Formula 1 Qualifying F1

D Walker

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conaero said:
So, watching F1 live, what are my options?

I feel it’s going to be a great season this year.

I know it’s only on Sky and don’t really want to go through the subscription pain of having all that installed.

I had the Sky app on my phone which was good but can’t get it up on the telly and a bit much to watch a whole race on.
Is there an app I can put on my FireTV?
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Buy an old sky box, find a mate who has sky, get him to “add a room” get a card, pop it in...share the costs..
We have 5 on ours I think.
 
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conaero said:
So, watching F1 live, what are my options?

I feel it’s going to be a great season this year.

I know it’s only on Sky and don’t really want to go through the subscription pain of having all that installed.

I had the Sky app on my phone which was good but can’t get it up on the telly and a bit much to watch a whole race on.
Is there an app I can put on my FireTV?
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Kino.pub

Circa £8 for 6 months and includes a lot more than Sky F1

It is in Russian but you can figure your way around quite easily. English language track is available on the majority of the stuff on there
 
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conaero

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D Walker said:
Buy an old sky box, find a mate who has sky, get him to “add a room” get a card, pop it in...share the costs..
We have 5 on ours I think.
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I have the old Sky+ box in the garage that still works. Surely they can work it out from some sort of geo location?
 
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conaero said:
I have the old Sky+ box in the garage that still works. Surely they can work it out from some sort of geo location?
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Do you have to plug it into the internet?

There was something in the news about Netflix clamping down on one account across multiple houses, didn’t really pay much attention to how they were doing it.
 
Andyk

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conaero said:
So, watching F1 live, what are my options?

I feel it’s going to be a great season this year.

I know it’s only on Sky and don’t really want to go through the subscription pain of having all that installed.

I had the Sky app on my phone which was good but can’t get it up on the telly and a bit much to watch a whole race on.
Is there an app I can put on my FireTV?
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I would ring SKY Matt as they are always willing to do a deal.
 
CatmanV2

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Oneball said:
Do you have to plug it into the internet?

There was something in the news about Netflix clamping down on one account across multiple houses, didn’t really pay much attention to how they were doing it.
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Trivial. They can see the IP address the log on is coming from. Different IP means (except under very unlikely for a home user circumstances) different location.

No idea if a Netflix account is portable (i.e. the account holder can use it anywhere, for example, when travelling), but then you use a Geo-IP location service and apply the Superman test ;)


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conaero

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Netflix is portable. We are constantly putting a call through to a student house in Bristol to ‘get off’
 
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CatmanV2 said:
No idea if a Netflix account is portable (i.e. the account holder can use it anywhere, for example, when travelling), but then you use a Geo-IP location service and apply the Superman test ;)


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Sounds like you know the solution! Unfortunately unsure what Geo-Ip and Superman have to do with it. Any examples you can give would be great.
 
CatmanV2

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rossyl said:
Sounds like you know the solution! Unfortunately unsure what Geo-Ip and Superman have to do with it. Any examples you can give would be great.
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Geo-IP Location is where mostly the IP address (the actual set of numbers that your computer uses to talk to the internet) can be linked to a geographical area.
So for example if you log into Google while working at an Experian office in Nottingham, Google will assume you're in Nottingham. It does this because it knows the IP address is registered to Experian. It also knows that Experian HO is in Nottingham.

If you want to know where the internet thinks you are:

Because I am on a Virgin IP, and Virgin's network is mostly in London, that's where it says I am.
Very useful tech if, for example, you want to block people from Russia from shopping on your site (as an example. Very high levels of fraud from Russia when I was in e-Commerce)

Superman comes into it. I'm sitting at home and log into Netflix. Netflix checks my IP and gets the answer I'm in London. No worries.
If someone then logs in with my user and password in Bristol, you just ask if it's possible for anyone other than Superman to have got from London to Bristol between the two log in sessions. If it's not, then it's probably a shared username and password and someone's being 'cheeky'

It's not perfect as it's not that accurate in country. Out of country you can use a VPN to log in to system local to your desired target. For example wanting to watch BBC content while abroad. Log into a UK based VPN and the internet will think you're in England.

By the same token, you can break it by sitting at home in Harlow and logging into Experian's VPN, and now the Internet thinks you're in Nottingham, and fail the Superman test.

So it's not perfect. You can layer other things on as well like what device are you using, what version of the OS, browser etc etc. These will improve the results but it'll never be 100%

Make sense?

C

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I get that too, when log in to my Talk Talk account it thinks I'm down Southampton
I just leave it, except for the weather forecast's

Dave
 
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Anyone watch it last night....Drive To Survive.....Bloody brilliant.....We did three episodes in one hit enjoyed it so much.....Continuity error on he second episode though. Christian Horner left his house and jumped in his lovely Aston Martin DBS Superleggera and drove off. Then they showed the car head in driving down the road....but is was a V12 Vantage in the same colour.... Jumped to inside the car again and he was in the DBS.
 
conaero

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Excellent, I really enjoyed the last series, I’ll be on that today. How many episodes available in the new series, one?
 
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