Forula One approaches

[SteveyWonder]

I bought my digital decoder just over a year ago and digital TV was hailed
as "widescreen for sport". As I am a formula One nut I waited for thr
Formula One Racing to start and sure enough the first race from Melbourne
was in widescreen - fantastic!! I was looking really looking forward to the
rest of the season inviting friends round to watch the widescreen event.
Every single race following Melbourne was in 4:3 !!! now I would expect some
countries would broadcast in 4:3 but not all! Does anyone know if we can we
expect the same this year?

Steve

[GB]

no idea, but you took the words right out of my mouth, Australia's 16:9 and
quality was fantastic, but the rest was disappointing. There is no way all
other countries (Japan, UK, Germany etc) aren't 16:9, some of them have to
be....

"SteveyWonder" <dontgohere@uhavebeen.warned> wrote in message
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> I bought my digital decoder just over a year ago and digital TV was hailed
> as "widescreen for sport". As I am a formula One nut I waited for thr
> Formula One Racing to start and sure enough the first race from Melbourne
> was in widescreen - fantastic!! I was looking really looking forward to
the
> rest of the season inviting friends round to watch the widescreen event.
> Every single race following Melbourne was in 4:3 !!! now I would expect
some
> countries would broadcast in 4:3 but not all! Does anyone know if we can
we
> expect the same this year?
>
> Steve
>
>

[mddawson]

The F1 in Europe is on FTA channels. I was in Austria when the Hungarian round was on and it was televised live on 2 channels ORF2 and RTF. From memory it was a 4:3 broacast there. Austria are only now beginning to dabble in digital TV so perhaps in other countries which have adopted digital earlier (like Germany) it may have been in WS.

I remember watching the live feed for British consumption a couple of years ago on Mediasat (the extra FTA channels that could be viewed with a Foxtel box that Globecast now provides). They ran a commercial for a specialized F1 satellite channel in Europe that had 8 different feeds - the normal race (the only view offered via Mediasat), leader only, pits only, race/track stats, etc. There was also interactive stuff that could be run via your remote if you were a UK subscriber.

[BenOne©]

mddawson wrote:
> The F1 in Europe is on FTA channels. I was in Austria when the Hungarian
> round was on and it was televised live on 2 channels ORF2 and RTF.
> From memory it was a 4:3 broacast there. Austria are only now
> beginning to dabble in digital TV so perhaps in other countries which
> have adopted digital earlier (like Germany) it may have been in WS.
>
> I remember watching the live feed for British consumption a couple of
> years ago on Mediasat (the extra FTA channels that could be viewed with
> a Foxtel box that Globecast now provides). They ran a commercial for a
> specialized F1 satellite channel in Europe that had 8 different feeds -
> the normal race (the only view offered via Mediasat), leader only, pits
> only, race/track stats, etc. There was also interactive stuff that
> could be run via your remote if you were a UK subscriber.
>
>

It boggles the mind that Australia is ahead of Europe and the UK when it comes
to FTA digital.

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Ben Thomas
Melbourne, Australia

[Weststate A/V Systems]

BenOne© wrote:
> mddawson wrote:
>
> It boggles the mind that Australia is ahead of Europe and the UK when it
> comes to FTA digital.



European countries are not all on the same timeline with 16:9 and much
of Europe has always presented lots of problems for terrestrial
broadcasting which is the cheapest form of delivery. Widescreen sets
also should have been well entrenched in Europe after all some parts had
16:9 Pal+ well before they had Dvd and Dtv.



The lack of Formula One in widescreen is yet another sad note for those
like me who love motorsport. I bet a lot of Europeans F1 watchers would
love some countries to catch up to 16:9 broadcasting. Australia is
actually not that bad for keeping pace with these sorts of world changes.



Colin
www.hsuresearch.com.au

[Pete]

The 8 Channel digital died a natural death after 1 year. It was a few years
too early, as Sky UK were the only ones capable of taking advantage of it !!
I believe it was shelved with plans to re-launch in a couple of years if
Bernie sees a profit in it (Bernie does NOTHING unless it makes a BIG
profit....I'm reading a biography on him and he is one cold, calculating and
pretty ruthless bugger !!)

As for widescreen....hell, I'd settle for 4:3 forever if it was LIVE !! You
want widescreen....Ten won't even show the qualifying which they've
purchased the rights to !! Why the hell they don't on-sell it to Fox has
got me buggered !!

If you really want good F1, get StarSports off of the AsiaSat.....sadly
needs a big dish I believe and I have no idea how much it costs to set
up...but the channel is free and digital !! But then again, if you live
in Melbourne you could go to the Charles Dickens Tavern and have a few beers
and get some awesome atmosphere while you watch it all LIVE !!!

Anyone know if Sydney has anywhere with Star ??



Cheers all,

Pete

PS, Alonso will be Champion this year !!


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>
>
> BenOne© wrote:
> > mddawson wrote:
> >
> > It boggles the mind that Australia is ahead of Europe and the UK when it
> > comes to FTA digital.
>
>
>
> European countries are not all on the same timeline with 16:9 and much
> of Europe has always presented lots of problems for terrestrial
> broadcasting which is the cheapest form of delivery. Widescreen sets
> also should have been well entrenched in Europe after all some parts had
> 16:9 Pal+ well before they had Dvd and Dtv.
>
>
>
> The lack of Formula One in widescreen is yet another sad note for those
> like me who love motorsport. I bet a lot of Europeans F1 watchers would
> love some countries to catch up to 16:9 broadcasting. Australia is
> actually not that bad for keeping pace with these sorts of world changes.
>
>
>
> Colin
> www.hsuresearch.com.au
>