Streaming Cycling in UK - Discovery+ prices!

[Blazing Saddles]

Yeah, the ads were annoying but my stream was fine. I used surfshark vpn and it didnt really affect my btoadband speed like some vpns do.

I use surfshark too.

 

[Norry1]

I have TNT Sports channels through my Virgin Media package. I had considered subscribing for the Streaming App but put off by the price.

I was pleasantly surprised when I got an email from Virgin yesterday saying I now also got HBO+ sports Streaming at no additional charge. After a bit of faffing, I now have HBO Sports (streaming) on my Smart TV, mobile phone and will also put it on my tablet. Great news.

 

[geocycle]

Happy to report a smooth transition from the Discovery app to the HBO app on my EE TV box. Passwords etc were all retained. It looks very similar to the Discovery app which is a shame because that’s pretty poor. Still it works and they haven’t yet put the price up.

 

[TailWindHome]

Yeah. The HBO app through Sky is telling me i require a TNT plan, which I have through Sky.
Which annoying

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If anyone else is in the same position the answer is that it'll update itself in a bit...

This has now appeared on my sky accounts and i have access

 

[albion]

I used the app to access Quest for the bits of the Moto GP they show.
Now even that is inaccessible without paying (Fire TV)

Uninstalled.

 

[Superlight-Andy]

I've scanned through this thread but it clear what, for someone like me currently with no subscriptions to any relevant streaming service such as Virginia, Sky etc, what the cheapest way of accessing cycling on Hbo max TNT Sports in the UK is? My daughter is keen on getting English language commentary TV /Amazon Firestick for at least some of the big races altho I'm generally OK getting native language streams via Nordvpn. Even paying on a selective monthly basis for Flanders /Roubaix and Giro and Tdf probably acceptable.
Tiz is OK at a pinch but streams and or 100% reliable.
Is Now tv a cost-effective route?
TIA

 

[MadMalx]

I've scanned through this thread but it clear what, for someone like me currently with no subscriptions to any relevant streaming service such as Virginia, Sky etc, what the cheapest way of accessing cycling on Hbo max TNT Sports in the UK is? My daughter is keen on getting English language commentary TV /Amazon Firestick for at least some of the big races altho I'm generally OK getting native language streams via Nordvpn. Even paying on a selective monthly basis for Flanders /Roubaix and Giro and Tdf probably acceptable.
Tiz is OK at a pinch but streams and or 100% reliable.
Is Now tv a cost-effective route?
TIA

SBS (australia) has most of the races, via VPN. Working great for me.

 

[Superlight-Andy]

SBS (australia) has most of the races, via VPN. Working great for me.

I'll try SBS again but it did seem to work for me a week or so ago. I was using 2 HONOR android devices - ideally I'd like to be able to watch on TV - not sure if casting or a wired connection is possible for SBS.

 

[MadMalx]

I'll try SBS again but it did seem to work for me a week or so ago. I was using 2 HONOR android devices - ideally I'd like to be able to watch on TV - not sure if casting or a wired connection is possible for SBS.

Ah right - i’m on a laptop. My tv is old and dumb

 

[cyberknight]

If anyone else is in the same position the answer is that it'll update itself in a bit...

This has now appeared on my sky accounts and i have access

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Having just had the update through sky you do get hbo max and it does list the cycling but they have a "get access" across the title screen so i assume they are behind an extra level of paywall , a quick google says you need to upgrade to hbo premier plus

 

[andrew_s]

Having migrated from GCN to Discovery+ to HBO Max as a stand-alone package, it would appear that I've gained access to the HBO films etc library, which would seem to be a decent improvement on the non-TNT channels included with Discovery+.
By way of a try-out to check there were no restrictions on what was listed, I watched Harry Potter 1, which had 5 minutes of adverts before starting to play, but which was otherwise uniterrupted.
Actual migration was just a matter of going to hbomax.com (or installing the phone app) and logging on using the same email/password as I used for D+.

 

[mjr]

By way of a try-out to check there were no restrictions on what was listed, I watched Harry Potter 1, which had 5 minutes of adverts before starting to play, but which was otherwise uniterrupted.

Are you trying to make a political point or was that just a poor choice of film?

 

[HLaB]

I have TNT Sports channels through my Virgin Media package. I had considered subscribing for the Streaming App but put off by the price.

I was pleasantly surprised when I got an email from Virgin yesterday saying I now also got HBO+ sports Streaming at no additional charge. After a bit of faffing, I now have HBO Sports (streaming) on my Smart TV, mobile phone and will also put it on my tablet. Great news.

Ive got it (HBO Max) as an add on package to my Firestick and from what I've seen so far I can at least get some value out of streaming HBO stuff which seems more entertaining than Discovery+

 

[NorvernRob]

Yeah, the ads were annoying but my stream was fine. I used surfshark vpn and it didnt really affect my btoadband speed like some vpns do.

I'm currently in Egypt, and even the iffy hotel Wi-Fi didn’t stop Surfshark working well enough for me to watch firstly the F1 from the UK, then Flanders Fields from Oz. Been a bargain for around £2.50 per month!

 

[tarric]

I have TNT Sports through sky and it was a bit of a faff with trying to swap from Discovery + to HBO it took 5 different "Advisors" to finally get it sorted the first 4 told me I could only activate it through my sky box but seeing as I'm on my travels and have been for a couple of months now and there is now way I'm traveling nearly 2000 miles just to activate it on my Q box, so they transferred me to someone to cancel my TNT Sports subscription and he asked why I was canceling and I told him what they told me. He asked how many people I had talked to and I told him, he said it wasn't really his department as he only dealt with cancelations and then proceeded to talk me through how to activate it through the Sky app on my phone. So 4 "customer service advisors including 1 who was supposedly a supervisor didn't know what they were talking about and someone who it wasn't even part of his job was the one that help to sort it out that's an hour and a bit of my life I'm never getting back.
I have a Tesco mobile unlimited sim on my phone and I have never needed a VPN on my travels it always thinks I'm at home, I can't even access ITV app on my tv I have to us the STV one as I live in Scotland.