BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...

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Is it easy to unregister a device? I wouldn't want to have someone elses setup on a device I own and cause them problems if they suddenly needed to use it.

It is something I hadn't really thought of doing. Parents have it but they do use it at moment, sure there will be someone I know who'd be able to spare some usage.
 
Skeeter said:
See, I resent this argument too. How am I suddenly labelled a couch potato who spends my entire life watching TV simply because I said Sky TV offers me plenty to watch?

If you don't want to pay for it, fair enough, but don't start attacking those who do.
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Clearly missed the :p.

I'm not attacking those who wan't Sky. Suggest you don't have a go at the people who don't or can't have Sky.

Demon said:
Something like SKY+ HD can actually free you up and help you watch less.. the critical thing is, you can sit down when YOU have spare time and watch only programming that interests you (recorder via the planner).. I watch about 1/4 the TV I used to, because I never miss anything and it takes so little effort to do so.. I even refuse to watch most things live, as I like to FWD through all the ad's, so would start recording, go do something useful for 15 mins, then start watching..
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PVR's do the same thing. ;)
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Is it easy to unregister a device? I wouldn't want to have someone elses setup on a device I own and cause them problems if they suddenly needed to use it.

It is something I hadn't really thought of doing. Parents have it but they do use it at moment, sure there will be someone I know who'd be able to spare some usage.
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Yeah you just login to the sky site with your details and go to manage devices and remove the device you don't want :) You can only make 2 changes to the account per month though.
 
Skeeter said:
So the F1 advertisers are going to demand more viewers than Sky have subscribers to that channel....

Riiiiiiiiiiight.... :rolleyes:
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most f1 advertisers couldnt give a crap about the UK as they are all well known brands here anyone (the ones that care about us) and in the grand scheme of things were only something like 5% of the f1 viewing figures
 
arknor said:
most f1 advertisers couldnt give a crap about the UK as they are all well known brands here anyone (the ones that care about us) and in the grand scheme of things were only something like 5% of the f1 viewing figures
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The people who will be concerned with UK viewing figures will be the people actually advertising on the Sky F1 channel itself, and they can only expect to get what Sky has predicted as viewing figures.

The global advertisers (race sponsors, etc) will, as you say, not give a monkies about the loss of a few million UK viewers, but then I doubt very much that they have been taken into consideration by Sky, or Sky considered by them.
 
They will still have people watching the BBC coverage as well, so Sky don't need to get that many, as long as its enough to pay for itself (or whatever targets they want to meet).
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Is it easy to unregister a device? I wouldn't want to have someone elses setup on a device I own and cause them problems if they suddenly needed to use it.

It is something I hadn't really thought of doing. Parents have it but they do use it at moment, sure there will be someone I know who'd be able to spare some usage.
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You can have it on two devices, I'm sure your parents wouldn't mind you adding one.

It was the route I was going to go if I didn't end up with Sky.

I understand it's a lot of money for people if they never watch tv, I hardly watch anything live any more though, Everything is recorded and as seeker says Mythbusters in hd etc :D
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But yeah anyone struggling go the sky go route. :)
 
Mike306 said:
PVR's do the same thing. ;)
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:D You missed the point, you said that you'd have to be a couch potato to watch all this extra content, I just mentioned the PVR aspect to show that you don't need to be a couch potato. Agreed, I didn't expand the point enoiugh.

The reality is that the SKY HD+ offers a much wider choice of content, it's not about watching ALL the extra content, it's about always having something that appeals to you whenever you have the time.. And the EPG and PVR aspects are hugely better then any other system I've tried (Well, apart from VM's TiVO of course, but that's the same premium kind of service).

You seem to imply that SKY is expensive, but the reality is, it's a good service at a market bearing price, whether people have different financial priorities doesn't change that fact..


I'm not attacking those who wan't Sky. Suggest you don't have a go at the people who don't or can't have Sky.
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It feels the other way around, lots of people trying to tell people who have sky that it's expensive and worthless..

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I can kind of understand people feeling bitter enough to try to put down people who have gone for Sky.

What I don't get is so called F1 fans now willing F1 to fail just because its gone to Sky :confused:.
 
Sky sports has been covering football, rugby, boxing, cricket, tennis, darts, motorsport etc... for years.

What is it exactly that makes people think that F1 will fail on Sky? All the signs so far have been very positive with regards to coverage.
 
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