The main reason we have Sky TV is because whatever we have has to be SWMBO friendly – ie simple to use and simple to re-set when playing up. They really do have the PVR interface sewn up in that regard, plus it’s all in one package.
We do have Prime Video, it’s worth the overall cost for the odd series that they’ve done – Bosch was a good example of that – plus the Prime postage and kindle books etc.
We also have a NowTV account, which we use for Sky Cinema access, but both of these are only watched when I’m there as SWMBO couldn’t manage ( or likely remember ) all the neccessary TV input changes or the associated remote button combinations, to cope, and that’s when it’s all working properly!! For the non-technically minded, Sky have it off pat. Throw in the need for sub-titles and it’s almost a given.
Don’t even think about streaming to the TV because there’s even times I have problems with that!!:)
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Murdoch lover, quite the opposite in fact. I worked at the back of Fleet Street through the 80’s and drank in the local pubs, so knew a lot of the workers there that lost their jobs following the dispute. To this day I won’t have a copy of the Sun, nor the News of the Screws when it was still runniong, in our house.
But simple works, and that’s where he beats the opposition.
Regarding the F1, I hope that the races don’t become spectacles. Carey has said he’d like to see 20 “Superbowls”, which I think would be a step too far. The whole thing has always been about cutting edge performance and driving to the limits and beyond. Everyday driving has become safer ( and faster ) because of what has flowed from F1 to Joe Public’s cars. As Dave says, it would be nice for the smaller teams to be able to play ( and stay playing ) against the big boys, after all, that how Lotus got to where they are today. A great deal of technology was developed for F1, and these days Formula E, that has gone to make modern motoring what it is, and leagues apart from the cars I started driving in.
On the positive side, maybe we’ll see a few more names from Stateside involved in the cars that aren’t so Euro/Japanese-centric, although when they dropped the big V8/V6 power units for super/turbo charged small units the races became “tighter” as they were all on a level BHP quota.
Exciting times ahead.
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