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is it just me or does none of the series linking work on sky and their f1 coverage - ie F1 show, qualy, race.
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is it just me or does none of the series linking work on sky and their f1 coverage - ie F1 show, qualy, race.
![]() I had similar issues last year including the series links not linking after the summer break. Even when they are working I don't trust the links on this channel at all and always try to remember to double check them. |
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Never trusted the links for these tbf
Always set them manually, it takes but a moment an you know they're going to record then |
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Here in Australia they are dodgy too on Foxtel. Better to individually record each one.
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I suspect The F1 Show won't series link in with each race weekend this year given that it is now half an hour long and (I think) no longer live.
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is it just me or does none of the series linking work on sky and their f1 coverage - ie F1 show, qualy, race.
![]() Some like Ted's notebooks, the principal conferences and highlights were ok. But the practice, qualy, live race (all three parts), drivers conference, f1 show and the new F1 report programmes were not. Its all devices, sky+hd, sky q and sky+. Odd thing is it did pick up some Australian ones up if you had next series in your planner schedule. But did not create a series link from that. |
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I watched the Formula E highlights Sunday morning, and I have to say that was the best FE race I've seen. In a large part because it was on a proper track.
Just looking at Sky's timetable for the weekend and I'm slightly disappointed to see they're not doing a full race rerun until 1pm, with only 1 hour highlights (twice) through the morning. I cancelled Sky last year but was planning to mix and match between NowTV and C4 to see all of it, but I'm getting too old for getting up at 4am to watch F1 and would have recorded it and watched it in the morning. But I can't do that with NowTV. If I've got to wait until the afternoon I may as well watch C4's 2 and half hour highlights and save £11. But it'll be the first race in over 10 years that I haven't watched all the way through. Is this one of those first world problems I hear about?
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If the graphics in this bunch of screenshots from the latest F1 Access video is to be used across the World Feed in general, F1's graphics will be slanted again (but still more minimalistic like last year): http://imgur.com/a/lhaXN I suspect we'll know more when they upload more vids before Friday.
The colours make me wonder if it'll be a mix of Rolex's (Yellow & Green), plus colours from the country's flag, which would change for each race, which is cool. |
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If the graphics in this bunch of screenshots from the latest F1 Access video is to be used across the World Feed in general, F1's graphics will be slanted again (but still more minimalistic like last year): http://imgur.com/a/lhaXN I suspect we'll know more when they upload more vids before Friday.
On the subject of F1 Access, I'm fairly sure I paid for my annual subscription on 12th March last year, although the sub is still active on the app today. Will it suddenly force me to pay again on Friday morning? I suspect it probably will... |
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That does not look good.
On the subject of F1 Access, I'm fairly sure I paid for my annual subscription on 12th March last year, although the sub is still active on the app today. Will it suddenly force me to pay again on Friday morning? I suspect it probably will... Re. the graphics, I did notice that the F1 access graphics were usually the World Feed's graphics but increased to twice the size, to account for the smaller screens I guess. So if you reduce some of the graphics in the pics by half, that might give a better indicator of how they'll look on TV. |
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It should be a year from when you paid it.
Re. the graphics, I did notice that the F1 access graphics were usually the World Feed's graphics but increased to twice the size, to account for the smaller screens I guess. So if you reduce some of the graphics in the pics by half, that might give a better indicator of how they'll look on TV. ![]() https://imgur.com/a/XF311 I remember there was a free trial up until the middle of April, so maybe I won't have to pay again until then, despite the fact I'm pretty sure I remember buying it the day it was released. So confusing. At least it is for me, anyway.
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So why am I still seeing this?
![]() https://imgur.com/a/XF311 I remember there was a free trial up until the middle of April, so maybe I won't have to pay again until then, despite the fact I'm pretty sure I remember buying it the day it was released. So confusing. At least it is for me, anyway. ![]()
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Qualifying all explained simply in one shot!
