This is what I understand will happen for the USGP. ABC will cover it real time with their typical approach and.... Speedvision will cover it the same day, but on a taped delay basis. Speedvision will have all the practices covered live and the taped delay coverage will have all the great in-car camera shots that we are all used to getting. My plan is just watch the Speedvision coverage and try to avoid all sports channels that might give the end results before I get to see the race.

 

Sorry SV folks, but it's great news if you're stuck in a city that doesn't know SV exists. With CART bailing out, it's really good news. I haven't seen an F1 race this season, since Fox no longer covers it. Now if only Honda can get competive!

 

dlq04, your right! I've only had SV for 4 years and remember all to well the days of no F1 TV coverage after ESPN lost coverage rights, and my cable provider didn't carry SP. In any case enjoy the show. I wish that more folks in the US were into F1. Maybe with the advent of the USGP @ Indy. more people will get exposure to this form of racing and get hooked on it. There is nothing on the planet that rivals the music of a F1 race start!

 

Dlq04,

Although I do sympathize, and I recall the days bSV, the advent of direct satellite TV makes Speedvision available to anybody who wants it. I currently get Speedvision with my cable subscription (and would prefer to stick with cable rather than get a dish), however if it meant the difference between having Speedvision or not, I'd be up on the roof installing the dish right now.


And the coverage is soooo soooo soooo much better, even for F1 where they don't actually control the cameras themselves.

Clark

 

Clark, I've looked in the dish thing. First the cost of the dish, second SV is in about the 4th tier of shows once you get it, and third, I'd loss local programing which my wife, bless her, thinks is critical to life. Since we are 45 to 90 minutes from these local broadcast stations we would have to have a very large and ugly TV antenna. Put it all together, the dish idea is not a viable solution.

 

Does this mean it's not going to be covered by SPEEDVISION?? You mean roundy rounds could be taken over? OOH that gives me chills YUK!