Pretty steep increase to be able to watch live races. Any alternatives?
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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.