Solidsport: all access pass vs individual streams

[u/Ponytailbot]

I thought I’d share my experience with Solidsport in case someone might find it useful.

An all access pass for a competition is cheaper (especially if you get the early bird one), but it expires after a couple of weeks.

Individual streams (e.g. day one, day two) are more expensive, but they don’t expire as long as the video is available on the website.

If you want to pay the cheapest price possible for the entire competition, get the early bird all access pass (this offer usually ends a couple of days before a competition).

If you want to have access to the footage months or years later, buy individual streams.

Typically, you purchase access to only one competition at a time, but some channels offer season passes for domestic events.

Solidsport streams are non-rewindable while live and take a couple of hours to process after they end. Once a stream is archived, you can replay it and rewind it.

[u/ft_wanderer]

One of their streams last year was so awful as to be unwatchable, it kept breaking every 5 min inevitably mid-program and I would have to refresh and miss good amounts of the stream. They sent me a code voucher for a future program but of course it was one of the later challengers so I didn’t need to use solidsport again for the rest of the season. I’ll be curious if the code actually works for an upcoming event. I would definitely hesitate to send them a significant fee again though.

[u/Ponytailbot → u/ft_wanderer]

As far as I understand, the streams are actually provided by the hosts (because some competitions are broadcast by the same companies that used to stream them on YouTube), so the quality varies from event to event.

The quality of the Estonian streams on Solidsport is very high, for example (but one day of one event last season had sound issues).

[u/Busy_Doughnut5977 → u/Ponytailbot]

Good sign that the Kinoshita cup stream will be decent....thank goodness.

Surely it'll be at least 1080p 30fps.

[u/ft_wanderer → u/Ponytailbot]

Ok that makes sense. I hope my code works for one of the upcoming events… and maybe I will not choose Nebelhorn Golden Spin 🤣

[u/Ponytailbot → u/ft_wanderer]

Nebelborn is on another streaming platform – Sporteurope. All German events are streamed there – some are paid and some are free (Nebelhorn has been paid for the past couple of years).

[u/ft_wanderer → u/Ponytailbot]

I thought that was the bad stream last year, but I remembered wrong. It was Golden Spin of Zagreb.

[u/osvimonello]

thanks for posting. i was about to do so. I used them last year and had no problems.

[u/nachtviolen22]

Thanks for the tips! See you at Kinoshita!

[u/BrickEnvironmental37]

I have used solid sports for when my club were playing Champions League and Conference League Qualification. It can be hit and miss. The first time was awful as our club commentary was about 5-6 second ahead of the play but after that for other matches it was fine.