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Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

Troycyclone — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:43:22 GMT

Hi, maybe I’m a bit dumb, but I cannot find a spoiler free area on the bt sport TV app. It’s there on the iPad, but not tv.

Really don’t want another season of “bagnia storms to victory……” freeing up my evening:)

this would improve my life no end - thankyou

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

DarrenDev — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:46:25 GMT

Sorry @Troycyclone but there isn't a spoiler free option on any of the non-mobile BT Sport apps, and there won't ever be one.

It's possible that TNT may offer the option when BT Sport becomes TNT, and they launch their new apps this summer.

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

Troycyclone — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 05:48:48 GMT

Thanks @DarrenDev for the quick & clear reply, much appreciated, shame bt sport don’t understand why people watch sport, oh well!

Thanks anyway

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

gomezz — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:03:34 GMT

Hopefully TNT will adopt the Eurosport approach in their app design and usage and banish all spoilers from their sports screens.

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

DarrenDev — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:07:57 GMT

The large majority of BT Sport app usage is for watching live sport, so that's where most of the development was focused.
When the dev team were disbanded in January, there was still a long list of things we wanted to do to improve the app - spoiler-free was quite low down that list.
Fewer than 3% of users used the spoiler free option in the mobile app, despite it having been available for almost 2 years.

As for why spoilers are in there in the first place - that's an editorial decision for which we have no stats to prove one way or the other whether they made the right choice.

We wish TNT the best of luck in trying to make the right choices in their new app - it's impossible to please everyone.

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

gomezz — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:56:54 GMT

I am surprised by that 3% figure. Personally 99% of my app usage is through the spoiler-free page. Perhaps the result would be different if the spoiler-free page was the default landing page when the app is installed rather than users having to fiddle with the options to achieve that?

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

Troycyclone — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:57:48 GMT

Agreed, odd working patterns clear weekends for all aren’t what they used to be.

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

Troycyclone — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:59:07 GMT

It would make sense, why would anyone want to know the result up front?

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

gomezz — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:08:03 GMT

To be fair that is how I have been following the European quali games over the weekend but then other than the England games I have watched (as) live I have just been Youtubing the short highlights of all the other games.

Buy

But as ever has been the critical point, give the viewer the choice. It is easy for a viewer to find the results if they want but impossible to un-spoiler a game once the result is pushed in their face.

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

thetownfool — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:56:11 GMT

@Troycyclone BT Sport management couldn't give two **bleep**s about the true fans, they are more concerned with click bait. It's been an issue for years as you likely know, they tried to make a token gesture with spoiler mode. but thats all it was it wasn't rolled out to all platforms ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

@DarrenDev are you still leading this team? whats going on mate? are you teasing us with the TNT comments?

At the very least can we get the first item on the left and the hero item to be the full race replay and highlights? at least then we don't have to scroll our eyes to the right to try and find them.

Can we also have FULL in the title even when its truncated, this will at least be a pattern to match for in your head, you often have to click through 2-3 items to find the full replay?

These things really are spoiling the whole race experience :(.

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

DarrenDev — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:59:42 GMT

@thetownfool development of BT Sport stopped in December, with only essential fixes being made where needed. TNT will be launching their apps in time for the next football season.

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

thetownfool — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 12:09:12 GMT

I think I pre-emptively posted before I saw your later update @DarrenDev

Do you know much about the TNT situation? Are they also based here in the UK etc.

Im @Gmail.com If it's too sensitive here lol

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

Brucemeister5 — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 12:43:58 GMT

My understanding was that BT Sport content ( soon to be TNT) was being folded into the Discovery+ app. Talk of new apps being launched suggests to me that something has now changed.

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Icdbdis — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 08:02:12 GMT

I searched specifically to understand how I might watch sports on my TV without the results being revealed as part of the programme line-up. It would have been great if the results / replay programme content had been separated as different sub-menu items. @Troycyclone hit the nail right on the head. Knowing the result before watching (e.g. MotoGP) is really, really frustrating.

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

Carlusha — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 10:53:22 GMT

@DarrenDevwrote:

We wish TNT the best of luck in trying to make the right choices in their new app - it's impossible to please everyone.

For the TNT team, this would include making subtitles available for us deaf old farters, something which was in the BT pipeline but never quite got there!

Other than that, the BT Sport app on either of our Smart TVs (a Sony and a Samsung) has been first class. At least I can have the subtitled commentary around the goals on the BT highlights on YouTube, sometimes less than an hour after the final whistle.

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

DarrenDev — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 12:28:08 GMT

My understanding was that BT Sport content ( soon to be TNT) was being folded into the Discovery+ app. Talk of new apps being launched suggests to me that something has now changed.

There's a LOT of functionality to add to the app, that would only be relevant to the UK market. I don't know whether it'll be added to the D+ app (thus bloating it for everyone) or if they'll launch a new TNT Sports app. I can't imagine it'll make much difference to you either way.

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

DarrenDev — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 12:37:31 GMT

For the TNT team, this would include making subtitles available for us deaf old farters, something which was in the BT pipeline but never quite got there!

We were SO close too. The apps were ready. We were just waiting for the subtitles to be added to the streams.

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

Carlusha — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 08:51:35 GMT

@DarrenDevwrote:
For the TNT team, this would include making subtitles available for us deaf old farters, something which was in the BT pipeline but never quite got there!
We were SO close too. The apps were ready. We were just waiting for the subtitles to be added to the streams.

Darren, is there any chance the TNT developers will be given all the coding, including the untested subtitling addition OR are they simple taking over the programme "rights" and using their own platform to broadcast?

Re: Bt sport spoiler free on tv app

DarrenDev — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 09:01:53 GMT

They're using all their own code and apps.
Given they already have subtitles on their own content in their own apps, I would be very surprised if they didn't support it in the new app. As I've said though - I'll find out at the same time as you guys. I'm not expecting to get an early view of it.