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GCN+ is dead

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    #182
    G1032
    Registered Users Posts: 6,958 ✭✭✭G1032


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121862787#Comment_121862787

    Ya. Same here. 🙈



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    #183
    fat bloke
    Registered Users Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Presume all this gcn dust has settled by now. Mind me asking how lads are getting on 26th they're new D+ alternative? Is that the only show in town now pretty much?

    Probably should sort myself out for coverage with the giro looming.



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    #184
    cletus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,893 ✭✭✭cletus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122060872#Comment_122060872

    I took out a sub. Race event coverage is pretty much the same. No documentaries. Not sure if the pre race stuff GCN did for the grand tours will be a feature this year.

    If you just want it for the racing, it's all there.



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    #185
    JMcL
    Registered Users Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭JMcL


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122061105#Comment_122061105

    Regarding the documentaries, I was looking at the comments on one of the vids on their YouTube channel recently (I tell myself it's not the Journal) and they said they're actively looking for a home for all that content.



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    #186
    omri
    Registered Users Posts: 1,679 ✭✭✭omri


    Real shame as I actually enjoyed watching all of the tours without the ads. But that was the only reason to sub, so hard to say if it made financial sense if a lot of subscriptions were only for that reason.



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    #187
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,218 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122079838#Comment_122079838

    There is an ad-free option on Eurosport (I still have an old legacy subscription) so I imagine that will be the same for Discovery Plus



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    #188
    Macy0161
    Registered Users Posts: 9,299 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    There is an ad-free option for any race I've watched live or on demand on the Discovery Plus app.



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    #189
    Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,185 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    I’ve had discovery for nearly three years now. All races are ad free. For the big races, Eurosport coverage is included (ie the breakaway, pre race etc)



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    #190
    G1032
    Registered Users Posts: 6,958 ✭✭✭G1032


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122080080#Comment_122080080

    How do you get the ad free highlights? I get ad free live coverage but have to sit through ads on highlights



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    #191
    Melodeon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭Melodeon


    The D+ coverage has been superb; two versions of pretty much everything as far as I can see.
    The 'Eurosport' as-broadcast version (with ad breaks), and the full ad-free version.
    The Highlights offerings are patchy though, it being seemingly random which race/stage gets a highlights package or not.



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    #192
    Melodeon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭Melodeon


    The highlights packages all appear to be as-broadcast on Eurosport, so they all contain ad breaks.

    As far as I can see anyway.



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    #193
    Macy0161
    Registered Users Posts: 9,299 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    And I don't recall the highlights having ad breaks with GCN+, but I could be misremembering that.



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    #194
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,520 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Its such a kick in the teeth for the makers of all those documentaries to just have them sitting on a shelf somewhere.

    I used to love putting one of them on on the background. The GCN channel on YT recently had a video of Simon doing America's toughest gravel race. It has been viewed 163K times in just 4 days. And its just 16 minutes long.

    Think that could easily have been 45-60 minutes of interesting content without massively increasing their costs to produce it which lots of people would still be happy to watch.



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    #195
    Macy0161
    Registered Users Posts: 9,299 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122081966#Comment_122081966

    Not Highlights - I generally just watch the live coverage back (as eurosport "highlights" tend to be just the last half hour/ hour of a race anyway)



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    #196
    G1032
    Registered Users Posts: 6,958 ✭✭✭G1032


    Ah! Do that myself sometimes, generally to get the last half hour or so of a race



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    #197
    G1032
    Registered Users Posts: 6,958 ✭✭✭G1032


    They didn't. Definitely not. Used to have a 5min and 25min highlight option on GCN+, ad free



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    #198
    omri
    Registered Users Posts: 1,679 ✭✭✭omri


    Subed for 1 month to D+ and boy isn't this a treat without the ads. Will do it again for TdF and Vuelta.



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    #199
    G1032
    Registered Users Posts: 6,958 ✭✭✭G1032


    Delete



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    #200
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,802 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121378206#Comment_121378206

    bah, Sky have finally noticed that I was still getting D+ despite having downgraded to the Essentials package, and have cut me off.

    I've paid me 6.99 for the Giro, I assume there's no cheaper way of getting D+?



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