Get this into your phone/tablet photo sections or print down, ready for the mayhem on Sat morning; http://gas2.org/wp-content/uploads/2...qualy-2016.jpg |
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Qualifying all explained simply in one shot!
Get this into your phone/tablet photo sections or print down, ready for the mayhem on Sat morning; http://gas2.org/wp-content/uploads/2...qualy-2016.jpg (Although it was more of a comparison between last year & this year: http://i.imgur.com/b2iNSRk.png
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I also made my own a few days ago by the way
(Although it was more of a comparison between last year & this year: http://i.imgur.com/b2iNSRk.pngThink we may all be bored hearing them chat about it by the end of the weekend. Going to be fun though to see how the commentators describe it all live. Be good to see the commentary teams wall charts for reference. Get in there Ted! |
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James Allen has posted a blog post about Tata & FOM's live streaming efforts: http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2016/0...am-live-video/
He doesn't go into specifics that much, but if you read between the lines, it looks like Tata is developing a unified backend system that (most likely) F1 broadcasters will be able to use in place of their own players - the idea being that instead of different streaming platforms being used over the past few years, between different broadcasters (Like the BBC's web player, Sky's old Silverlight web Player, and whatever Channel 4's doing), F1 will give broadcasters a unified player that they can slap onto their website - which will all have the same feeds & bitrates etc. as each other - which should hopefully make things consistent, as well as reducing the delay between live action, cos the video is coming straight from the track, rather than first going to the broadcaster's online hub and THEN out to the users, if that makes sense. The idea is, you watching it on your ipad in the UK (through Channel 4's version of the player) and your mate in spain watching it on their PC (through Movistar's version of the player) are watching at the same quality & in sync with each other. James doesn't mention explicitly whether this would be launched as a Standalone (not tied to a TV subscription) option on the F1 Website, but he does mention Dorna's MotoGP online streaming platform. Food for thought anyway. |
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My f1 access is still active too and both iOS and Android apps got updated today.
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A bit of a f**k up by Channel 4 regarding Zanardi. Presumably he agreed to do a feature later in the year and was rightly surprised to see himself as 'part of the team'. Aside from that I'm impressed with the team they've assembled, plenty of different personalities on rotation should keep the punditry fresh across the lengthy season. Some good paddock links too with Prost, Coulthard, Wolff, Webber, Hamilton and Jordan all having close working and personal relationships with teams and drivers which could turn up some interesting features, insight and maybe the odd scoop. My only concern is the lack of a technical/engineering voice with F1 experience. It was missing from the BBC when Anderson departed and it's not something Sky touch on outside of Ted's Notebook and pre-season. A few features or appearances over the season detailing the usual innovations or grey areas being exploited in the rules would do. Sam Michael would have been a good shout for this bringing the added benefit of experience in a number of roles in his career. As for Sky, same old same old. Di Resta is a much needed addition with Chandhok & Senna departing and Davidson making very few appearances last season. However the same problems appear to remain with Herbert somehow remaining despite bringing nothing to the coverage and the Hamilton focus looks unlikely to shift. Unfortunately it also appears Sky's pre-race show remains at an unnecessarily long 90 minutes despite struggling to fill it with worthwhile content. Quote:
BTW its disappointing to see that all of the classic races Sky are showing over the next week are races that have been shown several times before over the past 2 years.
