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BBC haven't officially announced it, but the insider over on DigitalSpy who's been right about almost everything so far says they're using it. Not sure if they're using the original or a more modern cover though.

He said they've decided on the original. Plus that's what they used at SPOTY

Still no F1 in HD this year

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcastin ... ition.html

Bernie can't hold out on this much longer, I think every single major market now has the ability to broadcast comprehensively in HD.

why bernie doesnt want HD?

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According to the BBC employee at DigitalSpy when the BBC started pushing Bernie for a HD feed after initially refusing he came up with the idea of providing only the 'Major' Races in HD & the rest in SD. BBC rejected the idea as they wanted everything in HD or nothing in HD.

With HD becomming more avaliable around thw world I woudn't be surprised to see F1 go HD in 2010, especially if the BBC continue to push Bernie for it like they seem to be doing.


In a bit of Non-F1 related TV news, I notice that MotorsTV have made the switch to Widescreen.

Even Chile should have HD massively by 2010. Would be insane if F1 doesn't go HD. That reminds me that i have a year to get a full HD tv screen.

Is it about getting the technical equipment like HD cameras and lenses?

Or is there more to it?

I think it's more about the production costs

F1 already uses HD cameras since 2006. Most of the lenses however are still SD. Box lenses used for far distant angles (a higher zoom ratio is required) are HD though. But FOM has only 2 or 3 of them. So with their current equipment FOM is not able to record a full native HD picture. Only upscaled SD is the highest possible quality.

Looks like we could be getting more team radio transmissions this year:

http://allenonf1.wordpress.com/2009/01/ ... v-viewers/

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/30012009/ ... -2009.html


BTW official announcement from the BBC regarding the exact details of there F1 coverage is expected On Tuesday 24th February! Will be in the from of a Q&A Press Conference with there entire F1 team.

hopefully some sort of preview show soon (even if it was only for the intro ), although they tend to wait with those until the weekend before the first GP.

Will wait for that then before I update my satellite instalation. If BBC will have multiple feeds will it be like premiere? Premiere worked with my receiver (push a button to make the subchannel list appear), will this also be the same for the BBC subchannels? Or does this only work on oficial sky receivers?

It should work with your digital receiver. The other BBC channels are just on another transponder so they should appear in your channel list (ID: STREAM-1, STREAM-2 etc...)

It won't be like that.

With Premiere, as you say you could make a sub-channel List appear with all the various feeds avaliable through there SportPortal. However the BBCi feeds are not linked like that unless your using an official Sky Reciever or Freeview/Cable box. When using a proper Sky box its actually fairly similar to Premiere once inside the BBC Sports Active screen & on whatever feeds avaliable, While on there Interactice Sports Screen You just press the Number thats attached to the feed you want & while on the various feeds you just press the blue button to bring up a list of other feeds avaliable via a small dropdown menu, also to change Audio-Track you can simply press the Right or Left arrow key.

However outside of an official Box as far as Im aware you just have the 7 seperate channels that contain the different feeds & you have to change the channel to switch feeds. These 7 Channels are usually called 'STREAM-0, STREAM-1 Etc....'.

All these talk about HD coverage make me jealous. My local channel is still showing crappy 4:3 quality. Still, if we got same commentators as we had last year, i probably continue watching F1 at RTL, with 16:9 reso and more qood quality..

HD to F1 coverage to here?That would take years to come..

to me all does not matter. I'm not even aware if I have been watching 4:3 or 16:9... as long as I receive F1 (live) I'm happy

Thanks for the info, even better that they are seperate channels, that way I can set my dvd recorder to record the onboard feed or whatever they show when I'm not home

don't worry, F1's still not being produced in HD