Here are some I made this year.
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Am I expected to put the 3D glasses on top of my normal ones ????

3D TV is a dead duck until this kind of problem is solved.

As for HD, of course F1 should be available. It need not be expensive either : Our Humax Freesat box and 50″ Samsung TV bring us brilliant HD content completely free from both the BBC and ITV and the Humax box cost us less than 8 month’s of my now-cancelled basic SKY subscription.

Compared with the cost of the Licence fee, for us, the content on SKY was very poor value so this was a very good trade off.

If FOM would just come into the 21st century, all of us in the UK could watch F1 in HD on the Beeb for free.

James : All the BBC would then need to do is re-establish your partnership with Martin and F1 in the UK would be brilliant

With regards to 3D TV, TV manufacturers need to sell more, with this they need to find ways to ask buyers to put their hands on their pockets, as the saying goes does this ‘wash whiter’ than HD or ‘interactive’ viewing.

Towards the end of the nineties I was part of a European consortium that looked into virtual sets and 3D TV. At the time it was quite high-tech, clearly by today’s standards it isn’t. However, a few findings still stand, namely the viewers’ need to be able to consume their entertainment without any barriers. Glasses is a key barrier, there are others too, satelite dishes too pose quite a significant barrier to gloabl TV audiences.

Many will notice that most TV graphics are designed with a 4:3 aspect ration and safe areas in mind.

Before there’s a torrent of ‘no one has a 4:3 TV’! F1 has a global audience in many emerging markets, it takes time and sensitivity to move a global product from one that is available to all to one that is state of the art.

It’s worth mentioning, back in the late nineties, we experimented with 3D cameras on Rally cars, so this isn’t new tech at all.

Let’s get digital for all and HD first.

He knows that when he launched his subscription service in the past, very few people took it up, as there was the alternative of a free feed.

So, the only way to make a paid for tv feed to pay is by having it as the only feed. Current technology means that BBC over freeview etc cannot offer the range of options that are demanded by some hard-core football fans, so the only option for using this technology would be to go to a paid-for feed. However, this would not work either. Look at what happened to GP masters. It had huge ratings when launched on the BBC, but then when it moved to Sky, no-one watched and the series folded. F1 is dependent on getting large audiences, in order to make the sponsors think that they are getting worthwhile value for money. Moving to subscription services would remove the casual viewer, and only leave the hard-core, reducing the value to the sponsors.

Bernie knows that the best way to keep the value of F1 is to keep it on free-to-air television. Anything else would be financial suicide.

It’s much better now, though I think they can get some better in-race stats going. Cricket does very well in that respect.

Although I just can’t see how that would work with motor racing.

As I say for the next little while I would prefer nice HD coverage with on board, the option for watch timing screens too!

Don’t mind the adverts, although it good it gone now with BBC however I could live with it for good pre coverage, cover and post coverage