Winter Olympics

EEPhil

EEPhil

Number 28
Trying to watch the curling on BBC2. Late starting and taken off after 4 ends. Fired up my phone's hotspot to use iPlayer on the Aura. That in itself is a problem. iPlayer kept streaming BBC2 rather than the curling stream. Tried 4 times to get curling, which I eventually did. Now the Aura specific problem. There is no new iPlayer update but I had a "Precert - not for production" message in red plastered over the top right corner. :mad:
Does this mean the iPlayer app isn't certified?
...king Humax!

Edit: As you were!
I tested iPlayer on Tinker Taylor... for a few seconds and then went to a winter Olympics live feed. Both okay, no banner.
 
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Black Hole said:
Indeed. We could do with the multiple streams on 600+.
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Even if the BBC could find the space for multiple streams it wouldn't help. TNT have the full rights and BBC have limited broadcasting rights.
What really p's me off, as it did last Winter Olympics, is that it is difficult - if not impossible - to find when and where the curling is. Then they turn up late and leave early!

Yesterday I managed to catch the last four ends on iPlayer after a faff to get the correct stream. My metered phone data plan took a big hit!

If they had all the GB matches available to watch later I might be able to limit the damage. As it is I can't find many matches available on catch-up. Where there are some they are embedded somewhere within a large BBC1 or BBC2 programme. :mad: :mad:
 
EEPhil said:
If they had all the GB matches available to watch later I might be able to limit the damage. As it is I can't find many matches available on catch-up. Where there are some they are embedded somewhere within a large BBC1 or BBC2 programme.
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The iPlayer stuff is $h!t. I don't know why they push it so much (well I do, but you know what I mean). Three of the four items on the top row of day 2 yesterday just gave away the results immediately. What is the point? What goes though their tiny little minds?
Anyway, just record 601 in addition to the alternating regular channels and you will have everything that's on the iPlayer which you can spin through as you desire at no cost.
 
prpr said:
Anyway, just record 601 in addition to the alternating regular channels and you will have everything that's on the iPlayer which you can spin through as you desire at no cost.
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Was the second half of the curling on 601. It wasn't when I checked. I had been recording BBC1/2 and 601 (for earlier matches) and didn't find it.
 
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EEPhil said:
Was the second half of the curling on 601.
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I don't know as I wasn't recording it at the time. When I looked on the iPlayer it was certainly on the Olympic Extra feed which I assumed was just a copy of 601 - it certainly looked like it ought to have been.
 
trog said:
I am not sure but you might with the help of a free VPN be able to get something of use out of this article.
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The BBC ought to broadcast the GB games. Not much to expect - some proper coverage once every four years. It's our BBC, so they keep telling us.
 
EEPhil said:
It's our BBC, so they keep telling us.
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...but with so many people avoiding the license fee by only using (or claiming to only use) streaming services, it's only some of us's BBC and the coffers are insufficient to outbid foreign/competing interests.
 
But it's the BBC's choice to screw up the curling. They could put curling on 601 and the less interesting to me (and perhaps more interesting to the yoof) on t'net. And not top and tail it. And not squash it to tell me what's on somewhere else whilst a stone is in motion. :mad:
 
EEPhil said:
But it's the BBC's choice to screw up the curling.
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Not necessarily. They are reliant on the Italians (or TNT) for their feed, and even if they have a degree of choice they probably are only allowed n feeds at a time. Then it becomes a judgement call which feed will be most popular – those were only round-robins, while there were actual medal contests going on elsewhere and a lot more exciting (to some) than curling.

In case you hadn't noticed, the semi-final is at 5pm today and the final at 5pm tomorrow. The bronze play-off (heaven forbid) is 11am tomorrow.
 
Black Hole said:
In case you hadn't noticed, the semi-final is at 5pm today and the final at 5pm tomorrow. The bronze play-off (heaven forbid) is 11am tomorrow.
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I had noticed. Whether the whole of the matches are easily accessible "IN FULL!", as Martin Lewis might say, I don't know. Might set up my internet connection just in case. 🤞
 
The host broadcaster is Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) and has been for a long time (25 years). It's nothing to do with TNT or the Italians, but is everything to do with rights and therefore the money used to purchase them.
The feeds the various broadcasters pick up and what they do with them and when is largely up to them, as long as they abide by their purchased rights.
 
EEPhil said:
But it's the BBC's choice to screw up the curling. They could put curling on 601 and the less interesting to me (and perhaps more interesting to the yoof) on t'net. And not top and tail it. And not squash it to tell me what's on somewhere else whilst a stone is in motion. :mad:
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Imagine if it were ITV, now with their 'in-game adverts'.
 
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