pedal menace Posted January 29 Posted January 29 Ok - so since GCN+ plus closed and I made every human effort possible to switch to Discovery+ with billing via an UK account, I get the notification yesterday that Eurosport is pulling the plug in the UK/Ireland and will no longer be available as a streaming channel on the standard 7 pounds/month package. You can continue to watch Eurosport by upgrading to the 31 pounds/month package. WTFudge...????? But Eurosport will continue to stream as separate channels on Discovery+ under the standard package - as long as it is outside the UK/Ireland. WTFudge..??!!! Darnit!!!!! Now need to find penpals in some foreign country to organise billing. My day is ruined!!!! ChrisF and DieselnDust 1 1
michaelbiker Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Anyone tried these guys out? It was mentioned in the EC comments on the article about the UK price increase: https://app.staylive.io/cycling/subscriberoadcycling Looks like SA falls into Group 1 which gets everything on their platform which includes a lot of one day classics. https://assets.platform.staylive.io/platform_CTXTfC8GUMnS/VOD-LIVE-Table-2025pdf.pdf
DieselnDust Posted January 31 Posted January 31 32 minutes ago, michaelbiker said: Anyone tried these guys out? It was mentioned in the EC comments on the article about the UK price increase: https://app.staylive.io/cycling/subscriberoadcycling Looks like SA falls into Group 1 which gets everything on their platform which includes a lot of one day classics. https://assets.platform.staylive.io/platform_CTXTfC8GUMnS/VOD-LIVE-Table-2025pdf.pdf Yea I used it last year. Work s lekker but no smart tv app so you have to cast it. No biggy since I watch from my laptop anyways michaelbiker 1
SamTaylor Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Looks like ASO has now also done an exclusive deal with Discovery to broadcast TdF. Wonder what that’s going to mean for us? Will super sport still get the rights to the feed, or will it become a mess like it’s become with XCO/DH DieselnDust 1
hunterza Posted January 31 Posted January 31 3 hours ago, michaelbiker said: Anyone tried these guys out? It was mentioned in the EC comments on the article about the UK price increase: https://app.staylive.io/cycling/subscriberoadcycling Looks like SA falls into Group 1 which gets everything on their platform which includes a lot of one day classics. https://assets.platform.staylive.io/platform_CTXTfC8GUMnS/VOD-LIVE-Table-2025pdf.pdf Looks like quite a nice option for March/April/May. But this comment on their site (https://app.staylive.io/cycling/calendar-roadcycling) - "* Flanders Classic (Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Gent-Wevelgem, Dwars Door Vlaanderen, Ronde Van Vlaanderen, Scheldeprijs, De Brabantse Pijl, Amstel Gold Race, Brussels Cycling Classic) available in the following countries only: Albania, Bangladesh, Cyprus, Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan." reduces the value rather considerably Maybe March + May?
pedal menace Posted January 31 Posted January 31 1 hour ago, hunterza said: Looks like quite a nice option for March/April/May. But this comment on their site (https://app.staylive.io/cycling/calendar-roadcycling) - "* Flanders Classic (Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Gent-Wevelgem, Dwars Door Vlaanderen, Ronde Van Vlaanderen, Scheldeprijs, De Brabantse Pijl, Amstel Gold Race, Brussels Cycling Classic) available in the following countries only: Albania, Bangladesh, Cyprus, Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan." reduces the value rather considerably Maybe March + May? VPN may work?
Headshot Posted January 31 Posted January 31 5 hours ago, DieselnDust said: Yea I used it last year. Work s lekker but no smart tv app so you have to cast it. No biggy since I watch from my laptop anyways I used to cast from my phone but found lots of buffering and video and dialogue out of sync asa result - not a problem until you notice a woman talking like a man or vice versa. DieselnDust 1
SamTaylor Posted February 1 Posted February 1 It’s almost as if Warner Brothers really doesn’t understand what they are doing with Cycling broadcasting. As if they want to alienate fans and drive down veiwership. How much money are they paying the UCI in kickbacks or whatever to effectively kill cycling for the fans? Surely someone at the UCI must have known what the plan was when they chose this deal over extending the red bull deal?
pedal menace Posted February 3 Posted February 3 On 2/1/2025 at 8:38 AM, SamTaylor said: It’s almost as if Warner Brothers really doesn’t understand what they are doing with Cycling broadcasting. As if they want to alienate fans and drive down veiwership. How much money are they paying the UCI in kickbacks or whatever to effectively kill cycling for the fans? Surely someone at the UCI must have known what the plan was when they chose this deal over extending the red bull deal? Read an article over the weekend that was done with one of the Warner Brothers big bosses. I could not help observe some tone of arrogance. Also an attitude that sounded like - "we only in reality need a third of our user base to jump to the new price to break even - the rest can cancel". Wow....the article concluded that this will do much more damage than good to get people on board to watch cycling. ChrisF 1
Headshot Posted February 3 Posted February 3 MTB as a competitive sport is actually booming in the gravity zone. Red Bull are adding more Hardline races and urban DH events and there are continental series being started to get newer riders into the DHWC which is now more limited in team numbers but will be highly competitive. I certainly don't support the "Big Media" take over, but its not all doom and gloom. Hairy 1
Shebeen Posted February 3 Posted February 3 On 1/31/2025 at 10:59 AM, SamTaylor said: Looks like ASO has now also done an exclusive deal with Discovery to broadcast TdF. Wonder what that’s going to mean for us? Will super sport still get the rights to the feed, or will it become a mess like it’s become with XCO/DH Pretty sure there is someone high up at cecil nurse/marriott who wants to watch TdF come hell or high water. would be very surprised to see this one drop off
SamTaylor Posted February 3 Posted February 3 1 hour ago, pedal menace said: Read an article over the weekend that was done with one of the Warner Brothers big bosses. I could not help observe some tone of arrogance. Also an attitude that sounded like - "we only in reality need a third of our user base to jump to the new price to break even - the rest can cancel". Wow....the article concluded that this will do much more damage than good to get people on board to watch cycling. I think we read the same article. What does my head in is why the UCI back this? Surely they knew what was coming. It not as if RedBull wasn’t willing to carry on, they made it clear they were, but their bid wasn’t even considered. TdF is a different story, as ASO owns that event and it’s their call who they sign with. But XCO/DH is directly under UCI control, and surely they have an interest in growing the sports worldwide, which should include a plan that makes it more accessible, not less so. Hairy 1
pedal menace Posted Thursday at 09:05 AM Posted Thursday at 09:05 AM How does Tiz-Cycling work? Right now UAE Tour Stage 4 is busy, but all TIZ Cycling is showing is below pic.
Stevovo Posted Thursday at 10:11 AM Posted Thursday at 10:11 AM 1 hour ago, pedal menace said: How does Tiz-Cycling work? Right now UAE Tour Stage 4 is busy, but all TIZ Cycling is showing is below pic. I saw that. Had it open and playing on my phone and moved over to the tablet and got this. Try https://live.tiz-cycling.tv/#google_vignette
pedal menace Posted Thursday at 10:23 AM Posted Thursday at 10:23 AM 11 minutes ago, Stevovo said: I saw that. Had it open and playing on my phone and moved over to the tablet and got this. Try https://live.tiz-cycling.tv/#google_vignette Awesome - this link works!
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