Sky's TV live race, qualy and practice commentary and pitlane of F1 (Croft/Brundle/Nat and Ted) is broadcast on the Australian FTA TV channels Ten and One.
Also the BBC commentary/pitlane is used for Canadian pay TV channel TSN who show all the races live.
One HD/Ten in Australia only broadcast Qualy/Race for weekends other than Melbourne, where they do the practice sessions.
Races & qualy are full of ads and padded each side with talking heads in a studio. Generally made up of idiotic comments from Alan Jones who proves again and again he doesn't understand current F1 and shouldn't be a driver steward....
Not F1 related but some might here know the answer. Marcello Lotti is no longer in charge of the WTCC. It seems Eurosport wanted changes to the events, and he disagreed. In Autosport he seems to imply that Discovery's purchase of shares in Eurosport was linked some how. Does anyone know what these proposed changes are?
One HD/Ten in Australia only broadcast Qualy/Race for weekends other than Melbourne, where they do the practice sessions.
Races & qualy are full of ads and padded each side with talking heads in a studio. Generally made up of idiotic comments from Alan Jones who proves again and again he doesn't understand current F1 and shouldn't be a driver steward....
Oh dear I would have thought Alan Jones in the studio would have been good.
Do they have Ads during the Race like ITV did?
Do you get all the extra feeds that sky show via their red button, online and app offerings?
I know that One/Ten have their Tenplay apps (iOS and even Windows 8, with Android coming soon ;-)), xbox and PC for their channels, as its through a recent presentation that I heard this.
Do you get all the extra feeds that sky show via their red button, online and app offerings?
I know that One/Ten have their Tenplay apps (iOS and even Windows 8, with Android coming soon ;-)), xbox and PC for their channels, as its through a recent presentation that I heard this.
Yep ads during the race and between qualifying sessions! The only time a major portion of the race went ad free was Canada 2011 after the restart - guessing they showed all the ads they were required to combined with the fact Canada starts at 4am AEST
Always hear Crofty plug the various methods of watching via the companion app or which drivers can be watched via the onboard channels - none of which are available. Red button style additional channels don't really exist in Australia so no real way to provide them except online, which they don't. I'm sure FOM charge extra for everything on top of the world feed which network ten wouldn't have paid
Yep ads during the race and between qualifying sessions! The only time a major portion of the race went ad free was Canada 2011 after the restart - guessing they showed all the ads they were required to combined with the fact Canada starts at 4am AEST
Always hear Crofty plug the various methods of watching via the companion app or which drivers can be watched via the onboard channels - none of which are available. Red button style additional channels don't really exist in Australia so no real way to provide them except online, which they don't. I'm sure FOM charge extra for everything on top of the world feed which network ten wouldn't have paid
Ok, so those apps are only used for live and catchup tv.
Makes Sky service seem so superior, when you hear what others have.
Must be well annoying hearing a commentary team mention a UK only addition.
Pain having Ads during the race, they always seem to happen at the vital times, but with the commentary your seeing, there will not be any catchup after the Ads.
Still, at least you can watch it live, there is nothing worse in my view than not being able to watch Sport live, makes you feel your there and with all the other things you can do with apps, online, live timing etc these days, makes for a great live viewing experience.
No!
Something must be done, regulations wise, for 2015.
Will be interesting to see the casual fans reaction to these designs.
Trouble is, that usually leads to all the cars looking the same which I don't want. They look bloody ugly yes but as an Engineer it's fascinating to see different peoples solution to the massive problem they were given when the regulations came out. It been the most interesting lunch season for very many years.
I'm enjoying the launches this year more than last season!
With these new regulations we are going to have distinctive cars up and down the grid and possibly some different sounds as well.
The Mclaren for me looks quite good and striking, the lotus just looks plain odd and that Ferrari looks like a totally different solution to the regulations.
Trouble is, that usually leads to all the cars looking the same which I don't want. They look bloody ugly yes but as an Engineer it's fascinating to see different peoples solution to the massive problem they were given when the regulations came out. It been the most interesting lunch season for very many years.
I'm enjoying the launches this year more than last season!
With these new regulations we are going to have distinctive cars up and down the grid and possibly some different sounds as well.
The Mclaren for me looks quite good and striking, the lotus just looks plain odd and that Ferrari looks like a totally different solution to the regulations.
Fascinating stuff.
Well I'm HUNGRY for some changes!
Make the solution a challenge too and you can have both technical challenge and not have to cover your copy of F1 Racing with a newspaper to avoid the shame of people seeing you with one of those appendages on the front page!
Make the solution a challenge too and you can have both technical challenge and not have to cover your copy of F1 Racing with a newspaper to avoid the shame of people seeing you with one of those appendages on the front page!
Oops!
It's going to be about finding a balence, F1 is usually not very good at that.
I really like the new lower noses, I'd prefer them not to have the extra finger sticking out the front but been honest even those haven't really been bothering me as much as I was expecting them to.
Quite fond of the McLaren, Finger & all & really like the look of the Ferrari. Not so keen on the Lotus though.
