I am ready for this. I hope that after logging in you can watch live or saved video after the race in case we need to sleep in. 8-12 bucks per month seems fine. Thats what HBO streaming costs. Robb
Did some digging, looks like I have to wait a couple of years until the current contract with Sky Italia runs out in 2020. For the next three years, from 2018 until 2020, Sky Italia will hold the exclusive broadcasting right of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship on TV and ... history of Formula 1, where the passion for our sport is part of the DNA of many people, and it is very important to have reached this agreement which will ... https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/1/formula-1-and-sky-italia-renew-broadcast-partnership.html
That is all Sky costs? That's less than in the US! With the amount of moaning I thought it was going to be around 300.
Yep, that’s it, and apparently I pay a lot, most of my friends pay half that as they don’t have so many decoder boxes. That’s why sometimes I wonder when we are on a ferrari forum where people clearly in general aren’t exactly poor, yet talk of a few quid a month annoys them so much!!!!! Maybe I’m too generous, but unless it hits silly money, I’ll either see the value and subscribe or, if the format remains as is with Mercedes walking it and **** cars and sound, probably not Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat.com mobile app
In what world is 120 a small tv bill. As someone who watches almost no tv I'd be up in arms too if that's how much it cost to watch F1 live. Fwiw an inexpensive vpn subscription would let UK and Asia viewers access the OTT feed wherever it's blocked due to regional restrictions due to agreements with Sky.
I would of gladly paid $10 a month for this service but Foxtel has the Australian rights till 2022 (min $44/mth) I guess I'll be sticking with free streams for now *cough*
With the new season around the corner, when can we get on board and start using it? I signed up on the contact me I’m interested form... Robb
Well to someone that watches no TV then sure. But that's not really the person we are talking to. If you have a TV package 120 isn't a lot, about average. And regarding the second option, yes we all know you can do that but it's not exactly above board so doesn't really count.
A LOT of people aren't interested in paying that kind of money to watch tv and want to stream a la carte through OTT providers like Netflix, Hulu, Sling, etc. In 2017 alone 22 million people left cable/satellite in the US (up from 17 million in 2016). These are not inconsequential migration rates. Just google search what's been happening to AT&T and Comcast tv businesses. There's a reason there's been so much demand for an OTT F1 feed and why this has been so well received. Cost is the driver.
Oh yea I totally agree. I'm one of the idiots that hasn't cut the cord yet and I don't really know why. I have a all those subscriptions also AND I buy the online WEC package and will also be getting the F1 package. lol. It just might be time. TV model is certainly going to have to change.
Try using the Opera browser in VPN mode. https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2016/09/free-vpn-in-opera-browser-40/
Some footage has appeared on youtube with Buxton commentating and branded with only the F1 logo... Looks like he may be part of the F1 package... I am praying the others are not.
Honestly I'm happy to pay $10/month for F1, but I'm starting to worry that this is going to fall through. I signed up on the "contact me" button a few weeks ago and haven't heard anything yet...
They said it will launch during the season, which is quite different than the start of the season. I'm amazed they couldn't muster up the effort to launch the service at the same time as the new season.
So its not just me that saw this specific wording on F1.com site... So I still have to keep getting screwed $$$ by Direct TV until they decide to launch their services
F1 Live OTT platform to feature 24 live streams – “Pretty Insane” More details have emerged about the new F1 Live OTT platform, as outlined by F1’s head of marketing Ellie Norman, who describes the boldness of the project as ‘pretty insane’. Typing the words ‘F1’s head of marketing’ still feels slightly strange, seeing as for decades it was the only global Tier 1 sport that did not even have a marketing department, let alone a head. Bernie Ecclestone used to rely on manufacturers, race promoters and sponsors to market the sport of Formula 1 for him. This kept the overheads down on the F1 Management side, while Ecclestone gleefully whipped up regular media attention by lobbing in regular hand grenades, which the newspapers gratefully jumped on. Now it’s all rather different, although the infrastructure to make the new F1 Live OTT platform was all put in place by Ecclestone. He just chose not to use it for that, as he was all about protecting the rights of his broadcast partners. Norman was previously at cable TV supplier Virgin Media and believes that the nature of the modern consumer who has a passion point is “… that passion tends to overrule the rational side of things; it is not uncommon if you have a pay TV bundle that you will have one or two of the top subscriptions. I think that with consumer behaviour and the desire to buy things you love, consumers are making that choice. If you are interested you will pay.” That is the calculation; that of the potential audience for F1, identified at 500 million sports fans around the world, even if 1% of them paid their $8 a month for the OTT service, that would yield $40m a month, or almost half a billion dollars a year. There is also the opportunity to upsell the packages in future; a Lewis Hamilton fan in Delhi could access more rich content about Hamilton and he could take a revenue share. There is also great value to F1 and its partners from the data that would be gathered about the consumers. But for now it’s all about going direct to the fans and to make the fans’ access to F1 as frictionless as possible. “Everyone is offering fans more direct access, we are incredibly fortunate with the access that we have through our sport,” Norman (above) said in an interview with digital media title The Drum. “We are going direct to the fan so we are then able to give them the best experience possible,” she told The Drum. There is nowhere else out there with 24 livestreams coming into the app and that is pretty insane – I don’t think that has been done before.” “It is a very strategic sport and for that hardcore fan, they really understand the excitement but the strategic elements, having the ability to personalise how you watch it and being able to select favourite drivers and view that side by side, these are all elements where we can better serve our fans.” The F1 OTT service will be rolled out in about two dozen countries, including USA, France, Germany and some Latin American markets – those where F1 has not ceded the digital rights to TV broadcast partners. That is the case in UK and Italy where Sky has the rights. F1 is talking to Sky about bundling the OTT rights. https://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2018/03/f1-live-ott-platform-to-feature-24-live-streams-pretty-insane/
"24 streams", I'm going to guess they don't mean one camera in each car and then 2 on track and 2 in the pit!
