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So what if you are 5 minutes behind? Bizarre.
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I waited until the show was available on All4 last night (around 7pm) and my only criticisms are the quality of the picture and the positioning of the ad breaks.
It definitely wasn't available in HD (at least, not on TalkTalk) and even the SD picture seemed to be of low quality. I've a decent broadband connection and other on demand services don't seem as bad. Plus, the ad breaks seemed to pop up in odd places, in some cases DC and BE would be mid sentence when the ads came in. I'm assuming that this is the way C4 add in the commercials when you're watching on demand, I don't think the programmes are shown in the same way they are originally broadcast (and you can't fast forward through the ads either!) On a side note, I thought Mark Webber was good though I get the impression he was royally brassed off after Vettel poured champagne all over him! Overall though, not bad coverage, let's hope the live shows go well for them. |
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So what if you are 5 minutes behind? Bizarre.
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After the debacle of qualifying the coverage was ok though as has been said the adverts did appear as if at random but it was highlights. Steve Jones did a good job but the really bad news is EJ will be on.
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So what if you are 5 minutes behind? Bizarre.
I'm not going to defend it. Just saying that's what I used to do in the ITV days and catching up through the ads was one of the novelties of Sky+ at the time. |
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Channel 4 seemed to use Mark's podium interviews with the top 3 in luei of catching up with them after the race like the BBC used to do, usually you'd have Suzi, DC and sometimes Eddie standing in the pits after the team photos catching up with the race winner and Lee talking to finishers 2 and 3 in the pen, didn't happen here.
Looks like Sky Sports have tightened the locks On Demand as none of features that used to be accessible to non Sports subscribers, Paddock Uncut, Ted's Notebook, F1 show, F1 Report Race Highlights and even occasionally a full rerun are not available now. I've mentioned before how some of that content is available free on other platforms but still a shame. Wonder if that stuff will be put into the Mix when that's launched. |
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On live races you need to be live if you also want to follow the race using the live timing. On highlights not an issue.
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I don't believe All4 (or 4OD) has ever been in HD. Which is frankly weird - it's 2016 people.
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Actually from the app you can delay the live timing as much you like. Unless you're talking about the data (video) feed.
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lol....
Which one of you PC knee-jerks misinterpreted my observation about our FTA broadcaster and got me banned over the weekend? Sheesh.. Jp |
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Something I meant to mention yesterday is that as is the case with the world feed graphics the engine brand has now been removed from the OnBoard-Mix graphics set despite been there during FP1/FP2:
http://i.imgur.com/ZJIBORC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/IXwG5qt.jpg |
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16-34 is the most important audience these days to anyone but the BBC, So they be happy.
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Plus, the ad breaks seemed to pop up in odd places, in some cases DC and BE would be mid sentence when the ads came in. I'm assuming that this is the way C4 add in the commercials when you're watching on demand, I don't think the programmes are shown in the same way they are originally broadcast (and you can't fast forward through the ads either!)
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Something I meant to mention yesterday is that as is the case with the world feed graphics the engine brand has now been removed from the OnBoard-Mix graphics set despite been there during FP1/FP2:
http://i.imgur.com/ZJIBORC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/IXwG5qt.jpg |
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I bet its because they can't fit "Red Bull Racing TAG Heuer" into the graphic box so rather than fix it or abbreviate it they take the easy option and just not put any engine names their.
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Totally pathetic and cheapskate by FOM!
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FOM do have form with slack housekeeping when it comes to the TV graphics at the start of seasons. 1999 saw a single tyre supplier which made the tyre brand graphic we got used to throughout 97-98 obsolete. However first race, it was still their - minus any lettering in it!
2000 - a continuation of the familiar Black & Yellow terrestrial feed graphics, but the way they worked was slightly different, BUT with another glitch, the familiar blue oval containing the car number was waaaay over to the right of the screen, again rather than fix it by easily realigning back over to the left, they just did away with it altogether, until 2001 when they repositioned it to the left of the driver / team name http://www.mediafire.com/view/9m2vva...h40m42s140.png http://www.mediafire.com/view/owdp8q97ywfeuuk/alesi.bmp http://www.mediafire.com/view/7276wsssokuz834/2000.bmp |
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Maybe either abbreviate Red Bull Racing to "RBR" like they did years ago or just leave off Red Bulls "TAG Heuer" engine brand, and show other teams engine brands. Just smacks of laziness to leave out other details due to just one anomaly.
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Maybe either abbreviate Red Bull Racing to "RBR" like they did years ago or just leave off Red Bulls "TAG Heuer" engine brand, and show other teams engine brands. Just smacks of laziness to leave out other details due to just one anomaly.
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I would have guessed it would be general Bernie/FOM engine politics rather than specifically a "we can't fit one of the names in" situation (it does look to me like there's space to fit "Red Bull Racing Tag Heuer" in).
But I'm cynical like that. |
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I still can't work out if FOM deliberately sped up the 'real-time' replays of the Alonso crash. They just looked ever so slightly unnatural to me. Not sure what others think.
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I still can't work out if FOM deliberately sped up the 'real-time' replays of the Alonso crash. They just looked ever so slightly unnatural to me. Not sure what others think.
I do wish FOM would play full-speed replays more often generally though; the slow-mo's are good, but to get a full sense of why a driver got caught out there's no substitute for a full-speed replay. |
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I would have guessed it would be general Bernie/FOM engine politics rather than specifically a "we can't fit one of the names in" situation (it does look to me like there's space to fit "Red Bull Racing Tag Heuer" in).
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I still can't work out if FOM deliberately sped up the 'real-time' replays of the Alonso crash. They just looked ever so slightly unnatural to me. Not sure what others think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19TCD-g2jsU |
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I don't believe All4 (or 4OD) has ever been in HD. Which is frankly weird - it's 2016 people.
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lol....
Which one of you PC knee-jerks misinterpreted my observation about our FTA broadcaster and got me banned over the weekend? Sheesh.. Jp |
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lol....
Which one of you PC knee-jerks misinterpreted my observation about our FTA broadcaster and got me banned over the weekend? Sheesh.. Jp Wondered where you had got to.
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