F1 TV coverage threadFormula 1

[Seismica]

Looks like I was right, Sky are doing a Sky Go monthly ticket pass for those who don't want a full sky subscription It's £35 a month but if you are smart with the dates you only need to pay for 5 or 6 months worth to see all the races (Might be a gap where you can watch it on the BBC but it's worth saving £35 to miss FP1-2 in my opinion (Link: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/groups/f...way-to-watch-sky-next-year-175-and-its-legal/)

The only problem is, the F1 channel is not confirmed to be included with it

New Sky advert:

Not bad at all 👍 I'm looking forward to the Sky coverage, it had better be worth the extra cost.

 

[joetoml1n]

5.1 surround sound during the races should be amazing
Everything is shaping up to make a fantastic channel! Well worth a few pennies every month in my opinion.

http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1/news/12538/7533507/Wired-for-sound-

 

[Touring Mars]

Looks like I was right, Sky are doing a Sky Go monthly ticket pass for those who don't want a full sky subscription It's £35 a month but if you are smart with the dates you only need to pay for 5 or 6 months worth to see all the races (Might be a gap where you can watch it on the BBC but it's worth saving £35 to miss FP1-2 in my opinion (Link: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/groups/f...way-to-watch-sky-next-year-175-and-its-legal/)

The only problem is, the F1 channel is not confirmed to be included with it

That seems to be a good option for those of us not planning on getting a Sky subscription any time soon...

I'd be surprised if F1 was not included, since it is one of the six channels in the Sky Sports package.

 

[Only_in_f1]

Interesting what Sky have done to win round the originally skeptical internet bloggers. Majority of top F1 fan blogs writers went to a 'press conference' today with the Sky team. Sky's PR team in full charm mode!

 

[Chqr]

Seriously recommend subscribing to BSkyB and their HD service full time. We have a full package paying £74 pounds a month + £6 for Premier Sports and there's everything available to you. Once you get it, there's no going back. It seems as if Sky might get rights to F1 for a long time now so with the latest Sky HD package deals, why not. Seriously worth the money. Good customer service too. We had an old first generation box for three years and they came in replaced it for free with a 1TB box and gave a complementary new TV remote.

 

[Tyger]

You pay 80 quid for your TV package? OK might include phone and internets too but still...some of us aren't in that kinda position, and £35.00 for the monthly pass also seems way steep to me unless you really want a lot of the other stuff. Keep in mind sometimes there might only be one or two races per month exclusive to Sky.

Personally i'm neither in the position to or prepared to pay £22.50 for Virgin's suite of Sky Sports channels on top of my regular subscription (which is about £33 including pretty fast broadband) but each to their own I guess.

 

[Sach]

The whole thing stinks, but I'm still very anxious to get the season started.

 

[Ardius]

Looks like I was right, Sky are doing a Sky Go monthly ticket pass for those who don't want a full sky subscription It's £35 a month but if you are smart with the dates you only need to pay for 5 or 6 months worth to see all the races (Might be a gap where you can watch it on the BBC but it's worth saving £35 to miss FP1-2 in my opinion (Link: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/groups/f...way-to-watch-sky-next-year-175-and-its-legal/)

The only problem is, the F1 channel is not confirmed to be included with it
.

I don't think there is anything to do with TV that is worth £35 per month to me on top of a TV license and Virgin subscription. Certainly not the odd F1 race. Say I paid that for 6 months, thats still £210! Sure I get the rest of the Sky stuff but I do not care for any of that I would only be getting it for the F1.

No, I think I'm pretty happy keeping my money and instead turning to BTCC to provide my main motorsport viewing this year.

Maybe at some point I will switch to Sky and have the income to cover it, but there are so many other things I find more important for my money.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Seriously recommend subscribing to BSkyB and their HD service full time. We have a full package paying £74 pounds a month + £6 for Premier Sports and there's everything available to you. Once you get it, there's no going back. It seems as if Sky might get rights to F1 for a long time now so with the latest Sky HD package deals, why not. Seriously worth the money. Good customer service too. We had an old first generation box for three years and they came in replaced it for free with a 1TB box and gave a complementary new TV remote.

Disagree, my family of 6, from 8-52 y.o at the time, abandoned Sky because we had the full package, but still found there was nothing on TV worth watching at times.

We switched to Virgin Media, saved money, gained better On Demand services and haven't looked back since.

 

[Alex.]

All you have to do is call up Sky and tell them you want to cancel as you can't afford it. They do you an offer. We sure as hell aren't paying full price.

 

[Submerged]

...... All this talk about Sky.

Doesn't people know that you can actually just get a sat dish and just point it toward a RTL feed and get the F1 pictures instead?

Obviously the sound is in German, but you can just mute that and play Radio 5 Live for the F1 commentary.

Personally, I'm not a fan of Sky at all and I dislike their monopolistic attempt to brand all their products under one name, thereby reducing choice.

Additionally, I have found that I don't actually require Sky to watch their programmes, as most of the freeview programs suit me fine for my choice to watch things.

