In June 2017 Hull City will be re-launching their website. As a result, your subscription to PlayerHD will be cancelled. PlayerHD is a service run by EFL Digital Limited, a central collective that provides digital services for football clubs. As Hull City will no longer be part of EFL Digital, the PlayerHD service will soon close down. Your club will communicate details around any service that they will be operating on their new website in due course.
Apologies if this has been raised or discussed in another thread but just had an email saying City withdrawing from the EFL digital service and setting up their own website, so my subscription ending in June. Anyone know why or what will replace it?
Probably just do stuff through YouTube. Cheaper to do the site themselves probs, although I'm sure they'll **** it up.
I don't think it's just Tigers Player, it's the whole website that they're bringing in-house, they've wanted to do it for years but were tied into a long term contract with EFL Digital. So expect everything to stop working shortly...
I understand it's being replaced by a product called "Hull Tigers Concessions". It's £10pm or £2pm will give you access to the first 45 minutes of home games.
Just got the e-mail from EFL Digital saying that no further payments will be taken after May 3rd, so at least we'll be able to finish off this season. It'll not be so bad here in Canada without it if we stay up as almost every PL match is shown live on local Cable TV providers services (approx 9 quid per month), but it'll be a bugger in the event we are relegated - only a handful of Championship matches are broadcast live. Has anyone any idea of how much this Hull City AFC in-house site will cost ? Will it be live audio of matches and delayed video of matches plus news videos etc like the EFL Digital service ? Given the myriad of cock-ups the club seem to make, I don't have much faith in a quality product materializing. Maybe they'll throw in a concessions version of their new service
I believe to replicate the 'match day experience' no one will be able to get in until 5-10 mins into the match, and you won't be able to log on from your living room, you'll have to go next door.
Although they have a record of ****ing things up, the current website has been **** whenever I've looked at it, so it's not like they've got much to lose.
Similar in the USA. All PL games are shown live on national NBC TV so they are "free" and no special packages required at the moment. Championship games are another story and are few and far between.
Trust me, UX is always key in creating a website. Ie; the user's experience, ie; the customer, ie; us... Well they don't give a **** about us do they so on that basis alone I think the new site will be a ****ing disaster.
