Moto GP to go HD

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• sarky spark Posts: 505

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  22/10/10 - 17:24 #2

  About time too!

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 434

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  22/10/10 - 20:40 #3

  Moto GP is filmed in HD since 2009 already. Ecclestone announced a few weeks ago that F1 is to go HD by 2011.

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• me_plus_one Posts: 703

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  24/02/12 - 21:46 #4

  2011 = no HD for the beeb.
  
  Will the 2012 season have MOTO GP in HD on the beeb?

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• ariusuk Posts: 13,411

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  24/02/12 - 21:53 #5

  me_plus_one wrote: »

  2011 = no HD for the beeb.
  
  Will the 2012 season have MOTO GP in HD on the beeb?

  
  No. They chose to do it in SD to save money.

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• smcbeath Posts: 2,356

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  25/02/12 - 09:06 #6

  So the best we will get is bbc 2 hd launching, and we get upscaled sd. Poor show.

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• pablom Posts: 201

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  13/03/12 - 15:36 #7

  Matt Roberts has just tweeted that BBC will be showing Moto GP in HD this year.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 2,784

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  14/03/12 - 09:28 #8

  With more and more people buying HD TV's then surely broadcasting programs in HD is the way to go. I prefer watching motor sport in HD. I watch WSB and WTCC on Euro sport HD but often find that this programs tend to start later than billed so I often miss the end if i have set them to record. It would be good if the BSB season was shown in HD too.

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• gomezz Posts: 44,620

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  14/03/12 - 12:45 #9

  I understood that the BBC only had the one HD OB unit and tested it out at the end of the MotogGP 2010 season ready to be up and running ready for F1 in HD the next season. So have they now got more than one HD OB unit or does it depend if they can get it to the MotoGP circuits when not being needed for F1?
  
  Or is it that Dorna are responsible for getting their HD feed to London and up to the BBC to mix in their bits (which may or may not be HD?) from there?

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• derek500 Posts: 24,891

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  14/03/12 - 12:54 #10

  gomezz wrote: »

  I understood that the BBC only had the one HD OB unit and tested it out at the end of the MotogGP 2010 season ready to be up and running ready for F1 in HD the next season. So have they now got more than one HD OB unit or does it depend if they can get it to the MotoGP circuits when not being needed for F1?

  
  The BBC don't have any OB units, they sold them to SIS a few years ago.

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• remlap Posts: 6,256

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  14/03/12 - 12:56 #11

  derek500 wrote: »

  The BBC don't have any OB units, they sold them to SES a few years ago.

  
  SIS mate.

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• gomezz Posts: 44,620

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  14/03/12 - 12:56 #12

  Alright. Change "have" to "have the use of". Something has changed from last year to allow them to show it in HD this year.

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• Matt35 Posts: 30,104

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  15/03/12 - 11:27 #13

  When does new season of moto gp start?

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• rossi_dr Posts: 1,206

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  15/03/12 - 11:43 #14

  Matt35 wrote: »

  When does new season of moto gp start?

  
  5-8 April, Qatar* - Doha/Losail Night Race
  Practice Quali and Races between 4-8pm uk

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• Matt35 Posts: 30,104

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  15/03/12 - 12:44 #15

  rossi_dr wrote: »

  5-8 April, Qatar* - Doha/Losail Night Race
  Practice Quali and Races between 4-8pm uk

  
  Thanks. At least i can watch all the races in HD without needing the HD pack. that is until sky decide to buy the rights to that as well.

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• Martin1 Posts: 8,323

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  15/03/12 - 15:34 #16

  Matt35 wrote: »

  until sky decide to buy the rights to that as well.

  "The BBC came to us. We didn’t go to the BBC and we didn’t go to Formula One," Pocket-lint was told by Martin Turner, executive producer of F1 HD, in a briefing at the Sky Studios complex in Isleworth.
  
  "The BBC was under a lot of pressure with budgets, and they felt that this was a way they could keep Formula One on the BBC in some form or another. The contract could have gone a different way. They could have asked to be relieved of the contract and they [Formula One] could’ve put it out to terrestrial bidders and not involved us."
  
  It certainly wasn't something Sky was expecting, but as the saying goes "never look a gift horse in the mouth": "When we got the rights it was a surprise to a lot of us," said Turner.

  http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/44491/sky-f1-hd-bbc-asked-us

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• gomezz Posts: 44,620

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  15/03/12 - 15:49 #17

  Matt35 wrote: »

  When does new season of moto gp start?

  Bookmark this handy link:-
  
  http://www.lloydbayliss.co.uk/mscal/mscal.php

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• rossi_dr Posts: 1,206

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  15/03/12 - 16:12 #18

  gomezz wrote: »

  Bookmark this handy link:-
  
  http://www.lloydbayliss.co.uk/mscal/mscal.php

  
  Thanks Gomezz
  Wavey Davey has done a google motorsports calendar for a while. ical settings etc here
  http://beingwaveydavey.blogspot.com/2010/10/motogp-world-superbike-british.html

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• gomezz Posts: 44,620

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  15/03/12 - 16:15 #19

  rossi_dr wrote: »

  Wavey Davey

  Blimey! There is a rave from the grave (ukrm that is)! Didn't realise he was still on the go.

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• rossi_dr Posts: 1,206

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  15/03/12 - 16:57 #20

  Another Motorsports calendar 2012 it has more dates for
  AMA American Sbk racing the Daytona 200 is live this weekend on motors TV
  
  as well as dates for
  CIV Italian sbk Racing and CEV Spanish sbk racing there on motors TV live as a rule Marc Marquez,Rossi etc raced in these series
  theres ThundersportGB Dates German SBK too
  
  https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=96team@gmail.com&ctz=Europe/London
  
  ical file for Desktop Calendar etc
  https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/96team%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics

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• Matt35 Posts: 30,104

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  16/03/12 - 10:40 #21

  gomezz wrote: »

  Bookmark this handy link:-
  
  http://www.lloydbayliss.co.uk/mscal/mscal.php

  
  Thanks for that. will come in very handy.

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• Matt35 Posts: 30,104

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  02/04/12 - 14:57 #22

  So it looks like moto gp isn`t in HD looking at the first race this weekend.

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• Dingbat Posts: 2,930

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  02/04/12 - 15:38 #23

  Matt35 wrote: »

  So it looks like moto gp isn`t in HD looking at the first race this weekend.

  
  Not HD on Eurosport, either, according to their schedule. Pity because the night race looks great in HD.
  
  I take it that qualifying is still on the Beeb's red button this year?

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• Matt35 Posts: 30,104

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  02/04/12 - 15:43 #24

  Dingbat wrote: »

  Not HD on Eurosport, either, according to their schedule. Pity because the night race looks great in HD.
  
  I take it that qualifying is still on the Beeb's red button this year?

  
  I think so. Isn`t on sky planner.

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• gomezz Posts: 44,620

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  02/04/12 - 16:40 #25

  Matt35 wrote: »

  So it looks like moto gp isn`t in HD looking at the first race this weekend.

  There is a re-run on BBC1 HD later in the evening. Blame the golf.

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• Matt35 Posts: 30,104

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  03/04/12 - 09:49 #26

  gomezz wrote: »

  There is a re-run on BBC1 HD later in the evening. Blame the golf.

  
  But its not in HD though.

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