Giro Highlights - whats going on?!!
bsharp77
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Hi guys,
How hard is it to get some Giro highlights?!!!
Scheduled on sky last night at 8, came on at 8:30, scheduled the same tonight.....im still waiting.
Bad enough that they don't provide on demand highlights on either sky go or eurosport player....what an absolute pain.
Anyone know if sky provide updates as to when programmes are being rescheduled - i tried their twitter feed but to no avail.
How hard is it to get some Giro highlights?!!!
Scheduled on sky last night at 8, came on at 8:30, scheduled the same tonight.....im still waiting.
Bad enough that they don't provide on demand highlights on either sky go or eurosport player....what an absolute pain.
Anyone know if sky provide updates as to when programmes are being rescheduled - i tried their twitter feed but to no avail.
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I watch it on Eurosport, they have highlights show too.0
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I've been using youtube, if it's highlights you wantCanyon Roadlite AL-Shamal Wheels-Centaur/Veloce Group
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I agree, 3 week tours require on-demand (or at least reliably scheduled) highlights programmes (20-40 mins) to work as a spectator sport. No-one who has a life can watch several hours of live broadcast every day during the day, and even at weekends many/most cyclists will want to be out riding or doing something else rather than stuck in front of the telly during the best part of the day.
For the Tour it's usually fine because the ITV4 daily highlights programmes are on-demand, so you can watch them over dinner or whatever. But with the Giro and the Vuelta it can be a pain... IMO Eurosport and Sky are shooting themselves in the foot by not offering on-demand highlights, because people are then forced to go to other sources for highlights, and these other sources usually have the advertising edited out. I use http://cyclingtorrents.nl/index.php The only problem is that you usually can't get a highlights programme until the day after the stage, so you are always running 24 hours+ behind and in danger of hearing the stage result before seeing it.. You can often download the live broadcast the same day, but again, who has time to watch 2-3 hours of cycling every evening?0 -
Yep - you got it neeb, this is exactly my point.
However it was even worse last night. Despite Sky Sports 3 listing highlights at 8pm, there was tennis on all the way through till 10pm when I just gave up. How on earth can they do that?!!! It was beyond annoying and I cant believe they couldn't update schedules to at least let us know....instead of me sitting waiting for over an hour for it to come on.
Thanks for the tip on cyclingtorrents - ill check it out.....as im now a day behind anyway.0 -
They put the coverage right back to 10.30 pm - 2 1/2 hours after the original scheduled time! And all for a poxy minor tennis match involving a Spanish doper. The match can barely have started when the cycling coverage was due to start. I've e-mailed them to express my outrage!
Delaying coverage by 10 or 15 minutes to finish a match off i can just about put up with but last night really took the michael to the extreme.0 -
Eurosport are showing Giro highlights. AT MIDNIGHT EVERY NIGHT :roll:
The tennis match over running thing seems quite rare for Sky though. Eurosport do it nearly every day. God knows how their scheduling teams have kept their jobs.0 -
neeb wrote:I agree, 3 week tours require on-demand (or at least reliably scheduled) highlights programmes (20-40 mins) to work as a spectator sport. No-one who has a life can watch several hours of live broadcast every day during the day, and even at weekends many/most cyclists will want to be out riding or doing something else rather than stuck in front of the telly during the best part of the day.
For the Tour it's usually fine because the ITV4 daily highlights programmes are on-demand, so you can watch them over dinner or whatever. But with the Giro and the Vuelta it can be a pain... IMO Eurosport and Sky are shooting themselves in the foot by not offering on-demand highlights, because people are then forced to go to other sources for highlights, and these other sources usually have the advertising edited out. I use http://cyclingtorrents.nl/index.php The only problem is that you usually can't get a highlights programme until the day after the stage, so you are always running 24 hours+ behind and in danger of hearing the stage result before seeing it.. You can often download the live broadcast the same day, but again, who has time to watch 2-3 hours of cycling every evening?
Isn't ITV4 on demand channel pay only now? I have an ITV player app on the iPad, and ITV4 only seems available for subscibers. Bit of a cheek, given that it's free to watch on the TV if you are free at the right time.0 -
That's a little annoying if true. Although if it's reasonably priced like Eurosport Player I'm not too bothered. I don't mind paying for a service that's good and tailored to my needs (i.e. on demand highlights), what I object to is the providers not making the material available at all in a useable format and then complaining about copyright when people are forced to obtain it by dubious means. Same with book publishers moaning about copyright infringement when a book is out-of-print and they refuse to print it...LakesLuddite wrote:Isn't ITV4 on demand channel pay only now? I have an ITV player app on the iPad, and ITV4 only seems available for subscibers. Bit of a cheek, given that it's free to watch on the TV if you are free at the right time.0 -
I subscribe to Eurosport online....only £3.99 per month. I think it is great value for their live footage and replays. The only problem I have is not being able to focus on my work ( I work from home at the moment ).
There is a lot of cycling on at the moment which is covered - brilliant!
Stage 6 update - more really bad crashes in the wet. I hope the guys are OK.0 -
Even getting the highlights, any else noticed that the picture constantly breaks up / freezes etc. It's starting the get on my wick ... and this is on Eurosport HD and Sky Sport 3 HD, so it's not a steaming buffering issue. Must just be the television provider they've bought the footage from is using crap hardware.
Hopefully it'll be better for the Tour de France.0 -
dee4life2005 wrote:Even getting the highlights, any else noticed that the picture constantly breaks up / freezes etc. It's starting the get on my wick ... and this is on Eurosport HD and Sky Sport 3 HD, so it's not a steaming buffering issue. Must just be the television provider they've bought the footage from is using crap hardware.
Hopefully it'll be better for the Tour de France.
It's not Eurosport, like you say, it's the providers. It happens in most races, even TDF. I'm not tech head on this but trees, weather etc can disrupt the video feed as it is received remotely. I don't think it is crap hardware, a studio camera is hardwired, when they are moving at speed that's a different story - it just happens, some days are better than others.0 -
Annoyingly, Cyclingtorrents has been down for the last 24 hours. Apparently a system crash.. Wouldn't put it past Eurosport to have sabotaged it.
Eurosport really are a bunch of tossers. I actually think that the scheduling anomalies are intentional - if people can't switch on and watch what they want at the correct time, they get exposed to more advertising.
Right now (8.45 UK time) the ToC is 20 minutes late. Not only did the horse racing which is now on start 5-10 minutes late, but it is actually lasting 2 or 3 times longer than scheduled! And it is not a live program. I can see no other explanations for that other than massive incompetence or intentional viewer manipulation.
And of course there is no meaningful way to complain or provide feedback that will be responded to.
Tossers.0
