IF you’ve read Erwin Oliva’s article, then you know that Filipino IPTV company neTVision has been forced to cancel its live stream of the Manny Pacquiao-Marco Antonio Barrera rematch for its Middle East subscribers.
That this had to happen is already tragic, but what’s worse is that neTVision has been forced to do this just days before the fight. Ok, disclaimer: INQUIRER.net is an event partner of neTVision for the webcast, so I do have a vested interest. But I think many Filipino boxing fans will agree that this is a sad development.
And all for what? Because HBO got scared?
Here’s an excerpt from Erwin’s article:
neTVision president Axel Kornerup said HBO was threatened by the webcast and pressured Top Rank, owner of the rights to the scheduled fight, to tell Philippine partner Solar Entertainment to stop the webcast.
Kornerup who was apologetic said many of its subscribers had been waiting for the fight’s webcast.
So is this a case of David vs Goliath, HBO vs the Filipino start-up?
October 6th, 2007 at 2:07 am
[...] Services « This sucks big time: neTVision Pacquiao-Barrera webcast cancelled [...]
October 5th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
[...] @play : This sucks big time: neTVision Pacquiao-Barrera webcast cancelled [...]
October 4th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
[...] @play : This sucks big time: neTVision Pacquiao-Barrera webcast cancelled [...]
October 4th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Actually this is an issue, HBO owns the broadcast rights but not globally, there are specific regions of the globe only(if it did then we wouldn’t be able to watch it in our local channels wherein they acquired the rights from the people who promotes the fight, and that would suck big time!) Guess they got scared… Its like a grown-up picking on a little kid… Pitiful…
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
[...] @play : This sucks big time: neTVision Pacquiao-Barrera webcast cancelled [...]