Reply to: Grand Prix

[d000hg]

No cable out here. I'm in a conservation area too so getting a dish isn't easy even if we wanted one.

What about these now TV boxes? Are they any good? £35 with 5 sky day passes is quite tempting.

Now is good if you only want one-off things like F1, a few times a year. You need decent internet of course, if Netflix/iPlayer work without problems it should be OK.

I think £10 is a rip-off but you can often find people selling batches of the things on eBay as they are frequently given away in promotions like at Shell garages. I stock up every now and then.

I reckon the Mercedes animosity might fizzle out, they're both a bit polished and media trained compared to drivers in the old days.

Next time out in Canada we get the exact opposite IIRC, overtaking everywhere, lots of pit stops, so that might be fun.

Nice to see Marussia scoring points; I'm increasing starting to wonder why the back two teams even bother - 3/4 years on and they're still always at the back, always a second behind the next cars in qualifying, etc. Maybe this marks a turning point but I'm not betting on it.

[Doggy Styles]

The most exciting bit of the "race" was when Lewis got a fly in his eye. But he removed it without incident.

I'm glad I no longer pay Sky for "races" like that.

[doodab]

I reckon I might put next years Monaco grand prix on the bucket list. Or Monza. Or Spa might be easier to get to and I could do that this year maybe.

Actually just googled it. Spa is very doable indeed. I ain't camping though....

[VectraMan]

Yep but to get F1 now I have to spend £260 a year for Sky Sports which I would never watch...

What are you complaining about then?

Fortunately I still get the F1 channel with the £35pm HD subscription.

[doodab]

Watch Sky online without a subscription | Sky Help

Good finding. Thanks!

[Bunk]

Yep, you get it free with a proper subscription but you can get it without too. I seem to remember it being quite hard to find on the Sky website but it's definitely there.

Watch Sky online without a subscription | Sky Help

[Bunk]

Can you get sky go without a box now? When I was a subscriber you had to have sky proper to use it.

Yep, you get it free with a proper subscription but you can get it without too. I seem to remember it being quite hard to find on the Sky website but it's definitely there.

[doodab]

I looked at that but £9.99 for a day pass for Sky Sports wouldn't work for me. I'd end up paying about £30 a week. I went for SkyGo (online only). It's £40 a month for the main channels and all the sport and movie channels and you get access to the catch-up and box-set stuff. And it has no contract.

Can you get sky go without a box now? When I was a subscriber you had to have sky proper to use it.

[Bunk]

What about these now TV boxes? Are they any good? £35 with 5 sky day passes is quite tempting.

I looked at that but £9.99 for a day pass for Sky Sports wouldn't work for me. I'd end up paying about £30 a week. I went for SkyGo (online only). It's £40 a month for the main channels and all the sport and movie channels and you get access to the catch-up and box-set stuff. And it has no contract.

[doodab]

What about these now TV boxes? Are they any good? £35 with 5 sky day passes is quite tempting.

[eek]

It hasn't been on free to air since 2008, and then we had to put up with adverts in the race.

Surely you contractors can afford Sky? If you've chosen not to have it then you've chosen not to see the Monaco GP live, so why are you moaning?

Yep but to get F1 now I have to spend £260 a year for Sky Sports which I would never watch...

[doodab]

I have Sky for the football mainly. It was worth it last night because they were showing the Champions League final as well as ITV so I didn't need to listen to Andy flipping numpty Townsend.

he is quite annoying. It would be nice to have a choice of audio tracks so you can switch commentary off completely.

[Bunk]

I am an ex sky customer. If they made single events or particular sports available via streaming on a pay per view basis I'd probably pay but stumping up £600 a year to watch the Monaco GP seems rather excessive.

Not to mention that their customer service was tulipe and the boxes tended to fail willy nilly. They initially charged me £90 to have some bloke come around and plug a box into an existing dish. I got through five boxes in three years because their cheap tulipty power supplies kept failing. Three of those failed in the same week and all were second hand ones that had been previously repaired. One of them had the repair sticker over the ventilation holes where the fan was and lasted less than an hour. And this was after I had to threaten to leave in order to get a new one out of them, initially they expected me to pay it!

I was happy to see the back of their satellite service TBH.

I have Sky for the football mainly. It was worth it last night because they were showing the Champions League final as well as ITV so I didn't need to listen to Andy flipping numpty Townsend.

[doodab]

Surely you contractors can afford Sky? If you've chosen not to have it then you've chosen not to see the Monaco GP live, so why are you moaning?

I am an ex sky customer. If they made single events or particular sports available via streaming on a pay per view basis I'd probably pay but stumping up £600 a year to watch the Monaco GP seems rather excessive.

Not to mention that their customer service was tulipe and the boxes tended to fail willy nilly. They initially charged me £90 to have some bloke come around and plug a box into an existing dish. I got through five boxes in three years because their cheap tulipty power supplies kept failing. Three of those failed in the same week and all were second hand ones that had been previously repaired. One of them had the repair sticker over the ventilation holes where the fan was and lasted less than an hour. And this was after I had to threaten to leave in order to get a new one out of them, initially they expected me to pay it!

I was happy to see the back of their satellite service TBH.

[Gittins Gal]

It hasn't been on free to air since 2008, and then we had to put up with adverts in the race.

Surely you contractors can afford Sky? If you've chosen not to have it then you've chosen not to see the Monaco GP live, so why are you moaning?

No cable out here. I'm in a conservation area too so getting a dish isn't easy even if we wanted one.