[PatrickBateman]

Are the streams any decent quality?

I dont use Sky so will miss seeing it in HD when I catch a race...

Absolutely, Some are of the foreign stations are in HD and are free to air transmissions both on Astra and in their respective territories. Therefore kinda, sorta, not really a breach of rules. If you have a dish and point it toward Astra you get the same channels (which Im sure is legal) so streaming those same free to air channels should be kinda ok or at least a grey area...

We can just 5 live over the top of them and were good to go.

The wiki link I posted has about 20 channels providing f1 coverage, if we collect streams for them all, pop them in an XML sorted into F1, everyone can use it and if one goes down, there will be plenty other feeds/channels to choose from

As F1 give everyone the same feed (FOM world feed) it doesn't matter what channel you watch it on, only what you hear. Sky get the same feed as all the rest of the world... It's 1 feed that Bernie produces and then sells access to tht feed to multiple Terretories. They all get the same thing!

However some providers still have access until 2015 (like RTL I think) so we can technically pick it up from these locations instead of sky.

I can't get virgin (not in my area) I can't get sky (due to location/listing of apartment) and other than that there is NO other way for me to get it legally? So I'm either buying a dish for £25 and pointing it at the Astra satellite, or stream from these free view stations in other European territories.