Ecclestone: No F1 in HD before 2012

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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84448

While Ecclestone says camera technology is now ready for his F1 production coverage to be done fully in HD, he thinks there still needs to be more fans at home able to watch it in HD, plus enough broadcasters ready to distribute it, before the move can be made. That is why he thinks it may well take until 2012 for the circumstances to be right for F1 to switch to HD coverage.
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Sigh, what a joke. Le Mans looked fabulous in HD over the weekend, and all the other sports are benefiting from the move to HD, but oh no, not F1.
 
So disappointing. This is supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsport.

I can appreciate getting HD on the cars may be technologically difficult.. but cameras skipping due to the vibrations.. sounds like complete BS. There are harsher environments where people are recording. Get some god damn dampers on the cameras in the Monaco tunnel.. done!
 
gord said:
So disappointing. This is supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsport.

I can appreciate getting HD on the cars may be technologically difficult.. but cameras skipping due to the vibrations.. sounds like complete BS. There are harsher environments where people are recording. Get some god damn dampers on the cameras in the Monaco tunnel.. done!
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Is it - Ecclestone is a ******! Vibrations would be no different from the SD cameras.
 
"I said to the broadcasters, are you going to get more viewers, will more people watch F1 because it is HD or will less people watch it because it isn't? They really need to have a check and see who has got the right televisions.
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So fundamentally its going to come down to money. And it looks as though bernie is going to be passing on the cost of HD To the people broadcasting it.

So if you want HD, you have to pay extra. And why pay extra for something that wont bring you more viewers.

When you look at it in a corporate way like that, we'll never get HD :rolleyes:
 
Jeez, they're experimenting with 3D and not bothering to push HD. What is it with Bernie, where has he got his head stuck?

Almost all sports I've seen are so much better in HD, particularly motorsports, and how many others already do it, WTCC, MotoGP and Le Mans of course.

This is ridiculous.

Andi.
 
All the Le Mans coverage was at least captured in HD so it's not technically or financially impossible.

The whole "there needs to be more takeup" argument is frankly rubbish, how many people are unable to watch the world cup in HD? Yet it's all still captured as HD and it's up to the individual broadcasters to take whichever stream they want.
 
andicole0 said:
Almost all sports I've seen are so much better in HD, particularly motorsports, and how many others already do it, WTCC, MotoGP and Le Mans of course.

This is ridiculous.

Andi.
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Indeed even porsche super cup gets broadcast in HD and thats an official f1 support race series :eek: and f1 is sponsored by LG makes no sense at all :(
 
watching the race yesterday, there is so much detail that cannot be seen because its not in HD. Especially the slo mo shots of the tyres, and when EJ, DC and JH were looking at the mclaren tyres as they were being pushed down the pitlane I couldn't see much detail
 
andicole0 said:
Almost all sports I've seen are so much better in HD, particularly motorsports, and how many others already do it, WTCC, MotoGP and Le Mans of course.
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I think one of the other points was a mix of HD and SD being visually disappointing. I watched a about an hr of Le Mans in HD and when they switch to the in car stuff it looked shocking...

i think they go a point that it all has to be consistent.

also obviously the cost if going to have to be passed on the broadcasters. all sports need to make money, if its going to cost 3-4X the filming in HD this has to be made up.

disappointing, but how many people actually have assess to HD yet. Free sat, sky and Virgin. when free air HD comes out over a good wedge the UK then it will be much more viable.
 
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Dangerous said:
Is it - Ecclestone is a ******! Vibrations would be no different from the SD cameras.
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Eh mate? I was saying the vibrations were BS..

But as the conflicting points of view from RP and Crazy highlight about the Le Mans in-car coverage.. I can see that being a technological hurdle. Getting that amount of data from the car to have decent in-car HD..

Who has a definitive answer on Le Mans coverage, was the in-car still SD?
 
crazyDAJT said:
I think one of the other points was a mix of HD and SD being visually disappointing. I watched a about an hr of Le Mans in HD and when they switch to the in car stuff it looked shocking...

i think they go a point that it all has to be consistent.

also obviously the cost if going to have to be passed on the broadcasters. all sports need to make money, if its going to cost 3-4X the filming in HD this has to be made up.

disappointing, but how many people actually have assess to HD yet. Free sat, sky and Virgin. when free air HD comes out over a good wedge the UK then it will be much more viable.
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with more people accessing freeview hd it would become less viable (as more would be getting/wanting it for free on the BBC)

I would pay for sky for F1 in hd , with footy now in hd regularly F1 would be the "event" that makes hd worth paying for - but for only a few games a season (comparatively) Sky hd isnt worth it for me just yet (what is it now nearly £500/year or something?)
 
FrankJH said:
with more people accessing freeview hd it would become less viable (as more would be getting/wanting it for free on the BBC)
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it would then become more justifiable for the BBC to spend extra money on if everybody could watch it on HD. remember the BBC isn't free...

also I think Ecclestone wants it to be on free to air telly in the UK as this will get the most views and the most sell the most tickets. if it went to sky it would be on sky sports only and it won't get shown down the pub so it will become a very inaccessible sport. Even he won't want that
 
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BBC have F1 for 5 years from 2009 so it won't go to Sky. Nothing the BBC can do anyway as it is all down to Ecclestone's company, FOM I tihnk, who provide the TV feed. BBC are ready to show it in HD, just waiting on Bernie to film it in HD.
 
This is a joke, I was watching F1 and Le Mans this weekend and the difference is huge.

Le Mans on Eurosport HD looked brilliant and super sharp.

More and more channels are becoming HD but for some reason Telsell and adverts are the first things that are HD with the interesting stuff last :mad:
 
From what I remember the Monaco support races were on Eurosport in HD using the same camera positions as the F1 coverage (so probably the same cameras)

In-car SD footage would be fine as my eyes blur at 200MPH ;)
 
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