For those who haven't already signed up, F1TV is offering a 20% discount (about $62/yr for the 1st year) for new accounts. Canceling your old account and renewing won't fly. It must be a new email address. The rest of the info can be the same as your old account. Discounts appear to vary between countries as do the rates. If you have gmail, you can take advantage of a "bug" in gmail...anything after a plus sign is ignored on the signature line and will get routed to the address before it. So create a new account [email protected] or even [email protected] routes to [email protected].
Thanks for this! Just signed up and will be ditching the F1 coverage provided by Hulu… in fact, dropping Hulu altogether since the main reason we were even keeping Hulu was to watch F1. For those that have used F1 TV, how different is it from the Hulu/Sky Sports F1 coverage? I have a love hate thing for “Crofty”, but really appreciate Martin Brundle’s technical commentary. Are these guys in the F1 TV broadcast?
Some basic questions.. Can you get F1TV via an app on a smart TV? How does the coverage differ from Sky? Is it the same footage, are there different presenters ?
Yes, but more details here: f1tv.formula1.com, including different restrictions by country, depending on level of subscription. For your other questions, I’m also wondering the same. Since I’ve signed up with F1 TV, I can report back after this weekend’s race. It’s amazing how poor of a job the website does in describing the coverage, let alone the crappy marketing of this… I learned about it from this thread and I’d consider myself a prime target for this service! I suspect the crappy marketing may be F1 treading lightly on pissing off their network partners… I, for one, quit their network partner (Hulu) as the primary reason for Hulu in our household was F1.
The app didn't work on a Firestick last year. It does work on a Roku, just make sure you have the right model(s). The coverage is good, it's the standard international feed and some extras. Frankly it's well worth the 80/year I pay for it -- I'd have to pay a LOT more to get any streaming that includes ESPN.
I was going to get this last year but heard there were some problems. Now my cable doesn't have all the race weekend events so time to maybe try this. I don't have to watch live? They'll have all the practices, qualifying and race available to stream whenever? Am I correct I have to watch live or wait 2 days to stream?
If you get the “pro” subscription, you get to see all races live or on demand immediately, all practices, all team/driver cam and communications, as well as all support races throughout the weekend.
Reporting back on this service after watching some of the free practice sessions: this is awesome. You get the usual “world feed” commentators you would get on Sky (Crofty, Martin Brundle, Karun, etc.), plus you get to switch between this and 1) “pit lane” commentators, 2) live timing data feed streaming from the cars, 3) your choice of driver onboard camera and radio comm. Also, the feed seems to be a bit sharper than the Hulu broadcast ever was on a 4K 77” display. Highly recommended!
Can somebody explain exactly how/where they can see F1 on Hulu? I signed up with the Disney plus bundle thing, which includes Hulu and ESPN+. I found some bad info on the web that claimed F1 is offered thru ESPN+, but... nope. I then saw that Hulu offers it, but when trying to find it I just end up being sent in circles (asking for my TV provider, my account, etc) which is incredibly frustrating. It's annoying that these streaming services promise one thing, but then deliver BS, but welcome to the modern world of being oversold... but I digress. Anyway, I'll likely sign up with F1 TV and let my pointless Hulu crap expire... but now I'm hearing some here say that you can see it?
Have you done a search for “Formula 1”? It should be in there if you have the right ESPN package (I don’t remember the name since it’s been 3+ years). I had to pay extra for it, something like $6/mo. Regardless, I highly suggest getting F1 TV. Way better experience and much better contextual F1 content that happens throughout the weekend that you could never get on Hulu.
Yes, I did search, on both ESPN+ and Hulu. The results give me links to other services, which then ask me to enter my TV provider, etc. It's just a lot of playing Hot Potato with ESPN+ pointing me to Hulu... followed by Hulu showing links back to ESPN+. I did wonder if it was an issue of not having the correct channel or level of streaming service because after I signed up, I got the usual upselling asking if I wanted to pay more for ad-free service. WTF? The whole experience with this a-holes makes me want to dump them, regardless of F1 TV. I think in order to really see F1 is if I pay for a full ESPN streaming package, and not just this bundled ESPN+ service.
Copy that; thanks. Just re-activated my old account I had with them. I had signed up that very first year when they didn't have their service fully vetted and it was a trainwreck watching anything. That was the year that they refunded a boatload of people since it was so poor. I'm sure they have their stuff figured out by now.
The streaming itself is excellent and it casts easily from my laptop. But for the love of all thats holy can we please have someone tell the (not Jolyon) commentator Yuki's last name isn't pronounced CHEWnoda? Oy.
I'm pretty happy with the F1 coverage til my internet went out last night. I can't seem to find the broadcast schedule on the site though, help. I understand its filmed in 1080 so a 4k TV doesn't make it any better?
They been filming it in 4k HDR with Grass Valley cameras for the past few years, some European SKY channels provide 4k via Skybox. Your TV will upscale the 1080 image to 4k, it should make it look a tad better. From 2019 2020
I can attest that F1TV truly sucked a couple years back. This year they finally have an AppleTV app. Streaming quality is great and you can now watch live OR start from the beginning. You used to have to start from live and wait hours for the race to be posted afterwards for you to restart it. I’ve stopped watching on ESPN via YouTubeTV and switched to the F1TV app exclusively. I like the quality better and no commercials. Plus you get the full pre and post shows that we’re often cut off on cable.
Exactly the same experience with me. F1 was the only reason I kept Hulu/ESPN. With the F1TV app, I’ve canceled both.
