NOW TV F1 Season Pass

[GuitarTech]

After trying, and failing, to sign up with nowTV in GB (due to my Visa card having a German billing address, balls ) , I saw this last night: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/...
Cheaper than nowTV too : And I'll save all that faffing about with VPNs etc. win win

Edited by GuitarTech on Thursday 15th March 14:08

[Mr Pointy]

GuitarTech said:

After trying, and failing, to sign up with nowTV in GB (due to my Visa card having a German billing address, balls ) , I saw this last night: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/...
Cheaper than nowTV too : And I'll save all that faffing about with VPNs etc. win win

I foresee a flood of people wanting to borrow your German credit card.

[The Moose]

Anyone know when/where Liberty are going to actually launch this live streaming service?

I am first in line when they do.

[8V085]

GuitarTech said:

After trying, and failing, to sign up with nowTV in GB (due to my Visa card having a German billing address, balls ) , I saw this last night: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/...
Cheaper than nowTV too : And I'll save all that faffing about with VPNs etc. win win

10 days left until first race and there are no specifics available. Colour me sceptical.

[GuitarTech]

Mr Pointy said:

GuitarTech said:

After trying, and failing, to sign up with nowTV in GB (due to my Visa card having a German billing address, balls ) , I saw this last night: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/...
Cheaper than nowTV too : And I'll save all that faffing about with VPNs etc. win win

I foresee a flood of people wanting to borrow your German credit card.

I used an ASUS router, behind my ISPs fritzbox with Perfect Privacys VPN service using OpenVPN protocol. I'm not worried about anyone hacking my CC details. I tried using my mums address and postcode from Yorkshire with my german card, no luck
In retrospect, it's quite lucky that nowTV saw through my cunning plan, as the F1 Pro streaming service is much cheaper.
If it works as well as they are claiming it will, I can see Sky / nowTV taking a pasting, at least as F1 is concerned.
They thoroughly deserve it too, the greedy bds....

[GuitarTech]

The Moose said:

Anyone know when/where Liberty are going to actually launch this live streaming service?

I am first in line when they do.

As I understand it, it will be available worldwide, and " at the beginning of the season", according to Liberty Media. I have already paid for the F1 access, the lean version of the app ( costs €26.99 a year ), and somewhere on their website here:
https://www.formula1.com/ , you can register to get an email as soon as it's available in your territory.
Sky germany and RTL, kiss my ass

[Deesee]

GuitarTech said:

I used an ASUS router, behind my ISPs fritzbox with Perfect Privacys VPN service using OpenVPN protocol. I'm not worried about anyone hacking my CC details. I tried using my mums address and postcode from Yorkshire with my german card, no luck
In retrospect, it's quite lucky that nowTV saw through my cunning plan, as the F1 Pro streaming service is much cheaper.
If it works as well as they are claiming it will, I can see Sky / nowTV taking a pasting, at least as F1 is concerned.
They thoroughly deserve it too, the greedy bds....

Forgive me but if your in Germany, you can access f1 pro without the need for hiding your IP address.

[8V085]

GuitarTech said:

I used an ASUS router, behind my ISPs fritzbox with Perfect Privacys VPN service using OpenVPN protocol. I'm not worried about anyone hacking my CC details. I tried using my mums address and postcode from Yorkshire with my german card, no luck
In retrospect, it's quite lucky that nowTV saw through my cunning plan, as the F1 Pro streaming service is much cheaper.
If it works as well as they are claiming it will, I can see Sky / nowTV taking a pasting, at least as F1 is concerned.
They thoroughly deserve it too, the greedy bds....

You can always set up your own VPN tunnel if you have someone living in the country where the service is being offered. That way your IP address won't end up on the list of excluded addresses as it often is the case with commercial VPN's.

[GuitarTech]

Deesee said:

GuitarTech said:

I used an ASUS router, behind my ISPs fritzbox with Perfect Privacys VPN service using OpenVPN protocol. I'm not worried about anyone hacking my CC details. I tried using my mums address and postcode from Yorkshire with my german card, no luck
In retrospect, it's quite lucky that nowTV saw through my cunning plan, as the F1 Pro streaming service is much cheaper.
If it works as well as they are claiming it will, I can see Sky / nowTV taking a pasting, at least as F1 is concerned.
They thoroughly deserve it too, the greedy bds....

