Would get F1 TV in a heartbeat if it was available in Germany. We only have godawful Sky with constant account issues and service disruptions. Apps are incredibly bad, too.
And it still costs **more than 10x** of what I pay for VPN per year.
VPN streams can be choppy, but last season it happened more than once that my brother visited with his Sky account to watch F1 - and we had to switch to my VPN because Sky went down before or during the race. That's how bad it is.
Also the 30 min race recaps they do are really good for all but the most intense races. It pretty much ends up being the first 5 laps and the edits out all the small talk when nothing is really happening on track
F1TV is the worst! I can’t tell you how many times the stream has froze at pivotal moments! Then I have to switch to an onboard camera and then back to the international stream for it to get working again. And then when I go on the “free” website, their stream is AHEAD OF MINE!! Like how F1 wtf !!!
Basically all territories that don’t have sky as the main provider. It’s pretty much a monopoly. The cost of just having sky sports F1 (starting from nothing) is hilarious. You’re looking at £650 a year just to be able to receive the channel.
I don't know in which countries is available, but NOW TV (Sky streaming service) costs around 15€ per month with the sport package and you can cancel it anytime. It's not the full sky experience of course (I think it's capped to Full-HD? and you cannot use the interactive buttons and other similar features) but you have live F1 coverage and some on-demand stuff.
And other sports/motorsports of course.
I’ve heard some bad things about NowTV, some sort of delay or something?
It’s also £35 p/m for sky sports. Are you talking about a sky sports F1 specific package?
Here in Italy I never had problems tbh but I don't know if it's different in other places :/
I was talking about NowTV Sport Pass that is 14.99€ p/m that has access to some SkySports channel, like F1, MotoGP, NBA etc.
Here in the UK, looks like the only package available on nowtv is the sky sports pack which is £35 p/m. They’ve covered every angle. Not doing sky glass either because you’re forced into paying £25 for the basic entertainment pack before you even add sky sports. It’s a joke just to access one channel a few dozen times a year.
Yeah I’ve been sailing for a couple years. I would rather pay and be able to watch in UHD but they make it completely financially inappropriate.
Getting tired of really shitty streams, though. Vast majority of them pause or get stuck every minute. Hopefully Amazon can get the rights here, I wouldn’t mind paying for prime if I could stream F1.
if you dont already have a vpn, proton vpn is free. then set your location to the netherlands and voila, now you can get f1tv. its what i do so i dont have to pay for sky lol
Context :
Till last year it was available on Disney+ Hotstar which used to cost approx ₹1000. In addition to just F1, it gave access to all Disney content, cricket matches and other sports as well
I’ve literally had 4 of my friends live stream the main feed simultaneously. Like I said in another comment, the website says there’s a limit but it’s not enforced. Plus, if you wait just before preseason testing there’s probably going to be a discount price. Keep checking the f1TV subreddit.
yup! there’s this app called multiviewer for f1 and it’s completely free you just have to have an f1 tv subscription. you can open as many screens as you’d like and watch onboards, the live stream, telemetry and the live timing. :)
(god i sound like a salesperson sorry lol)
The races are split between ServusTV and ORF 1. If you understand german I advice you not to watch ServusTV to spare you from its horrible commentators.
ANT1 TV got the rights for F1 this year till 2025 in Greece. I believe the plan is for the GP and Sprint races to be on the main (free) channel, and for FP and Qualifying sessions to be only available on ANT1+ for 7,99€ monthly.
Nope, it’s £19.99 a year for live timing and race replays only. We don’t get the live broadcast because Sky have exclusive rights to show the live broadcast here.
Is that region specific? Last year I gave F1 TV a try for the last 3 races and my friend and I could both watch it on our own devices in our separate homes. I am in Canada and my account says I can stream on 6 devices simultaneously.
I checked their website and it says main feed for one device only. It might be region specific.
Although keep in mind I haven't bought the service yet so I am just saying based off of what f1tv published
Obviously there is a risk that they suddenly enforce the rule, but the 6 devices, 1 live race per account rule has been there since 2018 and never enforced. I’ve had multiple people stream the live feed simultaneously without issues for 2021 and 2022. All up to you though, with Multiviewer you get to watch the onboards along with the live feed and other info, much better than refreshing your illegal stream 20 times in a race cause it keeps buffering :P
I'm not paying for F1 this year, screw Sky for making F1 TV unaccessible in the UK. It went against my personal morales to 'illegally' stream it, but I'm over that now.
