Catch-up on Eurosport smart TV app?

KnightOfTheLongTights

I got a new smart TV that has the Eurosport app.
I've logged in and got the live channels fine, but assumed that I would be able to access the catch-up service through it too?
I gave up and watched Monday's Paris-Nice stage on my laptop instead...
Am I missing something?

joelsim

KnightOfTheLongTights wrote:

I got a new smart TV that has the Eurosport app.
I've logged in and got the live channels fine, but assumed that I would be able to access the catch-up service through it too?
I gave up and watched Monday's Paris-Nice stage on my laptop instead...
Am I missing something?

You have to pay for it. I have it on my Samsung but it won't even load.

mechanism

I can see on demand videos through the main menu (red button) on Samsung TV's Eurosport Player. Currently Paris Nice stages, Strada Bianche, track etc.

Secteur

Mechanism wrote:

I can see on demand videos through the main menu (red button) on Samsung TV's Eurosport Player. Currently Paris Nice stages, Strada Bianche, track etc.

+1

I discovered this for the first time yesterday! (Samsung TV, Eurosport player app & subscription).

ovi

my LG smart TV doesn't have catch up facility so I use the laptop or chromecast for that

Secteur

ovi wrote:

my LG smart TV doesn't have catch up facility so I use the laptop or chromecast for that

It's a feature of the App, not the TV (as I understand it) - so if you have the Eurosport Player App on your TV, you will have the catchup.

I certainly do on my LG TV (as well as my Samsung TV).

KnightOfTheLongTights

Oh thanks for all this - looks like I should have it. Not that it would have been much good for yesterday's stage ....

joelsim

Watch it on cyclinghub.tv mate

KnightOfTheLongTights

Secteur wrote:

ovi wrote:

my LG smart TV doesn't have catch up facility so I use the laptop or chromecast for that

It's a feature of the App, not the TV (as I understand it) - so if you have the Eurosport Player App on your TV, you will have the catchup.

I certainly do on my LG TV (as well as my Samsung TV).

OK, but are there two different apps - 'Eurosport app' and 'Eurosport player app'...?
I have a Samsung TV and it's got Eurosport app but I am not having much luck locating on-demand videos ....

ovi

Secteur wrote:

ovi wrote:

my LG smart TV doesn't have catch up facility so I use the laptop or chromecast for that

It's a feature of the App, not the TV (as I understand it) - so if you have the Eurosport Player App on your TV, you will have the catchup.

I certainly do on my LG TV (as well as my Samsung TV).

I use the eurosport app on my LG tv but it doesn't have catch up

KnightOfTheLongTights

I know you'll all be relieved to know I found it last night - forgotten how exactly but think it involved pressing the red button a lot.

ovi

let me know if you remember the way you got it to work please, out of interest what TV are you using?

takethehighroad

I tried pressing the red button on my telly, but then the screen went black. Realised it was the Power switch

daniel_b

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

I tried pressing the red button on my telly, but then the screen went black-and-white. Realised it was the Power switch

Lol.

I too have an lg tv, which has a built in app, and I could never get catchup to work either.
So do we think if I can find a slightly different app it might become available?

KnightOfTheLongTights

ovi wrote:

let me know if you remember the way you got it to work please, out of interest what TV are you using?

Sorry been away. It's a Samsung UE32H6400.
Not used it since Paris-Nice but will have another go tonight and see how I got the menu up.

KnightOfTheLongTights

So you just press the red button twice and a menu appears on which 'on demand' is one option.
However it is the sh * ttest catch-up service on earth - it's 8.30pm and still no paris-roubaix.
Effing infuriating.

ovi

the last 10 km to go and it all started getting jerkey then I never got to see the finish.

KnightOfTheLongTights

STILL not there. Symptomatic of the great technology con - you get conned into buying all sorts of crap, because there's little alternative, and then it doesn't do what it is meant to.

Secteur

Well it now seems that Samsung tv's have dropped Eurosport app and no longer support it (as of today, with no warning. It was working yesterday).

So I have bought (over the last 18 months) three new Samsung tv's - each bought above other brands specifically because they had the Eurosport player app installed. It's the only "app" I use on the smart tv.

Access can be had via iPad / Apple TV but it's a bit of a faff and certainly beyond the abilities of my 80yr old dad who has now effectively lost access to his beloved Cycling on tv.

What is it about Eurosport app that is so awkward / backwards.

