Pretty steep increase to be able to watch live races. Any alternatives?
Where do you live? If I go to formula1.com the price I see is €139.99 for a year. I’m in Sweden.
Not saying anyone should visit the site but if you accidentally found yourself there…
I also got the email that the price will increase and would have to pay 94.99 eur for a yearly subscription. To be honest i have always thought the 64.99 eur was very cheap for a whole year, and i even got a discount over that and paid 51.99 eur.
Assuming you’re Dutch:
- It’s cheaper than what people without a Ziggo subscription paid in the past.
- It’s cheaper than Viaplay and Viaplay has a bad bitrate/fps.
So yeah it seems steep, but the price is now normal compared to what i paid before.
Maybe F1TV will do a discount/intro price again right before the season starts.
Depends on where you live. But considering you get 24 live races, it’s around four euros a race so less than a euro per session if you watch all the qualifying and practice. If you also watch F2 and F3 it’s even less per race.
65 was really cheap, I think them finally deciding to ask a higher price after all these years of giveaways and discounts is not that odd.
I’ll stick with it for now, but I will keep an eye on what they do in the following years. The alternative in the Netherlands is Viaplay, which is considerably more expensive but gives you a lot more sorts and tv shows. On the other hand, their F1 was so bad they just include F1TV now.
“less than a euro per season”? You meant session, right? Took me a minute. :-)
That aside, imagine if Netflix charged a euro for everything on their service that you might watch.
I don’t think the two are at all comparable. F1TV shows live content whereas Netflix is more of a library. Considering their monthly fee, how many minutes of content would you have to watch for a minute to be as expensive as a minute of F1? In the end, it all boils down to if you find it worth the money.
Essentially, F1TV could create a separate subscription for just the qualifying and races, leave out all the talking and nonsense, no supporting races et cetera. I think that would generate a lot of users that find 95 a year too steep.