Forgive me but if your in Germany, you can access f1 pro without the need for hiding your IP address.

Of course I know that, at the time I was trying to pay for the nowTV F1 season pass with the VPN, to fool them into thinking I was in GB. It was only after I'd failed at that, that I saw the news on the net about the new streaming service, which I will stream with the normal router from my ISP onto my notebook, and then with a HDMI cable from it to the TV

[Deesee]

GuitarTech said:

Of course I know that, at the time I was trying to pay for the nowTV F1 season pass with the VPN, to fool them into thinking I was in GB. It was only after I'd failed at that, that I saw the news on the net about the new streaming service, which I will stream with the normal router from my ISP onto my notebook, and then with a HDMI cable from it to the TV

Ahh I see, sorry!!

Thought you found a fiver when in fact it’s a fifty!

[Mr Pointy]

The likely problem is that those of us in the UK will be blocked from subscribing as our credit cards are registered to UK addresses, hence the advantage of having a German credit card. Getting over the geoblocking of the service using a VPN is a separate issue.

[GuitarTech]

8V085 said:

GuitarTech said:

I used an ASUS router, behind my ISPs fritzbox with Perfect Privacys VPN service using OpenVPN protocol. I'm not worried about anyone hacking my CC details. I tried using my mums address and postcode from Yorkshire with my german card, no luck
In retrospect, it's quite lucky that nowTV saw through my cunning plan, as the F1 Pro streaming service is much cheaper.
If it works as well as they are claiming it will, I can see Sky / nowTV taking a pasting, at least as F1 is concerned.
They thoroughly deserve it too, the greedy bds....

You can always set up your own VPN tunnel if you have someone living in the country where the service is being offered. That way your IP address won't end up on the list of excluded addresses as it often is the case with commercial VPN's.

The VPN worked like a charm, Perfect Privacy's IPs arn't blocked from nowTV ( yet ), the problem is that my CC, and therefore the billing address, are german. The billing address must be in the same country as the service, which is the main reason that you can't pay with paypal with nowTV: with paypal you can't establish in which country the billing address is, as paypal won't disclose that info

[Deesee]

Mr Pointy said:

The likely problem is that those of us in the UK will be blocked from subscribing as our credit cards are registered to UK addresses, hence the advantage of having a German credit card. Getting over the geoblocking of the service using a VPN is a separate issue.

Im really not as up to date as i should be on the tech side as things, however i will offer this.

When im in europe for the summer i can not watch sky go/now tv on my i phone directly, however when i create a hotspot and connect my ipad i can watch on this, perhaps a german sim card will work the same way?

[GuitarTech]

Mr Pointy said:

The likely problem is that those of us in the UK will be blocked from subscribing as our credit cards are registered to UK addresses, hence the advantage of having a German credit card. Getting over the geoblocking of the service using a VPN is a separate issue.

Why? as I understand it, the streaming service will be available worldwide, or at the very least in europe. I haven't read anywhere that it's limited to germany: the news is to be found all over the net in english too, so they must be planning to stream it to english-speaking territories one would think?

[Mr Pointy]

GuitarTech said:

Mr Pointy said:

The likely problem is that those of us in the UK will be blocked from subscribing as our credit cards are registered to UK addresses, hence the advantage of having a German credit card. Getting over the geoblocking of the service using a VPN is a separate issue.

Why? as I understand it, the streaming service will be available worldwide, or at the very least in europe. I haven't read anywhere that it's limited to germany: the news is to be found all over the net in english too, so they must be planning to stream it to english-speaking territories one would think?

It depends on the contracts Bernie signed with the broadcasters in each country & whether he reserved the streaming rights or they were granted to the broadcaster. It's difficult to believe that Sky would pay a lot of money for the rights in the UK & yet would still allow Liberty to stream into the UK. Given that Bernie didn't understand the internet I suspect he wasn't fussed about giving Sky the rights as at the time he had no plan to stream F1 himself. I don't know what the current arangement with Sky & C4 is but I'd be surprised if it wasn't covered in their contracts.

