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Post by Hoovie on Mar 2, 2018 22:39:47 GMT
Sky slashes cost of its F1 package in response to F1 TVI wonder who does their maths? So you can buy a Season Pass for F1 for the NOW box (NOW is owned by Sky) for £150, which equates to £7 per race weekend. You have been able to buy a single SKY Sports Channel (such as SKY Sports F1) for £18 a month with 30 day cancellation notice. The F1 Season lasts for 8 full Months and a Day, so to get F1 coverage for all that time (rather then 21 3-day weekends) will cost £145 (extra quid for the extra day over the 8 months) £145 "slashed" to £150? Interesting  If the headline was "NOW TV slashes cost of F1" it might make a little more sense as that used to be £300+ I like NOW TV, and you can with the subscriptions watch live OR on-demand all the content EXCEPT, I believe, Sports, which must be viewed live (I may be wrong on this, but think it is the case). It is about time SKY did better then knocking off £2 to go from around 9 or 10 Sports Channels to a single one. I bet if it were say £10, lots of people who just watch F1, or maybe just watch Golf, would subscribe, but baulk at paying £20 for 90% of content they have zero interest in or a measly 10% discount for a 90% reduction of service. How do you intend to follow F1 in 2018?
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Post by jasehutch on Mar 2, 2018 22:57:29 GMT
I will be watching on channel 4, no way will I be paying to upgrade on Sky..  |
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Post by davidwilson on Mar 3, 2018 7:38:42 GMT
I will be watching on channel 4, no way will I be paying to upgrade on Sky..  Me too. I like watching F1 but not enough to pay more than my tv licence to do so! |
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Post by Hoovie on Mar 3, 2018 8:21:50 GMT
Last year I subb'ed to Sky Sports for the final 3 Months IIRC, but I doubt it I will be doing so this time.
If the NOW TV Offer is available as £7 one-offs as well (I doubt it though) I might pay for one or two races.
I think after this year there will be NO Free-To-Air live F1 in the UK and only a very limited Highlights package.
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Post by unclebob on Mar 3, 2018 9:46:18 GMT
I will be look into some sort of F1 package come 2019.....well if F1 hasn’t gone bust by then 😉😉
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Post by Hoovie on Mar 3, 2018 11:11:04 GMT
I had a look on eBay - where there are quite a few people selling NOW TV Passes of the various types. On the Sports ones, you can buy a pass aqnd activate it anytime within 365 days, so I might see if there is a cheap one going, buy it and save it up for an appropriate time.
PS - the "news" report I linked to above was VERY badly presented as well as having a crap headline. What the offer actually is if anyone is interested is 9 months of FULL SKY Sports (so all 10 channels)every day, and NOT as implied, the SKY Sports F1 Channel just on Race Weekends. The only "F1" bit about it is they have this offer to run for the duration of the F1 2018 Season.
On THAT basis, it is actually not too bad (but still pricey) a deal IF you are into other - basically Football! - sports.
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Post by aleman on Mar 3, 2018 13:14:53 GMT
I'm still not giving any of my money to that morally bankrupt piece of offals turd Murdoch!
May look into F1 TV though.
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Post by phaeton on Mar 19, 2018 13:37:14 GMT
On THAT basis, it is actually not too bad (but still pricey) a deal IF you are into other - basically Football! - sports.
Yes I relooked at this, but still can't put my hand in my pocket, if was other channels other than Football I'd consider it, MotoGP, for instance, anything but Football,
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Post by widge on Mar 25, 2018 6:40:16 GMT
I can never understand Sky's logic on costing.
Years ago my brother took on a pub, it already had Sky sports installed (for an exorbitant commercial fee) then when an event like a boxing match arrived he would be charged an additional £150 which if the fight ran the full length wouldn't be so bad as people would stay and continue to drink, but the first one he paid for, the match didn't even last two rounds, most people drank up and left, he had only sold about £90 of drinks. The next morning he canceled the subscription.
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Post by unclebob on Jan 6, 2020 12:01:37 GMT
Sky slashes cost of its F1 package in response to F1 TVI wonder who does their maths? So you can buy a Season Pass for F1 for the NOW box (NOW is owned by Sky) for £150, which equates to £7 per race weekend. You have been able to buy a single SKY Sports Channel (such as SKY Sports F1) for £18 a month with 30 day cancellation notice. The F1 Season lasts for 8 full Months and a Day, so to get F1 coverage for all that time (rather then 21 3-day weekends) will cost £145 (extra quid for the extra day over the 8 months) £145 "slashed" to £150? Interesting  If the headline was "NOW TV slashes cost of F1" it might make a little more sense as that used to be £300+ I like NOW TV, and you can with the subscriptions watch live OR on-demand all the content EXCEPT, I believe, Sports, which must be viewed live (I may be wrong on this, but think it is the case). It is about time SKY did better then knocking off £2 to go from around 9 or 10 Sports Channels to a single one. I bet if it were say £10, lots of people who just watch F1, or maybe just watch Golf, would subscribe, but baulk at paying £20 for 90% of content they have zero interest in or a measly 10% discount for a 90% reduction of service. How do you intend to follow F1 in 2018? I’m looking to take out a new season with Now TV for the formula One but the year deal doesn’t seem to be on offer, I hope they contact me like last year and offer the deal as that seemed the cheapest option at £195 🤔 |
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Post by phaeton on Jan 6, 2020 13:29:24 GMT
Do you not know someone with Sky who would let you use their Sky Go?
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Post by unclebob on Jan 6, 2020 16:20:45 GMT
Do you not know someone with Sky who would let you use their Sky Go?
Don’t know anything about sky Go other that what just quickly googled 😉 |
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Post by phaeton on Jan 6, 2020 17:46:45 GMT
Do you not know someone with Sky who would let you use their Sky Go?
Don’t know anything about sky Go other that what just quickly googled 😉
If you do know somebody who has Sky, then I think they automatically get Go as well, not sure as I don't have Sky but my BIL does, I use a MacBookPro & connect it to the TV just to watch the races, we can get all the channels but TBH we don't use it for anything else other than F1. I did try to get a cable to go from the tablet to the TV but couldn't get that to work, not sure if that was due to the cable, the tablet or the way Sky Go works.
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Post by Ravasher on Jan 7, 2020 7:49:56 GMT
I’m gutted me and the kids are big fans of WWE. When I negotiated my Sky package I managed to get Sky sports literally thrown in for next to nothing. WWE has now gone to BT sport as well as most of the football. They’re charging £29.99 a month which is too expensive so need to find a work round. The only other option is the WWE network but they don’t show the weekday matches so that’s not an option either. I’m already suffering from withdrawal symptoms as I missed last nights WWE Raw
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Post by phaeton on Jan 7, 2020 8:35:08 GMT
Maybe somebody on here needs to sign up for the full Sky package & then offer Go at subsidised rates, as long as you're not making a profit from it, I can't see it's against your contract, but never having read a Sky contract I can't be sure
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