Ade you can get a free service from Bigpond if you are a Bigpond broadband user if not I amnot sure if you can actually pay for the service or not but my advice would be stay away from it, if the free service is anything like the pay version they would have to pay me to use it far to choppy and not very clear at all.

I wonder if they would consider selling the pictures to an independent third party. I for one prefer to view and review the nags i am betting on and find i can do so much more effectively if i can see their last couple of runs. Then again would an enterprising person even be bothered dealing with the pack of idiots at the controls at the moment. Wonder if it would even be viable, hmmmm....

MAD, i think if you subscribe to the tvn website which is about $15 or $20 a month u can download as many races as you want as long as they were run in sydney or melbourne.

I have not realy checked out what they are showing but if you have a NSW tab account they have a free service to watch races

Thanks Horse and Shaun.

Horse, i do subscribe to TVN but find it rather limited as it only covers metro races in Sydney and Melbourne. Would love something more detailed or perhaps i should avoid punting on everything.
Shaun, thanks for that. I wasn't aware they (NSW TAB) provided any of those services. I'll check it out.

If I lived IN australia and wanted to see every metro race on Tv, pay or otherwise, which service is providing the best coverage at the moment?

Also, are there any Satellite tv options? has anyone looked right into this? Is it possible that some overseas satellite tv such as Dubai etc may be getting Australian racing coverage that could be received in Australia free to air if someone had a sat receiver? (Dubai can be received in Australasia on sat.).

With the australian tv beaming into bali etc, and other countries possibly taking feeds from Sky etc, has anyone found anything useful?
This could also apply to Australian rules matches etc.

One example is that the Grand prix can be viewed down under live via satellite free to air I'm told...

Any input gratefully appreciated

Cheers

Good points w924. To be honest it is something i have thought of but in relation to other sporting events. How much do you know about these big satellite receivers? Can you get American sports through this system? I might look into a little more on Monday.

I wish it was available on FTA.

well there are some stations overseas that pay for feeds and then broadcast them FTA...we may get lucky and find this with Australian racing...it is very possible..

AS an aside, here in NZ you would probably be amazed at which races we get live from Australia...Port Lincoln is just one example...sure we dont get every race..but we might get 3 from there on a weekday meet....only the ones in OZ that fit in in between our NZ racing, incl greyhounds, and trots. Now if Only Australia had what we have on FTA..a dedicated racing channel...its pretty awesome really..its just that I dont like NZ racing LOL


These races come mainly from Sky oz ( I think) and probably also TVN and via sky NZ and then FTA on our national racing Tv channel.. not sure exactly..but we do get Sky OZ pre race comments at times...yep I know its pretty good to have a national FTA racing channel..all we need now is to have every metro OZ race..esp Saturdays...but that will never happen.

What I am getting to here that there is a very real possibility that an American channel is getting better Australian racing coverage than you are..or perhaps your Indonesian neighbours, Or Norfolk Island...you get the drift...If you can found out who and where and how, then a 1 m dish or slightly larger, and a receiver (either a box or PC card) may be all you need.


Mad, there are some websites that give the rundown on what is avail to receive..its not really rocket science..we just have to ascertain which channels at which times can give us what we are looking 4. I am yet to find an article on this subject from a horse racing perspective...somebody somewhere must have been down this road...


This may be all possible without resorting to getting a card copied illegally..There are cards out there that supposedly can take pay Sky etc..but it is an arena I do not wish to enter.

I have seriously thought of subscribing to TVN from here in NZ, but dont know itrf its possible, and also if its worthwile... I do know that Sky offers expats a service at special rates..but I dont know if that is Sky Oz, NZ, Uk or what lol


http://www.micronica.com.au/catalog/satellite/


http://www.hooktech.co.nz/ a nz site but it does have a great list of world stations and which band they are on...gives a comprehensive list of OZ channels..



Well that is something to chew on...i look fwd to anything anyone can come up with.

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aragorn/satellit.htm

I am about to get a new mobile phone and noticed through the 3 network you can get sky racing on the phone for about $7 a month. Has anyone seen this? Surely the small screen size would make it difficult to view the races at an optimum level. If I go with this product I may get it as it would be handy especially when on the move.