F1 TV - Question?

[waddo]

First, is anyone in the TRNC watching F1 TV yet?

Second, To watch F1 TV I have to state where I will be watching it - so where am I on the great Internet in the World????? Am I in Cyprus or in Turkey - I guess this depends on who supplies my Internet services - for me it is Multimax.

If I say I am in Cyprus then I can only watch F1 TV Access but if I say I am in Turkey I can get the full F1 TV package and stop using NTV and it's stuttering services.

Anyone out there with answers please post.

[Navek]

Hi waddo,
No.

FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2018
Monte Carlo - Thu 24 May – Sun 27 May 2018
https://www.formula1.com/en/championshi ... onaco.html

But I did find this on their website...

F1 Contacts - https://www.formula1.com/en/toolbar/contacts.html

In the first instance please consult the App section on our FAQ page. For customer service enquiries, please email as relevant to the platform you are querying:

For GENERAL queries related to F1 TV, please email your subscription details to general@en.Formula1.com
For BILLING queries related to F1 TV, please email your subscription details to Billing@en.Formula1.com
For TECHNICAL queries related to F1 TV, please email your subscription details to technical@en.Formula1.com

In addition, if you would like to call please use one of the numbers below. (We will be adding numbers for additional countries shortly so please bear with us while we get this in place).

Australia +61 1800 861 717
Austria +43 720 884770
Brazil +55 11 4200 6111
Canada +1 (450) 987-2229
Cyprus +357 22 007753
Czechia +420 910 880 035
El Salvador +503 2113 1966
Estonia +372 880 1444
France +33 9 74 59 44 55
Ireland +353 76 888 8866
Indonesia +62 855 7467 8911
Israel +972 76 599 1123
Japan +81-50-3161-2671
Lithuania +370 5 214 29 29
Malta +356 2778 1858
Bahrain +973 6500 9777
Belgium +32 5058 0789
Denmark +45 7089 9949
Germany +49 899 439 7605
Hong Kong +852 3050 0333
Hungary +36 212 111 464
Italy +39 030 658 6720
Malaysia +60 1548 710 133
Mexico +52 557 1001 011
New Zealand +64 9973 0011
Romania +40 373 785 222
South Africa +27 510 111 022
Spain +34 932 206 606
Peru +51 1 7050 112
Poland +48 91 887 18 88
United Kingdom +44 115 697 1515
USA +1 (833) 956-8100

Hope this is of some help to you or anyone else needing contact info

[waddo]

Thanks. I have already contacted all of the email addresses listed and sent them each an identical email detailing where I live (In the TRNC, on the Island of Cyprus with a postal address of Turkey and bank account/credit cards registered in a UK address) and asked them to confirm that my account and payments remain valid, I have been an F1.com member for many years already! I explained the problem vis a vis Cyprus/ROC/TRNC without comments but just as fact. I asked that if my Internet services originated in Turkey should I use Turkey as my country of residence and could then receive F1 TV Pro. I explained that I do not receive my Internet services from the RoC so I could not really use Cyprus as my country of residence and that in any case Cyprus customers can not as yet get F1 TV Pro and are limited to F1 TV Access. I received a short reply from them this morning - We can not help you at this time! I will write again but require confirmation that my Internet service comes from Turkey before I start to shout at them - lol.

[erol]

I will write again but require confirmation that my Internet service comes from Turkey before I start to shout at them - lol.

There is no simple answer to this unfortunately waddo. There simply is no definitive means or system for connecting a given internet IP address to a given location or country. What there are are lots of different ways that different companies try and derive such information using a variety of different means. There are around 5 or 6 major companies who sell the 'product' of tying a given IP to a given location and country but these can and do often give conflicting result. In addition as well as 'what country is a given IP in' there is the question 'how is internet traffic from a given IP routed'. This is more 'definitive' than 'where is a given IP from geographically' but not the same thing. Your MM connection is routed to the rest of the world via Turkey (as your mail is). The following website may be of use. https://www.iplocation.net/ It will show where each of the major 'geolocation' companies think a given IP address is located geographically and when you click on the link it will give by default the results for the IP address you are currently presenting to the internet (you can try using a VPN and see how that changes the results if you like)..

[waddo]

Understood, many thanks. I will wait for Liberty to sort out their problems and just leave well enough alone for this season.

[rigsby]

But Waddo, Monaco is not worth watching as its a procession anyway.What about channell4? they will be live for this one I think.

[waddo]

But rigsby, for exactly the same reason I never bother to watch football, parliamentary discussions, soap operas and even Royal weddings, most of which are also processional and all of which are entirely predictable so what would be the point? However, the vast changes in rules and equipment that have beset F1 races over the past three years have almost ensured that no single race can remain predictable nor processional unless the safety car is deployed at the start and remains there till the end of the race - even then you have drivers such as Vettel who must have learnt his braking skills in Cyprus always likely to liven up the procession by either trying to gain advantage by driving over the car in front or by coming alongside and knocking it out of the way. There is much more to F1 than just the race itself, FP1, FP2, FP3 and the unmissable Qualifications can prove far more interesting and exciting than the actual race and that is leaving out the technical side of the entire event! Channel 4 are indeed broadcasting 9 live races this year, from Friday through Sunday for each one. But next year is a different matter all together, once F1 TV Pro is available worldwide it is quite possible that only "Liberty" will be broadcasting live races across the Internet. Better to stay ahead of the game if the game is your passion, as it is mine.