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christopherrowe

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Yah, last night beIN's website showed 'Cycling' @ 8:30am......but today is a different day :mad:
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Y'know, I saw that too and got really excited, posted about it, checked again ten minutes later, and assumed that I had misread something because it had changed in the interim. Thus my gnomic edited post above.

It seems really weird to not show live coverage on what promised to be one of the most exciting days of the race so far.

Meanwhile, I wish somebody at Universal Sports had had a crystal ball and had seen how exciting the Tour of Norway was going to to turn out to be. I haven't watched my recording of today's stage of the World Ports Classic yet, but I'm betting it's got nothing on the racing they've been doing in Norway.
 
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I watched the beIN live stream available to subscribers (like Universal Sports). Didn't know it existed before!!! Thanks zlev11 :)

It was great HD picture and sound, plus NO commercials. Hooked laptop up to tv with HDMI cable and it was almost as good as having it on tv. No record ability or rewind etc. But I can record the beIN tv show on later and watch the final 10km again at my leisure :)

Tomorrow beIN will NOT show the stage live but you can stream it from their website: http://www.beinsportsplay.tv/schedule/cycling.

Also on Tuesday there is streaming coverage starting at 6:45AM in case you want to watch before the tv coverage comes on at 8AM.
 
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christopherrowe said:
It seems really weird to not show live coverage on what promised to be one of the most exciting days of the race so far.
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As mad as I am at beIN at least the moto crash I read about will be edited on the 4pm broadcast. I hope the person survives but reports made it seem like it was really bad
 
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Carols said:
I watched the beIN live stream available to subscribers (like Universal Sports). Didn't know it existed before!!! Thanks zlev11 :)

It was great HD picture and sound, plus NO commercials. Hooked laptop up to tv with HDMI cable and it was almost as good as having it on tv. No record ability or rewind etc. But I can record the beIN tv show on later and watch the final 10km again at my leisure :)

Tomorrow beIN will NOT show the stage live but you can stream it from their website: http://www.beinsportsplay.tv/schedule/cycling.

Also on Tuesday there is streaming coverage starting at 6:45AM in case you want to watch before the tv coverage comes on at 8AM.
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Good tip. ES was breaking up so much when I was watching earlier this morning. Could hardly tell what was even happening in the race. Went looking for other streams and found Beins. Nice big screen in great quality and not breaking up at all. It was very nice. :)
 
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The last two stages I had to watch via the BEIN internet feed. HDMI cable from laptop into the big screen TV of course.

The image is less than HD, however when you do it this way you get NO commercials......a happy trade off I think.
 
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christopherrowe

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According to their online schedules, beIN isn't planning on broadcasting the last two stages of the Giro at all, depending on Saturday and Sunday exclusively on their online feeds.

I don't follow football/soccer but it looks like perhaps the European leagues all have matches this weekend, which I guess is beIN's bread and butter.
 
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christopherrowe said:
According to their online schedules, beIN isn't planning on broadcasting the last two stages of the Giro at all, depending on Saturday and Sunday exclusively on their online feeds.
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Yah, that has me worried too!

I really hate to give up my phone number, my account number, my password, the amount of my last bill, my first born & a kidney to watch the Zoncolan - especially when I thought I already paid for a TV service to watch it!

I have grown to DETEST beIN during this Giro (and I already greatly disliked them after their abominable T-A coverage.) :mad:
 
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Off the Giro topic for a second.... TourTracker coverage of USPro Championships was excellent. iOS mobile app worked flawlessly for me, and commentary easily exceeded what we normally get this side of the pond.

I had very low expectations, but video quality was great and announcers were quite solid.

Chapeau
 
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Yah, that has me worried too!

I really hate to give up my phone number, my account number, my password, the amount of my last bill, my first born & a kidney to watch the Zoncolan - especially when I thought I already paid for a TV service to watch it!

I have grown to DETEST beIN during this Giro (and I already greatly disliked them after their abominable T-A coverage.) :mad:
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Just log into your cable provider account, they already have your kidney et al, and that will set a cookie in your browser. Then go to the bein sports page and the video will play without further requests for organs or first borns.
 
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Just log into your cable provider account, they already have your kidney et al, and that will set a cookie in your browser. Then go to the bein sports page and the video will play without further requests for organs or first borns.
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Thanks!

10 char
 
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Just to confirm what my own research has shown (and hopefully I'm wrong), does anybody have any other information besides this?

For the two upcoming Tour tune-ups:

Critérium du Dauphiné: Full coverage on cycling.tv and an odd-hours daily highlight show on NBC Sports Network.

Tour de Suisse: Nothing. Nothing at all.
 
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christopherrowe said:
Just to confirm what my own research has shown (and hopefully I'm wrong), does anybody have any other information besides this?

For the two upcoming Tour tune-ups:

Critérium du Dauphiné: Full coverage on cycling.tv and an odd-hours daily highlight show on NBC Sports Network.

Tour de Suisse: Nothing. Nothing at all.
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Confirmed...same as last year unfortunately :(
 
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christopherrowe

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Well this is frustrating. ASO has announced several kind of groovy new features to the television coverage of the Dauphine, including using some kind of extra fancy camera that does extra fancy slow motion replays and installing fixed cameras so that that 1.7 km section of the opening TT that goes through a tunnel won't be blacked out. They're broadcasting in 175 countries on 22 networks, including, and this is the frustrating bit, beIN Sports' Middle East and North Africa channels. But not their North American channels, alas, which leaves us with no-doubt-lamely-edited highlights packages and/or last 90 minutes of the race replays at odd hours on NBC Sports.

I know, I know, I shouldn't complain and be thankful for all the cycling I do get to watch. Which means I'll soon be complaining about how apparently there's no way to see any of the Tour de Suisse in the States at all! ;)
 
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zlev11 said:
and Tour de Suisse will be live on beIN

http://www.beinsports.tv/tv-schedule

only the first stage two stages are listed so far (9:30am on the 14th and 15th)
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This is great news! Thanks! I wish beIN would announce their schedules in advance.

As for the Dauphine, I broke down and bought a quarterly subscription to cycling.tv just in case. Unfortunately I'll be on an isolated mountaintop in North Carolina without television, internet, or even phone service the 14th through the 20th but I'll definitely record Tour de Suisse.
 
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