As the V8s race around the mountain this weekend for the Bathurst 1000 I’m once again frustrated with Telstra Bigpond. I’m surprised that its gone on for so many years.
Bathurst 1000 supposedly attracts international interest. Certainly I can imagine Australians overseas wanting to keep in touch with Australian events. Its amusing how there is little mention of which channels air Bathurst 1000 overseas – probably because they’re all PayTV channels.
So if you live overseas and want to watch Bathurst, you have to be a PayTV subscriber. This requires you to have a physical coax line installed in your home from the street, or requires you to install a satellite dish. Not exactly a temporarily rig. But Bathurst is only a yearly event. Surely there is a market for online streaming.
And there is. Telstra Bigpond signed an exclusive coverage contract for the online arena. However Telstra Bigpond do not offer video streaming as a product of its own, but require you to have a Telstra Bigpond Broadband Internet connection. So in other words, if you live overseas, don’t wish to subscribe to PayTV for those other 11 months of the year, and want to watch Bathurst… stiff shit.
