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Formula One Management have today confirmed that all Formula One races this year will be broadcast in High Definition this year. While a number of major broadcasters have already confirmed provide the HD feed, many others are expected to follow shortly.
Thought about Freeview HD? Or is that not being broadcast in your neck of the woods at the moment?andrew wrote:As long as F1 is still available on regular TV they can broadcast it anyway they like for all I care.
HD TV is just not worth it yet in these parts without some overpriced Sky or similar subscription.
I believe this is not true for the architecture that the FiA posted in their request for quotations. You have a bunch of real time busses that connect various sub systems. There is the ECU, the FOM TV package and the FiA marshaling package. I believe they all communicate separately with the pits. It would be dumb to route all the high speed data through the ECU IMO.ESPImperium wrote:The TV Camera is routed via the SECU.
It was in June 2009 at the German GP on Vettel's car.pob wrote:My memory may be deceiving me, but I thought HD onboard cameras were tested on the Red Bull towards the end of last season.
Why on earth would you have your engine controller connected to the TV camera??ESPImperium wrote:The TV Camera is routed via the SECU...
Not sure but it would be an extra cost that I could do without right now. The problem with HD is there just isn't enough programmes that are worthy of being watched in HD. Besides F1 and the World Cup I can't honestly think what else I watch that I would think would be better viewed in HD.forty-two wrote:Thought about Freeview HD? Or is that not being broadcast in your neck of the woods at the moment?andrew wrote:As long as F1 is still available on regular TV they can broadcast it anyway they like for all I care.
HD TV is just not worth it yet in these parts without some overpriced Sky or similar subscription.
My folks just got a Humax Freeview HD STB and it is actually pretty impressive.
If the items identified above as "CAN" are actually CAN-bus connections, then these would not offer anything like enough bandwidth to stream even a single standard definition video signal through, let-alone HD.WhiteBlue wrote:I believe this is not true for the architecture that the FiA posted in their request for quotations. You have a bunch of real time busses that connect various sub systems. There is the ECU, the FOM TV package and the FiA marshaling package. I believe they all communicate separately with the pits. It would be dumb to route all the high speed data through the ECU IMO.ESPImperium wrote:The TV Camera is routed via the SECU.
The latest iterations may use slightly more advanced architectures. The data rates would massively increase for the FOM package if they upgrade all cameras from SD to 1080p HD signals. I doubt that you can do this with CAN bus any more, but there are known upgrades of the real time bus systems as well.
It was in June 2009 at the German GP on Vettel's car.pob wrote:My memory may be deceiving me, but I thought HD onboard cameras were tested on the Red Bull towards the end of last season.
Actually, I thought that was a test of 3D camera(s) not mere HD.pob wrote:My memory may be deceiving me, but I thought HD onboard cameras were tested on the Red Bull towards the end of last season.
According to this...ESPImperium wrote:http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/88865
More boroadcasters to follow??? And is this why the BBC has changed its commentry lineup for 2011???
Hope so!!!
Whilst I can't be 100% sure, I think the CAN bus connection to the FOM TV system is simply a control link, not for video data (it'd be a stretch, but you could just squeeze a poor-quality video signal through a standard, consumerish CAN bus, though there'd be no bandwidth left for the control data)forty-two wrote:If the items identified above as "CAN" are actually CAN-bus connections, then these would not offer anything like enough bandwidth to stream even a single standard definition video signal through, let-alone HD.WhiteBlue wrote:I believe this is not true for the architecture that the FiA posted in their request for quotations. You have a bunch of real time busses that connect various sub systems. There is the ECU, the FOM TV package and the FiA marshaling package. I believe they all communicate separately with the pits. It would be dumb to route all the high speed data through the ECU IMO.ESPImperium wrote:The TV Camera is routed via the SECU.
The latest iterations may use slightly more advanced architectures. The data rates would massively increase for the FOM package if they upgrade all cameras from SD to 1080p HD signals. I doubt that you can do this with CAN bus any more, but there are known upgrades of the real time bus systems as well.
I imagine that the SECU might theoretically be employed to switch channels (i.e. select which camera on the vehicle is to be broadcast back to the TV studio at any one time).
But from the POV of the producer of the FOM output, they'd probably prefer to be able to pre-view the video stream from all onboard cameras on all cars in order that they can select the feed they'd like to show next.
Durris has (to the best of my knowledge) supported DVB-T2 since the analogue signal was switched off last year (remember the adverts all over Marischal College?). Of course, with only 4 HD channels to choose from, I'd have to agree that there's little point in paying at least £100 for a new set top box or tv.andrew wrote:Not sure but it would be an extra cost that I could do without right now. The problem with HD is there just isn't enough programmes that are worthy of being watched in HD. Besides F1 and the World Cup I can't honestly think what else I watch that I would think would be better viewed in HD.
Not quite... Unfortunately, the powers that be at FOM have decided to use the antiquated MPEG-2 standard. I've no idea why they'd do this, it makes absolutely no sense and I can see no technical reason behind this (though there may be a financial one).Pup wrote: Now, the claimed 42Mbit rate is blu ray quality. How degraded that will be by the time it gets to your TV will be up to your individual provider. i think it could be as low as 8Mbit and still be called HD. The point being that it's likely we'll get varying reports of quality, probably even a few who claim not to be able to tell any difference.