My dearest parents are growing bored and annoyed with paying for a sky subscription and have decided that it would be far more economically wise to just pay for Eurosport player for cycling events, as that's pretty much all we actually pay for and use nowadays. I was wondering if anyone else has used the player over the past year and what they've found it like. Can you view live programs later, as if you'd recorded it, or is it purely a live stream player?
I've had it for 2 years or so, 40 € a year (must be £ 30 or 35).
Works quite fine, although since they removed the HD bit and decided to set the quality accordingly to the estimated broadband, the quality has lowered (HD worked, so no broadband issue, I reckon).
You get 2 live streams, plus sometimes special channels, like when there are more than two events that can't get broadcast live at the same time on the two channels (doh), you get a channel dedicated to the event, sometimes the number grows up to 5 or 6.
I don't think you can record or watch it live later, but eurosport have short replays of most events anyway (I don't think you need the subscription for those).
Edited by Aquarius on 06-04-2012 21:59
Also used it last year. With a good internet connection you have good quality streams for ESP 1 and 2 plus Eurosport News.
There are some videos to watch later, not sure about cycling replays or so.
For special events like Tennis GrandSlams or other events there are special streams for different games. Same for the cycling GT`s last year where you already had early live videos without commentator.
It really, really sucked last year. Didn't work during most of the Giro d'Italia and also had issues, though not as severe, during the rest of the year.
It worked quite perfectly the year before that, but I guess it got overloaded last year which also explains why they switched from manual quality to automatic quality.
It might be fine again now. Don't know since I didn't renew my subscription. You can be sure, though, that it's not anywhere near TV quality.
