Formula One on UK TV - ideas on how to keep watching?

scheming_gypsy

Don't any of you have friends with Sky who'll be watching F1?

georgiebest7

You could get Sky Sports through Top-Up TV which you can get through Freeview boxes or some Freeview enabled TVs.

You would still have to pay for Sky Sports but its a rolling monthly contract with a one month notice cancellation. You sign up in March and then give them notice to cancel a month before end of F1 season.

Inner_Zone

georgiebest7 wrote: »

You could get Sky Sports through Top-Up TV which you can get through Freeview boxes or some Freeview enabled TVs.

You would still have to pay for Sky Sports but its a rolling monthly contract with a one month notice cancellation. You sign up in March and then give them notice to cancel a month before end of F1 season.

You'll need a TV or box with a CI+ CAM slot when TUTV release the new CAMs which should be soon , but not all TV or boxes have that capability or buy a TUTV branded box.

TUTV only offers SKY SP1 and 2, there is no guarantee Sky will broadcasting F1 on either of those, nor is there anything to stop them switching F1 to SP3 or 4 at anytime which you can't get on TUTV.

Gav_RS250

Just told Sky to cancel my subscription over this!!!

I've built a Home Theatre PC (HTPC), with dual HD satellite card for approx £310, it can do all a Freesat HD PVR can do, and also pick up lots more strange and interesting satellite channels, and its a PC too, so BBC iplayer, etc..... all in one box.

I intend to watch German channel RTL for 'Sky' races with BBC Radio 5 live audio. For those without a dish, but with broad band, you can watch streamed F1 races on RTL's website

www rtl de/formel1/livestream/index (where there's a space put a full stop)

As a MSE newbie I cannot paste the true hyper link in but you can work it out.
My Sky subs (inc multi room) are around £600 p.a, so if I build another box they will pay for them selves in a year..ish, and no money to the Aussie F1 stealing phone hacker !

brewerdave

Gav_RS250 wrote: »

Just told Sky to cancel my subscription over this!!!

I've built a Home Theatre PC (HTPC), with dual HD satellite card for approx £310, it can do all a Freesat HD PVR can do, and also pick up lots more strange and interesting satellite channels, and its a PC too, so BBC iplayer, etc..... all in one box.

I intend to watch German channel RTL for 'Sky' races with BBC Radio 5 live audio.

Don't you have to realign your satellite dish to get RTL etc ??

useless_git_requires_wife

This could suit you very well:

https://discoversky.sky.com/skygo_non_dth/Default.aspx?DCMP=ilc-skygo_shop


No contract (Formula One season is not that long) , no dish, less expensive than a full subscription AND you could watch Sky Sports at your relatives' houses.

I'm pretty sure this would be your cheapest and most versatile option.

davemurgatroyd

georgiebest7 wrote: »

You could get Sky Sports through Top-Up TV which you can get through Freeview boxes or some Freeview enabled TVs.

You would still have to pay for Sky Sports but its a rolling monthly contract with a one month notice cancellation. You sign up in March and then give them notice to cancel a month before end of F1 season.

Unfortunately at present there is no guarantee TopUpTV will continue Sky Sports . BT Vision are looking at dropping the DTT transmission (which TopUpTV use) and switching to broadband transmission (because they are making severe losses on it) for Sky Sports. If they do then there is no way TopUpTV could afford to pay for DTT transmission on their own.

almillar

The RTL thing online does sound interesting, but lots of American providers, and the Beeb themselves, try to lock their content to their own regions using IP addresses. RTL, if they don't already, could do this any time, but at least it's an 'official' stream online.

Gav_RS250

brewerdave wrote: »

Don't you have to realign your satellite dish to get RTL etc ??

I didn't with our Sky installed dish, if you can't pick it up it's only a minor tweak on the dish, Sky sits on Astra @ 28.2º E, whilst RTL sits on Astra @ 19.2E. If your unsure about re-panning your dish slightly Google is your friend or you can pay to get it done.

Gav_RS250

almillar wrote: »

The RTL thing online does sound interesting, but lots of American providers, and the Beeb themselves, try to lock their content to their own regions using IP addresses. RTL, if they don't already, could do this any time, but at least it's an 'official' stream online.

You can use VPN services free or paid online to trick foreign websites into thinking you are located in the the country of origin of transmission. Even if you have to pay its cheaper than a Sky Sports subscription and only per month with no tie ins.