Right folks. What, in your collective wisdom, is the cheapest way of watching every session live this year? Only limitations: I can't get Virgin Media, and I don't want to mess around with foreign channels.
the cheapest way, without a doubt, would be to find a pub run by a motorsport enthusiast
I am unsure of the new noses, having a look at the McLaren, I get a feeling as if something is missing, maybe I am too used to the old style, but this is certainly different.
Right folks. What, in your collective wisdom, is the cheapest way of watching every session live this year? Only limitations: I can't get Virgin Media, and I don't want to mess around with foreign channels.
Simple - find a stream and watch it that way. I'd love to for sure use official purposes, but Sky have basically forced us to now pay for the channel instead of it being inclusive which we can't afford, so I'll let the power and beauty of the Internet find me a solution.
Noses are massively ugly but at least they all look distinctive, no doubt everyone will converge on a similar solution but until then I'm going to enjoy the cars actually looking different.
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Ta. That was pretty much the conclusion I'd reached, but the experience of others is always welcome.
I don't talk about things that shall not be talked about on here. Got into trouble about that before.
George is waiting for your call
Jp
One HD/Ten in Australia only broadcast Qualy/Race for weekends other than Melbourne, where they do the practice sessions.
Races & qualy are full of ads and padded each side with talking heads in a studio. Generally made up of idiotic comments from Alan Jones who proves again and again he doesn't understand current F1 and shouldn't be a driver steward....
Oh dear I would have thought Alan Jones in the studio would have been good.
Do they have Ads during the Race like ITV did?
Do you get all the extra feeds that sky show via their red button, online and app offerings?
I know that One/Ten have their Tenplay apps (iOS and even Windows 8, with Android coming soon ;-)), xbox and PC for their channels, as its through a recent presentation that I heard this.
Yep ads during the race and between qualifying sessions! The only time a major portion of the race went ad free was Canada 2011 after the restart - guessing they showed all the ads they were required to combined with the fact Canada starts at 4am AEST
Always hear Crofty plug the various methods of watching via the companion app or which drivers can be watched via the onboard channels - none of which are available. Red button style additional channels don't really exist in Australia so no real way to provide them except online, which they don't. I'm sure FOM charge extra for everything on top of the world feed which network ten wouldn't have paid
Ok, so those apps are only used for live and catchup tv.
Makes Sky service seem so superior, when you hear what others have.
Must be well annoying hearing a commentary team mention a UK only addition.
Pain having Ads during the race, they always seem to happen at the vital times, but with the commentary your seeing, there will not be any catchup after the Ads.
Still, at least you can watch it live, there is nothing worse in my view than not being able to watch Sport live, makes you feel your there and with all the other things you can do with apps, online, live timing etc these days, makes for a great live viewing experience.
http://f14t.ferrari.com/en/
Having seen the McLaren and Ferrari now, I'm really liking this very different design. But then Ferrari Red always looks great.
So, McLaren have designed an anteater and now Ferrari have given us a platypus!
They look best from behind
Jp
No!
Something must be done, regulations wise, for 2015.
Will be interesting to see the casual fans reaction to these designs.
Trouble is, that usually leads to all the cars looking the same which I don't want. They look bloody ugly yes but as an Engineer it's fascinating to see different peoples solution to the massive problem they were given when the regulations came out. It been the most interesting lunch season for very many years.
I'm enjoying the launches this year more than last season!
With these new regulations we are going to have distinctive cars up and down the grid and possibly some different sounds as well.
The Mclaren for me looks quite good and striking, the lotus just looks plain odd and that Ferrari looks like a totally different solution to the regulations.
Fascinating stuff.
Well I'm HUNGRY for some changes!
Make the solution a challenge too and you can have both technical challenge and not have to cover your copy of F1 Racing with a newspaper to avoid the shame of people seeing you with one of those appendages on the front page!
It's going to be about finding a balence, F1 is usually not very good at that.
Quite fond of the McLaren, Finger & all & really like the look of the Ferrari. Not so keen on the Lotus though.
For anyone watching the Rolex 24, OnBoard streams here. Not that most of them work sadly:
http://www.imsa.com/camera/united-sportscar/race-central
the cheapest way, without a doubt, would be to find a pub run by a motorsport enthusiast
http://soundhog.moonfruit.com/#/pre-recorded/4533466428
Not to mention the Groundhogs.
http://www.progboard.com/graphx/covers/7316.jpg
Simple - find a stream and watch it that way. I'd love to for sure use official purposes, but Sky have basically forced us to now pay for the channel instead of it being inclusive which we can't afford, so I'll let the power and beauty of the Internet find me a solution.
*puts official hat on*
Hello sirs in the quote tree, have you heard of the endeavour known as F1InPubs?
www.f1inpubs.co.uk
It allows you to find exactly what you said, a pub full of fellow enthusiasts showing every race live!
*takes official hat off*
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/bbc-f1-2014-presenter-line-up.html
Excellent addition to the team, hopefully he'll feature quite a lot in the TV pre and post race coverage.