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If you don't pay for hd and want Sky Sports f1 then you have to subscribe to the sports channels. That is the same on Sky and Virgin. If you want it in hd on Sky then you still have to pay for the hd pack. In other words it's available to their most valued subscribers, but if you didn't have sports or hd you wouldn't see the channel on Sky. They are very much using this to drive sports and hd subs.

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Id Rather stick my head down the toilet, rather getting the sky sports collection package... Oh What will i do?

A) Boycott the whole F1 Season and wont buy it from sky.
and dont watch it

OR

b) find a F1 streaming website theres a few out there such as livestream.com does live streaming for F1

http://www.livestream.com/f1streaming

There is a HD one

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/formula-1-live-hd-stream

must be better than watching the highlights from the bbc?

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Just do whatever suits you Sky rang me last night asking if he could come today not Monday as a guy on my street is also having sky installed .so he is here right now he has finished the main box an is installing the multi room .

I'm watching the F1HD channel loop right now an for me who is a massive F1 fan this is a dream come true. For you watching a stream on the Internet is what you want .... We're both happy

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That still doesn't explain why VM don't carry all other non HD channels.

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Yes it does. Sky charge for them, and they can restrict what they let VM have.

And many of the channels on VM are also available in HD.

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Bear in mind that the interactive F1 feeds on SSF1 will be in SD regardless of platform and the Virgin SD will be higher quality and bitrate than the Sky equivalents going on past experience

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That doesn't explain anything. Where is ITV 2, 3 & 4 in HD?

Does that have something to do with Sky too?

Instead of blaming Sky the more obvious explanation is that VM do not want to add these channels.

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Sky are the rights holders and can do with the F1 rights as they see fit after paying for them and have done just that,making sure any VM customers wanting to view have to stump up.

I was just trying to say in my earlier posting VM may well still have been in a position to buy/comission rights themselves, had Sky not scuppered the impending deal for VM to merge with ITV,just imagine if sky had not have bought those shares and VM had of sealed the deal the missing ITV HD channels would have been owned by VM, Sky saw Virgin Medias aquisition of ITV as a real threat,so acted to keep market dominence.

The regulator as usual was useless.

If a big company such as ITV was owned by VM just imagine they might even have been able to afford the rights to F1.!!!

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What about the missing free to air CBS channels? ITV2,3,4 HD And animal planet HD those chaanels are nothing to do with Sky same for the missing MTV stuff.

Wake up an smell the coffee virgin are free to get those channels anytime they want . But you just keep eating those price rises an blaming sky.

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Lex is on about non Sky HD channels I'm pretty sure ESPNA HD agreements are between VM and ESPN nothing at all to do with Sky the same with MTV HD , Animal Planet HD etc.

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It isn't in their best business interest to not add HD channels as and when they can. VM already have ITV1 in HD, so I'm sure the others will follow.

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And you really think it doesn't cost VM anything to add extra channels?? I would rather that they concentrate on channels that most people want to watch. Personally I never watched the CBS channels on Sky, so I wouldn't watch them on VM.

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Every platform has ITV1HD though as its a free to air channel.

But that still doesn't explain what your implying re Sky. VM don't have alot of HD channels that have nothing to do with Sky. Not sure why its Sky that is the bad guy here. Sounds more like excuses.

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I've been banging my head trying to subscribe to Sky Sports F1, with Virgin Media, so that it was all in place from 07 March 2012

I phoned them earlier this year (January 2012) to confirm that I could add this service when it was available
I was advised to wait until the service appeared in My Virgin Media and I could then subscribe
It briefly appeared in the middle of February, so as per the previous instructions waited until my current bill was issued
This bill then arrived, but Sky Sports F1 has disappeared again

So I submitted an order to subscribe
"Yes, we can install this for you from Monday 19 March"
"What is the point of that, I will miss the first race?"
"er, I see what you mean"

Yesterday I was advised the installation had now been arranged for Monday 09 April
"You are an existing customer?"
"Yes"

It is easy enough to change services online, so why is it so difficult for them to simply add this?
A few times each year I subscribe then unsubscribe to services, never had any issues

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For anyone interested Senna is to be shown from this Friday on Sky Movies Premiere and HD.

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Recording it while l am away on Holiday big man.:)