Apple's bid for US F1 broadcast rights

How would that help?

Can F1 be watched live on the internet?

I don't have Apple TV. In fact I don't subscribe to any streaming, I hate the idea and have enough to watch on my Tivo box anyhow. Nor do I have a smart TV.

As for Apple and F1: This is really sad and one can argue either way whether that is helpful or detrimental to the sport in the US. Now I miss good old Europe where every country broadcasts its own F1 feed. Monopolies suck, yet here we are in the heart of capitalism stuck with one.

 

TiVo? I think you have more bad news coming, according to what I read in The Wall Street Journal this week.

 

Nah. It's not a Tivo box that actually records shows (they're gone years ago). My Tivo box today is the router from my cable provider. It doesn't store anything locally, it's just the brain/interface to the cable provider since my TV is "dumb".

And yes, that was a downgrade too: I was able to store my favorite shows indefinitely on the hard disk of my original Tivo box. I was even able to copy it down from there. Not anymore. These small boxes don't allow for that and the shows get deleted after 3 months.

 

Back to F1 in the US:

My cable provider also has some channels in Spanish. Univision I believe. They carry the races in spanish, probably a feed from Mexico. I wonder whether they get eliminated by this deal as well or not?

 

I don't have an Apple phone.

Getting streaming to my Roku TV would require extending the internet from my home office to the living room.
(They're too far apart for high speed wifi.)
(And I'm not sure my TV is compatible with all the security provisions I put on my wifi.)

Dish network has also moved several channels from the satellites to streaming.
(Apparently, the Dish "Hopper" requires a network connection.)
(My ancient ViP612 is past its "use by" date.)

My house is already pre-wired for coax.
If I were building new, I'd have it pre-wired for coax, cat 6, and fiber.
But I'll have to see just how expensive it'd be to add cat 6 drops in several rooms.
(Been thinking of doing that for a while. Might be time.)

 

Man that's peanuts. You can't even get Hamilton to drive two seasons for that. Lol.

My initial reaction is that this is very short sighted from Liberty. Sooooo many people in the US have espn. Apple TV? Not so much.

$13 isn't much really. You can't even get a decent burger, fries, and a coke for that now.

That being said, if Ferrari is competitive I will pay it. If they suck, I will just save the money and work on cars instead.

 

I wired my house for cat-5 in about 1997 - at least four rj45s drops to every room with big patch panel in basement.

Then UNwired my house a couple years ago - pulled all the wire out and patched the drywall holes.

WiFi is awesome these days - I’m seeing bandwidth of about 700Mb to my devices and you only need about 25kb to stream 4k video, so don’t waste time pulling wire.

Kevin

PS - my internet connection is AT&T fiber at 5Gb