Something thats been annoying me since Monaco is that Sky have now taken to cutting away from FOM's OnBoard-Mix to ensure british drivers are on all there OnBoard feeds.
If they want to have the 2nd OnBoard feed for British drivers fine but the 1st should always be the FOM OnBoard-Mix & nothing but the FOM-Mix.
They didn't even have the OnBoard-Mix avaliable at all during the race at Monaco. 2 feeds were exclusively Hamilton & Button & the 3rd was mostly Webber/Vettel.
Having a few OnBoard feeds is nice but Sky's decisions in who they show on them is hopeless which makes them useless unless you want to do nothing but watch Hamilton/Button/Di Resta.
Sky's insistence on using their own cameras at every and any opportunity regardless of track activity is really getting on my nerves TBH. I've ended up watching a stream of another channel just so I can stick with the world feed. For instance, when the Senna/Vettel incident in FP1 was first shown on the world feed, Sky were busy showing Rosberg's front wing and it wasn't until after the investigation was confirmed a while later that Sky bothered to replay it. PiP is definitely needed now more than ever (and interviews do not need to be shown on-screen, audio only will suffice).
Even on returning from an ad 10 minutes from the end of FP2 they decided to show a sped up shot of the river rather than cut straight back to Button's flying lap on the world feed. In fact most of FP2 on Sky was spent watching Button watch the TV in his garage which added nothing. Having said all that, Ted was on top form again today with some great technical analysis.
Something thats been annoying me since Monaco is that Sky have now taken to cutting away from FOM's OnBoard-Mix to ensure british drivers are on all there OnBoard feeds.
I have noticed this too, most of Monaco was Button, Hamilton and Di Resta exclusively as you say. Rather annoying when there was good battles throughout the field left unseen.
Something thats been annoying me since Monaco is that Sky have now taken to cutting away from FOM's OnBoard-Mix to ensure british drivers are on all there OnBoard feeds.
Sky's insistence on using their own cameras at every and any opportunity regardless of track activity is really getting on my nerves TBH.
And this, which is even more annoying. They cut away for so long and completely miss some things on the world feed, usually just so we can look at the mechanics for an overly long period of time! :mad:
As soon as they leave the world feed now I (somewhat ironically) switch over to the FOM pits channel, as that at least has the world feed all the time PiP.
Sky need to get over themselves on this front and just limit their own footage to showing quick things that Ted points out, then cutting back to the WF. IMO, we don't need to see interviews in picture or look at members of the Sky team while they're talking to us.
Bit of a bad couple of days for sport on the iPlayer. No cricket yesterday, we got Asian Network instead (I know there *was* no cricket, but I like to hear the chat that does get broadcast); and now no FP1 today.
Just catching up on P1 on Sky, In one of Teds in-vision bits away from the World Feed they showed a rather larger onboard camera on the Red Bull car, It seemed to have a bit that maybe could rotate? Was hard to tell. Curious though!
Here's hoping for an actual decent race this weekend.. Monaco sure was disappointing for me!
Ted did mention that there has been talk of FOM looking into rotating cameras
Aye just got to that part of P1, Ted thought it was either a 3D or rotating one, He said he thinks it's just a Red Bull one for their benefit however. Shame
Interesting thing I noticed when Kovalainen crashed, the camera on the wall he impacted is on a pan/tilt remote control mount, But the operator for it was literally under a tarp beside it, you could see the monitor.
I'd have expected the controls for it to be at the media center, Might as well have the guy operate it himself manually he's that close.
Bit of a bad couple of days for sport on the iPlayer. No cricket yesterday, we got Asian Network instead (I know there *was* no cricket, but I like to hear the chat that does get broadcast); and now no FP1 today.
You won't get FP1 - it wasn't broadcast, only streamed online - I believe that means it can't go on iPlayer. (Blame the BBC Trust for the rules.)
The Ledge is back this weekend! R5L - will attempt to sync the radio to the live Sky pictures. Any ideas on the best way to do it because last time I tried (in 2007 when Murray Walker was commentating on R5L) it was out of sync. Ta
The Ledge is back this weekend! R5L - will attempt to sync the radio to the live Sky pictures. Any ideas on the best way to do it because last time I tried (in 2007 when Murray Walker was commentating on R5L) it was out of sync. Ta
Not sure what to suggest unless you have two Sky boxes/PVRs and you could pause the radio briefly to match Sky when the red lights go out. Thats assuming the TV is behind the radio by a few seconds, which I guess it would be.
If the radio is behind the TV it'll be easier as you'll just have to pause Sky briefly to have the radio catch up.
EDIT: Actually on thinking about it, If the radio is infront of the TV you could listen to the radio through the internet, which should be delayed enough for you to pause Sky.
It wasn't even streamed online. It wasn't actually available to anyone in the UK
Not quite true but I get your point and now remember reading the comments yesterday. 'Technical problems' if in Montrel could mean the ISDN not working- though I'd hope they'd have some sort of IP backup.
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He witnessed it with his own eyes from the pit lane as the car entered turn one, not from the tv world feed. . .
Hmm, okay, fair enough.
If they want to have the 2nd OnBoard feed for British drivers fine but the 1st should always be the FOM OnBoard-Mix & nothing but the FOM-Mix.
They didn't even have the OnBoard-Mix avaliable at all during the race at Monaco. 2 feeds were exclusively Hamilton & Button & the 3rd was mostly Webber/Vettel.
Having a few OnBoard feeds is nice but Sky's decisions in who they show on them is hopeless which makes them useless unless you want to do nothing but watch Hamilton/Button/Di Resta.
Even on returning from an ad 10 minutes from the end of FP2 they decided to show a sped up shot of the river rather than cut straight back to Button's flying lap on the world feed. In fact most of FP2 on Sky was spent watching Button watch the TV in his garage which added nothing. Having said all that, Ted was on top form again today with some great technical analysis.
I have noticed this too, most of Monaco was Button, Hamilton and Di Resta exclusively as you say. Rather annoying when there was good battles throughout the field left unseen.
Annoying and unnecessary...
And this, which is even more annoying. They cut away for so long and completely miss some things on the world feed, usually just so we can look at the mechanics for an overly long period of time! :mad:
As soon as they leave the world feed now I (somewhat ironically) switch over to the FOM pits channel, as that at least has the world feed all the time PiP.
Sky need to get over themselves on this front and just limit their own footage to showing quick things that Ted points out, then cutting back to the WF. IMO, we don't need to see interviews in picture or look at members of the Sky team while they're talking to us.
Here's hoping for an actual decent race this weekend.. Monaco sure was disappointing for me!
Aye just got to that part of P1, Ted thought it was either a 3D or rotating one, He said he thinks it's just a Red Bull one for their benefit however. Shame
I'd have expected the controls for it to be at the media center, Might as well have the guy operate it himself manually he's that close.
Not sure what to suggest unless you have two Sky boxes/PVRs and you could pause the radio briefly to match Sky when the red lights go out. Thats assuming the TV is behind the radio by a few seconds, which I guess it would be.
If the radio is behind the TV it'll be easier as you'll just have to pause Sky briefly to have the radio catch up.
EDIT: Actually on thinking about it, If the radio is infront of the TV you could listen to the radio through the internet, which should be delayed enough for you to pause Sky.
It wasn't even streamed online. It wasn't actually available to anyone in the UK
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