Eurosport Player

It's Eurosport's own commentary, not world feed. The same commentary as the Court Philippe-Chatrier matches on Eurosport Player which has mostly been Richard Vaughan or Jonathan Harris-Bass, although Matt Chilton was on yesterday too having done much of Eurosport 2's coverage last week.

Sky are already doing UHD HDR using HLG via downloads on compatible Sky Q UHD boxes.

I guess the issue they have with live is that they either have to simulcast two UHD HDR streams (One Rec 709 SDR for first gen Sky Q UHD boxes that do Rec 709 SDR UHD only, and one Rec 2020 UHD HDR stream) or ditch the UHD stream for first gen box owners?

Although HLG is backwards compatible with SDR displays - that's only within the same colour gamut - and HDR really needs Rec 2020 Wide Colour Gamut alongside it to be worthwhile.

Interesting comparing Eurosport HD and Eurosport UHD on Sky Q during the French Open. The Eurosport UHD SDR feed is showing some tone mapping artefacts on some players orange shirts, which you don't see on the HD SDR feed. (My guess is that they are either using two different tone mapping approaches - or that the French Open is using Sony cameras with Rec 709 HD SDR and Rec 2020 UHD HDR dual outputs from their BPUs or CCUs and simul-cutting in parallel to avoid the Rec 709 HD SDR stream being a downconversion and tonemap from the Rec 2020 UHD HDR feed, downstream of the cameras)

Anyone new to the player wanting a sub for the Olympics should consider their Black Friday offer of £19.99 for twelve months for new customers

Eurosport Player content is to be folded into Discovery+, over the next couple of years, with Discovery+ being the OTT service for Eurosport across Europe before the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Interesting to note that following Cycling and Tennis, Eurosport Player has added Commercial Free Snooker to it's offering in the recent days.

some of the wintersports has been ad-free too, I noticed the Biathlon today was

Haven't the extra streams always been ad free?

I should have been clearer, the issue I was trying to highlight was marketing the stream as advert free, as opposed to content.

Not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere - but in Sweden, where the DPlay brand has been present for a while (Kanal 5 - one of the Swedish 'terrestrials' is a Discovery-owned channel, and DPlay is used for their catch-up/SVOD platform) there are commercials running signalling the change from DPlay to Discovery+ there.

For anyone who signed up to the offer last January with only the Olympics in mind it's worth remembering to check you account in the next couple of months as if you don't cancel they'll automatically renew for a year at £39.99 - although of course a year from March will capture the Winter Olympics as well.

Remember anyone who subbed for an annual pass in January 2020, will not due to the 4 month addition be billed again until May.

Turns out I signed up in November 2019, hence it expiring in March.