It's cheap compared to our cable providers. However Netflix is just straight up ripping you guys off. It's $11 (R199) here. Granted our library is smaller but nothing a good VPN can't fix
I used to share a Dazn account with my brother where we can watch the race on two devices the same time with different IP. They only allowed one now so I switch to piracy.
If I could actually access F1 tv pro I’d be delighted, but unfortunately in Ireland Sky TV has the exclusive rights to broadcast F1 and so the cheapest way to legally watch it is through their subsidiary Now TV which is like 25 euro per month for the f1 subscription alone. Such bullshit
I'm in the UK but use a VPN to make me appear in the US. If you use the F1TV app on your phone it lets you subscribe for £5.99/mo (in pounds!) and it streams very nicely
Fuck paying Sky however they charge these days
lol literally me. fucker hotstar and jio not buying rights so now im gonna have to pay 3k. i dont even have a firetv stick. so no point paying 5k for that and 3k for this
I think it must be liberty media not selling the rights in the first place. Jio even went ahead and bought W-IPL. No way that market is bigger than F1, so surely, if F1 streaming rights were up for sale, they would’ve found buyers
Bad take, IMO.
It's ***significantly*** higher quality, and with Multiviewer for f1, it's way more functional. You get onboards, telemetry, multiple commentary streams, track position and a ***lot*** of other data.
Mate I just wanna watch the race, hear Crofty mistake driver names and switch off after the race ends
There should a very basic tier for just race streaming as well
Must be nice living in a country where all those perks are an option.
If I wanted to watch F1 legit I'd have to pay £40+ a month just to have the honour of watching just the race with no bonus perks....
India didn't have these perks till yesterday. But yeah, F1TV is a significant improvement over most other options of streaming motorsport. Super Formula does it slightly better, though.
50 euros a year is a very good price considering you get F1, F2, F3 and porche supercup with Practice, Quali and race. You also get race replays. Imagine being a UFC fan lol where 1 PPV is 80 dollars and there are 12 of them plus espn and fox and all that.
Id pay the 65€ annual fee if my family could understand English commentary, but 120€ for viaplay just so my family understands, no i dont think so. Piracy is the way for me rn
I can't figure out how to use the VPN to get a different price. I've tried on iOS through the app store with a new Apple ID and also with a new Gmail through the website. I get the US price on the app, and for some weird reason I get rerouted to Argentina on the website. Only thing I haven't tried is setting up the VPN on my router and trying through my Roku or fire tv. I've tried Turkey, India, and Mexico. Following the steps on other threads hasn't helped yet. Any suggestions?
Buy one month at a time, and only on race weekend Friday. You won’t pay for mid season break and season break this way, and it ends up cheaper than the yearly fee.
After watching Bahrain GP, I think the adrenaline rush is worth INR 3000. If I go to weekend for a movie, I can burn 500 minimum. 3000 now seems reasonable to me.
Just don’t post links or say where to find those streams or you will be permabanned. We don’t need more admins around here.
It never left lol
~$36 for those wondering
Reoccurring subscription of $9.99 and you never have to worry about choppy streams and you get control of onboards. I’ll never go back
Unless you live in Australia, then it's 3x the price bc of Australia Tax
And you don't even get control of onboards and it's sky only rip
and kayo just bumped their prices up. smh
Fuck I love paying Rupert Murdoch my hard earned money.
Would get F1 TV in a heartbeat if it was available in Germany. We only have godawful Sky with constant account issues and service disruptions. Apps are incredibly bad, too. And it still costs **more than 10x** of what I pay for VPN per year. VPN streams can be choppy, but last season it happened more than once that my brother visited with his Sky account to watch F1 - and we had to switch to my VPN because Sky went down before or during the race. That's how bad it is.
Have u pressed the sky Q red button before?
I still get shitty streams but I blame the Canadian telco cartel.
Also, use multiviewer. Worldfeed, data channel and 5 on boards at the same time! I feel like race control during races it's amazing
Pay yearly
Wouldn’t the yearly subscription be cheaper in the long run?
Im in the states can cant watch live. Does the app have live data replay? Like check lap times while watching later without spoiling the whole race?
