Want to watch Chinese Grand prix highlights from Sky Showcase

[PortlandBill]

New user of sky stream here. 

I want to watch the highlights of the Chinese Grand prix that was shown earlier today on Showcase. I can't find how to do that. Any ideas? 

[Padam_Padam]

If you don't have a Sky Sports subscription then you probably can't. 
Sky Showcase is a curated channel designed to tempt those who don't subscribe to a premium package (ie Sports or Cinema) to do so. If you don't catch a programme which originated from a premium channel on the live Showcase channel stream, then you'll have to subscribe to the premium channel package to watch it on demand. 

[PortlandBill]

Oh, OK, thanks. 

I'm in the free trial stage of possibly switching to sky from Virgin. I don't have any sports subscriptions on either, but can watch (and record) sky showcase on my Virgin subscription. So I can watch it there. 

Maybe I'll have to rethink the switch. 

I'm finding that virgin's facilities for watching, recording, catch-up, etc seem far superior to Sky's. 

[Padam_Padam]

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@PortlandBill wrote:

Oh, OK, thanks. 

I'm in the free trial stage of possibly switching to sky from Virgin. I don't have any sports subscriptions on either, but can watch (and record) sky showcase on my Virgin subscription. So I can watch it there. 

Maybe I'll have to rethink the switch. 

I'm finding that virgin's facilities for watching, recording, catch-up, etc seem far superior to Sky's. 

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Yes, I too found Sky Stream to be inadequate for how we like to watch TV so got rid of it a couple of months ago. It works fine for some people but not for others. The good thing is, as you have found, there are plenty of alternative options these days. 

[Laing1]

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@PortlandBill wrote:

Oh, OK, thanks. 

I'm in the free trial stage of possibly switching to sky from Virgin. I don't have any sports subscriptions on either, but can watch (and record) sky showcase on my Virgin subscription. So I can watch it there. 

Maybe I'll have to rethink the switch. 

I'm finding that virgin's facilities for watching, recording, catch-up, etc seem far superior to Sky's. 

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@PortlandBill Is this on virgin stream or on virgin cable TV as i was under the impression virgin stream didn't have recording facilities but virgin cable does as does Sky Q. 

[PortlandBill]

It's virgin cable. Virgin stream seems very basic, but but it is cheap. 

[Laing1]

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@PortlandBill wrote:

It's virgin cable. Virgin stream seems very basic, but but it is cheap. 

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@PortlandBill ahh right so that explains why you were able to record as I said the equivelent product to virgin cable would be Sky Q which is delivered by satellite and offers recording facilities 

I agree virgin strean=m does seem basic compared with Sky stream the major drawback being it's only available if you have virgin broadband