after work today and tomorrow evening/night - that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make! Hopefully there will be some good stream available with my snail-fast Internet, thanks for everybody posting a streams/coverage!!!It is that extra "ISU" channel that shows complete coverage (and live, to boot!) that convinced me to subscribe. It appears (from Sabinfire's posts) to provide the same kind of coverage as Ice Network or the ISU Edgesuite.net... ie. no commentary, which may make your language questions redundant?
Oh... so if I understand you correctly, you want to watch the figure skating, accessed through the player, via a VPN that tells the thing you're outside the British Eurosport zone, so you'll get the not-British Eurosport. And then access the international commentary. Not sure how that works, would there even be international English commentary, if British Eurosport isn't airing it?
I doubt there will be commentaries on the ISU stream in the Eurosport player, at least not for the live events during the (European) night times. Because these would be the same people who would then be commentating on the same event for the recaps the next day? No way. The Dutch (and presumably other) commentators will be sleeping during the night, and then do the commentary for the recaps in the morning, I think. Unless they're actually present there on location for the commentary? I know the Dutch commentators never are, anyway.
But I guess I may yet be proven wrong tonight.
As for what language the commentary I get is in... that probably just depends. On television, we have the option of switching between Dutch and English. If there is no Dutch commentary, it automatically defaults to the English audio. Right now, I checked the eurosport player, there's cricket live, and it's British commentary, but I'm not in the UK. There just isn't any Dutch commentary for this event (for cricket, there'll never be!).
With figure skating... no idea. I'm gonna see if I can find a stream with multiple audio streams.
edit to add: there is a soccer match on Eurosport 2 (accessed through the player app), it started in English and then after a switch seconds automatically switched to Dutch. So maybe if you use a VPN, you can tell the thing you're in the UK if you fancy British commentary.
Oh... so if I understand you correctly, you want to watch the figure skating, accessed through the player, via a VPN that tells the thing you're outside the British Eurosport zone, so you'll get the not-British Eurosport. And then access the international commentary. Not sure how that works, would there even be international English commentary, if British Eurosport isn't airing it?
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Thank you. But, having seen the quality of the pictures from sabinfire's videos, and seeing on the schedule pages all the additional stuff they show, I was thinking of going the full hog and getting the 12 month subscription! (Which also has the added advantage of being £2/month cheaper!)
Because, if it is as good as people on here say it is, it is definitely worth it! :agree:
Plus, it would be handy to have an additional way of watching Eurosport, seeing as Sky+ only has 2 tuners, and there have been occasions recently when we could have been doing with having a third tuner...
Put it like this - I can imagine it being used extensively!
CaroLiza_fan
I had no idea. I suppose I've always thought that Eurosport was only accessible to countries in, well, Europe.
Thanks for the explanation, it does answer a lot of questions.
