The Vuelta highlights on Quest

[bobzmyunkle]

Just more poor editing of the highlights

There seems to be a misconception here. Quest highlights and editing are not words that fit together. It's just cut and splice. Hence the number of times it's possible to be watching without any idea of what's really going on.

 

[Dogtrousers]

There seems to be a misconception here. Quest highlights and editing are not words that fit together. It's just cut and splice. Hence the number of times it's possible to be watching without any idea of what's really going on.

This story is about Discovery+ not quest but I imagine there's just one insane highlights splicing operative.

I was watching the highlights one of the women's races earlier this year and for several minutes it consisted of the same clip of Lotte Kopecky rounding a corner over ... and over ... and over ... and over again.

 

[geocycle]

I find the highlights show on discovery are not much better than the quest descriptions. There are two varieties, one short highlights, the other about an hour. Not having anyone to introduce or summarise is really cost cutting. Sometimes flicking through the whole race and editing yourself is better, even at the risk of missing something. Oh for Gary and ITV4 or Orla. It’s not going to increase the audience for cycling.

 

[Mike_P]

If you have Discovery+ use the full version and the incident timeline to make your own highlight package.

 

[matticus]

Oh dear - this coverage just gets worse!

Today we had Sean (and the idiot) drowned out in the mix by the finish line announcer🤦‍♀️

 

[Mike_P]

Didn't seem drowned out more bit of a clash. If you want short coherent highlights

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-SjmVQ7SOM

 

[matticus]

Didn't seem drowned out more bit of a clash

Did you think it was good production? In 2024??

(I'll give your Youtube a go, thanks.)

 

[mjr]

Stage one as in ITT. Good old quest. Maybe I shouldn't be such a cheapskate.

And reward them for their bad Quest work by subscribing, only to get equally sloppily-edited highlights on discovery+?

 

[Mike_P]

Did you think it was good production? In 2024?

No but it was how it happened on the live show and given Carlton and Shaun rabbit on re the winnner / second place rather still comenting on the rest of the riders coming over the line anyone who didn't hear because of the announcer soon caught up.

 

[ColinJ]

My TV doesn't have a Discovery+ app. I can fire up the app on my tablet and use my Chromecast dongle to get the coverage onto the TV.

The only problem with casting like that is that controlling viewing from the tablet is clunky due to delays. If I watch a replay of a whole stage it works. If I try to quickly step through boring bits I keep getting buffering delays. That is partly due to slowish broadband speed. It's even more annoying when I step forward into the middle of something interesting and then have to step back to find out what happened...

I tried using Quest instead but for some reason it has not been triggering my PVR to record the highlights shows. I came back from holiday to find that only the first day had been recorded.

I deleted the original 'Record all episodes of series' instruction last night and redid it. Let's see if it works now...

 

[T4tomo]

My TV doesn't have a Discovery+ app. I can fire up the app on my tablet and use my Chromecast dongle to get the coverage onto the TV.

The only problem with casting like that is that controlling viewing from the tablet is clunky due to delays. If I watch a replay of a whole stage it works. If I try to quickly step through boring bits I keep getting buffering delays. That is partly due to slowish broadband speed. It's even more annoying when I step forward into the middle of something interesting and then have to step back to find out what happened...

I tried using Quest instead but for some reason it has not been triggering my PVR to record the highlights shows. I came back from holiday to find that only the first day had been recorded.

I deleted the original 'Record all episodes of series' instruction last night and redid it. Let's see if it works now...

Assuming it is a smart Tv but just a slightly older one, Is it possible to do a software update on your TV from the settings menu somewhere? that may be enough to allow you to find the Disco+ app in the app download menu?

 

[Mike_P]

My TV doesn't have a Discovery+ app. I can fire up the app on my tablet and use my Chromecast dongle to get the coverage onto the TV.

The only problem with casting like that is that controlling viewing from the tablet is clunky due to delays. If I watch a replay of a whole stage it works. If I try to quickly step through boring bits I keep getting buffering delays. That is partly due to slowish broadband speed. It's even more annoying when I step forward into the middle of something interesting and then have to step back to find out what happened...

I tried using Quest instead but for some reason it has not been triggering my PVR to record the highlights shows. I came back from holiday to find that only the first day had been recorded.

I deleted the original 'Record all episodes of series' instruction last night and redid it. Let's see if it works now...

The first one was at 11pm, the rest have, or should have been at 7pm. I suspect the series link did not work because of that.

 

[ColinJ]

Assuming it is a smart Tv but just a slightly older one, Is it possible to do a software update on your TV from the settings menu somewhere? that may be enough to allow you to find the Disco+ app in the app download menu?

It is a modern Panasonic set but they don't seem to have a Discovery app for their sets. The set does have an Amazon Prime Video app though and I have discovered that I can subscribe to Discovery through Amazon and access it that way.

I don't think I will be able to transfer my subscription so I'll probably have to cancel the direct one and switch to the Amazon one.

The first one was at 11pm, the rest have, or should have been at 7pm. I suspect the series link did not work because of that.

I think that you are probably right. I will find out this evening if the new link works.

 

[mjr]

The first one was at 11pm, the rest have, or should have been at 7pm. I suspect the series link did not work because of that.

That's not how it should work. The programme guide entries should have a series ID in them. It wouldn't be that surprising if WB messed that up too, though. They can't get visible timings correct on E1, so why would they get hidden codes right on Quest?

 

[Mike_P]

That's not how it should work. The programme guide entries should have a series ID in them. It wouldn't be that surprising if WB messed that up too, though. They can't get visible timings correct on E1, so why would they get hidden codes right on Quest?

Agreed.