J i m Wrote:
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> Maybe, but if they are then alienating part of the
> market. They're assuming that people with no
> interest in sports or tv in general will sign up
> to either sky hd or sky sports simply to watch f1
> and hence pay to have something which they're not
> going to use. It's a bit like Ford instructing all
> their dealers not to sell any cars for a couple of
> years in the hope people will get bored of waiting
> and buy a transit instead. That'd never happen
> because unless you're a tradesman who on earth
> would want/need/use one?
>
> Many people have said that if they offered an F1
> only deal at a reasonable price they'd probably
> subscribe to it. Delaying that by a couple of
> years will not persuade us to sign up to a full
> package it'll simply push us towards the dodgy net
> streams.
Well people with no interests in sport or TV will probably be happy to watch highlights on BBC anyway, or not watch anything at all, they're not really part of the target market.
Once Sky presumably start to shut down net streams, and people realise how unreliable they can be, I'm sure that this will tip some people over the edge into signing up for a full subscription.
I don't know the maths because I have no idea about Sky's pricing, but it would probably take several people going for a F1-only deal to get the same profit as if someone paid for a full subscription. So they obviously want to maximise the full subscriptions, and I think they'll try and limit the options to watch F1 so they can get as many people into this as they can. I'm sure they'll offer some sort of F1-specific deal at some point - maybe even later this season - to capitalise on those who don't like having to watch it online.
X (@ed24f1)