NOW TV F1 Season Pass
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Cancelled Sky Sports last year, and get the odd day/week pass from NOW TV, for the F1 and the odd football match i'm interested in.
Just got an email from these guys yesterday, £150.00 for 9 months, with no tie in for an ongoing contract.
It looks like its a full sky sports (8 channel) bundle too, for 9 months for up to 4 devices!
Happy days!
Just got an email from these guys yesterday, £150.00 for 9 months, with no tie in for an ongoing contract.
It looks like its a full sky sports (8 channel) bundle too, for 9 months for up to 4 devices!
Happy days!
Deesee said:
Cancelled Sky Sports last year, and get the odd day/week pass from NOW TV, for the F1 and the odd football match i'm interested in.
Just got an email from these guys yesterday, £150.00 for 9 months, with no tie in for an ongoing contract.
It looks like its a full sky sports (8 channel) bundle too, for 9 months for up to 4 devices!
Happy days!
That's a pretty good deal. I'm not going to go for it myself as I can take or leave football these days and I tend to just by a day pass for the GP's that aren't on C4. Comes to about £80 for a season I think. Might change my mind when it disappears from C4 all together. Just got an email from these guys yesterday, £150.00 for 9 months, with no tie in for an ongoing contract.
It looks like its a full sky sports (8 channel) bundle too, for 9 months for up to 4 devices!
Happy days!
ajprice said:
There's a radio advert at the moment for Sky with Mr Brundle on it saying the Sky F1 channel by itself (with free HD!?!) is £18 per month.
If they actually put new content on that channel during the week and it was in 4k it would be worth a look (and I would drop sky). However Considering Amazon Prime costs me £8.99 and netflix is the same I just can't see how they think £18 a month is justified. Now TV is a streaming service so just a half decent broadband connection and their box.
Out of interest is there a way to watch recordings of Now TV content so if you miss it live you can watch it after? If not you'll need to be a hardcore fan to fully make use of it on some of the fly-away races, something I used to be but since live timing was available on an app and the data downloadable for replaying, I tend to stay in bed and watch my "live" recording on the Sky box when I wake up at a normal time.
Out of interest is there a way to watch recordings of Now TV content so if you miss it live you can watch it after? If not you'll need to be a hardcore fan to fully make use of it on some of the fly-away races, something I used to be but since live timing was available on an app and the data downloadable for replaying, I tend to stay in bed and watch my "live" recording on the Sky box when I wake up at a normal time.
Daston said:
If they actually put new content on that channel during the week and it was in 4k it would be worth a look (and I would drop sky). However Considering Amazon Prime costs me £8.99 and netflix is the same I just can't see how they think £18 a month is justified.
I'm not saying its good value for the amount of content it provides but F1 rights are expensive and more importantly the channel will attract orders of magnitude less subscribers than Netflix etc manages so it's difficult to make a like for like comparisonLocoBlade said:
Now TV is a streaming service so just a half decent broadband connection and their box.
Out of interest is there a way to watch recordings of Now TV content so if you miss it live you can watch it after? If not you'll need to be a hardcore fan to fully make use of it on some of the fly-away races, something I used to be but since live timing was available on an app and the data downloadable for replaying, I tend to stay in bed and watch my "live" recording on the Sky box when I wake up at a normal time.
I'm not aware of any means of watching it delayed other than to fart around with some sort of screen grab recorder, but you'd probably still have to get up and set the whole thing going. I'm all ears though if someone has a good solution. Out of interest is there a way to watch recordings of Now TV content so if you miss it live you can watch it after? If not you'll need to be a hardcore fan to fully make use of it on some of the fly-away races, something I used to be but since live timing was available on an app and the data downloadable for replaying, I tend to stay in bed and watch my "live" recording on the Sky box when I wake up at a normal time.
Gad-Westy said:
LocoBlade said:
Now TV is a streaming service so just a half decent broadband connection and their box.
Out of interest is there a way to watch recordings of Now TV content so if you miss it live you can watch it after? If not you'll need to be a hardcore fan to fully make use of it on some of the fly-away races, something I used to be but since live timing was available on an app and the data downloadable for replaying, I tend to stay in bed and watch my "live" recording on the Sky box when I wake up at a normal time.
