I’m no expert... I have looked into this option and it’s clunky in practice (I think), others will be better able to address what I saw as shortcomings... Time zones... On demand viewing is a priority for me. I’m also not interested in investing much time and energy in understanding making this work... That’s not a criticism, not by any means, that’s just stuff I have no interest in or affinity for. Plenty of folks on RBR use this method. If it’s an upside, it does make you kind of invisible online?
I've had good luck with PureVPN (
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Originally when I started using Eurosport, the time zone thing was a real issue. It was hit or miss if you could actually figure out what local time some race would be on, especially trying to look at the schedule and then work back to your local time. I think they were somehow trying to do something to correct the times but they did it wrong, at least to the point it was hard to figure out when a given race would be on, for sure not just subtract X hours and call it good. And it was the sort of issue you can't just contact customer support and say "It's hard to watch your content here in the US due to this time zone issue".
Eurosport finally sorted all that out in the last few years and the times are correct, although I've not found a long range schedule like they used to have. But they have added a lot more recap episodes during the day and often have on-demand playbacks on the major events. In fact they now seem to have the entire race coverage on replay after the race finishes.
I usually get the hang of figuring out what time zone a race is being held and then what time the coverage is likely to start, usually between 6AM and 8AM Pacific). But it's not like programming your DVR to record a given broadcast like I used to do in the old days when I had Direct and the sports package..
Not sure what GCN+ does with the time zone differences, though.