1994 Japanese Gp & 1986, 1994, 1996, 2003 & 2010 Australian Gp's. When they announced they were showing classic races they said they had access to everything going back to 1981 & there are a lot of races from that time which they have not shown yet. It would be nice to see some new races put into the rotation instead of seeing the same one's repeated over & over. To be honest I'd love to see them stop showing random races & start showing full seasons. Start with 1981, Show a race a day or something & work through each year, Including full races where possible. |
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1998 F1 review, Featuring voice over by someone WRC fans will recognize.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3x...1-review_sport Its from here that these alternative reviews dip in quality as they Just pull footage from the world feed with no new content included. |
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He doesn't go into specifics that much, but if you read between the lines, it looks like Tata is developing a unified backend system that (most likely) F1 broadcasters will be able to use in place of their own players - the idea being that instead of different streaming platforms being used over the past few years, between different broadcasters (Like the BBC's web player, Sky's old Silverlight web Player, and whatever Channel 4's doing), F1 will give broadcasters a unified player that they can slap onto their website - which will all have the same feeds & bitrates etc. as each other - which should hopefully make things consistent, as well as reducing the delay between live action, cos the video is coming straight from the track, rather than first going to the broadcaster's online hub and THEN out to the users, if that makes sense.
The idea is, you watching it on your ipad in the UK (through Channel 4's version of the player) and your mate in spain watching it on their PC (through Movistar's version of the player) are watching at the same quality & in sync with each other. James doesn't mention explicitly whether this would be launched as a Standalone (not tied to a TV subscription) option on the F1 Website, but he does mention Dorna's MotoGP online streaming platform. Food for thought anyway. Getting the signal back from the track to the broadcasters via cable rather than satellite is different, other than getting rid of a chunk of the delay of course. I wonder if either UK broadcaster is part of the 23? Interesting though. |
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If the graphics in this bunch of screenshots from the latest F1 Access video is to be used across the World Feed in general, F1's graphics will be slanted again (but still more minimalistic like last year): http://imgur.com/a/lhaXN I suspect we'll know more when they upload more vids before Friday.
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James Allen has posted a blog post about Tata & FOM's live streaming efforts: http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2016/0...am-live-video/
He doesn't go into specifics that much, but if you read between the lines, it looks like Tata is developing a unified backend system that (most likely) F1 broadcasters will be able to use in place of their own players - the idea being that instead of different streaming platforms being used over the past few years, between different broadcasters (Like the BBC's web player, Sky's old Silverlight web Player, and whatever Channel 4's doing), F1 will give broadcasters a unified player that they can slap onto their website - which will all have the same feeds & bitrates etc. as each other - which should hopefully make things consistent, as well as reducing the delay between live action, cos the video is coming straight from the track, rather than first going to the broadcaster's online hub and THEN out to the users, if that makes sense. The idea is, you watching it on your ipad in the UK (through Channel 4's version of the player) and your mate in spain watching it on their PC (through Movistar's version of the player) are watching at the same quality & in sync with each other. James doesn't mention explicitly whether this would be launched as a Standalone (not tied to a TV subscription) option on the F1 Website, but he does mention Dorna's MotoGP online streaming platform. Food for thought anyway. |
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The FTA Sky Sports channel development continues. An update yesterday says that the new channel will be ready for June and will be called Sky Sports Mix, the source? A person who at Sky:
![]() http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...3&postcount=28 EDIT: On the subject of Sky do we know if they are having a sponsor this year? We know that FairFX sponsored them last year however I haven't seen a sponsor on the trailers at all. |
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1998 F1 review, Featuring voice over by someone WRC fans will recognize.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3x...1-review_sport Its from here that these alternative reviews dip in quality as they Just pull footage from the world feed with no new content included. |
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[quote=FOM Fan;81818754]If the graphics in this bunch of screenshots from the latest F1 Access video is to be used across the World Feed in general, F1's graphics will be slanted again (but still more minimalistic like last year): http://imgur.com/a/lhaXN I suspect we'll know more when they upload more vids before Friday.
Does make me laugh how FOM have struggled for years to have TV graphics which show full driver name, car and car number. '14 saw car numbers included for the first time since 2003! but then did away with drivers first initial, from last year they showed full driver name but no driver number? Its astonishing that back in 1993 they could easily manage it, plus a photo of the driver, all done in a neat, tidy and small manner, 2016 - nope! |
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(Although it was more of a comparison between last year & this year: