Giro on freeview/terrestrial

chill123

Hi all,
Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere. I've searched high and low but can't find the answer.

Is there any Giro coverage or highlights on any freeview/digital channels.

Eurosport is not on freeview by all accounts

GroupOfOne MkII

Nope nothing on Freeview/Digital, apart from Eurosport.

You can get Eurosport via a freeview box if you subscribe to TopUpTv, but I think you need a box with a slot, plus it ceases to be Freeview.

So instead I'll refer you to http://cyclingfans.com/ which lists other methods of watching and this thread http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12568381 where various options are being discussed in anticipation.

phil s

Forget TopupTV, total waste of time. I've had angry exchanges with them about their misleading advertising that they carry Eurosport... they only show it from 7.30am-11.30am.

GroupOfOne MkII

Yeah I'd heard that it wasn't on 24hrs a day, but didn't realise it was quite that bad! Anyway I'm quite happy with watching the Rai stream on the Giro, adds to the authenticity of it all 8)

Doobz

hopefully it will be available on freesat if not allready http://www.freesat.co.uk

afx237vi

Doobz wrote:

hopefully it will be available on freesat if not allready http://www.freesat.co.uk

No, that has virtually (exactly?) the same channels as Freeview - http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson.Main

The only way to get Eurosport is with a Sky package.

scwxx77

afx237vi wrote:

Doobz wrote:

hopefully it will be available on freesat if not allready http://www.freesat.co.uk

No, that has virtually (exactly?) the same channels as Freeview - http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson.Main

The only way to get Eurosport is with a Sky package.

I read it doesn't have Five and the like but that they were coming soon. It's jumping from 80 to a couple of hundred channels by the end of the year.

Doobz

oki's - I am pretty sure I read that Eurosport wanted in on freesat...

If not then apologies to all

deltadawn

GroupOfOne MkII wrote:

So instead I'll refer you to http://cyclingfans.com/ which lists other methods of watching and this thread http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12568381 where various options are being discussed in anticipation.

http://cyclingfans.com/ is a lifesaver! LOL! Well, maybe not a lifesaver, but they sure do help when you're looking for someplace to watch live race coverage.

Stephen Sorba

In the past I've just watched it via the RAI (Italian TV) web link. They will show at least the last couple of hours of every stage and I've never had a problem connecting. No doubt cyclingfans will flag up the precise link shortly.

chill123

do they ever have any english language feed on cycling fans?

my italian isn't what it was (come to think of it it never was!)

afx237vi

chill123 wrote:

do they ever have any english language feed on cycling fans?

my italian isn't what it was (come to think of it it never was!)

It depends whether Eurosport are doing any streaming or not. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I guess no-one knows atm. Again, you'll find all the info on cyclingfans tomorrow.

GroupOfOne MkII

Normally you can at least can English language audio from Eurosport (I say normally, by which I mean what Eurosport perceive as 'normal') which you can open in your browser. Then open the RAI stream in media player, mute that, crank up Harmon and Kelly and sit back and enjoy....well at least until you realise the pictures and words are now out of sync.

deal

GroupOfOne MkII wrote:

Normally you can at least can English language audio from Eurosport (I say normally, by which I mean what Eurosport perceive as 'normal') which you can open in your browser. Then open the RAI stream in media player, mute that, crank up Harmon and Kelly and sit back and enjoy....well at least until you realise the pictures and words are now out of sync.

this can be fixed if you can listen to the eurosport steam in realplayer since it allows the stream to be pause and rewound (until the point you started listening) so you listen for a few minutes try and estimate how much delay there is and then sync the audio and video streams up, this will only work if the video steam if the one which has the greater delay.

GroupOfOne MkII

Ah cool, will try that thanks!

Moomaloid

I may be a bit odd, but i quite like watching it on a foreign channel. Who cares if i can't understand what they are saying, a lot of the time its better than listening to the guys on eurosport.

maybe its the more exotic feel ha ha!

dirk_van_gently

Doobz wrote:

The only way to get Eurosport is with a Sky package.

