Eurosport for cheap

chriskempton
chriskempton Posts: 1,245
edited May 2010 in Road buying advice
As far as I can see, the cheapest way to watch Eurosport is by taking out a Sky package.

I'm excluding the internet option of Eurosport Player here - I tried it last year and found my viewing pleasure was often interrupted by not having anything to view. Just when it was getting to the good bits.

Eurosport used to be on Top Up TV but that no longer seems to be the case.

Are there any options that don't involve lining Murdoch's pockets yet further?

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  • stokepa31
    stokepa31 Posts: 560
    have you checked out virgin media. its in their base package for tv
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  • acidstrato
    acidstrato Posts: 945
    also interested in this 3.99 a month seems like only option for non tv subscription though
    Crafted in Italy apparantly
  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    get an old analogue satellite box and point it at Astra 19.2E
    Eurosport, in English, for free.
  • chriskempton
    chriskempton Posts: 1,245
    stokepa31 wrote:
    have you checked out virgin media. its in their base package for tv

    Thanks I'll give it a look - might be a good solution as I have them for broadband and mobile.
  • chriskempton
    chriskempton Posts: 1,245
    avoidingmyphd wrote:
    get an old analogue satellite box and point it at Astra 19.2E
    Eurosport, in English, for free.

    Thanks but I'm rubbish at technology - what does pointing it mean. I do have a satellite dish still on the house from a previous Sky contract so this could work?
  • stokepa31
    stokepa31 Posts: 560
    chriskempton wrote:
    stokepa31 wrote:
    have you checked out virgin media. its in their base package for tv

    Thanks I'll give it a look - might be a good solution as I have them for broadband and mobile.

    they are pretty good value. i get 20mb internet, standard phone with free evening and weekend calls and and the large tv package for £42. every so often I phone up and threaten to leave and they reduce the price lol
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  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,223
    chriskempton wrote:
    avoidingmyphd wrote:
    get an old analogue satellite box and point it at Astra 19.2E
    Eurosport, in English, for free.

    Thanks but I'm rubbish at technology - what does pointing it mean. I do have a satellite dish still on the house from a previous Sky contract so this could work?

    +1 - watching this with interest!
  • kingrollo
    kingrollo Posts: 3,198
    stokepa31 wrote:
    have you checked out virgin media. its in their base package for tv



    Don't think it is in there basic package - although they will probably say it is when you ring up !
  • andyrr
    andyrr Posts: 1,823
    Old dish is very likely to be pointing in the correct direction - is the LNB still connected to the dish arm ?
    If so then all you would need is the cable to the receiver and away you go.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    TBH apart from one screw up on one stage of the TdF last year, Eurosport Player has been smashing for me. However I'd find a TV subscription useless anyway, as I don't have a TV in Manchester, and Eurosport Player means I can watch stuff anywhere I am that has Internet.
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  • stokepa31
    stokepa31 Posts: 560
    kingrollo wrote:
    stokepa31 wrote:
    have you checked out virgin media. its in their base package for tv



    Don't think it is in there basic package - although they will probably say it is when you ring up !

    its in the medium plus tv package which is £5.50 if you take the telephone line or £11.50 if you jut take the tv alone
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  • chriskempton
    chriskempton Posts: 1,245
    chriskempton wrote:
    stokepa31 wrote:
    have you checked out virgin media. its in their base package for tv

    Thanks I'll give it a look - might be a good solution as I have them for broadband and mobile.

    No cable where I live so that's out :cry:
  • Slater
    Slater Posts: 80
    avoidingmyphd wrote:
    get an old analogue satellite box and point it at Astra 19.2E
    Eurosport, in English, for free.

    It's not in English it's in German and it doesn't show exactly the same things as British Eurosport.