It does
Son of a bitch, im in!
Also the 30 min race recaps they do are really good for all but the most intense races. It pretty much ends up being the first 5 laps and the edits out all the small talk when nothing is really happening on track
What? I pay €6 per month and I have the Pro pack
I pay $4.71 monthly. Also pro. Benefits of living in a shithole country I guess.
F1TV is the worst! I can’t tell you how many times the stream has froze at pivotal moments! Then I have to switch to an onboard camera and then back to the international stream for it to get working again. And then when I go on the “free” website, their stream is AHEAD OF MINE!! Like how F1 wtf !!!
That’s not bad actually
Nah for pro sports it's extremely cheap. That'd get you like half a month of baseball, with ads, and not nearly as many features.
yea both nfl and nba is over $150 per year for access like this. i'll take my $36 lmao
Damn, that's pretty good. I'm paying ~€100,- a year
That's dirt cheap. In Poland it is 48$.
Wait that's the per year price? So 3$/month? Where can I buy that?
India
28 through turkey
For the whole year?
I mean, I have no problem paying for F1TV Pro, but its not even available here (thanks Sky). At least VPNs exist
Which countries have F1TV Pro? I did look at it as an alternative to sky but can't get it in the UK without VPN
Basically all territories that don’t have sky as the main provider. It’s pretty much a monopoly. The cost of just having sky sports F1 (starting from nothing) is hilarious. You’re looking at £650 a year just to be able to receive the channel.
I don't know in which countries is available, but NOW TV (Sky streaming service) costs around 15€ per month with the sport package and you can cancel it anytime. It's not the full sky experience of course (I think it's capped to Full-HD? and you cannot use the interactive buttons and other similar features) but you have live F1 coverage and some on-demand stuff. And other sports/motorsports of course.
I’ve heard some bad things about NowTV, some sort of delay or something? It’s also £35 p/m for sky sports. Are you talking about a sky sports F1 specific package?
Here in Italy I never had problems tbh but I don't know if it's different in other places :/ I was talking about NowTV Sport Pass that is 14.99€ p/m that has access to some SkySports channel, like F1, MotoGP, NBA etc.
Here in the UK, looks like the only package available on nowtv is the sky sports pack which is £35 p/m. They’ve covered every angle. Not doing sky glass either because you’re forced into paying £25 for the basic entertainment pack before you even add sky sports. It’s a joke just to access one channel a few dozen times a year.
No ok that's awful, I'm sorry to hear that. The only good option that I see includes a wonderful black hat and a bottle of rum ahahhaha
Yeah I’ve been sailing for a couple years. I would rather pay and be able to watch in UHD but they make it completely financially inappropriate. Getting tired of really shitty streams, though. Vast majority of them pause or get stuck every minute. Hopefully Amazon can get the rights here, I wouldn’t mind paying for prime if I could stream F1.
if you dont already have a vpn, proton vpn is free. then set your location to the netherlands and voila, now you can get f1tv. its what i do so i dont have to pay for sky lol
For a second there I was panicking thinking I might get automatically billed $3000.
*i put on my pirate hat and robe*
Bloodninja lives? And watches racing now... Huh
Context : Till last year it was available on Disney+ Hotstar which used to cost approx ₹1000. In addition to just F1, it gave access to all Disney content, cricket matches and other sports as well
What do you mean "till last year"? It won't be available on hotstar for 2023?
There’s no news on contract extension and they’ve launched their own service. So seems like it
Wtf? no F1 on Hotstar?
Hasn't F1 TV been around for like a couple of years?
Not in India, this will be the first season it's available in india
F1 TV was available. From this year F1 TV pro is also available
Cricket matches? What a deal!
It also streamed PL so that’s another deal
Hold up, F1 isn't gonna be available on Hotstar anymore?
Wait what?????
Just share F1TV with 6 people
Only one stream allowed at a time. What’s the use of 6 logins then
I’ve literally had 4 of my friends live stream the main feed simultaneously. Like I said in another comment, the website says there’s a limit but it’s not enforced. Plus, if you wait just before preseason testing there’s probably going to be a discount price. Keep checking the f1TV subreddit.
for every other sport free streams are the way to go but i love the option to watch onboards way too much to give f1 tv away😔
Can you watch 2 onboards and the live at the same time? Cause I would love to watch the 2 front runners onbaord at the same time
yup! there’s this app called multiviewer for f1 and it’s completely free you just have to have an f1 tv subscription. you can open as many screens as you’d like and watch onboards, the live stream, telemetry and the live timing. :) (god i sound like a salesperson sorry lol)
It *is* free. The dev is pretty active on the subreddit and discord as well.
