AMA Motocross live on Aussie TV!

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21/5/17 - 8am Sunday, Foxtel - Channel 509 - ESPN2 WoohooCool
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thorns
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5/12/2017 3:01pm
Do they cram ads all the way through it on ESPN?
I'm just wondering if its the same for New Zealand. Last 2-3 years we have had full uninterupted coverage on pay TV, so ESPN with ads would be a backwards step for me.
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Live in NZ, sky sport popup, 10am-2pm NZT.
I will still watch it on kodi though as sky nz has the worst quality, not even HD.
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Rotaholic wrote:
Live in NZ, sky sport popup, 10am-2pm NZT.
I will still watch it on kodi though as sky nz has the worst quality, not even HD.
Cheers, just what I wanted to hear.

It is HD, but yeah you have to pay extra which is crap in this day and age.

Might have to look into this kodi thing as I would like to give sky the boot.

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5/12/2017 3:53pm Edited Date/Time 5/12/2017 3:56pm
Rotaholic wrote:
Live in NZ, sky sport popup, 10am-2pm NZT.
I will still watch it on kodi though as sky nz has the worst quality, not even HD.
thorns wrote:
Cheers, just what I wanted to hear. It is HD, but yeah you have to pay extra which is crap in this day and age. Might...
Cheers, just what I wanted to hear.

It is HD, but yeah you have to pay extra which is crap in this day and age.

Might have to look into this kodi thing as I would like to give sky the boot.
Well its the bare minimum of 1080i and im sure thats being upscaled by sky, on a large 4k tv it looks terrible, ok on anything smaller than a 32". If you ever get to watch an HD stream of the same channel from overseas it will blow you away. I watch the NRL, super15, supercross, motocross etc on Kodi from US or UK streams and the quality is night and day.
Sky is living in the dark ages, thats why they tried to merge with vodafone so that they could go the internet TV model.
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5/12/2017 4:56pm
Well it may say it's live until they decide to put something else on before hand that they won't finish up till half way through the race and come up with the excuse that we can't leave one live event for another even though the one before hand wasn't even scheduled to be shown
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5/13/2017 12:38am
Good to hear! Worst part is Hayden mellross without a ride and chad only doing SX we don't have any Aussies to follow!
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5/13/2017 4:24am
Rotaholic wrote:
Live in NZ, sky sport popup, 10am-2pm NZT.
I will still watch it on kodi though as sky nz has the worst quality, not even HD.
With Cody cooper ans Rhys carter racing the first two round it will be good viewing
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5/13/2017 4:46am
Yeah it's been live the last couple of years.. It still spins me out that our coverage is better than the US' haha
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Nexgenmx wrote:
Good to hear! Worst part is Hayden mellross without a ride and chad only doing SX we don't have any Aussies to follow!
Well there might be some interest for Aussies for one or two rounds a few rounds in
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5/14/2017 2:33am
Best news!!
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5/14/2017 3:54am
Excellent, should look sweet in HD on foxtel. Although I'm shattered Australia doesn't have the option to pay for the season pass to stream it online, as I'd really like to support that too.
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5/14/2017 4:31am
Does this mean the nationals tv thing that they announced won't work here?

Do I have to subscribe to Foxtel now? Dammit!
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Does this mean the nationals tv thing that they announced won't work here?

Do I have to subscribe to Foxtel now? Dammit!
I only ever used to be able to stream the first moto's and you had to get up at 4am to watch the east coast stuff. so much better with IQ

