topic Re: If it wasn't for F1..... in Sky Q

If it wasn't for F1.....

AlanCoates — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:17:53 GMT

I would never be with Sky. Latest problem is series link has dissapeared! Why is Sky allowed a monopoly on F1? Sky say series link can be turned on the Q box under preferences. NOPE it can't. Sky mobile data not worked for 2 months (Removed). Will dump my phone contract as they are unable to honour their contract, but unfortunately I love my F1. I know F1 is available on Now TV but that also works out expensive and Now TV is owned by Sky. Now there are several races in the US I Now hope that FOX would do a take over of this appalling company!

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Re: If it wasn't for F1.....

PandJ2020 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:04:42 GMT

@AlanCoates wrote:
Now there are several races in the US I Now hope that FOX would do a take over of this appalling company!

Sky is already owned by a US company.

Re: If it wasn't for F1.....

AlanCoates — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:09:18 GMT

OK. I'm led to believe that Sky do not have a Monopoly on F1 in the EU. Only UK fans are screwed (as we often are by companies)

Re: If it wasn't for F1.....

PandJ2020 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:18:05 GMT

@AlanCoates wrote:
OK. I'm led to believe that Sky do not have a Monopoly on F1 in the EU. Only UK fans are screwed (as we often are by companies)

Sky is only present in a couple of EU locations. However, they paid a lot for broadcast rights - obviously a lot more than Channel 4's highlight rights.

Re: If it wasn't for F1.....

Laing1 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:29:09 GMT

@AlanCoates wrote:

I would never be with Sky. Latest problem is series link has dissapeared! Why is Sky allowed a monopoly on F1? Sky say series link can be turned on the Q box under preferences. NOPE it can't. Sky mobile data not worked for 2 months and tech support are foreigners pretending to speak unintelligible English. Will dump my phone contract as they are unable to honour their contract, but unfortunately I love my F1. I know F1 is available on Now TV but that also works out expensive and Now TV is owned by Sky. Now there are several races in the US I Now hope that FOX would do a take over of this appalling company!

@AlanCoates its only this week that has not series linked, next weekends Brazilian GP has series linked

I could understand everyone being up in arms if this was happening on every race weekend but its not, for me its the first time this season it has happened and this is most likely down to a mistake by Sky not adding the metadata to the Mexican GP as none of the weekend will series link.

Re: If it wasn't for F1.....

TimmyBGood — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:59:07 GMT

@AlanCoates wrote:

Why is Sky allowed a monopoly on F1?

Paying Liberty Media £200,000,000 a season may not be entirely unrelated...

I Now hope that FOX would do a take over of this appalling company!

You're a little out of date there: they tried between 2016 and 2018, and were outbid. During that time Fox became part of the Disney Corporation and doesn't exist any more, while Sky Group was acquired by and morphed into an overseas division of Comcast.

Re: If it wasn't for F1.....

best+of+the+best — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 18:38:03 GMT

@AlanCoates wrote:
I would never be with Sky. Latest problem is series link has dissapeared! Why is Sky allowed a monopoly on F1? Sky say series link can be turned on the Q box under preferences. NOPE it can't. Sky mobile data not worked for 2 months and tech support are foreigners pretending to speak unintelligible English. Will dump my phone contract as they are unable to honour their contract, but unfortunately I love my F1. I know F1 is available on Now TV but that also works out expensive and Now TV is owned by Sky. Now there are several races in the US I Now hope that FOX would do a take over of this appalling company!

Reason why I don't series link I manually record each F1 as the OCD tends to click in if the tiles don't match the correct F1 Race

Don't have access to Sky Q so relying on Sky Go and reminders from Alexa sorry mentioned the R word

Missed Practice 2 last night but was able to watch it later on before Practice 3

Hopefully it's a one off

Re: If it wasn't for F1.....

Chodley — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:11:50 GMT

"tech support are foreigners"

Hmm