Sky Go appalling F1 catch up service.

[DisgruntledF1]

Hi, why does sky go not allow us to watch catch ups/on demand F1 sessions?  Missed the qualifying live as was staying away in UK. Had a free couple of hours so I thought I would catch up.

Only allowed to download to my sky box!! WTH?  There was no way to watch it on the go.

My colleague had a fire stick he paid £80 for the year! (I'm paying £150 a month!), and we watched the sky qualifying on that on demand.

Why on earth are the illegal streams providing a better service to the content than us legitimately trying to support the sports?

Sat there glad to watch the qualifying but also extremely furious that £1800 a year to sky is shown up by a dude with a hooked fire stick!

[caesarome · Accepted solution]

With the Sky Go ap even though the content could well be there it doesn't mean that it can be watched via the app itself which is what appears to have happened in this case and the usual reason for this is due to right restrictions.

[TimmyBGood]

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@DisgruntledF1 wrote:

Why on earth are the illegal streams providing a better service to the content than us legitimately trying to support the sports?

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Presumably because, being provided by criminals, they aren't restricted by petty legalities associated with distribution rights for particular content.

[DisgruntledF1]

Understood, but my god it makes Sky look like the criminals.  Taking an enormous amount of money and not giving us access to the content on demand.

[best+of+the+best]

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@DisgruntledF1 wrote:

Understood, but my god it makes Sky look like the criminals.  Taking an enormous amount of money and not giving us access to the content on demand.

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Can't understand why you say that the Sky Go F1 catch up service is appalling based on one Qualifying race only available to download and not watch on demand

If you missed the scheduled race wasn't it available to watch later on via the Sky Go app

Not sure what the issue is seeing as you can Remote Download to the Sky Q box via Sky Go but each too their own I guess.

[LoneWolf4716]

it's not just 1 session though its every practice, qualifying and race every weekend

just now the itallian Gp was today the qualifying and full race isnt available but the highlights of the race are which for a fan is ridiculous.

[TheDrownedApe]

What a nonsense response. 

How is downloading to our Q box helpful if you are away from the house for the weekend. Please try and not enflame annoyed users with comments like this.

I'm in the same boat OP. Away this coming weekend and will miss the whole event if I can't watch it live.  Why pay for the content if I can't catchup on the app?

[Annie+UK]

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@TheDrownedApe wrote:

What a nonsense response. 

How is downloading to our Q box helpful if you are away from the house for the weekend. Please try and not enflame annoyed users with comments like this.

I'm in the same boat OP. Away this coming weekend and will miss the whole event if I can't watch it live.  Why pay for the content if I can't catchup on the app?

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Does Sky Q not have the ability to record F1, So you can watch it when you get back home?????? Why must it be watched live?

[TheDrownedApe]

Did you even read the thread? another excellent "superuser".  No one wants to watch it live, we want to watch it at our convenience on our tablet/phone whilst away from our home.

I'm away for a week and it will have plenty of time to watch the FP, Qualy and GP in the early hours of the following morning. However Sky won't let me even though i have a subscription and have reocrded the programmes on my box. THIS is the issue. 

[True.Scotsman]

I agree! Sky Go is useless IMO. The only reason I have Sky is to watch the F1, which means I pay a ridiculous amount of money to watch 1 channel.

I usually don't have time to watch it live, so I record it on my sky box and watch it later which is fine. 

If I'm away for whatever reason all I can do is "TRY" to watch it on Sky Go. I've tried this multiple times with no joy. The Qualifying and Race are only available to download to Sky box. THEY ARE ALREADY RECORDED 🤬 !!!

I don't want to watch practice sessions or highlights I just want to watch some of qualifying and the whole race. I pay over the odds to watch it because Sky have the UK TV rights. They have ruined F1 for casual viewers! The BBC, Channel 4 and even ITV (with adverts during the race) did a better job!

[Damokins82]

Hi there

I totally agree with people's comments, especially those seeking to watch on catch up/on demand. I work some ridiculous shifts at times in my role, so I'm not always able to be at home to watch it live. And yet 5hrs after the event has happened, I still can't watch the qualifying or race session I missed. It can take up to 24hrs for those sessions to appear on catchup/on demand. Whether that's via my tablet on sky go or sky stream at home. 

Is there a reason why it takes so long for highlights to become available? 

[skycomplainer]

When the race was on before say 4pm I used to be able to download my recording from skygo to my laptop.  For later races the download option would be delayed which was maybe a quarter of the races.  Last week I couldn't downlaod at all even though the race was recorded early morning.  This week so far unable to download.  

I can't even watch a recording on a laptop in my own house!  And I pay multiroom!

This might be my last year paying Sky, i'd be better off using a VPN and paying F1 direct or going for a dodgy Firestick!  

The really frustrting part is that we get zero communication about this, they keep taking my moey and I have no idea if I will be able to watch the race the same day after the event.

Horrific service.

[nigea99]

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@skycomplainer wrote:

When the race was on before say 4pm I used to be able to download my recording from skygo to my laptop.  For later races the download option would be delayed which was maybe a quarter of the races.  Last week I couldn't downlaod at all even though the race was recorded early morning.  This week so far unable to download.  

I can't even watch a recording on a laptop in my own house!  And I pay multiroom!

This might be my last year paying Sky, i'd be better off using a VPN and paying F1 direct or going for a dodgy Firestick!  

The really frustrting part is that we get zero communication about this, they keep taking my moey and I have no idea if I will be able to watch the race the same day after the event.

Horrific service.

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did you record it in UHD rather than HD on your Q box - if so this might be why you could not download it

If it was HD - did your SKY Q box show up as connected  to be able to download

[Damokins82]

I'm on sky stream now, but it was the same on Q. If I forgot to record on the box - id look for the race on catch-up when I came home from work and it still wasn't there. 

[Madbob]

To watch F1 live I think you need to download the sky sports app. It'll then let you watch the F1 sessions when broadcast live. Yes, another app...mad. Seems to be working for me and I only have the F1 channel, not all the sports channels.