since the coverage of SX is good with Foxtel, bar a few f ups, I just pay for the sub, good to see all 4 motos shown in HD, I think considering US only get it on mavtv which is SD...
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And the direct package? Is that USA only? I literally haven't read anything about it.
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And the direct package? Is that USA only? I literally haven't read anything about it.
It's for international viewers but I'm fairly certain that Foxtel have made it so it's not available here like they used to with the second motos..
I was off it until I bit the bullet and got paytv last year and now I can't be without it haha it's pretty crazy that we get 4 hours of live AMA mx and sometimes one of the motos with no ads..
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Hmmmm...
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5/14/2017 3:51pm Edited Date/Time 5/14/2017 3:52pm
Australia isn't on the lost of countries that it's available in, I'd say foxtel put a stop to it. You could dick around with a VPN if you had the energy.
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I'll also add that the last couple years it was on fox sports and this year it's on ESPN so I'm hoping it's gonna be as good as it was last year but we've been shafted by ESPN many times before so I guess we'll have to wait and see
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5/14/2017 9:55pm
Its looking like Foxtel only has the first Motos live at Hangtown.
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I'm considering trying the VPN route, but being a complete 'Puter drongo, am wary of it.

Do you log into the VPN you set up, then watch the races ? - and, of course, use the VPN to pay for it,

I'm usually quite happy to find things on YouTube, or see / read enough about the US Nats to not even bother with chasing up full rounds, but I've no problem with / would rather pay for a decent VPN service - Hola when I've tried it has been crap - and would like to have at least some of my money get back to DC & Co. I wish he'd have realized that he'd get better returns from direct payment to him than the pathetic amount he might get from a Foxtel, or like network set up. So many sports are going for the direct payment route, to their benefit.

Many people I know, have eventually got sick of the crap service by OZ cable networks, despite being able to get MX / SX for years with it, and dumped it from their households. Well, not just SX / MX fans - fans of most 'smaller' sports get sick of random changes / cutting of coverage / having to buy 'packages' of things that don't interest them, just to get crap coverage of what they want to watch. And they'd happily pay for getting their sport, at their leisure, with easy re-viewing and a decent archive of events.
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5/15/2017 2:13am
What ever happened to SPEED on Foxtel? That was always a good part of the sports pack
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+ 1... What Bearuno said. I'd just like to add, I'm happy to pay money but, most certainly never to Foxtel ever again.
Just realised they took the Giro too the cunts!
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Fresh wrote:
What ever happened to SPEED on Foxtel? That was always a good part of the sports pack
Speed quit. I was stoked when it was shown in Aus!
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5/15/2017 3:17am
Whitey wrote:
Its looking like Foxtel only has the first Motos live at Hangtown.
I suspected this when the show was advertised as two hours long.

There are more episodes later in the day. I can only hope these are the 2nd moto's? Unsure

Fark them if they don't. It would be like showing only the first half of the footy! Angry
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EZZA 95B wrote:
+ 1... What Bearuno said. I'd just like to add, I'm happy to pay money but, most certainly never to Foxtel ever again. Just realised they...
+ 1... What Bearuno said. I'd just like to add, I'm happy to pay money but, most certainly never to Foxtel ever again.
Just realised they took the Giro too the cunts!
Man they've got almost everything it's so infuriating how they've just got us over a barrel! I'd love to to tell em to roll it up and bang it up their arse but I'm too weak haha I gotta get my surfing, speedway and motogp plus it's handy being able to know I can record it and shit..

I'm still gonna be well off it if they pull some of that old ESPN shit
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Ever notice that most of the time, you can't even view the highlights to SX / MX Moto's put up on sites?

That's Foxtels' doing. You'd think the stupid pricks might realize that highlights being seen might just get them a few more customers.

They also stopped most of us getting the free first Moto's.

How many times over the years have we in OZ seen various Cable / Dish channel talking heads whine about how few people retain their 'hook up'. It's because they deliver shithouse service / product.

I remember seeing a set up in some Victorian town where people could get just what they wanted, for a bit less, but in 'real' terms, at more profit for the provider, and not useless 'bundles', and the retention rate was damned near a 100%.

Some of these highly paid business people, are fucking Troglodytes.
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I was on Foxtel and had a look for it, info said it shows the 125cc races as well as the 4 main motos
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5/20/2017 1:01pm
Is it on? Looks like only the 2nd motos on espn
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2nd moto's only by the looks of it.

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