Sky Sports to remain home of Formula 1 until 2029 after deal extended in all Sky markets

I was using a VPN to access F1TV for a while at the start of this season, but cancelled it as fallen out of love with the sport a bit this year, even more so with the RBR budget cap punishment nonsense.

But had a Surfshark sub with mega discount for like £50? for two years, then F1TV Pro via USA for around £5 per month.

Would never pay the absolute stupid money sky ask and then have my only commentary option be Crofty who has no idea what's going on half of the time :cry:
 
Megahurtz400 said:
I was using a VPN to access F1TV for a while at the start of this season, but cancelled it as fallen out of love with the sport a bit this year, even more so with the RBR budget cap punishment nonsense.

But had a Surfshark sub with mega discount for like £50? for two years, then F1TV Pro via USA for around £5 per month.

Would never pay the absolute stupid money sky ask and then have my only commentary option be Crofty who has no idea what's going on half of the time :cry:
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Same here.

NordVPN - Picked up a deal, £70 for 3 years
F1TV Pro - Subscribe via the iOS app for £59 per year

Works out around £6.86 per month for both :)
 
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ChrisD. said:
Have they not blocked Nord IPs yet?

How did you pay via iOS?
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Nope. Been using it for years without issue, just pick a server where F1TV is available before launching the app.

Open the iOS app and “subscribe”. It’ll pop out the Apple Pay subscription window and you just confirm you want to pay £59 for the annual pro membership. After that it’ll auto renew.

Back on topic: I couldn’t pay the extortionate prices that sky offer and I’m honestly shocked F1 signed their life away with them.
 
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Black Noir said:
Nope. Been using it for years without issue, just pick a server where F1TV is available.

Open the iOS app and “subscribe”. It’ll pop out the Apple Pay subscription window and you just confirm you want to pay £59 for the annual pro membership. After that it’ll auto renew.

Back on topic: I couldn’t pay the extortionate prices that sky offer and I’m honestly shocked F1 signed their life away with them.
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Why are you shocked? It’s a tale as old as pay TV. Popular sport increases viewers on FTA TV, pay TV company sees this as an opportunity to make money, pays large amount of money for exclusive rights, viewership goes down but governing body or rights holder doesn’t care as their income is boosted massively. Viewers suffer with content locked behind increasingly exorbitant pay wall.
 
MissChief said:
Why are you shocked? It’s a tale as old as pay TV. Popular sport increases viewers on FTA TV, pay TV company sees this as an opportunity to make money, pays large amount of money for exclusive rights, viewership goes down but governing body or rights holder doesn’t care as their income is boosted massively. Viewers suffer with content locked behind increasingly exorbitant pay wall.
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I was shocked because they've begun rolling out F1TV in EU and the US but a lot was made about Bernie "signing the deal with Sky" as to why it couldn't be done in the UK. They've then gone and signed an extension effectively giving the UK market the middle finger in search of money. Had they explored the WWE network model (i.e. provide your own platform with a small subscription) which it seemed like they were heading toward then we wouldn't be in the situation where people are switching off their exorbitant Sky subscriptions.

Again, I'm shocked because a pay-to-view model exists with F1TVPro at a much reduced cost and they chose Sky :confused:

Perhaps disappointed is the better term.
 
It's the fact you can't just have UHD sports. If you could subscribe to that for say £10-15 a month and bin off all the other trash you either have to have or you add on to make the package better, they'd have many more subscribers.

We hardly ever watch anything else on Sky apart from free to view, Premier League and the F1.

If I can get F1TV Pro working properly, I'm getting a Humax box for FTV. That along with BT Sport is enough, the rest of the games I'll miss I'll watch at the pub or other means.
 
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ChrisD. said:
It's the fact you can't just have UHD sports. If you could subscribe to that for say £10-15 a month and bin off all the other trash you either have to have or you add on to make the package better, they'd have many more subscribers.

We hardly ever watch anything else on Sky apart from free to view, Premier League and the F1.

If I can get F1TV Pro working properly, I'm getting a Humax box for FTV. That along with BT Sport is enough, the rest of the games I'll miss I'll watch at the pub or other means.
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Feel free to shoot me a message and I'll be happy to go through the set up and use :)
 
Some regions are cheaper than others. I think I'm subscribed in Argentina or something like that because it is cheapest there - but you have to VPN there every time else it doesn't work (despite F1TV Pro being available in other countries).
 
Is there an F1TV app for the AppleTV? If the answer is 'yes' then the next stumbling block is that there isn't a VPN app for the AppleTV and that's how I'd be viewing it.
 
Feek said:
Is there an F1TV app for the AppleTV? If the answer is 'yes' then the next stumbling block is that there isn't a VPN app for the AppleTV and that's how I'd be viewing it.
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Yes there’s an F1TV app but you’d need to route your traffic through a VPN as @ChrisD. suggested. Not easy though.

Airplay works from iPhone or iPad.



FYI Below the airplay button is where your switch audio. Red is the F1TV commentary and blue is the standard FOM (Sky) commentary. You can also activate the driver circuit tracker or have PiP and follow a specific driver in-car. It’s very polished.
 
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