It may be just my degenerating grey cells but ISTR that earlier in the year
if you missed the practice sessions, qualifying and race you could watch
them on iPlayer soon afterwards.

I spent some time waiting for the European Grand Prix to appear, and looking
tonight I can't get anything but a tiny overview of practice 1 and 2 of the
British GP.

Have the BBC changed the way iPlayer is scheduled or have I just been lucky
on previous occasions when I have been able to view the content when I
wanted to?

iPlayer Desktop is also being particularly un-cooperative.

I see no particular reason to prevent viewing of todays sessions on
t'Internet.

Cheers

Dave R
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Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 22:20:48 +0100, "David WE Roberts"
wrote:

It may be just my degenerating grey cells but ISTR that earlier in the year
if you missed the practice sessions, qualifying and race you could watch
them on iPlayer soon afterwards.

I spent some time waiting for the European Grand Prix to appear, and looking
tonight I can't get anything but a tiny overview of practice 1 and 2 of the
British GP.

Have the BBC changed the way iPlayer is scheduled or have I just been lucky
on previous occasions when I have been able to view the content when I
wanted to?

iPlayer Desktop is also being particularly un-cooperative.

I see no particular reason to prevent viewing of todays sessions on
t'Internet.

As far as I know the BBC has not broadcast any F1 sessions today (Friday
9th) so there is nothing to put on iPlayer yet.

But there is a general point - the pictures of the cars going round the
track are provided by the Formula One company. The company might not
permit the BBC or other broadcasters to put those pictures on the
internet.

Perhaps some one else here knows about this.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:47:07 +0100, Mike Henry
wrote:

In , Peter Duncanson
wrote:

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 22:20:48 +0100, "David WE Roberts"
wrote:

It may be just my degenerating grey cells but ISTR that earlier in the year
if you missed the practice sessions, qualifying and race you could watch
them on iPlayer soon afterwards.

I spent some time waiting for the European Grand Prix to appear, and looking
tonight I can't get anything but a tiny overview of practice 1 and 2 of the
British GP.

Have the BBC changed the way iPlayer is scheduled or have I just been lucky
on previous occasions when I have been able to view the content when I
wanted to?

iPlayer Desktop is also being particularly un-cooperative.

I see no particular reason to prevent viewing of todays sessions on
t'Internet.

As far as I know the BBC has not broadcast any F1 sessions today (Friday
9th) so there is nothing to put on iPlayer yet.

Eh? Every Friday on a race weekend there is Practice 1 (90 mins) and
Practice 2 (90 mins) - and they are both on iPlayer.

However, Practice 3 (60 mins) in the morning before qualifying is often
missing from the iPlayer. This is annoying particularly when the presenter
Jake then boasts several times that every session is always on the
iPlayer. Practice 3 is often missing.

Interesting. I was just speculating.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

On Jul 10, 8:39*pm, Mike Henry
wrote:
In , Peter Duncanson





wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:47:07 +0100, Mike Henry
wrote:

In , Peter Duncanson
wrote:

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 22:20:48 +0100, "David WE Roberts"
wrote:

It may be just my degenerating grey cells but ISTR that earlier in the year
if you missed the practice sessions, qualifying and race you could watch
them on iPlayer soon afterwards.

I spent some time waiting for the European Grand Prix to appear, and looking
tonight I can't get anything but a tiny overview of practice 1 and 2 of the
British GP.

Have the BBC changed the way iPlayer is scheduled or have I just been lucky
on previous occasions when I have been able to view the content when I
wanted to?

iPlayer Desktop is also being particularly un-cooperative.

I see no particular reason to prevent viewing of todays sessions on
t'Internet.

As far as I know the BBC has not broadcast any F1 sessions today (Friday
9th) so there is nothing to put on iPlayer yet.

Eh? Every Friday on a race weekend there is Practice 1 (90 mins) and
Practice 2 (90 mins) - and they are both on iPlayer.

However, Practice 3 (60 mins) in the morning before qualifying is often
missing from the iPlayer. This is annoying particularly when the presenter
Jake then boasts several times that every session is always on the
iPlayer. Practice 3 is often missing.

Interesting. I was just speculating.

Since they got the contract the BBC has broadcast every session live. The
3 practice sessions (2 on Friday, 1 on Saturday) are on the "red button"
channel with (often highly entertaining!) live commentary by Anthony
Davidson and David Croft. The same commentary is shared with radio 5 live
or 5 live extra depending on what else is on 5 live.

As I write this, practice 1 and 2 (both the red button and the radio only
versions) are both available on iPlayer. Practice 3 is still nowhere to be
seen :-(

Croft and Davidson would be excellent during the race too. Shame we
have to have Legard (Brundle is good value of course).

Matt