There are tobacco sponsors? I thought that stopped decades ago?
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Well, there are vapes sponsors now (considered as tobacco in French law) and there's the issue of past seasons replays with tobacco sponsors.
Sounds like a problem with the French government. If the French government never passed the law. Where be no problem. Still sucks.
Ads for tobacco have been outlawed for decades (I remember tobacco sponsors being blurred on broadcasts in the early 2000s), but somehow F1TV did not have to comply until now.
Canal+ probably snitched
I do enjoy watching F1, but everything around it just sucks.
Well I guess I can say welcome to WEC now lmao.
FOM are pathological at this point.
How does this work? Why is it allowed for live sessions but not for replays? And I am guessing it's due to vaping sponsorships, since tobacco sponsorship isn't allowed in F1 in the first place?
These laws have been a thing for decades now, and now just in France. it's really weird.
My guess is that F1TV don't want to bother with blurring every tobacco and vape sponsors in live session and every replays like Canal+ does.
Canal+ uses the the international feed though, live or replays. Tobacco ads are only blurred for highlights.
I guess it will be something like that, but you'd assume it's 1) less of an issue to blur a replay compared to a live session and 2) if you've already blurred it live, you don't have to do it anymore for the replay.
Either way, shitty that they just cut their offering. Sorry for the Frenchies.
Your assumptions are valid, but I think it does not make sense to put the resources do this only for a single market and not globally.
So you're suggesting they degrade F1 TV for the entire planet?!
No, not at all, just that it wouldn't make sense financially to put the resources to create a broadcast (and replays) exclusive to France, so they chose to not provide replays instead.
Great, now F1TV has become completely useless to me, as I rarely watch Grand Prix sessions live...
The alternatives are either:
- trying to subscribe to and watch F1TV from abroad using a VPN (though I understand there has been a recent crackdown)
- subscribe to Canal+, which costs 30β¬ a month
- sail the seven seas?
- give up F1 and watch WEC?
I actually drove to another country to subscribe to f1tv because it's not available in Germany and subscribing with a VPN doesn't work anymore.
Uh I mean, I heard that somebody did that
Use a VPN and set your login to the States, welcome brother! Collect your NASCAR shirt and shotgun when ya enter! Ironically I had to use a VPN when I was living in France to use mine (US account though).
Tubi or Roku here in the States has free replays too I think. Maybe has same option for you in Fr?
Don't forget your complimentary burger and/or hot dog at the door.
We Germans had this a few years ago. Sky Ticket was more expensive than Sky Q and offered less. I went with an IPTV Sky Box in year 2, because Sky Ticket was cheaper in the first year. The IPTV Box does kinda suck though. I get Free TV in HD for free but no ability to record and no 4K and HDR option, though it even got announced a while back.
To be fair, Sky has some exclusive series or at least exclusive for a year or so, so its not a total waste. And you still get ads (I don't speak about the sponsors on track). At least not during a race but right after the race during the inlap.
High seas my brother! Arrggggg!