Where to get Formula 1 on telly

Tiexen wrote: »

Afraid you'd need to move your dish for RTL or add a 2nd LNB on a bracket, its on a different satellite to SKY/Freesat

Yup, but you can use normal Freeview for your english channels

Millionaire wrote: »

Then when installed they currently have a offer for existing customers of £50.50 cashback and £50 M&S voucher. (could expire depending when sky is installed) for HD upgrade.

Apparently 'existing customers' are those who have been with Sky for a minimum of 12 months...

InkZ wrote: »

Get Freesat, tune the dish to German channels, watch it on RTL and listen to it on the radio

This
i have a sat kit setup to get RTL From satellite astra1 @19.2e
RTL they are showing F1 the full season

(Sky comes from astra2 @28.2e) so to get foreign tv you need the dish pointing at another satellite like 19.2e

one of my kits was the basic Ross complete sat kit Dish.Receiver.leads.etc it cost £25 from B&Q a couple of yrs ago

i can also get other satellites with the kit 13.0e.16.0e.23.5.e
it gives you access the 100's & 100's of free channels

There's many free channels on astra1 like RTL. SPORT1. ZDF. SAT1. WDR. Eurosport Germany
so you get loads of free sport.from F1,MotoGp.WSBK.Europa cup
Champions lge.German Bundasliga.French.Portuguese.Greek football.Boxing (Klitch v Chisora).FA Cup.Darts PDC and loads more from the free channels broadcast around Europe

yes the Commentary is in local language German.Greek etc
but you can watch loads of free stuff thats often on a pay channel in the uk. kits might be about £50 these days but well worth the outlay imo if you dont mind Foreign lang.

and if your into DIY You can set the dish up ok using dishpointer.com as a guide dont forget your dish dont need to be up high on as roof,chimney it can go on a fence.a shed.low wall,in the garden on a post etc so long as you have a clear line of sight to the sky/satellite without trees / wall blocking where the dish needs to point
mine is only 4ft off the ground.and i can easy adjust it to get other satellites

Here's a list of broadcasters and who's showing what:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_broadcasters

RTL are the best bet for showing the non-BBC televised races. What you'd need would be something like a Zone 2 Sky Minidish aligned to 19.2E and a simple Satellite receiver (not Sky branded). Another option if you wanted to make a bit of an investment would be to buy a Humax Foxsat PVR, connect one of the inputs to the 19.2E dish (for the German broadcasts) and the second to another minidish at 28.2E which would get you the UK Freesat service including all the BBC/ITV/C4 and standard Freesat EPG channels.

Paying for all the crap Sky offer just for one channel you really want is expensive. Great if your a general sports fan but just for F1 it's very expensive. This solution will pay for itself fairly quickly in that respect.