BT Offer Free 4K TV Access for All to Liverpool v Real Madrid Match
The final UEFA Champions League match between English football club Liverpool and Spain’s Real Madrid is to be shown free by UK broadband ISP BT via YouTube, the BTSport TV app and other mediums. The UEFA Europa League final will also be made available to millions of fans who do not yet subscribe .
The matches (on 16 and 26th May 2018) will also be available for free to watch in full 4K UltraHD (UHD) video streaming quality and BT Sport subscribers will separately benefit from 360 highlights on the app throughout the game(s).
BT’s Consumer MD of Marketing, Pete Oliver, said: “To have Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League final is fantastic. We have always said that we want to make top quality sport available to more people and so once again we will be making the UEFA Champions League Final and the UEFA Europa League Final available to all to watch online for free.”
How watch the UEFA Champions and Europa League Finals for free:
| BT.com | BTsport.com/final |
| BT Sport app | Download from the app store |
| YouTube | youtube.com/btsport |
| Virgin |
100 |
Ways to watch as a BT Sport subscriber:
| BTMobile | BT Sport app if subscribed to the BT Sport pack |
| EE | BT Sport app is included for customers on many 4GEE
Max Plans, and all EE pay monthly customers can sign up for a free 3 month trial |
| BT TV | 409 – BT Sport 2
431 – BT Sport 2 HD 433 – BT Sport 4K UHD |
| Sky TV | 414 – BT Sport 2 HD |
| Virgin Media – BT Sport 2
Virgin Media – BT Sport 2 HD |
532 – BT Sport 2 528 – BT Sport 2 HD |
| TalkTalk | 409 – BT Sport 2 |
The provider also used the opportunity to mention that customers signing up for BT Sport between the 23rd and 29th May will receive 3 months free access and can look forward to the UEFA Champions League Final as well as summer boxing, including Tyson Fury’s comeback fight on 9th June.
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It is on ITV as well, I think
Europa League final – live on BT Sport. Highlights program on ITV later that evening.
UEFA Champions League Final live on BT Sport. I cannot see any scheduled highlight programme on ITV or other.
4K is a major selling point ITV can’t match at this point in time, the BBC have done the odd 4K test on iPlayer – not sure what the ETA is for mainstream rollout.
Ill be watching the 4k stream on YouTube with my BT Infinity FTTC… Oh no scratch that it only runs at 26Mb nowhere near enough for the full YouTube 4k experience 🙁
How much Mb do you need for the full YouTube 4K stream?
“How much Mb do you need for the full YouTube 4K stream?”
It depends on the content, the bottom end and early 4k youtube content streams at anything from 14-30Mbps.
The more typical newer (past 3-6 months possibly older) content is around 35-50Mbps(ish).
The top end (IE NOT transcoded to low profile youturd mp4) is around 60-90Mbps.
Either way for a football match it will be interesting, especially for those on a capped product as (unless quick maths in my head fails me) even at around the poorest 14Mbps 1 hour of content will work out to a data consumption of around 7Gig. so i guess one 90 min footy match will at minimum be 10 gig (ish)…
Ouch if you are on a product like the NON-Unlimited 52Mb Infinity with a 30GB monthly cap. Cap could be gone (depending on the bitrate its streaming at) just watching both matches LOL
“How much Mb do you need for the full YouTube 4K stream?”
I would not know obviously, as i have never had enough to watch one consistently.
What a great chance to see the quality of 4K. Bring it on.
If only BT were as committed to providing broadband that is actually fast enough to allow 4K streaming. I have no interest in football at all, but I guess I’ll have even less usable ADSL broadband while everyone else is watching in 4K.
Watched the Europa League Final, 4k on YouTube, through my 76mbps FTTC connection, no issues whatsoever. Really pleased, looking forward to the Liverpool match now!