new version of cycling.tv
There's a new interface to cycling.tv, a bit better than before but still weird and not at all user-friendly. How much advertising do they actually need to keep afloat? I guess most people aren't renewing their subscriptions.
Ummm not compatible with Firefox either... stupid sods - Firefox is only used by 20% of users.
My verdict:
I don't think they're going to last much longer if this is the best they can do. A shame really.
Ummm not compatible with Firefox either... stupid sods - Firefox is only used by 20% of users.
My verdict:
I don't think they're going to last much longer if this is the best they can do. A shame really.
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Perhaps that's why I couldn't get very far with it. All the prices were in $, so how much the packages are going to cost me was a little unclear. Also it didn't seem obvious which races were for USA/Canada IP addressees only and which ones, as a UK resident, I could actually have an option of watching.Ummm not compatible with Firefox either...
I guess Eurosport will set up their own subscription based, watch-when-you-like service, then outbid CyclingTV for the web rights to the big races.0 -
I sort of got it working on Firefox but not very well.
I only really have it running when I am on the turbo, but adverts cut in all the time. I certainly wouldn't subscribe to it though in its current guise.
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Is there any alternative?
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On telly there's Eurosport. On the web there's cyclingfans.com's list of feeds. Post-event you can get torrents from demonoid, mininova etc, or download from usenet via easynews.com.0
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Use cycling tv with Firefox no problems, Firefox 2 used the realplayer plug in & now Firefox 3 uses the windows media player 11 plug in
The only gripe I have with cycling tv is the lack of server space when its a race everyone wants to watch.0 -
My pc isnt powerful enough to work with torrents ...vermooten wrote:On telly there's Eurosport. On the web there's cyclingfans.com's list of feeds. Post-event you can get torrents from demonoid, mininova etc, or download from usenet via easynews.com. 0 -
What do you mean by not powerful enough?
My oldest and slowest laptop is my designated bittorrent machine. Any bittorrent client I've used required minimal resources.Winner: PTP Vuelta 2007
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not very technical minded sorry!
I just know it doesn't have too much space. For example Outlook and I-Tunes wont run at the same time without a major slow down.0 -
Needs more RAM installing perhaps. iTunes is a rather memory-hungry app to have runningalongside other software.0
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It does catch up eventually but that isn't much use when watching a race and it is jumpy.
Do they still have that shopping programme on cycling.tv ? that was legendary0
