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Originally Posted by chillibowl
so i got out of my comfort zone and watched a couple of hours of the free live feed of the 24. all be it i watched in small chucks at a time...20-30 min here and there kind of thing.
certainly the actual racing was enjoyable but i found the quality of the live stream, lack of on screen graphics and the commentating made it more confusing then it should have been. in some ways i felt i was watching a broadcast from the 90's.
obviously there is a lot more to keep track of but i felt that more often then not this was not solely down to my lack of knowledge as the announcers were often struggling to match their comments to the actual cars/images on screen (which could easily be a function of having to fill up 24 hours with talking).
but then there was the lack of resolution and bandwidth of the live feed. while it was ok on my mobile, casting it to my TV screen was not good.
maybe not the the right thread for this point, but while i enjoyed just watching racing and not really caring about who was in what car (a new world to discover  ) but there was a noticeable lack of broadcasting polish which i have come to expect not just from F1 but all sports i watch which happen to be behind a pay wall.
definitely spoiled in terms of picture quality so without a proper HD stream/feed it struggled to hold interest. |
The IMSA international stream is a bit of a hybrid job. Fox control the cameras, whilst Radio Le Mans control the audio (IMSA Radio is produced by Radio Show Limited, which is RLM). So when Fox goes to TV ads, we just get left with onboard cameras. Or Fox could be deciding to watch the lead prototype doing nothing but lapping on its own, whilst there's a great battle in the GTLM or GTD class, which RLM is commentating on.
The stream quality this year was abysmal. The fact it even worked for you is a miracle. It's been slow and buffering all weekend.
Generally, IMSA concentrates on the American TV and the rest of the world gets the international stream which is a compromise. But I much prefer the RLM commentators over FOX.
Oh and believe it or not, those graphics are better than last year. They used to have the P and GTLM classes both shown in red, and PC and GTD classes shown in green. Now it's silver for P, red for GTLM and green for GTD.