Thread: [UK] So, how are you watching it?

Originally Posted by SGWilko

How much does the BBC pay Sky so that its cannels are broadcast over satellite. I have a sum ITRO £10m in my head.....

....from the license fee, of course!

That's not for broadcasting, all they pay Sky for is inclusion in the Sky EPG.

All BBC channels are FTA on satellite, so they're not paying for use of Sky's encryption system. The BBC contract with the operators of the Astra satellites directly for the actual broadcasting.

Originally Posted by Mark

It's amazing the amount of people who won't subscribe from some tenuous moral standpoint rather than simply saying it doesn't represent value for money.

I won't get Sky because of cost, but the fact that I'm not ploughing my hard earned into Murdoch's empire makes it sweeter. And no, my £500 a year (or whatever it is) doesn't make much difference, but any small difference, multiplied by the number of people with a similar attitude, is enough.

Mind you I've never really understood Sky anyway, it's really not good value unless you like watching live football, and even then it's a lot of money to pay out.

I would be happy to pay a one off to watch the race, online or on the TV, I am not subscribing over and above what I have to get the channel (which is only in SD on my Virgin package). If I already had sky instead I would have the HD pack and therefore would have the channel.

As it is I will probably stick with the Beeb for now, unless the extended highlights prove disasterous, unless I can borrow a Sky Go login for a small black market sum from someone friendly who hasn't registered to the max number of devices on theirs

I'm going to watch every other race for 15 minutes and then fall asleep... and then read about it on autosport.com

Originally Posted by Big Ben

I'm going to watch every other race for 15 minutes and then fall asleep... and then read about it on autosport.com

Why bother reading about it? Just follow some other form of motorsport, there are many slow spec series out there.

Originally Posted by MrJan

Mind you I've never really understood Sky anyway, it's really not good value unless you like watching live football, and even then it's a lot of money to pay out.

It's not much of a catchline, is it? 'The channel that people only watch because they have to if they want to see certain things that we've bought.'

We've yet to see how much racing there is in the highlights programme. I'm guessing about 45 minutes or so?

Originally Posted by Mark

We've yet to see how much racing there is in the highlights programme. I'm guessing about 45 minutes or so?

Well in an 120 minute programme on Sunday with no adverts, even allowing for recap of new season/qualifying and after race interviews/analysis there is likely to be at least 60 mins race coverage?

WT

I could watch either German RTL or spanish (is it Antena3 this year?) on telly, but I'll end up watching both + UK (whichever it is this yeat) on t'internet and simultaneously chatting with y'all as usual

Just seen that we in South Africa will be getting live commentary from each race from the BBC, not Sky, which is great cos I love Ben Edwards' commentaries, but it also means that their highlights packages will be just edits of live commentary which is pretty much what I thought they would do.

Well BBC won't be doing live commentary for half of the races. I can't see them commentating on a race live and then cutting it - but you never know I suppose.

2 hrs programme there should be easily an hour and 20 of the race (which should be enough for 90% of the race in most cases. If its well edited it should be ok, but I've always hated watching highlights as I like to understand whats happening every lap, and even seeing a gap rising suddenly from 2 to 5 seconds as they've cut a few uneventful laps out, bothers me

Shame there's no BBC coverage.

In Greece the race will be on pay tv.

If I manage to wake up on time, I will watch it on RTL or any other satellite channel.
If I don't, then I will donwload Sky coverage

Originally Posted by Mark

Well BBC won't be doing live commentary for half of the races. I can't see them commentating on a race live and then cutting it - but you never know I suppose.

They did it for the inaugural Masters GP though it was made easy by cutting off a few laps at about half distance.

They also do it for MOTD. Commentary is recorded live though not many people truly believe this is so and with some incidents it takes some believing!

Originally Posted by wedge

They also do it for MOTD. Commentary is recorded live though not many people truly believe this is so and with some incidents it takes some believing!

Indeed, with a somewhat different technique being required — at least for football.

*Palm face*

The obvious example is/was the North American races. The 1 hour highlights on BBC/ITV would be on few hours later.

I'll be watching the race at 6am on Sky on Sunday morning.

The one factor that leaves me happy to do is the lack of adverts during the race. No doubt we'll have loads before and after, but I can cope with that.

My plan for the season:

Sky only races - Watch LIVE on Sky, record BBC highlights - watch them too when convenient.
Sky/BBC races - Watch LIVE on BBC!

When I am not in - dilemna!

Sky+ live race on Sky, depending on mood/circuit/expectations/coverage - choose between the two

Originally Posted by Mark

Well BBC won't be doing live commentary for half of the races. I can't see them commentating on a race live and then cutting it - but you never know I suppose.

I believe that BBC will have their team at every race, it would therefore seem silly to sit and watch it live and then spend an hour or so in the editing suite doing the VO.

The BBC will be commentating live for foreigner broadcasters, it's relatively easy to edit and yields better results than faking surprise in post production.