Same. Amazing value and content, I would have happily paid double, especially as I subscribed on a Black Friday deal and then continued because it was such a bargin.
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You might be able to download them. I often use the Video DownloadHelper plug-in to capture steamed videos.
Iām going to miss Orla and the Breakaway crew if I canāt find them after this all shakes out.
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In the YouTube comments on the announcement they said they were looking at a
Number of options to make them available. My bet would be a separate GCN YouTube channel with them on. With probably lots of adverts to conveniently break them up into bite sized chunks.
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I understand with the VPN but with no VPN, just the flat subscription without pretending youāre in the UK, what did you get?
This 100%. Itās almost as if they want nothing to do with us here
Somtimes I like her other times I find her irritating, depends, although I have grown to like her more often than not.
She pops up everywhere, youāll still be able to get your Orla fix but it wonāt be on the breakaway (seemingly) which was excellent imo.
You still got plenty of races and the documentaries. If it wasnāt worth it to you thats cool. But a simple click of a button got you great coverage of almost every race on the cycling calendar and thatās a huge loss
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and the price per coverage didnāt compare
Could be worse, could be stuck with NBC 30 min recaps at 3 am
Ā£39.99 in the UK for GCN+ (with no ads)
Ā£6.99 a month, so Ā£83.88 a year in the UK, with no option to pay yearly for a discount, for Discovery Standard (with ads)
No free trial either to see how good/bad it is.
I guess there is additional content on Discovery, but I was only really interested in the cycling to be honest.
With other subscriptions gradually going up in price I have to be picky about which ones I keep that really give the best value.
I suspect I will just sub to Discovery for the months of the grand tours, although ITV 4 in the UK usually have the TDF live and highlights of the Giro and Vuelta.
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It was once greatā¦reasonable subscription fees, a monthly option vs. yearly and excellent selection of races and coverage.
But then they lost rights to some races (primarily the Giro and other Italian races)) and despite the loss of content, dramatically raised prices and removed the monthly option. So you were paying far more for substantially less.
then the service got glitchy as hell and they were inserting ads into the coverage all the time, sometimes right in the closing KMās of a race.
Different organizers so they couldnāt care less what the others are doing, let alone bothering to partner with them for a US-based business model.
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This blows.
I felt like cycling was primed for a comeback with the pandemic bike mania + the possibility that Netflix could convert new people to follow the sport. The pandemic cycle was obviously a huge bubble, but surely some would stay interested longer term.
Between this, all the talk of mergers, the best team in the world not being able to find a title sponsor, talk of breakaway leagues, etc, it is feeling a bit like the cycling sky is falling.
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This is the same lack of coordination/ misaligned incentives that has Jumbo Visma and others looking to create a new world tour cycling league.
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Was just wondering, how much did it cost them to produce even the latest Taiwan Kom video?
They say itās thanks to the companies sponsoring the trip that they managed to go there, but still, for a 15 mins video the producing costs must be rather steep. Perhaps they will amortise the cost by making other videos during their stay there.
100%ā¦and highlights the imbalance of power / money within the sport.
Hell, even the UCI is nothing but a whipping boy for the race organizersā¦none of them care about āthe sportā, they just care about their slice of the pie.
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So I guess discovery/warner/whatever got tired of cancelling things that caused mass outrage (the new looney tunes movie) and wanted to cancel something with a much smaller fan base (cycling in the us)
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You forgot the best part about Flo - race replays always had thumbnails showing the winner crossing the line, or better yet, the videos showed the last 10 seconds of the race in the opening creditsā¦
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Some clarification / reemphasis from Daniel Lloyd on a few pointsā¦
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plus the pleasure of adverts being served up to you even though youāre paying subs. Fckers.
So if I use Discovery+, itāll be very reluctantly, and only for TdF & Vuelta, so less income for them vs my GCN+ sub. 
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Iām not sure how they are going to do this as they are terminating access by the sounds of the email