Not just you. Last year mine only seemed to pick up the link around the Wednesday before the race. I've no idea why that's the case. But the only option at the moment is to record each session individually.

Quite irritating and not something you'd expect to happen on a subscription channel.

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.

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

Here in Australia they are dodgy too on Foxtel. Better to individually record each one.

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.

It's been noted by Sky and reported to them a number of times over the weekend.
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.

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?

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.

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...

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.

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.

It might be that your subscription should run out in the middle of April then

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

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.png

Nice.
Think 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!

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.

My f1 access is still active too and both iOS and Android apps got updated today.

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.


Absolutely agree. There has been no variety in Sky's classic races since inception and they've barely scratched the surface of the archive available. By comparison the BBC's huge library of Classic F1 shown online and the red button since 2009 puts Sky's efforts to shame.

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.

Reading between the lines a lot. Nothing says there'll be any standardisation of any broadcasters' online services but does hint at FOM providing their own global streaming service a la Netflix but live, which would certainly be something. The future may well be bleak for the pay TV broadcasters if that is the case. But I can't see why FOM would supply this great service to C4 for example; surely C4 (or whoever) would get the traditional FTA TV only rights and nothing more.

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.

I believe these graphics have been done exclusively for this video feature. I can't see them changing the overall graphics package for the wordfeed after just one year.

A bit like Uefa do with their web players on the Champions & Europa League - universal for all broadcasters.

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.

Not entirely as bits from digital TV are included here and there.

[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!