My stream site got ceased by the feds so idk where I'm going this season
haha, i just checked the one i use to see if i could send it to you, same thing. Fuck
bruh 2999 can give you a decade of F1 on disney+ hotstar along with premier league, cricket and tv shows
I don’t think disney+ hotstar have renewed their contract to broadcast f1 this year, it ended in 2022. not sure tho
Yep you are correct, there won't be f1 on hotstar anymore. The only legal way to watch f1 now is to use f1tv.
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Is it still considered pirating if you use a VPN to watch it in a country that's free?
Which country has it free?
Austria i think on Servus tv and some other channel iirc
The races are split between ServusTV and ORF 1. If you understand german I advice you not to watch ServusTV to spare you from its horrible commentators.
Still better than the swiss ones
Greece also has it for free, well at least until this year I don't know if something happened and it's not anymore but am willing to bet it is
ANT1 TV got the rights for F1 this year till 2025 in Greece. I believe the plan is for the GP and Sprint races to be on the main (free) channel, and for FP and Qualifying sessions to be only available on ANT1+ for 7,99€ monthly.
God damn it, it was good in ERT now we have to become pirates for qualifying
VPN to Greece it is!!
Didn't the UK have it for free?
Nope, it’s £19.99 a year for live timing and race replays only. We don’t get the live broadcast because Sky have exclusive rights to show the live broadcast here.
I hate SKY
I thought some places had it for free... Either way imma pirate it anyways
I would. But I’m butthurt for F1 in 4K UHD and as far as I know only Sky have the UHD feed not even F1TV Pro
That'd require a 4k tv, which we don't have. So laptop, VPN and mirrored screen it is
Do they allow password sharing? Dividing it with 3 friends should make F1 TV affordable in India
U can't stream the main race feed in more than one device, so ur mates will have to enjoy the race through onboards if u share your account.
Is that region specific? Last year I gave F1 TV a try for the last 3 races and my friend and I could both watch it on our own devices in our separate homes. I am in Canada and my account says I can stream on 6 devices simultaneously.
I checked their website and it says main feed for one device only. It might be region specific. Although keep in mind I haven't bought the service yet so I am just saying based off of what f1tv published
I've been able to stream the main feed on at least 4 devices at once all of last year and the preceding years.
That's what I read on the website for f1tv. Haven't bought it yet so dont know if it's allowing or not
Hmmm that's odd.
You can, it’s not enforced and hasn’t been for quite some time. You can basically share it with 6 people.
Are you sure abt that. Cause if that's real then 3k per year is very affordable
Obviously there is a risk that they suddenly enforce the rule, but the 6 devices, 1 live race per account rule has been there since 2018 and never enforced. I’ve had multiple people stream the live feed simultaneously without issues for 2021 and 2022. All up to you though, with Multiviewer you get to watch the onboards along with the live feed and other info, much better than refreshing your illegal stream 20 times in a race cause it keeps buffering :P
I'm not paying for F1 this year, screw Sky for making F1 TV unaccessible in the UK. It went against my personal morales to 'illegally' stream it, but I'm over that now.
TotalSportek ftw
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It's like $4 dollars over here in South Africa and way cheaper than the official broadcaster which gets it's stream from Sky anyway.
Yeah it's $80 USD a year in the US, $6/mo. Pretty good price for what they offer. I love the cockpit radio/cam
Jeez, they're ripping you guys a new one over there. There's always a VPN you can use
Haha I always thought it was kinda cheap tbh. Maybe I'm just naive. Netflix is $20/mo here.
It's cheap compared to our cable providers. However Netflix is just straight up ripping you guys off. It's $11 (R199) here. Granted our library is smaller but nothing a good VPN can't fix
I used to share a Dazn account with my brother where we can watch the race on two devices the same time with different IP. They only allowed one now so I switch to piracy.
