Eurosport Player, Amazon Prime, Discovery Plus.
I’ve got a rolling annual subscription to the Eurosport App/Player, which I’ve had for a few years. I primarily use it on my PS4 to stream to the TV, and I also have it on my iPad which gets used less often. The subscription is £39.99 and renews in January.
I discovered (yep) a couple of days ago that the PS4 app no longer displays any feeds. Just a black screen. The app itself loads fine, behaves as it always did and lets you select a channel/feed, yet it just freezes on a black screen as soon as you try to get anything to actually play. I’ve signed out and back in, deleted the app and reinstalled it, but it’s just not having it.
The iPad app, meanwhile, is working fine. But that’s of no great help to me. I’d rather watch on the TV screen.
I know they’re trying to get people to move to Discovery Plus, but I’d like to think they wouldn’t deliberately brick the Eurosport app on certain platforms for the sake of this. Worse still, there appears to be no dedicated Discovery Plus app available to download on PS4. And my TV isn’t internet capable.
So, options
I have a access to my parents’ Amazon Prime account through my PS4, and there’s the option on there of subscribing to Discovery Plus for £6.99 a month.
A while ago I managed to link my iPad to the TV via cable to display a mirror of whatever was on the iPad. But the resolution and aspect ratio was dogshit. Maybe there’s a better solution along the same lines these days.
What’s my best option here? I don’t really want to shell out on a Discovery Plus subscription when I’ve already got 3 months of Eurosport app subscription paid for. And I’m a bit sceptical of just how well Discovery Plus would work as a service within an app within an app (pretty sure I’ve heard some poor experiences of Eurosport accessed through Discovery Plus within an Amazon Prime account).
It’s all a big mess, isn’t it? Dozens of different streaming platforms, containing or linking internally to other streaming platforms, apps getting bricked, unsupported hardware… I mean, it’s a load of marmite.
I might have to cancel my original subscription and call it a day, just stick to the BBC and ITV tournaments. Unless someone can suggest a solution (likely, as I do not have the patience for this kind of thing).
So yeah, buck you and suck my balls, Eurosport/Discovery/whoever is in charge of this big bag of twiddle
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