What channel shows F1

haveabadday · 20-03-2013 10:20pm #1

Hi guys.. think i posted in wrong place!! trying to find out what package I need for F1?? is it Setanta Ireland?? Getting 3 different quotes from UPC.. one on website! one from man on phone, and now last one on email.. going up every time! latest quote €37.75... cheapest was €22.50... Im confused!! all I want is to be able to watch F1 again.. miss it sooo much..:(:( any advise please. Thanks very much.

aphex™ · 20-03-2013 10:25pm

Do you currently have a TV package? It's hard to know where to start from really. Do you have a sattelite installed?

Do you have Eircom net by any chance? You can stream Setanta on that for free.

EDIT: Setanta is listed on the basic UPC package for EUR 26 here http://www.upc.ie/television/#

mickdw · 21-03-2013 12:29pm

BBC show half of the races live and have decent highlights of the rest. You could get this free with a €25 sky dish and €20 box plus install. If you install bigger dish you can also pick up german RTL which have all the races live but its in german. BBC radio 5 live commentary works ok with this though.
Sky have all the races live but you need hd subscription minimum so that is over €40 per month but there would be introductory offers etc
No idea re setanta.

SCOOP 64 · 21-03-2013 12:38pm

Sorry to hijack post, but i missed sundays grand prix, any way of watching the highlights this late in the week, i have sky, but not paying for sky sports. thks

Zaph · 21-03-2013 3:48pm

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

Sorry to hijack post, but i missed sundays grand prix, any way of watching the highlights this late in the week, i have sky, but not paying for sky sports. thks

If you have the HD package you get the Sky F1 channel as part of it. You don't need to have Sky Sports for this.

SCOOP 64 · 21-03-2013 3:51pm

Didnt know that, have to look into it, thks

mickdw · 21-03-2013 6:33pm

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

Didnt know that, have to look into it, thks

Be quick cause its moving to sky sports only for new subscribers shortly.

Zaph · 21-03-2013 9:14pm

mickdw wrote: »

Be quick cause its moving to sky sports only for new subscribers shortly.

Didn't realise that. April 9th, according to this. I'd be rightly p*ssed off if they took it away from existing HD subscribers, having the F1 channel was the only reason I decided to get the package.

mickdw · 21-03-2013 10:12pm

Zaph wrote: »

Didn't realise that. April 9th, according to this. I'd be rightly p*ssed off if they took it away from existing HD subscribers, having the F1 channel was the only reason I decided to get the package.

Same here but they couldnt really pull a channel like that seeing as they are still heavily advertising the current hd pack and using f1 as a main selling point.
I just took it out recently. Got a discount first on previous package then took hd at full rate so my hd is not on any kind of offer just in case they would use that excuse to switch me onto the new service.