Star India seems to have introduced subscription based live streaming of Cricket and Football sporting events on its sports website Starsports.com, reports Virtual Thoughts. The site previously offered free live streaming of cricket content since its beta launch in January 2013, although it had then stated plans to charge a fee for users to access the content. At the time of writing this article, the site offers three types of packages - Day Pass (Rs 50) which allows users to watch all live matches on the site for the day, Monthly pass (Rs 500) which allows users to watch all live matches for the month and tournament based season passes which allows users to watch all the matches in a specific cricket or football tournament. It currently offers season passes for cricket tournaments like Australia-England ODI series & the upcoming Champions League T20 and football tournaments like La Liga & Barclays Premier League (BPL). Besides this, it also offers a football season pass (Rs 800) which includes live streaming of all BPL Matches and select La Liga & Serie A matches. Users can watch these matches on Starsports website and its mobile apps across Android and iOS, however note that live streaming is limited to select regions outside India, depending on the tournament's licensing restrictions. The site offers all the regular payment options like credit and debit cards, net banking, IMPS and cash cards. In-App Subscriptions: One can also purchase tournament based season passes from the mobile apps via in-app purchases, strangely however, we noticed that the mobile apps offer slightly different pricing…
