How good does the grass racing from Otaki look - helped by some fantastic close up work when using the split screen
The dam looks empty at Swan Hill so there mustn't be much water there!
This reminds me of this old clip - track preparation and video quality have come a way since this era!
http://media.harness.org.au/vic/WRC04020702.wmv
How good does the grass racing from Otaki look - helped by some fantastic close up work when using the split screen
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What were they thinking with the head-on shots down the back straight at Melton today
STOP
Do not do that again Mediatec - one loses all idea of what is happening in the race
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All racing now looks bloody ordinary compared to the Hi Def sport one can get on Foxtel
but the harness racing should look much better than it does
We still race on small tracks compared to the gallops so why do they still look better
A fair test I believe would be that we should be able to read the horse numbers in the back straight
If we cannot - improve the camera work or get better cameras
ps It is time racing went Hi Def
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Why does the pic quality vary so much?
Look at last night's Melton - it is simply POOR (you would think the lights had been dimmed but the resolution was bloody ordinary anyway)
http://www.harness.org.au/meeting-re...X280815&ms=vic
Some days/tracks the pic is so much better than other days
If we can't have HiDef what about MPEG4 - it looks very good on the gallops new Ch78
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I emailed Mediatec and John Anderson about this but got NO REPLY
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NZ videos are great I bought a NZ filly and was able to watch the dams race replays as well
Her last race was 2008
Fact: I watch too much TV (and it is just about all HD nowadays)
Maybe this why I find Sky picture quality so poor in comparison
Visitors prevented me going to the Hamilton Cup today but I tuned into a couple of races.
At first I thought the cameras must have been out of focus.
It looked bloody ordinary. I suppose if you are watching simply to see if your numbers come up it may not be so bad OR maybe it is worse for you are only going to decipher where your horse is by means of the caller (or maybe its colours) as you are not going to be reading any numbers
I watched a gallops race from Strathalbyn to see if I was being fair and I must admit it was nearly as bad
In this day and age I think people expect better - I do
Other than going and viewing live (with trusty binocs) the only vision I am confident of enjoying is that on Ch.7 and 78 (racing.com) and there is no trots there I am afraid
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Watch this to see how good harness racing vision can be
http://www.prix-amerique.com/opodo-r...baune/?lang=en
Click bottom right corner to enlarge it to full screen. I watch it on my 58cm 23" Samsung HD computer screen and it looks brilliant
All the replays of the lead up races to Prix d'Amerique look brilliant and can be found here under the Opodoraces tab here
http://www.prix-amerique.com/?lang=en
I am pretty sure that Mediatec record our races in HD too (so not there fault) but whatever you do
DONT put this on full screen
http://www.harness.org.au/meeting-re...ic#MXM30011601
(Last night's Vic Cup.)
When you think of what it could look like it is sad to see HRV getting excited about putting some marker graphics on the track
http://www.harness.org.au/news-artic...?news_id=28750
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The stuff done on course at Melton Friday night by Mediatec was outstanding. Believe some of it filtered through to Sky. Had cameras on carts facing the driver and cameras on helmets.
On big screen 2/3rds was the normal race coverage and 2 boxes on side showing each of shots above, alternating between drivers & carts that were geared up.
If it gets loaded anywhere need to watch the above footage of Vic Cup. Especially Chris Alford at start and end of race. Great stuff!!
From what I saw on track could be something more this week. Ballarat had pictures on social media as well. Had cameras on clerk of course and pics of horses scoring up behind mobile, etc.