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Foxtel Channel 521 is going HD 1st April

West Australian Racing
GrayGray    4,090 posts
West Australian Racing
Advertised in page 9 of their TV mag down the bottom of page

Awesome, shame 519 isn't also going HD at this time.


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  • LuckyLongshotsLuckyLongshots    4,270 posts
    About time - the quality of race broadcasting in this country has been below par for a long, long time!

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  • GrayGray    4,090 posts
    Up and running today, looks the goods

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  • GrayGray    4,090 posts
    massive improvement compared to 519 and 520

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  • SLIPPERGOLDENSLIPPERGOLDEN    8,413 posts
    Agree Gray now how about the same application to other Sky racing channels

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  • LuckyLongshotsLuckyLongshots    4,270 posts
    Does look very nice (as expected), albeit funny how it gets debuted on Sydney's big day!

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  • paraleticparaletic    3,750 posts
    LuckyLongshots said:

    Does look very nice (as expected), albeit funny how it gets debuted on Sydney's big day!

    Starting to get a little peeved with the sydney bias with Sky. If you watch the wash up show on sunday morning its all Sydney, even when they had G1s over in Melbourne standard syd races have priority
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  • LuckyLongshotsLuckyLongshots    4,270 posts
    Sky = Sydney

    To be expected given the channel is based there and with Melbourne cutting ties last year, of course they'll give Sydney the bias.

    Still not sure how Perth Racing don't get every race shown on a Saturday - that's the disgraceful part!
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  • therealkramertherealkramer    8,008 posts
    paraletic said:

    LuckyLongshots said:

    Does look very nice (as expected), albeit funny how it gets debuted on Sydney's big day!

    Starting to get a little peeved with the sydney bias with Sky. If you watch the wash up show on sunday morning its all Sydney, even when they had G1s over in Melbourne standard syd races have priority
    But we have such a beautiful harbour 8->
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  • LuckyLongshotsLuckyLongshots    4,270 posts
    So no Pinjarra on Sky HD - is this because of Pinjarra not having HD capabilities?
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  • therealkramertherealkramer    8,008 posts
    LuckyLongshots said:

    So no Pinjarra on Sky HD - is this because of Pinjarra not having HD capabilities?

    This was what I thinking. Maybe I am way off but don't you have to film HD vision with HD cameras?......prepares to be shot down by someone who knows otherwise %-(   L-)

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  • G-MacG-Mac    1,677 posts

    That sounds right Kramer and Lucky

    Their press release mentioned 137 tracks across the country which could beam HD vision. I haven't seen a list of where those tracks are.

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  • therealkramertherealkramer    8,008 posts
    edited April 2016
    G-Mac said:

    That sounds right Kramer and Lucky

    Their press release mentioned 137 tracks across the country which could beam HD vision. I haven't seen a list of where those tracks are.

    They said HD would be broadcast for races in QLD, NSW & ACT so all along the Eastern Coast excluding Racing.com's territory. It seems to hint at the reason being expense/logisitcs. Sometimes Perth races-and HK-are featured on Thoroughbred Central though(usually after the NSW/ Qld races are finished). I'm not sure how they will manage that now? I have access to both SD & HD versions of ch521 on the online version of Sky Channel.
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  • therealkramertherealkramer    8,008 posts
    edited April 2016
    http://www.skyracing.com.au/index.php?component=content&Itemid=121&id=97

    ^^ If you click on the button that says 'channels' in that link you see the options that are available: i.e Sky 1, 2, Sky Thoroughbred Central, STC HD...but I assume you can't alternate between channels on Foxtel. So does that mean the channel just broadcasts the SD version of Perth much like Foxtel did with the analogue versions of FTA channels in the past or still does if you have the non-digital set top box?
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  • LuckyLongshotsLuckyLongshots    4,270 posts
    Well they were showing HK in HD yesterday. But no Pinjarra, which I found odd, given it was Cup day.
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  • tonytony    2,436 posts
    They have not covered Sunday WA racing for some time.
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  • paraleticparaletic    3,750 posts

    the broadcast of the last few Perth races on sky central was a joke on Saturday. the microphone was crackling out of control. they then try and switch from Macca to the mounting yard and it wasn't working so you missed a bit of the after race interview. Not good enough.

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  • LuckyLongshotsLuckyLongshots    4,270 posts
    edited April 2016
    paraletic said:

    the broadcast of the last few Perth races on sky central was a joke on Saturday. the microphone was crackling out of control. they then try and switch from Macca to the mounting yard and it wasn't working so you missed a bit of the after race interview. Not good enough.

    Would think this is a problem of the production from Perth Racing.  I have noticed many times in the past the audio is out of sync when interviews are being done, not sure if that's because they're using wireless mics or not!

    Does Perth Racing still have that massive production truck?
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