Tour de France 2014 in UK
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Worth it for this alone, every road off the route is in total disrepair of course as a result but at least some of our roads finally got resurfaced
. Harrogate especially are terrible for it but thanks to the tour the town centre is now no longer a bone jarring experience, for car or cyclist.
I used to use the eurosport player before I had eurosport on sky. It was painful 
My internet was horribly slow but I think that was only part of the problem. The UI was buggy and hard to use as well.
This was a couple of years ago now, so hopefully they have improved things.
My internet was horribly slow but I think that was only part of the problem. The UI was buggy and hard to use as well.
This was a couple of years ago now, so hopefully they have improved things.
Eurosport Player was ghastly on my laptop with constant buffering whereas iPlayer in HD is absolutely fine streaming so it can't really be the computer. I blame it on crappy Silverlight. But on the 360 it runs beautifully.
Yeah well iPlayer isn't available here, and it doesn't have le Tour.
Can you read my post again? Where did I suggest using iPlayer?
LOL, after using this forum for 10+ years, I have none left.
But why are you suggesting using Eurosport player when you are in France? It must feel like non-stop coverage on France Télévisions 2, 3, 4?
It is, TF2, 3 and 4 aren't on normal aerial broadcast though, so we'd need to buy a TV box (like a Freeview decoder I guess), cheapest which we've found is €80 (no big deal I suppose).
The second problem of course is that it's all in French. In a few years time I'd hope that this will be fine, but for now I'd prefer the commentary so I can understand it
.So we have the option of Eurosport player which is €48/year and has Le Tour and an awful lot more and the advantage that we can understand it(!!), or a French "Freeviewer" box for €80ish.
OK. I see now.
So when you go to http://www.eurosportplayer.co.uk do you get redirected to http://www.eurosportplayer.fr ? If so, presumably you'll be getting the Euro Eurosport channels rather than the British ones. I don't know whether that's going to be in French or have the option for different language commentaries. Maybe try out the single month €5.99 option before you lock yourself in for 12 months.
So when you go to http://www.eurosportplayer.co.uk do you get redirected to http://www.eurosportplayer.fr ? If so, presumably you'll be getting the Euro Eurosport channels rather than the British ones. I don't know whether that's going to be in French or have the option for different language commentaries. Maybe try out the single month €5.99 option before you lock yourself in for 12 months.
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It is, TF2, 3 and 4 aren't on normal aerial broadcast though, so we'd need to buy a TV box (like a Freeview decoder I guess), cheapest which we've found is €80 (no big deal I suppose).
The second problem of course is that it's all in French. In a few years time I'd hope that this will be fine, but for now I'd prefer the commentary so I can understand it
So we have the option of Eurosport player which is €48/year and has Le Tour and an awful lot more and the advantage that we can understand it(!!), or a French "Freeviewer" box for €80ish.
If you're planning on accessing stuff through the internet then it's probably worth you simply getting a UK VPN and routing your traffic through that. Quite simple to do and it'll mean you get everything you could get whilst you were living over here (my commiserations
).I'd like to see the Schlecks doing well.
Not a massive fan of them but I think it would be nice to see them up there again.
And, of course, Purito will be my fav
I'd like to see the Schlecks doing well.
Not a massive fan of them but I think it would be nice to see them up there again.
And, of course, Purito will be my fav
My favourite is Geraint Thomas but he never wins anything.
I did support Andy Schleck in the year of the infamous chaingate but he's gone hopeless as well now. The only one who can stop Chris Froome is probably Contador so that's why I support him.But UK coverage of the tour isn't great.If you're planning on accessing stuff through the internet then it's probably worth you simply getting a UK VPN and routing your traffic through that. Quite simple to do and it'll mean you get everything you could get whilst you were living over here (my commiserations
Yer it redirects unfortunately so I suspect you're right, I'd have to pull the VPN trick to get eurosport.co.uk anyway.
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