F1 Fanatic

the technology at Le Mans is fantastic for viewers. I was watching Audi tv on their website which allowed me to watch the onboard camera whenever I wanted from any of the cars.

F1 should be in HD, its now lagging behind. However, assuming what the autosport article says is true – about the lack of demand for it, then I can understand why it hasn’t been implemented. Bernie has no desire to be the first or the best – he has a desire to make money. If you can’t make money immediately, why bother?

its not the right attitude, but its his and unfortunately he controls the shots

2012 is the latest news. It’s on autosport.

Bernie has said recently not to expect F1 in HD before 2012. He claims most people don’t have HDTV capabilities. Most people I know have and HDTV, including my grandparents. Certainly every gamer I know owns an HD set to get the most out of their PS3 and Xbox 360.

Admittedly, less of those HDTV owners have access to HDTV broadcasts, but then, other than Sky or Virgin Media, choice are limited at the moment, but with Freesat having been available for a while (I have it, it’s wonderful), and Freeview HD rolling out now, and for not exactly massive amounts of money, I don’t see why it should be too much of a problem.

Plus, how many people are holding out on going HD until there is more HD content on it? Surely it’s up to everyone involved in TV to roll out more HD content. I bet many F1 fans without HDTV’s would save up for one over the next 6 months and buy one if there was a promise that the F1 would be broadcast in HD in 2011.

I think Bernie’s got his thinking cap on backwards.

Agree with Mouse_Nightshirt that they are currently testing the system & we may have HD in F1 by 2012.

I am pretty sure hardly anyone buys other than HDTV screens now, only noname producers actually offer them. And digital signal is becoming available more and more. The Netherlands has it throuh cable (80% coverage) and satelite, the Czech Republic is 100 % digital and Germany is pretty good on track as well.

With Football going HD several years ago, it gave an impulse for the supply of sets to change and brought HD into the main stream. Sure nobody is going to give Bernie extra money just for offering HD, but i feel the time is coming when he will get less by not being HD.
Even internet streams are starting to offer HD signal content, so this is something F1 should be going for as soon as possible, not in 3 years.

matt90 – thats right if your on sky, they charge you for everything. If your on Virgin HD is no extra cost, but there is slightly less variety.

However, you can pay them every penny you’ve got and you still can’t get F1HD!

I have an HD telly, I have freesat an I just watched the penultimate episode of of Dr Who in HD, it is so very very much better and so worth it. To see those kind of details on the F1 cars would just be amazing, it would give detail to everything and in a sport like ours that is to be highly valued.