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Wow, what great news. If there is a company that has cache with young viewers and understands the importance of mobile access it's Red Bull. Probably too early for a strategy moving forward? I'm sure you guys will keep us up to date.Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
If Red Bull can get the quality and the position of the onboard camera right, then we are coming a long way.
Check this out:
Ruben Zeltner WP7 Rallye Deutschland 2012 - YouTube
Imagine a full stage with Loeb in this quality and with camera in this position. Gold.
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Originally Posted by Lundgaard
I guess some are easily amused.
We have discussed this before, and there seems to be a generational split. I want to see what the driver makes the CAR do relative to the road.
too much In car is so boring I want to take a Volvo crankshaft and drop it on my toes to cause brain damage.
So you find this boring?! I find the normal onboards in low res and with the camera in a stupid position really boring. But this is really great.Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
Here we ARE seeing what the driver makes the car do relative to the road. Unless you are 95 with bad eyesight, I don't think it has something to do with generations...
I find in-car boring. I like seeing it occasionally but would far rather see external shots that recreate what I see if I go to watch a rally live.
Onboard with proper camera position and decent light control is the most valuable kind of video for me.
Second most valuable is camera mounted at one place showing in sequence how each driver passes it.
But that doesn't attract new people.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
WRC first has to somehow keep the current ones, then think for new. ;)
And how do you know that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Franky
Since North One Sport took over and placed cameras in all the wrong places inside and outside of the car, the ratings has not exactly gone up...
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Originally Posted by Lundgaard
Well I don't want to damage a Volvo crank by giving myself brain-damage for no good reason....and putting myself out of misery (nåd skottet till nacken is maybe a little too much..) (oh dear, furrin words!! I was warned! uh.... gotta think quick!!! What the hell is it called nåd skot in Engleski? Ah! Coupe de grace! Yeah that's sdure as hell good Anglisch) seems like a justifiable use for en Rödblock vev)
All I see is a ribbon of road outside. And the driver twitching the wheel a little now and then.
The problem:
I know what roads look like from inside cars, I have driven 100s of thousands of km all over Western Europe, the whole way from Narvik till Oslo, Stockholm to the Spanish border many times, 1000s of miles in the SE and SW of France on little "Departemental" roads like used on stages, millions of miles in USA, thousands of km in Canada on skinny stage like roads...
And then I started doing rallies. so i know what Stages look like from inside the car. 90% Gravel, the rest snow, excpt maybe 30km asphalt in 15 years...
And more elesewhere..
I know what roads and stages look like..
I want to see the car in a unique setting (Finland, Varmland, Koriska, OZ, NZ, Haute Alpes, ) and what the car's reactions to the driver input is. How much the car squats, how close the car is to locking the wheels relative to the surface, air underneath the car (rather than a little jiggle of the helmet) over jumps, angle of the CAR.
.gravel and dirt flying.
If I wanted to see just a ribbon of road squiggling on a screen I'd buy a Colin Burns Video plaything..
But I'm not of the generation that grew up playing with some screen, I grew up racing, then when I was older and beat up--like 32 or so---I began actually driving stages since its so easy and relaxing..
All we see is a little twitchiness and that's it. And since they all got on the idiotic fad of covering half the windscreen with black, we see even less.