F1 not in HD!!!!!!

[norrahe]

Lots of teething problems that will hopefully be ironed out in the next few races.

[DS23]

No change there in F1 despite rule changes to make it more interesting.

whs

the best racing was in the lower orders. well done lotus getting two to finish and one of them above an established lower order.

[centurian]

Oh, it's not even filmed in HD? That is bizarre. I'd figured someone richer had got the HD rights

It's even more bizarre than that...

Apparently it is filmed in HD this year, but the feed provided to broadcasters is SD.

There may be technical reasons for this. Simply using HD cameras is one thing, but it's all the mixing and distribution facilities that are the tough parts

And they probably need to supply dual feeds because the on screen captions will get positioned differently for HD - making full use of the 16:9, whereas for SD, they keep to the 4:3 area, even though the feed itself is 16:9