FanVision returns to F1 after five-year absence

24 comments on “FanVision returns to F1 after five-year absence”

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   Andrey Baydin (@minilemm)
   9th May 2018, 18:59

   Why didnt it stick in f1 in the first place?
   1. 

      Gary
      10th May 2018, 14:16

      Bernie’s greed. He didn’t like sharing revenue with Fan Vision so he killed it.
2. 

   Bob Loblaw (@bob-loblaw)
   9th May 2018, 19:19

   I have to admit that this increases the chances that I make it back out to my home race this year. It’s a game changer to be able to enjoy the atmosphere on track and also be able to closely follow the individual battles on track, was really disappointed when it was dropped after 2012.
3. 

   eljueta (@eljueta)
   9th May 2018, 19:59

   In this day and age, why not just put some wifi and broadcast it to people’s phones?
   1. 

      Jimmi Cynic (@jimmi-cynic)
      9th May 2018, 20:41

      Because too simple and obvious. And people could record on their smartphones. And post on the interwebs and that would be terrible for business. Ask Bernie.
      1. 

         Matteo (@m-bagattini)
         10th May 2018, 8:29

         @jimmi-cynic slightly related: I once recorded like 5 seconds from live TV and posted to YouTube: its filters detected it as copyright infringement in the blink of an eye and rejected the submission.
         1. 

            Jimmi Cynic (@jimmi-cynic)
            10th May 2018, 8:33

            @m-bagattini: Ouch! Meanwhile YouTube’s crack AI-bots have a “penchant for recommending videos filled with blood, suicide and cannibalism to children”.
   2. 

      NM19
      10th May 2018, 5:35

      There’s a big delay between RL and a stream on internet, 30 seconds at least
   3. 

      RB14
      10th May 2018, 9:56

      @eljueta because a dedicated local transmission is far more reliable and you can charge for it, simple.

      Fans who don’t want to pay can easily use their data to stream coverage via official or unofficial channels or follow radio commentary. Offering this doesn’t change that.

      If you mean providing blanket wifi across a the circuit at a stable speed than that is far easier said that done, even in 2018!
   4. 

      Remmirath (@remmirath)
      10th May 2018, 23:23

      Not everybody has a smart phone.
   5. 

      BasCB (@bascb)
      11th May 2018, 13:35

      Have you been at a race in a packed grandstand and tried to tweet out a picture of the cars on the warm-up lap recently? If yes, just think about the trouble you had getting it to upload when everyone is doing the same. Believe me, the signal is already quite stretched.
      WiFi is far from reliable around grandstands anyway since the concrete and steel structures hurt the signal.

      And off course with WiFi, one might try to hack into the device
4. 

   Vettel fan 17 (@)
   9th May 2018, 20:35

   Very good idea. The one problem about going to races live is not being able to see all the action around the track (unless it is Sochi), bar the large screen.
   1. 

      Jere (@jerejj)
      10th May 2018, 7:26

      @vettelfan17 Not even in Sochi. The only way to see an entire circuit at once without having to rely on a giant trackside TV screen for seeing all the action that happens on the rest of the track would be to fly above it, LOL. You can only ever see so much of a circuit by your own eyes from a grandstand.
      1. 

         spoutnik (@spoutnik)
         10th May 2018, 13:04

         @vettelfan17 @jerejj maybe at the top of the tower at COTA?
         1. 

            Jere (@jerejj)
            10th May 2018, 18:51

            @spoutnik I doubt that to some extent at least based on the images taken from the top of it that I’ve seen. From those images it doesn’t look like every single corner/part of the circuit would be viewable from there.
   2. 

      Cronies
      10th May 2018, 10:54

      At which race can you see the biggest percentage of the track?
5. 

   Mick Nicholson
   9th May 2018, 21:55

   Will a fanvisiondevice bought in the year before f1 canned the service still be compatible ?
   1. 

      ColdFly (@)
      10th May 2018, 13:22

      I assume you rent those boxes.
6. 

   FormulaLes (@formulales)
   9th May 2018, 22:02

   I hired one of these at the 2011 Australian Grand Prix. At the time it was really great and well worth the money.

   Hopefully with advances in technology their units in 2018 are much more compact, or they have some sort of app that means you can stream it to your device
   1. 

      benF1
      9th May 2018, 22:48

      Me too except 2007ish I didn’t realise they weren’t still available. I think I spent the whole time watching kubicas onboard and live timings. And then all the subsequent years wondering why this wasn’t available as a digital TV offering.
7. 

   Superleggera (@superleggera)
   10th May 2018, 1:24

   Seems fairly superfluous once (read: ‘if’) the streaming service is available in the country where the race is being held
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   Caroline Miles (@caroline12)
   10th May 2018, 6:08

   Hope they have improved reception. We hired one in Monaco, along with quite a lot of others on our Grandstand, and nearly all of us couldn’t get a signal for the majority of the weekend. They gave us a refund but we had such high hopes and were so disappointed.
9. 

   Mickrock (@mickrock)
   10th May 2018, 14:46

   This company continues to get shot in the foot by F1.
   By the time this gets back up and popular, F1 will launch their ‘live product’ and we’ll be able to watch what we want on phones. And Fanvision will get shot again…
10. 

    smudgersmith1 (@smudgersmith1)
    11th May 2018, 5:32

    I bought a fanvision unit thinking I could use it for a few seasons and Bernie pulled the plug, leaving me with a useless piece of 300 dollar crap.
    I wonder if the new systems will still work after 5 years ….maybe not.

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