The issue with the player was less the lack of live coverage, but the actual lack of on demand content. While they store content, they only did so from ES 1 and ES 2 and this not in HD. All the extra channels, were no longer saved.
This is something that was once different, I remember coming home from a tennis event and I could re-watch it all.
If they do not offer on demand for the Olympics, then it will be quite some disaster, as nobody can watch it all at the same time.
The new layout does not suit me much, though. It´s less good than the old, at least for my liking. In the old, you got a list of all live channels and you just clicked on your desired broadcast. Now, all I see are huge pictures of snooker tables It´s as if they turned the well designed old player into an app player for smartphones I use the player on my laptop though or the PC, so for me clicking through all those pictures is a bit of a nightmare.
Edit:
Figure skating (Olympics) is shown at the player, each competition in full length. This is from an internal source, so take it with caution. Also to add is the following.
In future, ES wants to have seasonal passes, like for football, cycling ... That means, you can buy access to those events, but won´t be able to see any other, that you did not pay for. They will still support monthly and yearly passes, but if those will just be the basic ES 1 + ES 2 remains to be seen. It could very well be, that the Olympics will require an extra pass, but this is pure speculation from my side.
Anyways, all will be shown at the player, but it might be more expensive, than the six bucks we currently pay each month.
This is something that was once different, I remember coming home from a tennis event and I could re-watch it all.
If they do not offer on demand for the Olympics, then it will be quite some disaster, as nobody can watch it all at the same time.
The new layout does not suit me much, though. It´s less good than the old, at least for my liking. In the old, you got a list of all live channels and you just clicked on your desired broadcast. Now, all I see are huge pictures of snooker tables It´s as if they turned the well designed old player into an app player for smartphones I use the player on my laptop though or the PC, so for me clicking through all those pictures is a bit of a nightmare.
Edit:
Figure skating (Olympics) is shown at the player, each competition in full length. This is from an internal source, so take it with caution. Also to add is the following.
In future, ES wants to have seasonal passes, like for football, cycling ... That means, you can buy access to those events, but won´t be able to see any other, that you did not pay for. They will still support monthly and yearly passes, but if those will just be the basic ES 1 + ES 2 remains to be seen. It could very well be, that the Olympics will require an extra pass, but this is pure speculation from my side.
Anyways, all will be shown at the player, but it might be more expensive, than the six bucks we currently pay each month.