Pretty steep increase to be able to watch live races. Any alternatives?

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    4 months ago

    Off topic

    It’s £20 in the UK… for no live races. Sky has exclusive rights in the UK sadly. I’ll stick to sailing the high seas.

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      4 months ago

      I hope it’s still £20. I paid for it a few years ago for the archive content. Watched the early 80s seasons. I’ve been meaning to get it again to catch up with the rest.

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      NowTV is available and you can (could?) Get credit with them from Tesco clubcard with a decent multiplyer.

      Horrible website/service though

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        I don’t like Sky getting a penny from me. I have no idea how they’re allowed to have such a monopoly for sport on TV in the UK.

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          They don’t, it’s a partial dualopoly between them and BT Sports with the BBC and ITV occasionally getting in on the action.

          Agree with the sky hate though.

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            4 months ago

            That’s only recently. They’ve had football for many years before taking boxing into pay per view. It’s snowballed since. I was absolutely gutted when they took F1.

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    I also got the email that the price will increase and would have to pay 94.99 eur for a yearly subscription. To be honest i have always thought the 64.99 eur was very cheap for a whole year, and i even got a discount over that and paid 51.99 eur.

    Assuming you’re Dutch:

    • It’s cheaper than what people without a Ziggo subscription paid in the past.
    • It’s cheaper than Viaplay and Viaplay has a bad bitrate/fps.

    So yeah it seems steep, but the price is now normal compared to what i paid before.

    Maybe F1TV will do a discount/intro price again right before the season starts.

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    Still cheaper than the alternative where I live, but it’s kinda insulting to increase the pricing a few months after they announced that F1TV Pro would only be available here to existing subscribers…

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      4 months ago

      Still cheaper than the alternative where I live

      I think your alternatives list is not full ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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    Depends on where you live. But considering you get 24 live races, it’s around four euros a race so less than a euro per session if you watch all the qualifying and practice. If you also watch F2 and F3 it’s even less per race.

    65 was really cheap, I think them finally deciding to ask a higher price after all these years of giveaways and discounts is not that odd.

    I’ll stick with it for now, but I will keep an eye on what they do in the following years. The alternative in the Netherlands is Viaplay, which is considerably more expensive but gives you a lot more sorts and tv shows. On the other hand, their F1 was so bad they just include F1TV now.

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      “less than a euro per season”? You meant session, right? Took me a minute. :-)

      That aside, imagine if Netflix charged a euro for everything on their service that you might watch.

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        I don’t think the two are at all comparable. F1TV shows live content whereas Netflix is more of a library. Considering their monthly fee, how many minutes of content would you have to watch for a minute to be as expensive as a minute of F1? In the end, it all boils down to if you find it worth the money.

        Essentially, F1TV could create a separate subscription for just the qualifying and races, leave out all the talking and nonsense, no supporting races et cetera. I think that would generate a lot of users that find 95 a year too steep.

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        F1 is pricey but sadly this is still fairly cheap in comparison. The other option in sweden is via a carrier,Viaplay, and their “Total” package including “all sports”. That comes in at 62 Euros a month!