Ask HN: how to watch the World Cup online

21 points by speier 12 years ago | 19 comments

Do you know any good paid or free services to watch the upcoming FIFA World Cup online?

antr 12 years ago |

Yesterday I used a VPN (TunnelBear) + ITV (UK) app to watch the Roland Garros final.

For the WC I will download whichever TV channel app that streams the football and use it with a VPN in order avoid geo blocking. I will do this for whichever game I can't watch for free on TV. Given that I live in the EU, and using this as precedent (http://www.bbc.com/news/business-17150054), I don't think this is illegal in any way. Hope that helps.

atmosx 12 years ago | |

But to view the game on any UK provider, (I think games are shared between SKY and ITV), you need a subscription right? I mean you have to have a UK address with a TV or no?!

speier 12 years ago | |

Great comment, thanks for sharing.

_b_ 12 years ago |

http://www.livesoccertv.com/competitions/international/world...

That site lists (legal) options for different countries.

atmosx 12 years ago | |

You totally saved me! That's awesome :-D

osipovas 12 years ago |

In Canada (or through a Canadian Proxy/VPN):

http://www.cbc.ca/sports-content/soccer/brazil2014/

speier 12 years ago | |

Thanks!

OWaz 12 years ago |

I rely on wiziwig[1] to watch Football/Soccer streams. The quality for Flash video streams is not great but it's enough for me to know what's going on. There are additional sites mentioned on this post [2].

[1]:http://www.wiziwig.tv/

[2]: http://designzum.com/2014/06/09/best-sites-to-watch-fifa-wor...

speier 12 years ago | |

Great, thanks!

germs12 12 years ago |

Probably not legal in most countries, but when I can't find something on cable or I'm away from my home or in a different country I turn to: http://www.usagoals.tv/

speier 12 years ago | |

Thanks, I will check it out.

singold 12 years ago |

http://mundialonline.com.uy it is a free service from an Uruguayan cable operator, it has only 2 non-intrusive ads (you don't see them if you go full screen).

It is in spanish, and I'm not sure if it has any kind of geo-filtering (I tried with Tor without problems). It claims to be hd, but IMHO it isn't.

GFischer 12 years ago |

There are some illegal streams at Roja Directa.

In my country, suscribers to the Antel Vera service can stream them legally, but it's only in Uruguay.

http://tv.vera.com.uy/

I'm REALLY hoping Netflix or Hulu or Twitch/Youtube or someone will disrupt this and offer some sort of paid, premium or whatever live sports streaming package, then I can ditch Cable TV.

speier 12 years ago | |

I live in the EU, but thank you anyway.

GFischer 12 years ago | | |

Roja Directa is Spain-based and has English language streams as well as Spanish.

Sometimes in weird languages as well.

atmosx 12 years ago |

I'm in CZ and have no TV. I paid to watch the NBA finals and Euroleague games. I'd gladly pay to see WC games too and F1 but since they are not available anywhere, I'm stuck with illegal streaming. Best I could find was: http://www.vipboxeu.co/

LegendaryRio 12 years ago |

Hi,

Thanks for the post about World Cup. Just a tip about those who don't live in countries that stream world cup online. You can use UnoTelly to remove the geoblock and stream World Cup 2014 in your country free worldcup.unotelly.com

srehnborg 12 years ago |

http://www.univision.com has all the games in Spanish. Usually it's more exciting to watch because the announcers get really into it.