Eurosport is still broadcast on the Astra Satellite, just need an old style dish and box, glad I didn't give mine up when we went digital.

ricadus

And both Eurosport channels are available on digital cable TV.

ricadus

I may be a bit odd, but i quite like watching it on a foreign channel. Who cares if i can't understand what they are saying, a lot of the time its better than listening to the guys on eurosport.

I agree. Why bother faffing about trying to sync the English audio with the RAI visuals? If you know anything of the race and the competitors then listening to the witterings of Eurosport commentators is hardly essential – and you might pick up some Italian too.

dirk_van_gently

ricadus
listening to the witterings of Eurosport commentators is hardly essential –

Amen to that!
Especially having to listen to Sean Kelly!! The man just makes everything sound so DULL.

Sadly sometimes he turns up on the RAI feed, speaking Italian, in that same boring tone.

LangerDan

ricadus wrote:

– and you might pick up some Italian too.

For the benefit of viewers of the RAI stream, it may be owrth compiling a list of Italian cycling terms to enhance their enjoyment of the coverage.
Heres a few to start:-

Rosa - pink, but in a macho way and not as you'd normally associate with a group of skinny, shaven, lycra-clad men

Tranquilo - I'm currently bricking it that Anne Gripper and hew SWAT team will abseil down my chimney and find me transfusing yeti blood

Bastardo - "I have been beaten by the better, younger rider and accept my defeat with dignity" see also "Simoni"

Simoni - the Italian for "Victor Meldrew"

Ignorante - See above

fuga - breakaway, as in "I'm going to fuga'ff up the road

tifoso - chianti-soaked nutbag

grupetto - Pinnochio's father

craigenty

RAI won't work today. Any ideas?

skavanagh.bikeradar

I've got an idea - someone puts it on proper telly!

jimmythecuckoo

skavanagh.bikeradar wrote:

I've got an idea - someone puts it on proper telly!

never gonna happen :roll:

GroupOfOne MkII

craigenty wrote:

RAI won't work today. Any ideas?

Working for me following the link from Cycling Fans if that's any help. Only way to watch the Giro is with Italian commentary 8)

On a side note, does Eurosport still have Christy Anderson doing her horrendous mid stage predictions from some cafe she's stopped off in?

craigenty

GroupOfOne MkII wrote:

craigenty wrote:

RAI won't work today. Any ideas?

Working for me following the link from Cycling Fans if that's any help. Only way to watch the Giro is with Italian commentary 8)

On a side note, does Eurosport still have Christy Anderson doing her horrendous mid stage predictions from some cafe she's stopped off in?

I got it eventually. It's ok with the volume down but with the UK Eurosport commentary.

afx237vi

GroupOfOne MkII wrote:

craigenty wrote:

RAI won't work today. Any ideas?

On a side note, does Eurosport still have Christy Anderson doing her horrendous mid stage predictions from some cafe she's stopped off in?

She hasn't been on ES for years! They've had quite a bit of Emma Davies in recent years (mainly for the Tour and the Worlds) and she's actually pretty good as a commentator.

GroupOfOne MkII

I haven't seen Eurosport coverage of the Giro since 2005, and she was my main memory* of that year's race haha.

*maybe a slight exaggeration!

blazing_saddles

You do all realise the Eurosport have no live coverage of the Plan de Corones time-trial, feed, tv or otherwise?
Since they are swopping coverage to Eurosport 2, from next Sunday, live coverage of the mountain stages aren't due to start until 4pm CET, so I think you may find, your only option is RAi streaming.

Crusty Anderson? Couldn't predict that the Sun rises in the morning. I could never work out how see managed to talk to 180 riders, every morning, in half an hour. Here reports from them, were as much guess work as her predictions. A total Bullshit artist.

Bernie S

Watch Cyclingfans as it may be a Eurosport 2 stream