2026 Sky F1 catch up - the problem continues

[Disappointedf1]

Yep Sky stream whether through Sky or Now is soooo disappointing 

right now I'm looking for  Canadian sprint quali. Nowhere to be found. Might show up middle of next week but what is the point in that. 

this only encourages illegal streaming when it surely would be an easy fix for the production team to be on top of their game and provide the service we pay for. 

[mr.tickle]

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@Disappointedf1 wrote:

Yep Sky stream whether through Sky or Now is soooo disappointing 

right now I'm looking for  Canadian sprint quali. Nowhere to be found. Might show up middle of next week but what is the point in that. 

this only encourages illegal streaming when it surely would be an easy fix for the production team to be on top of their game and provide the service we pay for. 

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To be pedantic, the illegal streaming would be live only, and your live Sky Internet Stream of the "Sky Sport F1 UHD" satellite broadcast channel (which I recorded from on SkyQ) would still have worked fine if you were pinned into watching live and normally does; these are big and ongoing problems with providing reliable, timely, and complete non-live streams of these broadcasts later, is that right?

So with the illegal stream you'd be in the exact same situation if you didn't watch live?

NB I would be equally dismayed as you are - as a SkyQ user I can't always watch live; last night I was watching some of it slightly behind live, say 10-15 minutes, other parts live, and then after sprint quali I went back to watch the earlier parts of the build-up. It worked but of course on SkyQ - being at the mercy of EPG changes aside - I am in full control of my local recordings.

[purpleparrotuk]

@Disappointedf1 Luckily my hubby watched it live then. F1 is getting worse and worse. 

[99Iain99]

What a mess Sky Stream is! Just sat down to watch the Indy 500 that I added to my play list from the planner on the Sky Sports Mix channel seeing that the whole race was being covered there and not just the bit the F1 channel was. 

Went to the play list showing the Sky Mix recording, pressed watch from start... low and behold it started playing back the coverage from the F1 channel! The race was about to start only for it to cut to the F1 Academy race... not interested in that!

Called Sky up to ask them how to watch the 500 from the start and was given zero options, only they're aware of a problem. 

I told them they're happy to sell the service but not provide the service while locking me into a 2 year contract!

Don't see this being fixed anytime soon... might see if I can go back to VM.

[99Iain99]

So this weekend thanks to the mess that Sky Stream is I've missed the team principals press conference,  the Sprint Race notebook and the Indy 500... didn't dare trust it to "record" the F1GP so watched that live and missed the end of the 500!

Thanks Sky 👍🏻 

[Tim_B]

Minor but irritating programme guide with Ted's Notebook for Canada main race - it is conveniently listed in 'On this week' but if you select it here you can only schedule it for its later rerun (listed as on Sky One in my case, I don't have UHD). You have to find it by scrolling way to the right in the 'Series 1' listings, because for some reason it's called S1:E274, with Abu Dhabi taking top spot on S1:E302.

Make no sense!

[shezsheridan]

I can only but agree with you 100%.

Hopefully if enough 'loyal' customers can see this as a major problem, SKY might actually do something about it

I've had SKY Stream a couple of weeks now and so far I think it's major step backwards in usability and the UI is not practical and sometimes just down right confusing

[shezsheridan]

Yes that's trouble with the User interface 'expericence' 

It unhelpfully shows the result in little 'snippets'

I'm sure the designers have never actually tried to watch the programming they create 

[99Iain99]

I binned my stream off, it's a complete shambles, Sky offered to replace it with Sky Q... when the engineer turned up he didn't have enough cable to install the dish... at which point I binned them off completely and returned to Virgin Media!

[mr.tickle]

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@99Iain99 wrote:

I binned my stream off, it's a complete shambles, Sky offered to replace it with Sky Q... when the engineer turned up he didn't have enough cable to install the dish... 

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What a shambles. Did he offer to come back at another date? I'd've liked to have given him a copy of the local Yellow Pages and told him to go to the wholesalers (!)

[99Iain99]

I was going to ask him why he couldn't go down b and q to get some wire but I knew I'd get a load of bull about how they weren't allowed or some such nonsense, I called Sky's laughingly so called customer service line as the engineer couldn't rebook the appointment and told them to get their @rses here the next day or they could stick it... the earliest they could get me in was 3 weeks later... as I'd already been waiting for 3 weeks with no TV I told them to stick it! I cancelled everything... only to receive an email notification a short while later telling me the engineer is booked for the 9th of July.  I rang them to tell them not to bother and they told me they're are no orders on the system for me 😂

You couldn't make this stuff up!

[faxfan2002]

Just got in to catch up with f1 sprint - but I can't because it says I need sky one. Seriously? Pay for premium f1 channel and they attach catch f1 to a totally different channel. Shambles.

[TimmyBGood]

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@99Iain99 wrote:

I was going to ask him why he couldn't go down b and q to get some wire but I knew I'd get a load of bull about how they weren't allowed or some such nonsense,

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To be fair it would have to be a reel of WF100 or RG6 coaxial cable: electrical flex or galvanised garden wire isn't going to work so well...

[TimmyBGood]

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@faxfan2002 wrote:

Pay for premium f1 channel and they attach catch f1 to a totally different channel.

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It's an unfortunate anomaly that the wider coverage created by the arrival of Sports+ isn't available to customers with legacy single channel subscriptions.

[Joeford00]

I'm having issues where i cant watch the recordings on my stream puck, but live channels work. I couldnt watch SQ yesterday, but I can today. Now i can't watch the Spring race today, and ive noticed that the recording says its from Sky One, (which im not subscribed to) where as SQ today shows as sky sports f1, as it should be. I wonder if anyone can relay this and change the sprint and all future recordings to be from sky sports rather than sky one, and this may solve the issue?