Originally Posted by Javier_deVivre:
“On the cameras, it is embarrasing watching the breakup on the onboard cameras. You would think FOM with all of their experience would be able to do better, especially when other series manage it.”
Apparently everything in terms of how the OnBoards work is new for this year. They had the new HD cameras, The systems transmitting the feed (And all the telemetry data) from the cars was new, The system at trackside picking up that feed was new & the systems they have in the tv compound was also new.
I was reminded by the Ex-fom guy over at F1fanatics earlier that when they moved from the analog heli-link to the digital ground based setup in late 2005 they had similar early teething trouble which was resolved within a handful of races as they found out where best to place the trackside nodes & how far apart to locate them to minimize signal drops etc... He/she seemed pretty sure than over the next 2-3 races things should get a lot more stable & that by Mid-season we should be seeing hardly any.
They also said that Melbourne has always been a circuit that caused problems with the OnBoards & that even when they had the fiber-optic ring system there in 2001/2002/2004 they still suffered from more signals drops at Melbourne than they did at most other circuits.
Given how bad an issue it was at Melbourne I certainly can't see it getting any worse.... I hope. They couldn't even play out the pole lap on the world-feed post qualifying as they usually would because of how bad the break-up was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuMb58fk0Ng
Speaking of OnBoards, Anyone know what the most was that sky had on the ipad app over the weekend?