F1 Fanatic

It is nice to see that Sky are making an effort to please Formula One fans. However I still feel that there will be many fans who will still be upset.

I really doubt that’s going to happen. They’ve never done it before, why would they make an exception just for F1?

@F1abw: It’s double that cost if you only count the races that won’t be available on the BBC, which is half of them.

I haven’t seen confirmation of Sky’s plan to do that anywhere else, so I wouldn’t treat it as fact just yet. As Dan Thorn said, they’ve never done it before, with any other sport.

I hope this is true, I have a basic Sky package which is £24.50 per month but I wasn’t willing to pay another £20 a month for Sky Sports which just isn’t good value. Sky would still be making money by charging via Freeview (Top Up TV?) or a basic Sky package, I guess they realised that not everyone who likes F1 likes other sports on Sky?

£120 a year (less than a third of the original projected SD cost) would be interesting and at least shows Sky has some sense of the problem it’s got in using a model requiring mass sign-ups to an expensive system. I doubt I will be able to justify the additional cost even with that feature (especially since I’d have to buy a new box, to get one with an decryption card slot) but I think quite a few people will now.

Dan, I think they’d make an exception for F1 if they thought the Freeview channel would enable them to make the deal profitable (because without something like this, I don’t see how they’d manage to break even on the deal).

@damonsmedley

I am wondering the same thing… I guess we’ll find out soon enough.. I hope we dont have to go to Foxtel

Beyond buying the TV or box, I have no intention of paying for anything on “free”view.