BBC sells us race fans up the river again

Ngads · Sep 19, 2012

idk what everyone is complaining about if they live outside the us. First of all, here in the states ur stuck with speedvision, which is god awful, AND you have to wait until 5 or 6pm on sunday (at least in my time zone) to watch the race with no pre-race commentary and with commercials every 4 laps or so.

I bit the bullet a few years ago and paid on motogp.com and have never looked back. That being said, i do see the 100 euros on my ...... bill..which is like 125 dollars here.

or if ur really that cheap, u can torrent the race a few days later, but you have to live under a rock for the few days leading up to that posted torrent.

cliche guevara · Sep 19, 2012

well the torrents are up usually a couple of hours after the race.

its my sunday evening ritual to watch the race again in glorious HD with some herb before going to sleep

Pigeon · Oct 2, 2012

Motogp Quali MOTO2/3 races are on the red button Sky / freesat / cable have all ways had more streams than freeviews one streams.. NO MORE

BBC RED BUTTON Shake up MotoGP Sky / Freesat / Cable ? Freeview has missed out on motogp coverage many times being limited to 1 stream

On 15th October the video component of BBC Red Button on Sky, FreeSat and Virgin Media will be reduced from five to one stream,

bringing it in line with our Freeview offer. We are doing this because these services rely entirely on linear broadcast technologies, which are not cost-effective for an interactive service like the red button. At the end of this post, I've summarised the background to the decision and provided links to relevant documents which expand on the reasoning behind reducing the number of video streams.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/10/red_button_changes.html

lil red rocket pilot · Oct 2, 2012

Reduction in service again!!

Wonder when the license fee is going to get reduced to match.

Oh no wait! I've just got my bill for the next year!

And yeah it's gone up again!

Fcuking ......s!

Zootalaws · Oct 2, 2012

Ngads said:
idk what everyone is complaining about if they live outside the us. First of all, here in the states ur stuck with speedvision, which is god awful, AND you have to wait until 5 or 6pm on sunday (at least in my time zone) to watch the race with no pre-race commentary and with commercials every 4 laps or so.

I bit the bullet a few years ago and paid on motogp.com and have never looked back. That being said, i do see the 100 euros on my ...... bill..which is like 125 dollars here.

I agree. I travel so much I have had motogp.com for three years now. Can never be sure to see a race and at least I can keep away from the news and use the 'no spoiler' video feed to watch the race in it's entirety at whatever time I want - bucket of beer and some bar snacks sent to the room is the strategy I recommend

Zootalaws · Oct 2, 2012

If anyone wants it, I am happy to share my motogp account - I won't be needing it for the rest of the season as I have no more travel from just before Motegi and I have Sky at home. PM me.

Mick D · Oct 4, 2012

Zootalaws said:
If anyone wants it, I am happy to share my motogp account - I won't be needing it for the rest of the season as I have no more travel from just before Motegi and I have Sky at home. PM me.

Careful, Uncle Carmello may be watching....

Lyria · Oct 4, 2012

lil red rocket pilot said:
Reduction in service again!!

Wonder when the license fee is going to get reduced to match.

Oh no wait! I've just got my bill for the next year!

And yeah it's gone up again!

Fcuking ......s!

I'm view via freeview so apparently it won't change for me anyway. As for the license fee, my mum turned 75 this year so for our house it's free

The quality of programmes has gone down as the price has gone up, we watch very little on the BBC now I have to admit. Saying that, we watch a lot less of all the channels, you're supposed to get more choice but most of it's rubbish anyway.

skaface · Oct 4, 2012

no mention of MotoGP in the red button reshuffle, so more chance of some races not being shown live if it clashes with something more important than motorcycle racing.

Do sheeple still pay the unique and exorbitant licence fee? I haven't paid their rip off demands for decades and refuse to do so. Every time they said a salesman around, that's what they are in true essence, I neither answer their questions or enter into conversation. Their letters always get filed in the dustbin, unopened.

As normal, us bike fans always get the thin end of the wedge, it's such an insignificant sport with a reported 2 million fans attending meetings throughout the year. How many sporting events, like Brno, attract 140,000 on any given day? Answers on a postage stamp

Goatboy · Oct 4, 2012

It could coincide withe the BBC deal for Moto GP expiring, I think that is next year. There is a strong anti-sport feeling at the BBC now.

As long as you can still subscribe to motogp.com in the UK, they can do what the .... they like.

junxs · Oct 27, 2012

At the start of the season bbc were advertising all races Will be shown in HD. Yet today it was shown in sd while the hd channel was looping its general preview crap all night.

Annoying gits if they can't respect the sport at least let eurosport show it live in HD.

Andy Roo · Oct 28, 2012

Goatboy said:
It could coincide withe the BBC deal for Moto GP expiring, I think that is next year. There is a strong anti-sport feeling at the BBC now.

As long as you can still subscribe to motogp.com in the UK, they can do what the .... they like.

They realised how much the Olympics cost. And sharted.

barbedwirebiker · Oct 28, 2012

Dorna need to make Active viewing possible. They have some of the best cameras around, imagine being able to choose the camera and audio that you want, when you want. even having multiple views at once.

You get it with most other sports, when are we going to catch up.

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