When I went to set up facebook live it asked for credit card info- no idea where I was either- obviously a different link- the Red Bull link seems to work well though...

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Hate facebook and never use it. Annoying that forced to use it to watch ironman.

But also surprising that only 50k people around the entire world are watching ironman at any given time. thought that would have been more globally...

Sorry should have added advertised in there.....me too lol.

Same here. I know people like to complain about the coverage of this race, but I think back to years ago watching the feed on my laptop. I thought Macca was wearing a pink kit until I saw pictures after the race and realized it was actually red. Bad quality, buffering, etc. Then I upgraded to sending the feed from laptop to the TV, but had cables all over the place and spent 10-15 minutes getting everything set up and working. Today, I just opened FB, found the race and chrome casted it. Easy.

I've never heard of the FB watch app. I went through the FB app on my iphone. Is there a reason to have the FB watch app over the FB app?

I live in Tampa and IM Live says we are in Europe and blocked. Directs me to FaceFuxk which says I have no I internet connection (currently running at 400 mbps). Go to NBC Sports and directed back FaceSuck. Patience out. More fun to read the bitching instead.

FB watch is part of the FB app on iOS, but it’s a separate app on XBox. Somewhat confusingly, I don’t think it has anything to do with Apple Watch. Go figure.

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Dont watch then. Simple.

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Part 1 was working OK for me, but part 2 is a total fail. Red Bull stream is working great, though!

Yep- Part II ........ total mess!
Good job IM.

Watching from Europe and no problem, although red bull stream works better than fb stream.

Well we know most people on here just like to complain. I found the Facebook feed fine. Anyone remember having to wait months to see the race?

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Based on what I'd read of previous IM events streaming, I was expecting the worst.

I have to say the coverage was great for me - good resolution and no dropouts. Probably the best interaction I've had with Facebook for a good 5 years or so!

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I almost posted this same post yesterday. The number of times the coverage froze was unbearable.

Amazon doesn’t own the rights, at least not this yr.
NBCsports.com also streamed it.

Same here. Excellent coverage. One 5 second buffer between Part 1 and Part 2. That was it. The other 9.5 hrs I had 1080i and surround sound 100% of the time. Zero buffering. Zero pixelation. Zero issues.

You should try being a Boxing/MMA/Football (Soccer) fan.

There's pay per view Boxing Chanel in the UK you have to pay for on top of the Sky (PPV) package already, if that's not enough the really big fights GGG v Canelo the other week you have to pay for extra on top.

We're lucky really to be able to watch the big Tri main event with little more than a Facebook profile, personally I'd love every big sporting main event to be done this way, save me a fortune having to go the pub.

Superb. Thanks for the link. There's no way on earth I was going to join Facebook just to watch the WCs.

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I had no problem with watching via facebook, and then air playing it to the TV via apple tv. the picture quality was good. I missed most of the bike, since I was out of the house, but the rest was fine. They need to get rid of Welchie... But otherwise the coverage was OK. I prefered the RedBull TV coverage last year, because I could play that directly off appleTV and not have to use my phone, but it wasn't the end of the world.

You didn't have to use your phone this year, there is an app for apple tv called facebook watch, just download it and you can watch directly on the tv.

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I think we're moving in the right direction...

2014 - Watched NBC broadcast in December. Excellent quality, no drops, good yet full of hyperbole commentary by non athletes and only 2 hour coverage of the pros and a few sob stories. Wasn't a serious athlete yet so no training to be had.

2015 - Watched live in person. Excellent HD quality. Had no clue how the pro race was advancing. Watched the swim start from what seemed like a mile away then headed over to Palani hill to watch athletes mash up it in the big ring and attempt to downshift. Later volunteered as Bike Catcher on the pier then over to the finish line for next 10 hours where I got to finally see how the pro race went and to cheer on the age groupers. Long day- felt like I ran the race and felt okay no to get in any training.

2016 - Watched feed from Ironman website. Could only watch on computer or laptop and feed was highly compressed, pixelated and remained frozen most of the time. The live updates in text form on the right kept it interesting about the pro race. but thew in the towel and went for a long run.

2017 - Downloaded Redbull app to LG 65" HDTV. Couldn't get app to launch for a couple hours. Finally launches and picture is pixelated with lots of buffering and frozen screen. App kept resetting as TV runs out of memory. Decide to go on long bike ride outside on beautiful fall day in Colorado.

2018 - Cast Ironman now Feed via Facebook Watch to LG 65" HDTV from LG Android phone. Perfect clear HD picture and I'm able to post comments about the action on Facebook app. As the bike got going had to drive across town to winterize my RV. Was able to listen to the action while driving with my phone still streaming the FB feed connected to the stereo via bluetooth. Once at RV connected phone to 40" Westinghouse HDTV via USB-C to HDMI connector with theater-like surround sound throughout. Then it was back home and up again on the 65" LG where I remained flopped out on the couch the rest of the day due to worsening cold symptoms I caught the day prior. Only gap in coverage I had the entire day was when they switched to Part 2 and I was indisposed under the RV for a couple minutes.

but you don't have to join to watch--just go to their page, no log in required. People keep saying this without even trying the link first to see they didn't have to join

The screen froze a few times for us (we streamed from FB live and casted to the tv), didn’t think the quality was so great.

Watched it through the Red bull website last year on my phone and thought the quality was better.

Why don’t they just put it on live through the IM website instead and get one of the sponsors to pay for it with their logo on the screen?

Also we get that Red Bull sponsors a lot of the athletes inc Ryf .. I wanted to throw that stupid trucker hat away when the crown kept falling off her head during post race interviews.

I tried that a couple of times and it kept locking without a login. Maybe it was just me, or that the laptop thought I was my wife (who has an account)

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Mine kept gakking when using Firefox. Switched to Chrome and it worked like a charm (while not logged in to an account)

Funny that Facebook likes a Google product, given the latest news about google+

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