I'm buddy's house today to watch the Liverpool game. He has SS and my provider provided a better picture.
This was the first time I got to compare. First we compared the NBC Sports and my provider had the same if not better quality. The grass lines would blur/artifact on smoothstreams during pans.
But for TSN I had 1080p 60 fps TSN compared to his 720p and mine was unbelievably better. ***Side Note: I only found out about 1080p 60fps TSN the other day. It uses NBSN commentators for EPL. If y'all didn't know it's probably the fookin best you're gonna get for EPL quality unless you can get something 4k. Quality is really good on my 85inch Sony. Nearly cable good. And that's a big screen, so stuff usually looks bad but not TSN.
I never pulled up my Sky Sports cuz we got to the point where we just wanted to stop fiddling around and watch the game, but his Sky sports looked like Sky Sports on other services I've seen (weird unnatural 25fps motion maybe upscaled? Still not great)
I really wanted to love smooth streams, I even had a notification sent to my phone for their Twitter account whenever they would open up invites again but now I feel like I just gotta start searching for a better provider...again.