PS gave up trying to watch the Vuelta on Sunday as it was constantly freezing - it would play for about 3 seconds, then freeze for about 6 seconds, constantly for the entire stage. Not a connection problem as all the other Eurosport player channels were playing smoothly. Only ever seems to affect the cycling feeds. Over the years I have tweeted Eurosport many times when this happens, and never once had a reply or acknowledgement. They just don't care - honestly flabbergasted by their level of customer support (see multiple threads here)

How hard can it be to just get lice cycling to the masses (who don't have sky tv?!)

daniel_b

:-(

I took out a full 12 months subscription today, only to go to the app on my LG tv, and be told that the product had been suspended, but could still be used on other devices.
Hoping this is not permanent.

So I thought I would get around it by simply using the browser and navigating to the website and sign in that way, but when I try and log in, it won't actually allow me to enter any information.

I have ordered a mouse and keyboard that should in theory work with my TV, hoping that might give some assistance.

Aside from that, is the only way to get the picture on the TV to purchase a cable to push a feed from my lapptop to it, treating it as an external monitor?

What a PITA.

bobmcstuff

Daniel B wrote:

Aside from that, is the only way to get the picture on the TV to purchase a cable to push a feed from my lapptop to it, treating it as an external monitor?

That's what I do, not a huge effort really (just a HDMI or VGA will do).

Would prefer they had an app for Playstation really, but laptop works fine.

clogg

Same thing happened to me today. My Subscription went to them on Monday. Bit of time off this afternoon, sit down to watch the Vuelta and I discover the Samsung App service is suspended. Its the only platform I use Eurosport on.
I tried working around it and using the browser, got logged in and the schedule up. Message then came up that the browser was not 'Flash 5 ??' compatible and wouldn't let me go any further.

bobmcstuff

/\ that'll be because the browser on smart TVs is usually a heap of junk.

mechanism

I'm hoping its a fairly short-term suspension of the service for smart TVs. I know I should ask them but in the past they were very slow to reply.

dish_dash

bobmcstuff wrote:

Daniel B wrote:

Aside from that, is the only way to get the picture on the TV to purchase a cable to push a feed from my lapptop to it, treating it as an external monitor?

That's what I do, not a huge effort really (just a HDMI or VGA will do).

Would prefer they had an app for Playstation really, but laptop works fine.

Can't you use Chromecast if you don't want to use a cable?

daniel_b

dish_dash wrote:

bobmcstuff wrote:

Daniel B wrote:

Aside from that, is the only way to get the picture on the TV to purchase a cable to push a feed from my lapptop to it, treating it as an external monitor?

That's what I do, not a huge effort really (just a HDMI or VGA will do).

Would prefer they had an app for Playstation really, but laptop works fine.

Can't you use Chromecast if you don't want to use a cable?

Never heard of that - for £25 that seems like a very neat solution - especially as you could presumably send the feed from your phone for example.

Ordered - will collect later!

ovi

the app is fine on the amazon firestick and is better than chromecast that I also use and it has better access to free movies using Kodi too

daniel_b

dish_dash wrote:

bobmcstuff wrote:

Daniel B wrote:

Aside from that, is the only way to get the picture on the TV to purchase a cable to push a feed from my lapptop to it, treating it as an external monitor?

That's what I do, not a huge effort really (just a HDMI or VGA will do).

Would prefer they had an app for Playstation really, but laptop works fine.

Can't you use Chromecast if you don't want to use a cable?

Thanks for your suggestion - bought the other day for £25, configured this morning, took about 10 minutes, nothing difficult, and streaming Eurosport now on the telly

KnightOfTheLongTights

Secteur wrote:

Well it now seems that Samsung tv's have dropped Eurosport app and no longer support it (as of today, with no warning. It was working yesterday).

So I have bought (over the last 18 months) three new Samsung tv's - each bought above other brands specifically because they had the Eurosport player app installed. It's the only "app" I use on the smart tv.

Access can be had via iPad / Apple TV but it's a bit of a faff and certainly beyond the abilities of my 80yr old dad who has now effectively lost access to his beloved Cycling on tv.

What is it about Eurosport app that is so awkward / backwards.

PS gave up trying to watch the Vuelta on Sunday as it was constantly freezing - it would play for about 3 seconds, then freeze for about 6 seconds, constantly for the entire stage. Not a connection problem as all the other Eurosport player channels were playing smoothly. Only ever seems to affect the cycling feeds. Over the years I have tweeted Eurosport many times when this happens, and never once had a reply or acknowledgement. They just don't care - honestly flabbergasted by their level of customer support (see multiple threads here)

How hard can it be to just get lice cycling to the masses (who don't have sky tv?!)

This. It's the great technology con. Nothing you pay for will necessarily do what it is meant to do, at least for anything more than a year.