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Formula 1 2016 Season |OT2| BUT GRO PER
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Not being a very remarkable driver that has only six wins in ten years of competing, more like.
Unless you are hearing many people still discussing the accomplishments of Johnny Herbert, there is not much to your complaint that the reason you do not hear people talk about Ralf is because of Michael.
Unless you are hearing many people still discussing the accomplishments of Johnny Herbert, there is not much to your complaint that the reason you do not hear people talk about Ralf is because of Michael.
brotkasten
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That's cute. One of the worst years to do it, but still cute.
It's Christmas. No one is in the office.
Mercedes also already mentioned that they won't reveal who's taking the seat until 2017.
Or he can just get his seat at Williams back. I guess there is a chance of Hamilton leaving F1 if he doesn't secure another title in 2017. that way you'll have a BOT / VET combination at Mercedes. Seb does get along well with the Fins.
You should prepare yourself because we American sport now.
As long as we don't get American style ad breaks on the official streaming platform, I'm fine with whatever dumb shit they try.
I really hope Liberty Media introduce some sore of service similar to NFL's GamePass.
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Go right ahead, contrary to most people, I do not instantly hate all change while complaining about how the sport has been shit for years.
Like, just above here, someone complains about the possibility of a sprint race, which would be infinitely more entertaining than the snore fest that is qualifying in its current format.
F1 is stale, archaic, too expensive and it shows in the dwindling viewership numbers. It needs to be shaken up thoroughly and if it takes Liberty Media to do it, go right ahead. Better do it now than wait until Bernie is dead and there's a power vacuum.
JadedWriter
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Just let me stream a fucking race from my laptop on youtube or put it up on youtube after the race is done, this is all I'm asking for.
Button
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Let me buy a season pass for $100 that lets me stream every session and press conference in 4k and that's enough. They are already getting into social media which is very important, and the content is actually good. Any extra activities they could add to the weekend that I would like to watch are welcome, but I don't know what those could be. Expanding the events to be more than 3 days sounds bad. No way they could get people like Kimi to participate in an artificial sprint race for fun on a Wednesday.
Jezbollah
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Personally, I think the current format of F1 (and GP2 and GP3) is fine. Sure, they can do a better job with the coverage, but let's not kid ourselves - the issue is the racing (or lack of). Putting in sprint races and main races for F1 is just artificially attempting to level the playing field by shortening races. You may as well just reverse the grids with the differences between the fastest and slowest cars being large, or mandate more pitstops to force drivers to chew up their tyres..
Do a job at levelling the technical competitiveness between the participants and you will have a worthwhile product - as we have seen recently with MotoGP (and it's 9 different winners in 2016).
Do a job at levelling the technical competitiveness between the participants and you will have a worthwhile product - as we have seen recently with MotoGP (and it's 9 different winners in 2016).
That would be absolutely killer price. Heck, I would gladly pay that much for 480p feed.
But they will need to attract viewers initially, so I expect agressive pricing for their new online offerings.
They need to run a twofold strategy.
1) Provide a way to promote the sport to new audiences. Locking the sport behind PayTV is the opposite of that.
2) Provide a way to gain reliable access to streams and other goodies for existing fans who are willing to go further. There could be different tiers, e.g.
- Base plan that lets you livestream every session/press conference with the tv feed
- Advanced plan that lets you rewatch anything of the current season, plus lets you switch onboard cams and all that stuff that would otherwise be left to tv directors
- Deluxe plan that provides access, at any time, to a vast set of historic seasons/races, documentaries, etc.
Of course, this goes in opposition to all the national licensing, so I'm not sure how they could handle it. And the question of who provides commentary to the races is another issue.
1) Provide a way to promote the sport to new audiences. Locking the sport behind PayTV is the opposite of that.
2) Provide a way to gain reliable access to streams and other goodies for existing fans who are willing to go further. There could be different tiers, e.g.
- Base plan that lets you livestream every session/press conference with the tv feed
- Advanced plan that lets you rewatch anything of the current season, plus lets you switch onboard cams and all that stuff that would otherwise be left to tv directors
- Deluxe plan that provides access, at any time, to a vast set of historic seasons/races, documentaries, etc.
Of course, this goes in opposition to all the national licensing, so I'm not sure how they could handle it. And the question of who provides commentary to the races is another issue.
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I wonder what the price should be for that kind of service? I'd pay $200 to be honest. I think the MotoGP Videopass is ~$100 a year.
The commentary would be a problem though, could they get it from Sky?
Also, does Liberty Media now own the rights for old F1 footage? Imagine a streaming service with the old seasons!
I think the Channel 4 (previously BBC) commentary by Ben Edwards and David Coulthard is the "default commentary" that's available and used by quite a few stations in countries that don't produce their own commentary. That's why they comment live on races that are not live on Channel 4. I'm sure they could use that one.
I would definitely pay $200 a year for the coverage. That's $10 per race weekend.
The Sky commentary is the default commentary they use for Formula1.com and YouTube, so I would assume that that would be the feed they would use for a streaming service.
But in the end it doesn't really matter, as long as they get the better English speaking people to produce a pre- and post-show on that level, I'm good with whoever.
Normal streaming services cost anywhere between 7USD to 15USD a month, so that's what I'll expect to have to pay for something like this. Just give me something like the WWE Network, and I'm good.
But in the end it doesn't really matter, as long as they get the better English speaking people to produce a pre- and post-show on that level, I'm good with whoever.
Normal streaming services cost anywhere between 7USD to 15USD a month, so that's what I'll expect to have to pay for something like this. Just give me something like the WWE Network, and I'm good.
Fox Mulder
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Add ramps to the back cars and give out points for every time a car jumps over another one.
Think that'd be a bit much, at least initially.
The NFL GamePass is priced at 200 for a year and offers 256 regular season games, the 10 play-off games (all at ~3 hours each; live and on-demand; in up to 1080p and 60fps), the Super Bowl, the Red Zone channel on Sundays, a 24/7 NFL Network channel, an archive of Super Bowl games going back 50-60 years as well as all games of the last few years, a number of football-related TV series, including the HBO-made Hard Knocks and more.
Hard for F1 to match that right out of the gate (if ever), and I think that should be reflected in the pricing.
Start at 100 and give me live, ad-free coverage of the race weekends (F1, GP2, GP3 et al.), Sky UK commentary and 1080p/60fps quality. They can always raise the price later as they add more content and features.
Fox Mulder
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I love the Lego speed champions line. Building the Audi and Porsche le mans cars were fun.
The wrong Merc colors is a bit lazy really when it'll be like a $80 set.
The wrong Merc colors is a bit lazy really when it'll be like a $80 set.
It will be like that that normal streaming services would end somewhere on southern Austria border, who gives a damn for peasants on the south...
Adam Scott Aukerman
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As he's not racing next year, he has a much smaller window to cash in on being reigning world champion.
As if he needs the cash.
Myoclonic Jerk
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