http://f1.sky.com/

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As the new home of Formula 1™, Sky Sports F1™ HD will take customers under the skin of the sport with a depth of coverage never offered before. Full Sky Sports & Sky HD customers will be able to watch the channel for free and enjoy:

EVERY RACE LIVE - available in HD and with no advertising breaks during races
PRACTICE & QUALIFYING - each practice and qualifying session live and available in HD
MORE F1™ SHOWS – brand new analysis and highlights shows
MORE LIVE CONTENT – extra coverage through Sky's red button interactive service
ACCESS – Available online, on mobile and on iPad with Sky Go, available to full Sky Sports and Sky HD subscribers

We'll be announcing our full 2012 Formula 1™ commentary team very soon. Watch this space for the big announcement.

You need Sky Sports subscription to watch, won't be on freeview or anything.

At least it looks like they're making a decent crack at it so far. Not quite sure how they're going to broadcast F1 material 24h a day, but seems awesome if they manage it!

Thoughts?

They've said no adverts from the beginning, and if you're paying £600 for 10 races - you still need Sly Sports or Sly HD - then you'd expect that. Apart from HD practice sessions, maybe more red button stuff and watching it on your iPad while on a train or something then there's not much difference to the BBC's coverage or Channel 4's bid. In fact you could probably already watch it on the BBC website on your iPad.

Sky won't be getting anywhere near the BBC audience, which will probably fall itself, making it a losing situation all round - just because the BBC renewed their contract early.

Doesn't change anything for the majority of F1 followers without Sky - we'll still be watching it somehow!

I think Sky have come up with a good package. I think viewers should remember it's 100% better than what BBC were going to produce next year had Sky not stepped in. The Beeb were looking at dropping the entire F1 coverage provide.

F1 is an elitist sport, so I see zero problem with it going to Sky anyway.

Quote from boothy :

In fact you could probably already watch it on the BBC website on your iPad.

Doesn't support flash

Well perhaps not the website, but you can watch it via http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bbc-iplayer/id416580485?mt=8

I'd rather watch it on my laptop via a crappy LeMans style stream than pay Sky.

BBC info here; http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/15893254.stm

I'll be just fine with justin.tv and BBC, thanks.

Quote from boothy :

They've said no adverts from the beginning, and if you're paying £600 for 10 races - you still need Sly Sports or Sly HD - then you'd expect that. Apart from HD practice sessions, maybe more red button stuff and watching it on your iPad while on a train or something then there's not much difference to the BBC's coverage or Channel 4's bid. In fact you could probably already watch it on the BBC website on your iPad.

Sky won't be getting anywhere near the BBC audience, which will probably fall itself, making it a losing situation all round - just because the BBC renewed their contract early.

Doesn't change anything for the majority of F1 followers without Sky - we'll still be watching it somehow!

Since when do you pay £600 for Sky? Unsub the porn networks bro.

I don't pay Sky anything because it's a luxury I can't afford. £653 is the cost for 1 year of Sky with Sky Sports, and HD, or £5/month less if you don't want the full channel bundle including stuff like Eurosport.

Cheapest option is Sky Entertainment + HD option for £30.25 per month.
The new channel is available to those who have SS1 & SS2, or those who have the HD pack.

I'm not sure how much you pay for ADSL, but you could cancel that and get from Sky for an extra £7 per month. Possible saving to offset the extra cost.

Quote from boothy :

I don't pay Sky anything because it's a luxury I can't afford. £653 is the cost for 1 year of Sky with Sky Sports, and HD, or £5/month less if you don't want the full channel bundle including stuff like Eurosport.

HD isn't a neccesity nor is it worth paying for anyway 600 £ a year isn't alot considering basic sky package has great channels (documentaries) [Discovery Network, History channel and affiliates] sky sports as an addon per month is like £6 the last time I checked. Also, ESPN classic comes free and you can sometimes catch old F1 races on there.#


Without HD you're lookin at 30-40 per month. No much more than a phone contract. And this 30-40 per month is including broadband and phone-line. You're basing the minimum price of sky at 600£ a year when in reality that's one of the if not THE maximum package deal price....

If you have a brain, you wouldn't be buying sky for JUST F1. There's countless number of channels on there to satisfy you, much more than regular TV.

Basic Sky Entertainment Package - £20 pcm
HD add on things £10 pcm, which also gives F1 channel.
HD Box (free, but I'd want the 1TB version so I don't have to delete everything on a weekly basis), so £149 at the moment.

So that's £30 per month. Probably with a minimum one year contract, so I'll do it for a year rather than just the season cost.

So that's £509 per year.

Justin.tv and the BBC will be fine.

Same for me but vipbox.tv and BBC

Will be interesting to see how Sky handle the coverage though

Again, if you're talking in the context of Sky > F1 then of course it's going to see overpriced. There's at least 300 decent channels on sky.

No, there are about 2 channels on Sky I'd watch that I don't get on Freeview. One is F1, and the other would possibly be Discovery.

I can still watch F1 on the dutch TV but I prefer the BBC commentary.

Do I understand correctly that I could stream live BBC commentary of every GP on the 5-live stream online?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/

Yep 5Live has still got the radio rights

Great, that means I can basically still have BBC coverage and might even escape commercial breaks by changing to the german RTL coverage (assuming the breaks are not in sync).

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Do I understand correctly that I could stream live BBC commentary of every GP on the 5-live stream online?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/

Yes, if you can listen to the radio stream. If you watch F1 sessions live on the BBC website you can choose either the TV or 5live for commentary. I don't think you're meant to be able to watch/listen to the streams from outside the UK though (as technically you need a UK TV license to watch them).

I'll check it this weekend.

It would be a nice work around if it would. I can imagine there would not be any Bernie rights involved in commentary without visual feed as the commentators just tell what they see and think.

If it works, please don't tell Bernie.

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No, there are about 2 channels on Sky I'd watch that I don't get on Freeview. One is F1, and the other would possibly be Discovery.

Not even Motors TV?

I just think some people either never had sky and/or don't really know the benefits to sky.

Not really. I used to have Sky when I was at uni. MotorsTV is either crap cars or motorsport you wouldn't want to watch.

There are no benefits, especially if you don't watch much television.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Not really. I used to have Sky when I was at uni. MotorsTV is either crap cars or motorsport you wouldn't want to watch.

There are no benefits, especially if you don't watch much television.

i agree, i'd normally only watch RPM motorsport or topgear, even at that... not very much.


but if they threw mixture on it ( D1, rally, CARS ONLY )**** off motorbikes, or anything related to it as they occasionally show and turns me off their channels for a fair oul while.

Quote from Joris :

I'll check it this weekend.

It would be a nice work around if it would. I can imagine there would not be any Bernie rights involved in commentary without visual feed as the commentators just tell what they see and think.

If it works, please don't tell Bernie.

You can listen to the radio from any country so you'll be fine on that, it's just the BBC video you won't be able to watch. And it's the BBC so there's no adverts.