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Well I am perfectly happy with the BBC coverage, and which only costs me £145.50 a year, which I would have to pay whether I watched the coverage or not :-D
I like the mix of highlights and live coverage, I dont have the time to watch all the practice, qualifying, support races, historic races etc and even if I had Sky, yesterdays race was one I couldn't have watched live, as I had to take my daughter to swimming at 4. At least if I miss a live BBC show I can see the highlights later.
I think it will be interesting to see what happens at TV contract renewal I guess BT will want to be getting involved in the bidding so I think that is the biggest question going forward will it be on a combination of BBC and Sky or will it be on BT, or BT and BBC.
The fact that the Bahrain race was an exciting one might enocourage more people to sign up for Sky, but I won't be, and the reality is I never will. So if F1 goes over to Sky in entirity I'll give up watching it altogether.
Having a look at http://f1broadcasting.wordpress.com/ is the best place to find out viewing figures, and they have a survey of viewing habits currently.
I like the mix of highlights and live coverage, I dont have the time to watch all the practice, qualifying, support races, historic races etc and even if I had Sky, yesterdays race was one I couldn't have watched live, as I had to take my daughter to swimming at 4. At least if I miss a live BBC show I can see the highlights later.
I think it will be interesting to see what happens at TV contract renewal I guess BT will want to be getting involved in the bidding so I think that is the biggest question going forward will it be on a combination of BBC and Sky or will it be on BT, or BT and BBC.
The fact that the Bahrain race was an exciting one might enocourage more people to sign up for Sky, but I won't be, and the reality is I never will. So if F1 goes over to Sky in entirity I'll give up watching it altogether.
Having a look at http://f1broadcasting.wordpress.com/ is the best place to find out viewing figures, and they have a survey of viewing habits currently.
Chrisgr31 said:
and even if I had Sky, yesterdays race was one I couldn't have watched live, as I had to take my daughter to swimming at 4. At least if I miss a live BBC show I can see the highlights later.
If you had Sky you'd have Sky box which has a DVR inside and would have recorded the entire event in HD for you to watch at your leisure and a 30x FF to skip Simon Lazenby's drivel and you wouldn't have had to tolerate the BBC's butchered editing the ruined IMO the race. (I saw both as friends came round and insisted the highlights where worth watching- they weren't having already seen the live feed)
Even if you'd missed the live race and forgotten to set it to record Sky will show it all week on repeat in-between the qualifying and practice repeats!
People are constantly slamming Sky, its abit moronic as the BBC where the ones who dropped it, had Sky not picked it up it would be nowhere. Also since my wife and kid watch Sky all the time (We only get 16 SD freeview channels here, versus 500+ on sky with 40+ in HD) its a no-brainer for £30/month, their usage makes my 1-2 times a month F1 essentially 50p/race in terms of real cost. Not to mention MotorsTV for all the GT racing!
JB8 said:
The coverage is good, but why can't you just add the F1 channel to your package. I don't want to pay for the whole sky sports package to watch one race every few weeks.
I agree with this as do probably most F1 fans.I rarely watch any other sport on Sky apart from F1.
Sky are only interested in increasing their revenue, and don't listen to what their customers want.
scubadude said:
If you had Sky you'd have Sky box which has a DVR inside and would have recorded the entire event in HD for you to watch at your leisure and a 30x FF to skip Simon Lazenby's drivel and you wouldn't have had to tolerate the BBC's butchered editing the ruined IMO the race.
(I saw both as friends came round and insisted the highlights where worth watching- they weren't having already seen the live feed)
Even if you'd missed the live race and forgotten to set it to record Sky will show it all week on repeat in-between the qualifying and practice repeats!
People are constantly slamming Sky, its abit moronic as the BBC where the ones who dropped it, had Sky not picked it up it would be nowhere. Also since my wife and kid watch Sky all the time (We only get 16 SD freeview channels here, versus 500+ on sky with 40+ in HD) its a no-brainer for £30/month, their usage makes my 1-2 times a month F1 essentially 50p/race in terms of real cost. Not to mention MotorsTV for all the GT racing!
I very rarely watc a full race on time delay even when the arces were live on the BBC and they used to show the far eastern races live at stupid o'clock and a full as live repeat at a more reasonable hour. The reality is if I don't see the race live I am unlikely to have the time to watch anything other than the highlights. Equally I'd agree that if I had seen the race live I wouldn't bother with the highlights either.(I saw both as friends came round and insisted the highlights where worth watching- they weren't having already seen the live feed)
Even if you'd missed the live race and forgotten to set it to record Sky will show it all week on repeat in-between the qualifying and practice repeats!
People are constantly slamming Sky, its abit moronic as the BBC where the ones who dropped it, had Sky not picked it up it would be nowhere. Also since my wife and kid watch Sky all the time (We only get 16 SD freeview channels here, versus 500+ on sky with 40+ in HD) its a no-brainer for £30/month, their usage makes my 1-2 times a month F1 essentially 50p/race in terms of real cost. Not to mention MotorsTV for all the GT racing!
I am not and have not lambasted Sky, I have been consistent in saying that Sky is not for me. I do not believe that I would get value for money from paying Sky for the priveledge of watching F1. For example I used to be a fan of WRC and BTCC, however even though I have access to both on TV I record WRC (and forget to watch it) and haven't even got round to recording BTCC.
If one watches other sport than F1 or has the time to watch some/ or all the practice, qualifying, the race, support races etc, or indeed has more disposable income or different priorities than myself then Sky might be the solution. However in my case I cannot justify it on a value for money scale so will stick to the BBC, who for me, produce a perfectly accepable product.
In my view we are lucky to have the choice of 2 options and long may those days continue.
t about any of them I wouldnt be watching the F1 would I ffs!Gassing Station | Formula 1 | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff