Sky Puck/Stream and F1

[jwo]

Morning PH,

I’m contemplating moving to Sky Puck from Sky Q as they continue to shaft me on price, but I enjoy (well less so now with the crap regs) F1.

How is the streaming service on Puck, particularly if one want to watch the F1 later (traditionally I would have recorded it)?

Thanks in advance

[SteBrown91]

-Cancel Sky,

-Buy NordVPN (Can often be found on cashback/voucher sites for equivilent of less than £2 a month

-Buy a FireTV stick (around £40 for the 4K higher RAM version)

-Install NordVPN on your phone and set location to Netherlands or other suitable country.

-Download the F1 App (Not F1TV) and subscribe to the TV subscription using apple/google pay as the method

-Install NordVPN on the Firestick and set it to the same country

-Download, install and log into the F1TV app with the same information as on your phone

-Enjoy a much better F1 experience for just £8 a month.

Been doing this for over a year now. Its a breath of fresh air compared to what Sky offer.

[Red9zero]

jwo said:

Morning PH,

I m contemplating moving to Sky Puck from Sky Q as they continue to shaft me on price, but I enjoy (well less so now with the crap regs) F1.

How is the streaming service on Puck, particularly if one want to watch the F1 later (traditionally I would have recorded it)?

Thanks in advance

Very timely question for me. We are in the process of moving to a new house on a development that doesn't allow Sky dishes, but does have a connection to a communal Sky aerial. The only problem is, it seems that we have to change our Sky Q from a 2 aerial cable connection to 1 cable. It seems easy enough to do, but I have seen a few comments that it may restrict multiple recordings at the same time. So, I was looking at moving to Stream when we move in and was wondering about the F1. Not really interested in VPN's etc either.

[lauda]

I've got Sky Glass, which as I understand it, functions in the same way as a puck, it's just integrated into the tv.

Personally, I find it really annoying for watching F1. If you want to watch the race live, or want to start watching from the start whilst the live coverage is still in progress, then it's fine. If you've missed the start, you can just restart the coverage and you're good to go.

However, once the live coverage has finished, the programme just disappears for a few hours before becoming available to rewatch on demand. It's really frustrating.

It's also totally unnecessary. I also have TNT Sport via HBO, and as soon as any live coverage has finished, the programme is just instantly available to rewatch.

The Sky setup feels like a real step backwards compared to being able to record onto a hard drive and rewatch at your leisure.

[Red9zero]

lauda said:

The Sky setup feels like a real step backwards compared to being able to record onto a hard drive and rewatch at your leisure.

That is my concern. Isn't there a playlist of some kind that you save your programmes to ? The other issue is the amount of stuff my wife has saved to our Sky Q that would no doubt disappear if we moved to Stream.

Apologies to the OP for jumping on your thread !

[lauda]

Red9zero said:

lauda said:

The Sky setup feels like a real step backwards compared to being able to record onto a hard drive and rewatch at your leisure.

That is my concern. Isn't there a playlist of some kind that you save your programmes to ? The other issue is the amount of stuff my wife has saved to our Sky Q that would no doubt disappear if we moved to Stream.

Apologies to the OP for jumping on your thread !

Yeah, there is a playlist that you can add your favourite stuff to, but that is still reliant on the programme actually being available to stream at the point you want to watch it. Which generally it is, it's just the F1 that's a pain in the proverbial. And possibly other sports stuff, but I only have Sky F1, not Sky Sports, so can't say for certain.

[grumbas]

Does anyone else find F1 on Sky Q an absolute shambles for what you pay?

My grumbles are:
- The series link records absolutely everything. I don't want all the press conferences etc, just qualy and the race is fine.
- If it's been more than a few weeks since the last race the series link dies. Like after the enforced April break, so Miami didn't record
- If you don't watch/record live the session doesn't appear on catchup until a random later date, usually the next day (very annoying combined with above point!)

For the money they charge this seems like basic functionality to get right.

I used to have F1TV linked to my place in France, but that got discontinued as apparently it breached French tobacco advertising rules (and absolutely nothing to do with them signing a Sky like deal with RTL).

Very tempted to try the above posters suggestion of signing up in the Netherlands or similar when my Sky deal ends.

[jwo]

Thanks all for the responses. Sounds like it’s not as bad as it could be… we generally watch the races live anyway, and if not, then waiting a couple of hours for it to appear isn’t the end of the world. Bit hacked off Apple didn’t get the rights from Sky!!
Red9zero - crack on! The playlist thing seems to make sense from what I’ve read - but yes giving up the Q box you’ll lose what’s on it.. those old programmes from years ago that you still haven’t watched (at least case for me!)