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« on: November 25, 2011, 01:47:10 pm » |
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Announced today that next year you will only be able to watch F1 on a dedicated Sky Sports F1 channel - obviously not free.
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« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2011, 01:57:06 pm » |
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Only "free" to the following...
The dedicated channel will be provided at no extra charge to all Sky TV customers who take both Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 or the HD pack of channels. It will be found at 408 in Sky's on-screen guide, after a scheduled move of the Sky Sports channels. Sky Sports viewers without the Sky+ HD pack will receive a standard definition version.
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« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2011, 01:58:25 pm » |
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Announced today that next year you will only be able to watch F1 on a dedicated Sky Sports F1 channel - obviously not free.
>Martini...LB
Plus, of course, the 10 race live package on BBC, plus their highlights for the other races. |
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« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2011, 01:58:35 pm » |
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« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2011, 02:10:23 pm » |
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Bet the sponsors love this. It will be back on the Beeb in a few years, I wont be paying for it and I dont expect many others will either, so before long there will be some sort of discount rate followed by a humbling switch back to free to air, either BBC or Channel 4 (or was it 5) that had also put in a bid. I wonder what the actual delay in the highlights program is? live is clearly he instant it happens, is there minimum time that must pass before a hightlights show goes out our could it start running 1 minute after the live sky transmisson?  |
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Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better.
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« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2011, 02:27:05 pm » |
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I wonder what the actual delay in the highlights program is? live is clearly he instant it happens, is there minimum time that must pass before a hightlights show goes out our could it start running 1 minute after the live sky transmisson? Well, you only need about 1 minute for the highlights of most F1 races anyway  |
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« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2011, 02:30:01 pm » |
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Stuff Sky - have to work out other ways of watching it
option 1 - get a spanish box like they did with the Sky Football at pubs
option 2 - watch German TV on satalite and listen to it via Radio5 - which I have done in the past and is easy.
Like people say, give it a while and Sky don't cover their costs and it will be back at the BBC (I hope)
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« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2011, 02:48:44 pm » |
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I think I read it was a 4 hours delay, but my guess is that the BBC will put it on at 7 pm anyway As for the German satellite channel, I think you'll have to move the dish to pick it up  I agree, nobody is going to pay the extra, but so many have Sky sports anyway |
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« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2011, 03:40:33 pm » |
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watch it on the computer, someone will always post a link to somewhere and have radio five live on aswell, no problem as it lets the wife watch some decorating program on the tv
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« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2011, 12:00:50 pm » |
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I prefer to watch Retro Formula One on ESPN classic. Proper cars, proper drivers, big slicks, snorkels, big hair and flares. Ace!
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« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2011, 08:21:52 pm » |
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I prefer to watch Retro Formula One on ESPN classic. Proper cars, proper drivers, big slicks, snorkels, big hair and flares. Ace!
And they don't look like they're on rails Where did it all go wrong I've been watching some Le Mans from the 1970s - It just so much better |
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« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2011, 08:37:37 pm » |
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Speed! They may look like they are on rails but the truth is they are much faster and maybe the grace has gone.
They still oversteer and drift, its just much faster.
The ESPN programs are great, this week brought back memorys, wanting watson to win in the Brabham Alfa at silverstone. Has there ever been a better looking F1?
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Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better.
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« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2011, 10:45:25 pm » |
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Once you've lived without F1 for a while it becomes so unimportant that you don't even bother taking any notice of the news when they say that Vettel has got pole/won again.
IMO F1 got boring a long time ago and these days I prefer spending my time (and money) at the speedway watching locals do mad things in something they welded together in their shed. It's much more fun and much more accessible.
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« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2011, 11:05:24 pm » |
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Of course they're faster now, but there was something really romantic about that era (I assume your talking about the seventies). It wasn't the sanitized, over regulated, made for TV extravaganza that F1 has become. They were still racing on the classic circuits (Zandvoort, Osterriechring, Kyalami, etc.) not some cookie cutter Tilke track in the Middle Eastern desert somewhere. It wasn't all glorious, some really awful things happened, it was terribly dangerous, but watching the drivers laying it on the line, knowing the risk-reward factor, made it impossible not to be attracted to it. On a different note, looks like the USGP in Austin has fallen apart, wow, never saw that coming I think I made the comment when the circuit and race was first announced that I'll believe it when I see cars turning laps, too many people with lots of money and grand ideas, that have no idea how Bernie and his henchmen actually operate. I give the New Jersey race even less chance of actually taking place. Dorna did the smart thing and re-upped their MotoGP contract with IMS, and if Bernie does really want a race in the US, he should go back to the folks at 16th & Georgetown with his cap in his hand and promise not to f**k things up like he did last time. But we all know he won't do that. Why do that when he can convince the dictator of rinky-dink little third world nation, that hosting a GP will make his nation important, for a small fee of course. Travelling to emerging nations, and all that over-used BS that Bernie likes to feed us. Fax |
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