    I was watching the Giro on it but some days Eurosport Germany decided to go with the tennis instead of cycling whilst British Eurosport went with cycling.
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  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    chriskempton wrote:
    avoidingmyphd wrote:
    get an old analogue satellite box and point it at Astra 19.2E
    Eurosport, in English, for free.
    Thanks but I'm rubbish at technology - what does pointing it mean. I do have a satellite dish still on the house from a previous Sky contract so this could work?
    It depends how old the old sky contract was.
    Sky TV changed satellite in 2000-2001 when it changed to digital, from 19.2E to 28.2E (degrees in the sky). There are still plenty of other broadcasters using the old satellite though, and one of them happens to be Eurosport. So if your dish is old enough to be pointing at the old satellite, and is still cabled into the house, then you are ready to watch it. It's easy to check - just compare with neigbours. If your dish is pointing "wrong" then - assuming it hasn't moved - it is presumably pointing in the old direction.
    But be aware that the satellite broadcasts both digital and analogue services. As well as a dish pointing in the old direction you'll need an old box as well, which received analogue rather than digital signals. Search ebay for "analogue satellite" and plenty will pop up. Once you get one, just plug it in and browse the channels. There will be a lot of rubbish, but there will also be Eurosport in English.
    Slater wrote:
    It's not in English it's in German
    I know why you think this. Eurosport broadcasts twice from 19.2E, one in digital (use a modern box) and one in analogue (use an old box).
    The analogue feed has English audio.
    The digital one - which must be the one you are thinking of - is only in German.

    End of satellite TV geekery.
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    ...and there was me thinking of ripping my old dish down! Only need an old satalite box and I can watch Eurosport again YAY!
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  • stokepa31
    stokepa31 Posts: 560
    ive just noticed Eurosport HD has popped up on virgin this morning. woop woop
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  • moonshine
    moonshine Posts: 1,022
    eurosport player iphone app - £2.99 for a month
  • Slater
    Slater Posts: 80
    avoidingmyphd wrote:
    The digital one - which must be the one you are thinking of - is only in German.

    I stand corrected.
    I thought that anologue signal was switched off years ago :shock:
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  • bexley5200
    bexley5200 Posts: 692
    what we want is cycling,the whole race and to watch all the race without ads,that would be nice eurosport show all the other sports dont they.
    going downhill slowly
  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    Can't you get it by buying a freesat box if there is an unused sky dish on your house? We used to get Eurosport as a free channel when we didn't have a valid viewing card on our old sky system.
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  • Slater
    Slater Posts: 80
    guilliano wrote:
    Can't you get it by buying a freesat box if there is an unused sky dish on your house? We used to get Eurosport as a free channel when we didn't have a valid viewing card on our old sky system.


    Foxsat Humax HD Freesat receiver is what I use to watch the German version.

    Eurosport is not part of freesat though. The receiver has a non freesat mode wich allows it to work as standard receiver. I have a motorised dish so can swing it around from 28 to 19.2e

    Freesat and Freesat from sky are separate platforms.
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  • syncro
    syncro Posts: 120
    I know it wouldn't be everbodies cup o tea but I've just bought the Eurosport iPhone app. £2.39 per month ( no subscription, just pay as you go) and that gives me Eurosport 1&2. Damn useful for break times at work!
  • moonshine
    moonshine Posts: 1,022
    syncro wrote:
    I know it wouldn't be everbodies cup o tea but I've just bought the Eurosport iPhone app. £2.39 per month ( no subscription, just pay as you go) and that gives me Eurosport 1&2. Damn useful for break times at work!

    +1 :)
    (see my post of yesterday... :wink:)
  • syncro
    syncro Posts: 120
    moonshine wrote:
    syncro wrote:
    I know it wouldn't be everbodies cup o tea but I've just bought the Eurosport iPhone app. £2.39 per month ( no subscription, just pay as you go) and that gives me Eurosport 1&2. Damn useful for break times at work!

    +1 :)
    (see my post of yesterday... :wink:)

    Doh!
    Didn't see that.
  • moonshine
    moonshine Posts: 1,022
    I decided (much to my GF relief) that the Iphone App was probably a much safer option than faffing about leaning out of a 3rd storey flat window with a socket set, trying to realighn my dish! :shock:

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