opening page of the P&B TV forum do you think ?

When do the EPL highlights get updated? Sunday 1400 will be when Saturdays highlights are put up?

I think that would be a good idea. You cant watch it and read a thread at the same time anyway!

The clips from Saturday were put on yesterday afternoon, and the clips from yesterday went on early this morning. There will also be press conferences and the like put up on the site during the week and of course some of the other channels will update too.

There are EPL previews which will go up on a Thursday tea-time

Div, I take it the English highlights aren't available to those of us overseas?

I get the other channels it seems.

I have switched off the player from appearing at the top of every thread in this section, it now only appears on the first page of the P&B TV section of the forum (and the homepage of course)

I will check that out for you my man, but alas I think you may be right

whats the point?

The point of watching football highlights on a football website is lost on you ?

I cant get it to work even after downloading the adobe thing posted in one of the other topics. Is it because am using AOL as my internet and not internet explorer or firefox???

No - what is the point of having them on this football website? If this available elsewhere why bother? I personally dont think anything of value to this site.

Is it adding to the sites fighting fund?

I am a carmudgeon!

What is the point of Marks and Spencers selling bread when Greggs sell bread ?

There are very few websites running with this platform. The aim of publishing the content here is to keep people here and not going away to other websites

to make money

fair enough - personally I think it is a bad idea and detracts from the site - well you be monitoring the usage of this facility?

Hello.

Despite updating my flash player I still can't get this to work.

I am using the latest Firefox which also didn't seem to like the new SS Live Score Centre.

It does however work with IE 7.

I dunno whats wrong with yours then. I have updated the flash player and have the newest firefox and it works perfectly fine. Did you download the correct one?

Well unless you were linked to a different one then yes.

Oddly when I went to watch the SPL highlights on the BBC site it said I didn't have the most up to date flash player so I had to update it another time to watch them on FF

Yes, we will be monitoring the use of the player. I'm not sure how it detracts from the site in any way, as it is an entirely optional feature on the forum. You can completely collapse the P&B bit of the forum if it is not for you and you'll never see it again.

Everyone has a choice and an opinion of course and I respect that. I think the fact we have highlights of the champions league, uefa cup, english premiership and coca cola championship running on the site for free is quite impressive, but maybe I'm easy pleased

Great addition, hows about trying to get shinty on?

I'm the same as you, unfortunately, with this and Sky Sports.

Gayness.

*whispers incase marrez is about*

Anyone got this working with safari?

I'm P&B TVless

If there are users with specific technical problems (like Safari not working) then I'm happy to investigate.

I assume this is Safari on a Mac platform and not the Windows version ?

The service has been tested on Firefox and IE and I've not found any problems

Yip it's on a mac.

I've installed the flash player from the link but nothing on the TV as yet other than the "get adobe" message.

OK, I assume it doesn't work outwith the UK? I've tried using Firefox 3.0.1 and IE7 with no joy. I've downloaded the latest flash player, selected my channel then for every game I select it says "this content is not available".

What am I doing wrong? Is there a Dummies Guide available? I didn't pay my licence fee to not get this, I want to speak to the station controller, I want my money back, moan, moan.....

Em, will this not place massive demands on the server leading to extra downtime?

Nice though, I will definitely take advantage of it.

No, the content is not hosted on our server

Just a quick question, can you access all of the content outside of the UK?

Can watch the Darts, Golf, Euro & Asian Football etc. fine but not the Premiership or Championship.

Doesn't work on Safari on the Mac, as OB has mentioned. My flash player on firefox doesn't seem to work either... going to investigate.

Does so work on Safari on the Mac

Well, I can't get it to work on Safari on the Mac... in fact, the video thing just isn't there...

And as soon as I typed that, it magically appeared.... fuxache. Apologies Div...

First time I have watched it properly but it is affa snazzy, what are the chances of geting some NBA, NFL, NBL and NHL?

I believe we will be adding an American Soccer channel to the line-up soon, and most importantly there is also a Setanta channel in the pipeline

Great stuff big man.

I don't know whats happened or if its just me being an idiot, but i can no longer scroll down to see whats available meaning i can only view the top videos from each section.

Working ok for me ?

I've tested on a few machines today, and different browsers. Anyone else having this issue ?

Maybe try updating to the latest version of Flash/clearing out temp internet files ?

Still not working . it's cool though, if its only my computer then i'll just have to live without.