F1 moving to Sky - Time the BBC licence became optional

[Freamon]

Soooo ... we need to find the free picture stream on t'interweb and listen to R5 Live (they talk over the pics from the practice sessions and are very good). A quick Google and <cough> RTL </cough>

Rumour has it that RTL can be received with a euro satellite box that can be purchased from B&Q, and a dish pointed at Astra 19.2E.

[BoredBloke]

Watching F1 is like watching a motorway. It doesn't matter to me if Sky have it or if it's only shown in Belguim. It's dull. The cars might as well be on tracks!

As for people complaining about it moving to sky, why should F1 be any different to other sports that have moved?

[lilelvis2000]

Every so often I get phoned up by Sky and asked if I want the movie channels & the sports channels.

They seem ever so surprised when I say no.

For the past two years my box has been asking me to cough up £20 to replace my freeview card....for the privilege of watching channel 5. Yeah, like I'm gonna pay £20 to just so I can watch channel 5.

[gingerjedi]

Every so often mine tells me to connect it to a telephone socket.

I don't have a telephone socket to connect it to any more.

They are quite hot on this if you have multi-room, they don't trust people who are friendly with their neighbours.

[d000hg]

Watching F1 is like watching a motorway. It doesn't matter to me if Sky have it or if it's only shown in Belguim. It's dull. The cars might as well be on tracks!

It's easy to make generalizations without actually watching it.

As for people complaining about it moving to sky, why should F1 be any different to other sports that have moved?

F1 is really popular, and specifically F1 figures are up since it moved to the BBC since the BBC coverage has been very well done.

[d000hg]

Did anyone else think Jake's little piece thanking all the people who made the show great, and thanking the viewers for their feedback, sounded a lot like a good-bye?

[Freamon]

Yup. As long as it's transmitted in clear, you'll be ok.

If it's encrypted, then you're stuffed.

But a box from B&Q is currently about £20 for the box & dish, so not much to lose there.

From what I've heard, RTL SD is in the clear, but HD is encrypted. There's a rumour that the B&Q box comes with a card for the HD to decrypt it, which lasts for a year.

[Zippy]

From what I've heard, RTL SD is in the clear, but HD is encrypted. There's a rumour that the B&Q box comes with a card for the HD to decrypt it, which lasts for a year.

They do stream it over the internet but it's only available in Germany, AUstria and Switzerland. In theory.

[gingerjedi]

They do stream it over the internet but it's only available in Germany, AUstria and Switzerland. In theory.

Download Hotspot Shield

You can watch Hulu with that too (a sort of American iPlayer with 1000's of new shows).

[BoredBloke]

It's easy to make generalizations without actually watching it.

F1 is really popular, and specifically F1 figures are up since it moved to the BBC since the BBC coverage has been very well done.

Who says I've never watched it. It's just a bunch of 'cars' that have more in common with a fighter jet than a car, piloted by a load of overpaid kids. Yes as machines, they are very impressive, but the races just seem to be a long procession intersperced with 'overtaking' when the various 'cars' pit. I used to enjoy F1 back when the likes of Senna drove, and even Schumacher (sp!) but it simply is not exiting to watch given the lack of overtaking. And I know you'll come back and say what about when driver X overtook driver Y, but a few exciting bits in a 3 hour race do not cut it for me.