I'm not aware of any means of watching it delayed other than to fart around with some sort of screen grab recorder, but you'd probably still have to get up and set the whole thing going. I'm all ears though if someone has a good solution. Out of interest is there a way to watch recordings of Now TV content so if you miss it live you can watch it after? If not you'll need to be a hardcore fan to fully make use of it on some of the fly-away races, something I used to be but since live timing was available on an app and the data downloadable for replaying, I tend to stay in bed and watch my "live" recording on the Sky box when I wake up at a normal time.
playalistic said:
It's worth the reminder that this is actually confirmed as ALL the sports channels for the duration. Not just the F1.
Which kind of proves my point made in the other thread about a month ago (and before this offer came along) that F1 content on its own was not enough to justify the cost of a Sky satellite package (or Virgin Media upgrade) that included F1.Sky have crunched some numbers obviously, and felt the pressure from the relatively good value of the streaming service. This offer compares well with the cost of a decent VPN + the Liberty service. It is a bit more expensive but non-technically literate people might see it as the easier option or be swayed by the other content included.
Yes agreed with the liberty direct service.
I’d imagine sky are doing all they can over the next few years to get subscriber numbers up to justify the payments to Liberty.
If you look at say the WWE network, that has completely changed the way an organisation that controls the broadcasting can charge customers directly, the value of that company has doubled since it started offering the streaming service.
I know I’d happily pay $8/£8 pcm if I got the full race content & sky standard broadcasting.
I’d imagine sky are doing all they can over the next few years to get subscriber numbers up to justify the payments to Liberty.
If you look at say the WWE network, that has completely changed the way an organisation that controls the broadcasting can charge customers directly, the value of that company has doubled since it started offering the streaming service.
I know I’d happily pay $8/£8 pcm if I got the full race content & sky standard broadcasting.
Thanks for the heads up, it's not obvious where to get this (and I'm an existing NowTV customer) so here's a link
https://www.nowtv.com/promo/formula1pass?DCMP=afc-...
I think I'll go for it.
Just remember to cancel after 9 months or it auto renews at £33 a month!
https://www.nowtv.com/promo/formula1pass?DCMP=afc-...
I think I'll go for it.
Just remember to cancel after 9 months or it auto renews at £33 a month!
Edited by Blaster72 on Thursday 15th March 12:35
r11co said:
This offer compares well with the cost of a decent VPN + the Liberty service. It is a bit more expensive but non-technically literate people might see it as the easier option or be swayed by the other content included.
Anyone got a link to the liberty direct streaming service? 8V085 said:
r11co said:
This offer compares well with the cost of a decent VPN + the Liberty service. It is a bit more expensive but non-technically literate people might see it as the easier option or be swayed by the other content included.
Anyone got a link to the liberty direct streaming service? Mr Pointy said:
8V085 said:
r11co said:
This offer compares well with the cost of a decent VPN + the Liberty service. It is a bit more expensive but non-technically literate people might see it as the easier option or be swayed by the other content included.
Anyone got a link to the liberty direct streaming service? There must be loads of people who have sky sports packages but only want periodic races or weekend packages like NOW tv offers.
Aren't sky just getting existing sky subscribers to drop sky and go for the cheaper more personalised NOW packages? Or are they attracting new customers who didn’t want sky but are willing to pay for NOW?
I’ve still got old sky because my wife watches TLC and on now it’s only available in standard def at the moment.
I can’t wait until Liberty get F1 on a decent UK streaming service or even on Netflix or amazon. I think amazon will be showing more and more live sport as time goes on and you can just add the channels on or pay to watch per event. Sky just seems so old and inflexible and overpriced now.
Aren't sky just getting existing sky subscribers to drop sky and go for the cheaper more personalised NOW packages? Or are they attracting new customers who didn’t want sky but are willing to pay for NOW?
I’ve still got old sky because my wife watches TLC and on now it’s only available in standard def at the moment.
I can’t wait until Liberty get F1 on a decent UK streaming service or even on Netflix or amazon. I think amazon will be showing more and more live sport as time goes on and you can just add the channels on or pay to watch per event. Sky just seems so old and inflexible and overpriced now.
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