[Mr Pointy]

Deesee said:

Mr Pointy said:

The likely problem is that those of us in the UK will be blocked from subscribing as our credit cards are registered to UK addresses, hence the advantage of having a German credit card. Getting over the geoblocking of the service using a VPN is a separate issue.

Im really not as up to date as i should be on the tech side as things, however i will offer this.

When im in europe for the summer i can not watch sky go/now tv on my i phone directly, however when i create a hotspot and connect my ipad i can watch on this, perhaps a german sim card will work the same way?

Quite possibly, but there are two different issues here. One is that NowTV requires a credit card with a UK address to sign up but you may be able to watch it abroad using a VPN. The other is that for the new F1 service it's not known if you will be able to sign up with a UK credit card & watch it in the UK without a VPN.

[The Moose]

GuitarTech said:

The Moose said:

Anyone know when/where Liberty are going to actually launch this live streaming service?

I am first in line when they do.

As I understand it, it will be available worldwide, and " at the beginning of the season", according to Liberty Media. I have already paid for the F1 access, the lean version of the app ( costs €26.99 a year ), and somewhere on their website here:
https://www.formula1.com/ , you can register to get an email as soon as it's available in your territory.
Sky germany and RTL, kiss my ass

So in the next week then?!

I am registered to receive the e-mail. Wish they'd hurry up and get it live!

I have to fk about with VPNs, BBC and NOW TV (the new app works ste on my MacBook)

[Blaster72]

Mr Pointy said:

playalistic said:

It's worth the reminder that this is actually confirmed as ALL the sports channels for the duration. Not just the F1.

Are you sure? I can't find any reference to anything other than acccess to the F1 channel.

It is for all the Sports channels, I've just signed up.



There are some downside over normal Sky though, you can't record if you watch like I do (on the iPad or smart tv) which can be a pain in the summer for F1 athough they repeat races and coverage.

It's not full HD (only 720p), although on my 49" LG TV the quality is pretty damn good. They seems to be a bit cagey about what exactly makes it to your TV but I think it's a little like Netflix where its very dependent on your internet connection speed.

£150 sounds a lot but it's very expensive if you just buy a day pass or weekend pass and if you like a bit of other sports than F1 it's not bad value.

Edited by Blaster72 on Thursday 15th March 17:02

[Mr Pointy]

Blaster72 said:

Mr Pointy said:

playalistic said:

It's worth the reminder that this is actually confirmed as ALL the sports channels for the duration. Not just the F1.

Are you sure? I can't find any reference to anything other than acccess to the F1 channel.

It is for all the Sports channels, I've just signed up.

There are some downside over normal Sky though, you can't record if you watch like I do (on the iPad or smart tv) which can be a pain in the summer for F1 athough they repeat races and coverage.

It's not full HD (only 720p), although on my 49" LG TV the quality is pretty damn good. They seems to be a bit cagey about what exactly makes it to your TV but I think it's a little like Netflix where its very dependent on your internet connection speed.

£150 sounds a lot but it's very expensive if you just buy a day pass or weekend pass and if you like a bit of other sports than F1 it's not bad value.

OK if you say so but I'm puzzled because your screenshot is for a month of Sky Sports, not nine months of Sky F1. Anyhow, it's not something I'll be going for.

[The Moose]

Mr Pointy said:

Blaster72 said:

Mr Pointy said:

playalistic said:

It's worth the reminder that this is actually confirmed as ALL the sports channels for the duration. Not just the F1.

Are you sure? I can't find any reference to anything other than acccess to the F1 channel.

It is for all the Sports channels, I've just signed up.

There are some downside over normal Sky though, you can't record if you watch like I do (on the iPad or smart tv) which can be a pain in the summer for F1 athough they repeat races and coverage.

It's not full HD (only 720p), although on my 49" LG TV the quality is pretty damn good. They seems to be a bit cagey about what exactly makes it to your TV but I think it's a little like Netflix where its very dependent on your internet connection speed.

£150 sounds a lot but it's very expensive if you just buy a day pass or weekend pass and if you like a bit of other sports than F1 it's not bad value.

OK if you say so but I'm puzzled because your screenshot is for a month of Sky Sports, not nine months of Sky F1. Anyhow, it's not something I'll be going for.

Read it again and check the start and end dates