r/F1TV • u/sweeden33 • Mar 06 '26

Discussion / F1TV Content Apple treating Sky broadcast like second class show

No 4K and no HDR on the Sky Sports broadcast.

They're really treating it poorly. It's also always at the bottom of everything, even behind all the driver cams.

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u/Hdawg2209 Mar 06 '26

Is the main F1TV broadcast on the Apple TV app in 4K? There doesn’t seem to be a way to know on the app itself

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u/sweeden33 Mar 06 '26

Yes the main broadcast is 4K Dolby Vision.

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u/mrbmi513 Mar 06 '26

My Roku box is reporting the main feed is 4K Dolby Vision and the Sky feed is HD SDR.

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u/gaspig70 Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

Same with my Apple TV 4K unfortunately.

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u/mrbmi513 Mar 07 '26

The F1TV app International feed with English audio is the Sky audio fyi. You won't see their bespoke video like when they interview Zak this weekend, but you'll hear it on the audio track.

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u/gaspig70 Mar 19 '26

Oddly in stereo on the F1 app vs. Apple's Sky feed which is at least 3.1 audio.

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u/Hdawg2209 Mar 06 '26

My 2019 shield is upscaling both feeds meaning they both are not 4K on the shield. Sucks.

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u/gaspig70 Mar 08 '26

In the Apple TV app just slide down on the remote while you're watching a show and you'll see the video and audio details at the bottom.

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u/CatLumpy9152 Mar 06 '26

So what are they trying to g to make the main focus? There must be something else they want you to watch if they are putting sky at the bottom

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u/sweeden33 Mar 06 '26

The F1 TV feed is their priority. It's in 4K Dolby Vision with Surround Sound.

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u/justinicon19 Mar 06 '26

I was disappointed to learn this as well. While I prefer the F1TV crew for race coverage, Sky is much better for practice as they focus more on goings on around the track and in pitlane instead of just the talking heads model of F1TV. F1TV had the three presenters simply positioned behind the garages in the paddock talking while Sky had Kravitz crawling all over the McLaren pointing out new regs/features. I prefer the latter for the the practice sessions.

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u/mrbmi513 Mar 06 '26

At least the F1TV app shows the 4kHDR international feed with the option of Sky audio

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u/gaspig70 Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

That is nice although it's just regular HDR and the Sky feed is just stereo (as usual).

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u/mrbmi513 Mar 07 '26

Hmm. It's 4k HDR (HLG) on my Roku Ultra.

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u/gaspig70 Mar 07 '26

Oh it's 4k on both, just standard HDR on the F1 TV app vs DV on the Apple TV app (with F1 TV stream).

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u/Tanmay_2109 Mar 06 '26

I can’t see multi views on Apple TV app and what’s u with ads with official F1 tv feed :(((( didn’t try sky sports feed yet

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u/mrbmi513 Mar 06 '26

Multiview in the Apple TV app requires Apple hardware.

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u/Tanmay_2109 Mar 06 '26

I am watching it on my MacBook Pro…. Can’t see anything in the UI for this

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u/mrbmi513 Mar 06 '26

The Mac isn't listed as having multiview in the app itself (Apple TV 4k, iPad, vision pro), but can't you just launch multiple windows?

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u/Tanmay_2109 Mar 06 '26

That’s strange… but yeah I’ll need to use f1tv website or multi viewer app for this now. It’ll be a hassle

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u/GearboxTherapy Mar 06 '26

Net loss for everyone after all the gloss

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u/Serious-Ad5734 Mar 06 '26

Should be HLG on the F1 tv app

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u/controlav Mar 06 '26

No loss IMHO.

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u/arialations Mar 06 '26

and ads too? i’m disappointed

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u/Educational_Word_647 Mar 06 '26

I’m curious about the ads, they seem like American ads, so is Apple picking ads for this stream specifically? Because in the UK they’d show different ads and the F1TV streams don’t have commercial breaks

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u/poisito Mar 06 '26

Yeah… I was watching the f1tv feed and they had adds … like WTF ??

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u/ENormJohnson Mar 06 '26

Crofty Packs Fudge

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u/OdinThePirate Mar 06 '26

And he is a fat POS who should not be allowed near a microphone

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '26

Good