* The SKY F1 2012 Coverage Thread *

Kevin Clark · 25 Mar 2012 at 22:15

Skeeter said:
Yep.

But its already been said, its the FOM world feed. Sky have no say in when the replay is coming.

Yeah I was suggesting the FOM need to decide rather than just plonking it in regardless on lap 3.

Skeeter · 25 Mar 2012 at 22:18

Kevin Clark said:
Yeah I was suggesting the FOM need to decide rather than just plonking it in regardless on lap 3.

Ahh ok, sorry, misunderstood.

There are plenty of situations when the FOM feed director has made some questionable choices on what to show. Does anyone know if its the same guy/team each race, or do they use local directors?

timbob · 25 Mar 2012 at 22:36

Skeeter said:
Ahh ok, sorry, misunderstood.

There are plenty of situations when the FOM feed director has made some questionable choices on what to show. Does anyone know if its the same guy/team each race, or do they use local directors?

It always used to be local at least - I remember spending entire Brazilian GPs watching Massa (for example) trundle around in the midfield in his Sauber, just because that's who the director wanted to focus on...

Skeeter · 25 Mar 2012 at 22:44

Yeah thats what I remember. I can't remember it being that bad recently though so I don't know if they changed it.

[TW]Taggart · 3 Apr 2012 at 08:30

all the tv coverage is now done by FOM peeps and its the same people at each race.

~Mike~ · 3 Apr 2012 at 20:40

FOM have been producing the world feed since 2007 iirc rather than the terrible 'host broadcaster' coverage we used to get.

Skeeter · 3 Apr 2012 at 21:10

That explains why the national driver focused coverage seems to have stopped, which is good.

Weebull · 3 Apr 2012 at 21:17

Ahh, the "good" old days of ridiculous slow mos of any German driver at Hockenheim.

3dcandy · 3 Apr 2012 at 22:19

twas excellent back in the day of schumacher x 3 (ralf was a bit fat tbh) slightly fast nicholas and whoever random german filled the grid. more time spent on slowwwwwwmooooossss than the race.

3dcandy · 3 Apr 2012 at 22:30

but on a serious note, I did like that zipwire camera thing they had going...

Skeeter · 3 Apr 2012 at 23:03

The one from the hairpin? Yeah it was great. The camera they had over luffield at Silverstone was great too.

dannyjo22 · 4 Apr 2012 at 09:54

Sitting waiting for the sky installer, looking forward to china already. I had sky go for the Xbox but my Internet connection went down so couldn't watch it anyway.

As much as I prefer the bbc crew I can't be doing with this highlights rubbish and trying to dodge the result. I can use sky go at work to watch the races as well.

Skeeter · 4 Apr 2012 at 09:56

What package did you get?

gord · 4 Apr 2012 at 10:12

Flibster said:
Errr, thats the world feed they are using. It's FOM thats replaying the start. The same as the BBC used and it happened then too.

Doh! I'm sure it wasn't like this last year though. Maybe we've just had fairly interesting starts for more laps..

dannyjo22 · 4 Apr 2012 at 11:01

Skeeter said:
What package did you get?

HD with entertainment and entertainment plus. £17.62 a month for the first year! Even if we hate it or decide we don't like sky enough to carry on at the full price the recorder and equipment would have cost us that. I think that's just over £200 for the year.

I will most likely get hooked though, especially with uk gold

Skeeter · 4 Apr 2012 at 11:37

Same package as me. Plenty of motorsport

dannyjo22 · 4 Apr 2012 at 11:46

Just set loads to record

250gb box though, doesn't sound like a lot? How many hours recording is that, can't remember what my humax pvr is.

Skeeter · 4 Apr 2012 at 11:51

It varies wildly depending on if its HD or SD, and the HD quality varies too.

The official figure is up to 60 hours of HD. A full race program (so around 4 hours) of F1 took up about 10% on mine.

dannyjo22 · 4 Apr 2012 at 13:32

Ah that's better than I thought, most of the stuff my mrs records can be sd anyway.

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