tbh, I wish the guy would post here. We'd all probably be much more interested in his broadcasting-related stuff anyway. F1 Fanatic can get a bit OTT with all the "I've followed F1 for 900000 years but this is the first time i'm not watching it this year" nonsense.

I know of whom you speak and he did post here.

Jp

What was his username?

Was there not a suggestion a few months ago that FOM would be able to get more than that this year?


Anyone remember the ITV feature Martin Brundle's F1 driving school from 1999?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3s...g-school_sport

He did some good stuff like that on ITV, Features that were actually informative rather than a lot of what he's done on BBC/Sky that have basically boiled down to him driving an F1 car having fun for a 5 minute segment. If your going to put him or anyone else from the Sky team in an F1 car then make it more than 'look he's back in an F1 car & having fun'.


And the Front Runner video 1990/1990 F1 reviews:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3s...t-runner_sport
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3s...t-runner_sport

Eurosport's 1996 CART Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om3ZT24TbpM

FOM could do with updating the on-car camera mounting positions to give us some better and more imaginative angles. They have the power to mandate certain areas and insist on them being used for onboard placement.

Thats a shame Sky won't invest the time to bring it to Android. But many thanks for the feedback, its appreciated greatly.
Guess i'll have to make do with the crap SD streams on Sky

Where's their incentive? They are running a monopoly in the coverage, bar Monaco, reporting ultimately to a Private Equity company which has been draining the sport for years.

The only real innovation we have seen since 2012 has been the hideous rise of CGI advertising which has come to dominate a significant chunk of the trackside camera placements. No surprise that this is directly linked to their ad revenue strategy.

It's deeply depressing, but that's the state of things. I only see things changing if Formula 1 comes under ownership of an organisation interested in long term growth, not just short term profit extraction.

Read my post. I say that later on :P

I wonder if FOM (& the FIA's) new mandate re. greater flexibility for imposing rule changes may help them in this area? As far as i'm aware, the teams like to veto things: "It'll show more confidential information that we don't want anyone else seeing", "it'll affect our aerodynamic performance" etc. etc.

We've also seen the launch of additional trackside feeds, the use of thermal cam, close to or over 1000+ extra videos published over last year (plus videos in 2014), so to say they're not innovating is wrong. Also I don't see the difference between a real ad and a CGI ad? It's still an image overlaid onto the track is it not? At least it's better than the wall to wall Santander/Abbey logos we had circa 2008. Now at least we've got a few more different sponsors (Pirelli, DHL, Rolex) etc.

I mean if you're worried about: "ooh the transparency of the CGI logo is different to the real, painted one" then you have issues IMO.

Why does anyone still bother with this guy?! Have issues? This is a broadcasting thread, those overlays are terrible and distract from the race, especially on panning shots. Also I don't care for whatever message the benevolent F1 dictator has for us.

Well it would defeat the point of advertising if you didn't notice them

Not really because the onboard camera locations are laid down in the FIA technical regulations. There is not much FOM can do to be honest. They can ask the teams for sure but it all depends on the goodwill of the teams quite frankly.

Does anyone know if the race control ipad app works for those who are getting SSF1 without the sports pack?

Yes, think that is the case.
The sky sport iPad app is tied in with sky go and the sky id, so can determine what single channels you have access to.
I have this morning asked for clarification on this from the Sky New Media team (eg: apps/sky go) that I have access to and will report back hear with their response.

New video on F1 Access (free & probs on YouTube too), has an interesting onboard angle of Senna at Monaco (I think) for a few secs. Never seen that before: http://i.imgur.com/dvuhwPE.png

It was an angle used a few times during 1990, Berger had this view during the '90 Italian GP

Ahh Cheers! I'll have a look on my 1990 season review.

Its a shame that FOM don't utilise these angles "written into the rules" more often, Cockpit facing and mirror cam - lucky if they use it once every two years, nose-cams - only recently started getting some regular use again after years of a "once in a blue moon" approach, cockpit side cams - mostly fitted exclusively to the Ferrari's and Merc's the last few years, helmet cam, 180 cam, thermal cam, not used anywhere near as often as they could. A far far cry from the late 90's - early '00's when all angles were run regularly alternating on different cars from event to event for great variety.

I still think the teams can veto a cam actually being used (i think the rules say that if a camera position isn't being actually used for a camera, a dummy has to be put in its place) or not in the slots. I think the teams like to put pressure on FOM not to use said angles. I know the rotato-cam Ferrari tried to persuade FOM at some point to drop - I think they put it on one of the Force India's later. IMO the teams have become far to precious in stopping broadcasting innovations (and IMO FOM have become far to willing to agree to them)... Which is probably why quite often you see something get used once or twice and then its dropped... Thermal cams being an exception.

1990 McLaren cockpit cam video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi75ayAooGI

That angle been used a few times since.

Schumacher had that angle in his car in 1995 at Monaco & Germany. It was used a few times on Gerhard Berger & Ukyo Katayama's car in 1997, Heikki Kovalainen had it for the final few races of 2007 & it was used on Webber & Alonso's car in early 2008. Last time I recall seeing it was on Vettel's car during the 2010 German Gp.

Ok just had it confirmed for the Sky New Media Team. so for f1 you will be fine with your legacy HD pack;

Craig Slater is at the launch of the Red Bull livery in East London for SSN HQ.

Live stream from sky
http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/124...ch-2016-livery