“Watching the Tour de France can also be an enjoyable experience for non-cycling fans; consider it a breathtaking 3-week helicopter tour of the French countryside,” Frommer reports. “So how to watch it LIVE online, on your iPhone, or iPad? What if you don’t have cable, or access to Versus, the Comcast-owned channel (formerly OLN) that broadcasts the Tour every year?”
Frommer reports, “The good news is that Versus has put together a great package of online and mobile streaming video for Tour fans, even if you don’t subscribe to cable TV.”
“To watch online on a PC, Mac, or iPad, check out Versus’s Live Tour Tracker, which costs $30 for the duration of the Tour,” Frommer reports. “This provides live and on-demand coverage in Adobe Flash on PCs and Macs and using an HTML5 video player for Apple’s iPad.”
Frommer reports, “To watch the Tour on an iPhone, check out Versus’s official Tour de France iPhone app, which costs $15. It also supports live and on-demand streaming on the iPhone, over wi-fi and 3G. (And after the latest update, you can use it on the iPad, too, so if you only plan to watch from mobile devices, and never from a PC, that’s a way to possibly save $15.)”
Read more in the full article here.
Bad luck for Lance today when he flatted on the pavé.
My brother-in-law was a dyed-in-the-wool Windows user/programmer/analyst and has move to the iMac/MBP/TimeCapsule after a major PC crash. Now he wonders if it has always been so good on a Mac? Duh.
With the iPads, iPhones, Macs, Google apps and even Android, the world is rethinking its IT needs beyond just Windows. If the content providers (like in the story above) can come to the party the next IT revolution will be huge.
Even my conservative employer has finally dumped their WinMo phones!
Um, I like Le Tour, but that is outrageous. I can get all the news via RSS feeds from various cycling sites.
And Versus’s coverage rather sucks.
Hope Lance can make up some of the lost time……it’s going to be hard.
Wow MDN supporting a green sport in a socialist country. Sorry could not help it.
It is great to see more content for iOS from large Internet providers. I had a friend who has a Android bitching about it at my 4th party, 2 months and he hates it.
Done and done.
Does the app give me up-to-date doping test results?
@ Tommy Boy
…a feature coming soon to the MLB app.
Why would anyone want to watch nancy boys riding bikes?
I don’t know anybody who wants to see that bullshit. Nobody cares.
@neomonkey
…obviously, you have never ridden a bike with training wheels more than a kilometre. Or has Mommy let you out of the boggy, yet?
Le Tour is one of the most gruelling sporting events on the planet. And you are not strolling along the French countryside with a few of your closest friends.
Vous êtes clairement un trou du cul avec des rayons brillants dans le cul.
@WetFx
Green sport? Maybe, until you factor in team support vehicles. Then, not so much.
Nothing green about Le Tour. The drugs these borgs consume are chemical intensive. The whole green thing is San Francisco lib nasty joke. Hopefully the Big One will solve the problem for eternity
@MizuInOz,
Look here, Frenchie. For one thing you’d be speaking German if it wasn’t for us. There’d no longer be such a thing as the French language. So show some respect. I’m an American, damnit.
And second, neomonkey is right. It’s not even much of a sport, my grandparents ride their bikes all the time and could probably participate in the Bore de France.
Now football (real American football), that’s a sport! If there’s no chance of a player getting paralyzed from the neck down then it’s for sissies.
MizuInOz, I used to ride a bike…WHEN I WAS A KID. Then I grew up.
R2,
Your an asshole. Get off you fat ass and trying riding. You wouldn’t even make it out of the driveway, loser.
@ MizuInOz
Please don’t judge me by my retarded, ignorant countrymen.
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They’re just upset that I could decimate any one of them on a mountain bike.
@R2 – neomonkey and ChrissyOne…
I am an American / Australian citizen; however, I speak more than one language and have travelled extensively. I was involved in the importation of racing bikes into the USA for a long time and know the rigours of road racing.
Specifically @ neomonkey: Just because you no longer ride a bike does not make you mentally competent to communicate like an adult. Your commentary is indicative of an individual who fears anything out side of your corner of the Universe as being unworthy of involvement or that it must be beyond your previously rudimentary skill set using training wheels. And it is lovely that you know how to use bold. It make your argument so much more succinct.