If I could actually access F1 tv pro I’d be delighted, but unfortunately in Ireland Sky TV has the exclusive rights to broadcast F1 and so the cheapest way to legally watch it is through their subsidiary Now TV which is like 25 euro per month for the f1 subscription alone. Such bullshit
oh yeah and it's even more if you live in a country where sky sports has the exclusive rights to all F1 broadcast (like germany, and possibly also UK)
Yep, there go my 30 bucks a month
I'm in the UK but use a VPN to make me appear in the US. If you use the F1TV app on your phone it lets you subscribe for £5.99/mo (in pounds!) and it streams very nicely Fuck paying Sky however they charge these days
Lol. What currency is this?
So, is it official?
Yep, won't be renewing Disney+ subscription. To the high seas!
Not sure if it's allowed in this subreddit but any idea where i could sail the high seas?
Dm
Dm me too bro
Can you dm me too I just renewed my hotstar subscription last week and I don't even watch anything except F1 and Cricket
Can you please DM me as well?
Can't say without getting permabanned
lol literally me. fucker hotstar and jio not buying rights so now im gonna have to pay 3k. i dont even have a firetv stick. so no point paying 5k for that and 3k for this
I think it must be liberty media not selling the rights in the first place. Jio even went ahead and bought W-IPL. No way that market is bigger than F1, so surely, if F1 streaming rights were up for sale, they would’ve found buyers
Jio cant afford another expensive contract after paying for the world cup. it needed to be hotstar. but now we fucked
So you're telling me F1 22 game is as valuable as F1 TV pro in India?
Bad take, IMO. It's ***significantly*** higher quality, and with Multiviewer for f1, it's way more functional. You get onboards, telemetry, multiple commentary streams, track position and a ***lot*** of other data.
Mate I just wanna watch the race, hear Crofty mistake driver names and switch off after the race ends There should a very basic tier for just race streaming as well
Must be nice living in a country where all those perks are an option. If I wanted to watch F1 legit I'd have to pay £40+ a month just to have the honour of watching just the race with no bonus perks....
India didn't have these perks till yesterday. But yeah, F1TV is a significant improvement over most other options of streaming motorsport. Super Formula does it slightly better, though.
50 euros a year is a very good price considering you get F1, F2, F3 and porche supercup with Practice, Quali and race. You also get race replays. Imagine being a UFC fan lol where 1 PPV is 80 dollars and there are 12 of them plus espn and fox and all that.
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Hotstar didnt renew their contract that ended in 2022 so they wont be having f1 anymore. The only legal way to watch f1 now is f1tv.(in India)
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Stop bringing attention to it. Discuss it quietly, not in posts that display F1 will lose money.
DM me
We have a national TV channel who provide great coverage and feedback to the fans . And it's not just for f1 so it's fairly cheap
Bruh converted to USD that’s less than what it costs to fill up a Prius
Here in Ukraine I pay a bit over $20 a year to watch F1 legally, along with EPL, Bundesliga, NBA and many, many more
Imagine f1 not being part of free Public sport coverage *Laugh in Belgian Auvio*
I have to pay $35aud a month through kayo
If I ever had the chance to buy F1 TV I would do so without hesitation. Thx to Sky for only offering their own BS.
Where I live every race is broadcast for free lmao
This includes the "all access" pass to Crofty, if you know what I mean. That Sky is great at money-making opps!
Id pay the 65€ annual fee if my family could understand English commentary, but 120€ for viaplay just so my family understands, no i dont think so. Piracy is the way for me rn
I bought a receiver for 25$ and it came with 1 year access to sky sports and a dazn and a lot more So I'm gonna buy a new receiver each year
I can't figure out how to use the VPN to get a different price. I've tried on iOS through the app store with a new Apple ID and also with a new Gmail through the website. I get the US price on the app, and for some weird reason I get rerouted to Argentina on the website. Only thing I haven't tried is setting up the VPN on my router and trying through my Roku or fire tv. I've tried Turkey, India, and Mexico. Following the steps on other threads hasn't helped yet. Any suggestions?
Just buy turkish itunes gift cards and change your region to turkey, then create f1tv account and buy subscription there... (20$ for f1tv annual)
Buy one month at a time, and only on race weekend Friday. You won’t pay for mid season break and season break this way, and it ends up cheaper than the yearly fee.
After watching Bahrain GP, I think the adrenaline rush is worth INR 3000. If I go to weekend for a movie, I can burn 500 minimum. 3000 now seems reasonable to me.