Right… I would have no reason to go to a British and Irish skating thread to talk about Eurosport. ;-)
Yeah, that was a pretty random place. But, that was where the question was asked, so that was where I answered.
And then what happens? Do they automatically transfer, or…?
I am really curious. I don’t see anything in my account that indicates that my current contract will not be renewed. And the renewal date is November 9, 2021. That’s a couple of weeks from now! So we should find out soon enough.
I really hope my contract just gets renewed, though, or that it gets transferred for the same amount I pay now. I have had an annual subscription at 30 (29,99) euros for many years now. It was a good deal then, and it still is!
I think if it gets cancelled or transferred, shouldn’t they have let me know by now?! A heads-up?
I have no idea how they are going to do it. I would assume that they will e-mail us a week before the contract is up, and give us an option to either transfer over to Discovery+ or cancel. I don't think they will let us renew. But I am hoping that, as loyal existing customers, they will give us a special deal to transfer over. But, I honestly don't know.
So, since you are up first, you can let us know!
Discovery have handled this really badly. They had an existing Free service (Dplay) and an existing Pay service (Eurosport Player). To create the new 2-tiered service (Discovery+), they should have just merged the 2 services together. Not create a Pay tier on the existing Free service, and then cause all this confusion by winding down Eurosport Player over a long period of time.
I'm dreading what it will be like if and when Discovery+ and HBO Max are merged into one service.
By the way, when I originally signed up to Eurosport Player, it was on the £30 deal. But, it went up to £40 when the first year was up. And it really galled me whenever I would see them doing offers for the £30 again, and I was stuck paying £40.
I remember the you tube streams were blocked here in the UK, because of Europlayer having the rights. Managed to watch it via a Russian stream last year, re an excellent fb group. So Discovery Plus yet another subscription!! Nope! Not paying on top of sky.
In my case, Discovery+ is worth it, because I follow quite a few other sports that Eurosport shows. But, if I only wanted to watch figure skating, I would watch for free on the ISU YouTube channel using the Opera browser and it's built-in VPN.
It is getting to the stage that Sky is not worth it. Since the late 90's, we have been on what used to be called the Sky Multi-channels package (I don't even know what the package is called nowadays! But, it's everything except the sports and movies). But, with all the channel closures in recent years, it has got to the stage that we only ever watch the Free To Air channels; channels that are owned by Discovery; Sky Sports F1 (we got it when it was bundled with the HD Package); and BT Sport (only for the MotoGP).
If Sky loses the F1 rights, and if the new owners of BT Sport get their act together and provide a proper On Demand service, then I think we would cancel Sky. Because we can get the FTA channels without a subscription, and we will have the Discovery owned channels on Discovery+.
I did hear that Peacock would be coming to Sky ??
I haven't heard about Peacock coming to SkyQ (we have Sky+HD), but now that Sky and NBCUniversal have the same ownership, I wouldn't be surprised.
HOWEVER, just because Peacock is available in Europe doesn't mean you will be able to watch the same things that get shown on Peacock in America. The rights for a lot of the things that NBCUniversal have the rights for in America are owned by different broadcasters over here (in the case of figure skating, by Discovery). So, these things will not be available on the European edition of Peacock. (And I don't know if a VPN will be able to get around that).
Hope this helps
CaroLiza_fan