Have you ever ridden a bike more than the 7/11 to pick up milk for your Mommy?
@ChrissyOne – I live at the base of a mountain here in Brisbane that has truly perfect mountain biking trails. And there are heaps of trails here in Oz. Oh, and road racers and riders are treated with derision here, also.
There are two parts to the Tour de France – riding and watching. Watching can sometimes be really boring. Riding never is.
Cheers.
@neomonkey
You mean, then you grew FAT.
@ MizuInOz
Sadly, as you can see above, in the US, testosterone still equals gasoline.
I’d love to come ride in Oz.
@R2
I spent two tours in Vietnam pulling pilots out of the water and grunts out of shitholes.. so, don’t tell me about saving people’s asses in a war.
You want to talk about war and how noble ‘Merica is? You need to have a look at the global impact that invasion of one country for gas and another for oil is so liberating!
And as for your derisive comment about use of a different language than American, I speak Spanish, Russian, French, German, Chinese, Apache and some Navajo. What other language do you speak other than “bigoted self-centered asshole”?
Did you even translate what I wrote?
@ ChrissyOne – come ride, you’d love it. It is winter here now, tho and the winds from the Antarctic can be a bit chilling. Sub-tropical or no.
R2 – As for Gridiron and broken necks: You have validated my assumption that your’s is a shade of crimson. Serious injuries happen in many sports – even death and your don’t have all of the kevlar protection to keep your prissy ass from getting a bruise. Try crashing going down a hill at 100 K an hour and the only protection you have is a bike helmet. It’s more than a rode burn. Phuquewad.
Cycling is not a spectator sport, sadly. However it is also a much more accessible form of sport, i.e go to a cycling store, buy a bike and ride it assuming you know how to ride a bicycle and if not, find your local cycling club and they may well arrange for tutoring.
I do ride a bicycle and no I don’t watch the Tour de France all day long, however I do catch up with the days events in highlight form.
Being able to catch up when I have a break at work is a really neat idea and as yet I don’t, will once I get my new iPhone4 next month.
@ChrissyOne… you have solved the flaming asshole conundrum!
Yes, I forgot to mention that by next month the Tour de France will be over, however there are other ‘Tour’s’, I think the Tour de Espana & the Tour di Italia.
Having the ability to watch on a mobile device is commonplace here in Europe, then again we do have more than just 1 mobile operator in most countries that carry the iPhone.
Can AT&T;handle live streaming across their network for ALL the iPhones in USA?
Funny, I watched the live feed on Versus last year for free. They want to change now? LOL silly Versus
@MizuInOz and ChrissyOne
Go get ’em. I’ll ride with you guys.
If you gasoholics want to learn about fear, ride in mid-town Manhattan traffic with me some time. Let’s see how long you live. (it’s actually a blast!)
@R2. If you’re looking for a history lesson…
If it wasn’t for the French and our buddy the Marquis de Lafayette, back in the 1770’s and 80’s, we’d all be speaking the King’s English and not the bastardized dialect we speak now. There might never have BEEN a WWI and WWII!
AND we’d be playing REAL football (or futbol) and not the brutish military exercise, masquerading as sport, that we call football. Probably we’d be playing cricket, which makes baseball look vaguely interesting.
Back to Le Tour…
I signed up for the $30 full-streaming video version. Just the iPhone app made little sense. That way I can watch on my Mac OR my iPad. It looks great! BTW, I have no cable TV service, so this was an easy way to get Le Tour on my iPad. The TV coverage is actually great, because not only do they show the race, but there are tons of fantastic views of scenery, villages, historic sites and architecture. It’s a real visual treat!
Le Tour is NOT a sport for pussies. Just because the riders aren’t empty-skulled musclebound behemoths means nothing. Sure there’s been doping, but name me a sport that hasn’t. The riders’ level of conditioning is phenomenal. It’s arguably (and not much of one) the most intense and grueling sporting event on earth. I got hooked on it when Lance Armstrong started winning his 7 Tours in a row. I’m a mountain biker, but still love watching!