Soooo.... just thought I\'d check in and see what I\'d need to do if I want to watch the F1 this year.
I have Virgins top TV package... if I want to add F1 to that is £22.50 EXTRA a month. :rollin:rollin :censored:
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To quote a well know rock star:
"I wasn\'t born with enough middle fingers..." :censored::censored::censored:
If F1 is the only sport you watch then i feel your pain.
But if you like watching the pinnacle of any sport, its only ever going to end up on Sky, eventually. Lets put it like this, if WRC ever got popular again, it would end up on Sky sports and really, you could partially blame the low numbers down to the pathetic coverage it gets!
I enjoy sport, football, golf, cricket etc so its a no brainer for me!
Plus the coverage you get is just superb :)
I have virgin. Didn\'t know it was going to be extra £22 to watch f1. They just put my bill up by 2.50 but also said I could lower it by gettin ebill and direct debit, which I already have. My total cost is about £45 month. I think I could get a sky package for less.
For the record, wrc or f1?
WRC for me
I hated losing my Virginity when I moved to Milton Keynes a couple of years ago. :Giggle My biggest gripe being only two tuners in Sky boxes - my Virgin had three and it wasn\'t even HD!
Just last night I\'m watching this Gossip Girl 100th episode they have been advertising to death on ITV2 (don\'t normally watch it) but no - I get the annoying programme clash with ANTM / Whitechapel! No chance of watching embarrasing bodies then (well actually we kept the old Sky box so could techincally do all four but that\'s not the point).
But when the F1 TV advert came up a few weeks ago and said \'if you\'re watching this you can get the F1 channel for free\' all was forgiven. Saw some previews at the Sky stand in MK at the weekend and it does look really good (if you like F1). :Thumbs-up
And I will also conceed that Sky Go and the Sky+ app on my iPhone are also very useful. :wiggle
Quote from: kiwimazda;815040WRC for me
Prefer WRC, but the coverage is so poor and lack of manufacturing interest is denting its appeal imho.
If you\'ve got Sky HD with all the sports and movies it now £65 a month!
Thats a lot of tv you\'d have to watch to make it worth while... or to make it sound better, just 6 films a month at the cinema (minus any sort or food or drink bought there, dont even get me started on the price of popcorn!!!)
I\'ll be getting the F1 channel. Just hope the coverage is as good as the BBC last year :D
Adam
F1 is part of the Sky HD package, no need for Sky sports (lets see if it\'s the same next year).
I get Sky Sports F1 because I\'ve got Sky Sports HD on my Sky. I think it\'s pretty cool but it\'s not £22.50 a month cool!
get yourself a dreambox and watch it for free
dc
Watch Moto GP - they actually overtake :)
Quote from: Ada7;815051Just hope the coverage is as good as the BBC last year :D
Jake Humphrey :mmmm :InLove
Anyone know if the BBC will have them all on Iplayer?
Quote from: Brett;815104Anyone know if the BBC will have them all on Iplayer?
I thought it was still being shown, just not live, or some of the races will be or something like that! Not that much help really :Giggle
The races that bbc show as a highlighted version will be on the iplayer as a highlighted version.
The bbc won awards for the f1 coverage and it was by far the best coverage I have seen - what a shame they go and dump half of it!
Guess ill have to find a good pub to watch those - although not sure what the landlord will think of me knocking on the door in the early am to watch the Australian gp!!
BBC will show live coverage of 10 of the races, for the rest they will show extended highlights later in the day (afternoon for early morning races, evening for afternoon races). I succumbed to Sky Sports several years ago, Sky dramatically improved live football coverage all those years ago, lets see what they can do for F1.
It will be interesting to see how Sky do F1, their football is good so fingers crossed. The BBC always had the advantage for F1 because they don\'t have commercials. I hope sky limit the commercials within a race to the absolute bare minimum.
Quote from: Will66;815167It will be interesting to see how Sky do F1, their football is good so fingers crossed. The BBC always had the advantage for F1 because they don\'t have commercials. I hope sky limit the commercials within a race to the absolute bare minimum.
I wouldnt hold your breath, the golf is littered with adds, in fact, thats the only downside to sky!
Just seen an article in sky\'s website that indicates there wil be NO adverts during the races...
Also looks like Sky will only sell the complete package to Virgin, hence why its £22.50 to get all the sports channels... but even then Sky still won;t allow transmission of F1 in HD outside of Sky... so £22.50 would get me channels I won\'t watch, and the program I want to watch is only available in SD.
:(
I only have the basic virgin tv package so would need to pay, say 25 per month to get to the same as yours, then another 22.50 to get the sports channels to get f1. So that\'s 570 a year EXTRA to watch the 10 races that arn\'t on the bbc! I don\'t think any sport is worth 57 quid to watch one event!!
Quote from: Ricco_04;815226I don\'t think any sport is worth 57 quid to watch one event!!
That\'s the point - Sky don\'t want you to pay extra (and still not get it in HD) they want you to cancel your Virgin and change to Sky.
Looks very good so far - and all the extra stuff like the iPad extras should make it a better viewing experience.
Stop teasing those of us tied in for another year :p
Quote from: Brett;815533Stop teasing those of us tied in for another year :p
I might let you round to watch - for a charge! ;)
Quote from: AMH;815493That\'s the point - Sky don\'t want you to pay extra (and still not get it in HD) they want you to cancel your Virgin and change to Sky.
Looks very good so far - and all the extra stuff like the iPad extras should make it a better viewing experience.
Yeah thats true. A mate of mine has the sky F1 channel and to be fair he says its been bloody good so far :)
I was going to get rid of the Virgin service as I only use broadband and freeview channels.
The beeb will have a 2hour highlight program so doesnt sound too bad (how muuch of that will be talk and not racing who knows.
I just broke down and paid the money.
Willpower :spank
Pah, sky can have f1. BBC need to get moto to back on, along with British super bikes and world superbikes. And also get WRC on. They are more interesting and enjoyable to watch than f1 where the actuall racing is done on a laptop and in the pita lane at tyre changeovers...... Boring.
The last few years of F1 I have watched the first 10 laps then the last 5 laps and the majority of the time it starts the same way it finishes. They need to
Bring back unlimited boost turbos and bring in mental aerodynamics, flat out around every corner in 7th fear would be amazing to watch
Quote from: Brett;816213I just broke down and paid the money.
Willpower :spank
You crumbled! :Nono!
(so how much is it per month to have what you need for the channel? :D)
already have it as per sky sports :-)
£22.50 :o
Having just seen the epic qualifying though... I\'m glad I did. (Still feeling ripped off though)
not missing F1 at all. gives me more time for reading "stuff" on the web