I was pretty unimpressed with the Peacock coverage last year so I’m going the VPN route this time around, but I’ve got a couple questions.
A) Is there an ideal country to VPN into, i.e. one that won’t have a conflicting TV broadcast?
B) One of the advantages of Peacock was the Chromecast option (either via Peacock app or casting my phone to my Chromecast), but it doesn’t seem like IMSA.tv supports casting and doesn’t have a Chromecast app. Is my only real option a laptop plugged into my TV then?
Cheers for any advice/tips, I’m used to this rodeo for Le Mans because motortrend coverage used to absolutely suck, but I want to be prepared for the green flag on Saturday since I haven’t done it with IMSA before!
Honestly wish NBC would give us that feed for the price of peacock, then I’d be subbed yesterday, but with out that I tend to just find a stream of IMSA.tv or trial a VPN. iirc the UK and Canada have been good picks in the past.
I use Unlocator for my VPN and haven’t had any problems. I’ve also heard good things about NordVPN.
I usually just plug in my laptop directly into my TV. The frame rate isn’t always great but it’s a small price to pay for not having to listen to the NBC crew
How to Watch Elsewhere:
For those located where live television coverage is not offered, IMSA.com/tvlive will stream the video feed and audio commentary from the IMSA Radio team of John Hindhaugh, Jeremy Shaw, Shea Adam, and Brian Till.
VPN out of country coverage is awesome. The radio announcer are awesome! NBC coverage of any sport is horrible I would rather watch the replay a week later than putting up with NBC 1/2 poor coverage on any platform. They pay for the rights and charge there Comcast customers 200+ dollars a month not to be able to watch a whole race then tell us to buy peacock. They should show the whole thing on cnbc. It’s not like it’s that big of a deal to miss 100 episodes of the rerun of shark tank.
I used the free opera gx browser and enabled the European vpn yesterday but noticed that the buffer rate was extremely slow. I’ll be trying it again this weekend though.
Play around with the VPN locations. Many times you’ll try one and find it’s blocked because IMSA has a domestic TV deal in that country. So move onto another location. Eventually you’ll hit one that you can watch the IMSATV broadcast from. Some of the VPN’s don’t refresh local IP’s enough and IMSA’s system recognizes this as a VPN site that’s been used before and blocks it. I don’t have to use a VPN (in Canada) but in the past when IMSA had a deal with a local provider I’d use obscure IP’s like Greenland or Serbia for example.
We should all coordinate and pick the Principality of Sealand or Vatican City or something and see if we can get IMSA headlines. “Largest viewership ever! 200x the population of this tiny nation tuned in to the action.”
I use Windscribe because I bought it several years ago as a lifetime subscriber, but I have a couple others that work as well. I cast it via WiFi from my laptop to my TV through London usually (there’s several servers to pick from) and never have trouble on IMSA TV. I think there was only one time I wasn’t able to do that. Husband watches every race because he’s got several motors running in them.
Seriously. The ACO handles WEC pretty well in that you can buy individual race packages, which is basically what I’d be doing if I got a single month of Peacock premium for Daytona. I’m not about to pay for Peacock at all though when it’s riddled with ads, cutaways to commentators, and those commentators generally being meh.
Yeah just IMSA TV for us up here afaik. Most of our cable packages come with a local NBC affiliate. I think mine is Seattle but I don’t have a cable sub.
Replays will end up on YouTube too which is nice but will only be after NBC broadcast.
How do you go about casting it? That’s the one thing I’m still not sure about, but I’d like to avoid having my laptop plugged in the whole 24 hours if I can avoid it
Thank you for this. And to show my appreciation for those of you who like watching YouTube but don’t want the ads, set your VPN to Albania and never see an ad again.