 

[scarslasher]

How is this going to affect American watchers on SPEED?
This is the year F1 comes back to the U.S., please tell me they won't just give up on it before one of my most anticipated races.

 

[daan]

How is this going to affect American watchers on SPEED?

I don't think drug addicted Americans are going to be too bothered about it all.

 

[joetoml1n]

I don't think drug addicted Americans are going to be too bothered about it all.

Haha, excellent. Funniest thing i've heard all day!

 

[Furinkazen]

So I have Sky Sports already... so does that mean I can get the F1 channel? Or am I going to have to pay for it if I want it ?

 

[cgr-10]

So I have Sky Sports already... so does that mean I can get the F1 channel? Or am I going to have to pay for it if I want it ?

If you have Sky Sports in any form, whether you're on Sky, Virgin, BT, whatever, you'll get it 👍

 

[TopGearFTW]

If you have Sky Sports in any form, whether you're on Sky, Virgin, BT, whatever, you'll get it 👍

Really? We have BT Vision and pay for Sky Sports 1+2 and when we asked whether we'd receive the channel, they said no.

 

[jcm]

How is this going to affect American watchers on SPEED?
This is the year F1 comes back to the U.S., please tell me they won't just give up on it before one of my most anticipated races.

I don't think drug addicted Americans are going to be too bothered about it all.

Speed will probably still be airing it. The American greand prix will probably be on FOX though.

 

[cgr-10]

Really? We have BT Vision and pay for Sky Sports 1+2 and when we asked whether we'd receive the channel, they said no.

Far as I know, all Sky Sports subscribers get it.

 

[Dennisch]

Aw this sucks bigtime. I usually watch the BBC for F1, because the Dutch commentator is such a dumbass, he just keeps on talking, especially on the onboard shots.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Far as I know, all Sky Sports subscribers get it.

All standard sky subscribers get it as well. don't actually have to have sky sports.

 

[Submerged]

Huh?

Link please?

 

[cgr-10]

http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/sports/formula-one/

Sky Sports F1™ HD - a brand new channel dedicated to Formula 1™

Added automatically to any Sky TV package with Sky Sports 1 & 2 or the HD Pack, at no extra cost

I can see why people who can't afford Sky are annoyed but I think Sky will do a good job of the coverage, Brundle makes the coverage for me and wherever he's at you can bet I'll be watching that channel. I really do like the BBC presenters though, DC, EJ and Jake are a great team; I may even watch the BBC pre-race build up on the races they cover, then switch over to Sky for the race.

 

[ExigeEvan]

...... All this talk about Sky.

Doesn't people know that you can actually just get a sat dish and just point it toward a RTL feed and get the F1 pictures instead?

But wouldn't that require 2 dishes? Or a twin set-up?

 

[MagpieRacer]

Huh?

Link please?

Sorry I meant its part of the standard Sky HD package. Getting mixed up as I have HD.

 

[tribolik]

...... All this talk about Sky.

Doesn't people know that you can actually just get a sat dish and just point it toward a RTL feed and get the F1 pictures instead?

Obviously the sound is in German, but you can just mute that and play Radio 5 Live for the F1 commentary.

Personally, I'm not a fan of Sky at all and I dislike their monopolistic attempt to brand all their products under one name, thereby reducing choice.

Additionally, I have found that I don't actually require Sky to watch their programmes, as most of the freeview programs suit me fine for my choice to watch things.

Sorry for the OT but is it - Doesnt people know or dont people know? I dont mean anything by it except to learn proper grammar - Im not English.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Sorry for the OT but is it - Doesnt people know or dont people know? I dont mean anything by it except to learn proper grammar - Im not English.

"Don't" would be correct.

 

[Ardius]

Although if you seperate out "don't" to "do not", so you get:
"Do not people know"
It doesn't sound like it makes sense anymore.

Ah, english, infinitely complicated and forever evolving. Sometimes I wonder if english is the language most reliant on experience to understand rather than any kind of proper structure and rules as most of the time it breaks all of its supposed rules.

 

[PeterJB]

Although if you seperate out "don't" to "do not", so you get:
"Do not people know"
It doesn't sound like it makes sense anymore.

Ah, english, infinitely complicated and forever evolving. Sometimes I wonder if english is the language most reliant on experience to understand rather than any kind of proper structure and rules as most of the time it breaks all of its supposed rules.

It's a stupid language really. It's a wonder anyone can learn it properly at all.

 

[Ardius]

And its little wonder that people constantly mis-understand each other on the internet as each word can mean a thousand things if people read it with particular tone in their head.
This is why I never understand how internet-relationships based entirely on text-conversations can ever work - what one person can type as innocent compliments another can read as intimate suggestion, or someone can type something as praise and people can read it as sarcasm.

That also reminds me - sarcasm. Why are people always surprised when people don't get it when they type it out? Words on a screen generally read literally, the whole point of sarcasm is that you use tone and facial expression or situation to suggest it. Cold hard text rarely gets such expressions across so sarcasm is difficult unless made very obvious with the use italics like that or smilies.

But erm yes, off topic.

"Burn Sky! Gah!"