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Well, Buxton and Hinchliff to Indy Car may be a start to improving coverage. Who would you like as replacements?
Who said Hinch was leaving he has been calling Indycar races for a long time. Go watch the latest episode of Off Track he clearly states there is no exclusive with his Fox contract..... This weekend he is racing in the 24 of Daytona and calling the race on NBC so.....
Guys question, am i the only one who sees inconsistency in the MCLaren cars in a race from different cameras? One of my hobbies is tv calibration and all my TV's are perfectly calibrated with instrument's and many hours to achieve that but during the race, half the cameras, mainly the ones in some turns, show the McLaren's as bright orange which is wrong. To me it show's that they don't do a very good job in this.
Am i the only one who see this? It's pretty annoying really because the color is changing camera by camera as the car is followed during a lap.
So .. F1TV has introduced Premium and already regular F1TV Pro got downgraded. Onboards getting the dark-filter threatment.
Litteraly just swithed from VER onboard to general broadcast where they also showed his onboard. Difference in quality is night and day. Same for any other drivers onboard camera. Ffs.
It looks like F1 TV took away all of the old Jolyon Palmer Analysis episodes going back to 2017. I liked going back to see analysis videos from years back and now it is just 2024 and 2023.
They are probably all available on premium. Thanks guys.
Anyone who has a problem with Jolyon Palmer is going to have a problem with anyone. He is not a wind bag. He is as even keeled as they come.
Commentary on F1 is awful and has been since they gave the job to David Croft. He just isn’t a motorsport man at all- he’s your modern day broadcaster who they attach to whatever they can. He has no true knowledge of the sport like Murray Walker or James Allen. He’s is to F1 what Sam Matterface is to ITV football. If anything he should just be a show host - not a commentator.
Anyway- the broadcast itself.
It’s taken me a while to cotton on but now I cannot unsee it- the entire broadcast is simply aimed to zooming in to the perfect level so as to simply increase sponsor/brand visibility, at the expense of the actual action and sense of speed.
We have to have a serious think about it- sometimes watching it makes it feel like slow motion- yet these are some of the fastest cars we have ever seen.
Whether or not we also need to consider positioning of microphones to boost sound quality is another thing- I’m no Audio expert but anything that can help would be big. The cars are quite loud at a ground level trackside but doesn’t convey to television at all like the V10 did.
The Melbourne coverage was awful. The cameras followed P1 and P2 most of the time. Antonelli might as well have been invisible even though he had an interesting race (judging by his improvement in position during the race).
Video was awful again, with only portions of the car(s) being visible because of the close up shots. No celebration of the speed of these cars at all. I was cringing with all the close up face shots of people; I don't need to see if Horner has recently cleaned his ears and I certainly don't need to see unknown 'celebrities' pores. It got to the point I was closing my eyes when the camera focused on a person and counting to ten; sometimes they were still in the shot when I opened them - meanwhile there were cars circulating......
The live timing shat itself yet again, this is unacceptable. And the shaking cameras widened and aimed at the onboard sponsors...the americans truly ruin everything they touch.
