25-08-2023, 10:39 AM
World Rugby have launched RugbyPass TV, their free streaming service and app. The service will store all of World Rugby's doccumentaries and some archive content, as well as being the live streaming platform for the likes of Rugby World Cup, the upcoming barnd new WXV and the World Sevens Series (or SVNS to give it its new official branding, presumably a sponsorship by Only Connect). The service is said to be available via Android and iOS as well via Smart TV (though it's not on Google Play for me yet).
On first impressions, this looks like very good news. Since their decline in using YouTube, content that is being streamed by World Rugby as usually been hard to find inside the World Rugby website, has not been available to view on demand and has been without an easy way to stream on TVs or mobile devices. The indications are that this should be resolved.
My hope is that this is becomes and success and a hub for much more global rugby action that does not have a broadcast deal in the UK or elsewhere. For example, in the build-up to the 2019 Rugby World Cup, World Rugby streamed via YouTube many Tier 2 warm-up matches and qualifiers that were being broadcast in their relevant territories but not widely elsewhere; this was not the case this cycle, with crucial qualifiers and recent matches in the Pacific and the Americas being filmed and broadcast but only accessible via dodgy streams here. If there's a broadcast quality feed available, why not show it here via the governing body?
www.rugbypass.com
On first impressions, this looks like very good news. Since their decline in using YouTube, content that is being streamed by World Rugby as usually been hard to find inside the World Rugby website, has not been available to view on demand and has been without an easy way to stream on TVs or mobile devices. The indications are that this should be resolved.
My hope is that this is becomes and success and a hub for much more global rugby action that does not have a broadcast deal in the UK or elsewhere. For example, in the build-up to the 2019 Rugby World Cup, World Rugby streamed via YouTube many Tier 2 warm-up matches and qualifiers that were being broadcast in their relevant territories but not widely elsewhere; this was not the case this cycle, with crucial qualifiers and recent matches in the Pacific and the Americas being filmed and broadcast but only accessible via dodgy streams here. If there's a broadcast quality feed available, why not show it here via the governing body?
www.rugbypass.com