HIGH DEFINITION ON INDY RACE CARS!

www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com

If you watched the in Indy 500, then you probably noticed a unique camera view where it rotated in 360 panning degrees! This is not new to auto racing, but High Definition is!

High Def is a real treat where you will be able to make out the telementry lights off of the steering wheel!

6 cars were specially hand picked to carry these cameras. The first question you will ask is did these select cars have a disadvantage from an aerodynamic point of view?

These cameras were mounted on specially designed shells atop the cars intake. Broadcast Sports, Inc. worked with the Indy League to design, and wind tunnel test the mounts to make sure that they could handle speeds up to 220 miles per hour.

These cameras really shined during car passes, and watching the event during pit stops. You have the approach, turn in, and stop, pit event, and you have the take off, traffic merge in pit row, and the capability to see everything on all four corners!


This camera system became a "forensic" evidence when Danica Patrick was sideswiped by Ryan Briscoe coming out of pit row on lap 171. You saw first hand the bump, and then the left rear suspension being smashed in realtime causing her to crash, and watch her chances at an Indy win come to a complete stop!

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jTZ6rfrkXnQ-ykVBfdbUMXMK1B2AD90ST3R01

http://www.danicaracing.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danica_Patrick

http://www.ryanbriscoe.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Briscoe



If you are a true race fan then you will want to view this!
INDYCAR RACE CONTROL!

http://www.mediazone.com/channel/racing/index.jsp

http://downforce.indycar.com/demos/MediaZonePlayer.html



W&W Communications

http://www.wwcoms.com/products/lbroadcasting.html

CHIPSET PDF
http://www.wwcoms.com/products/product_brochures/ww20k-pb-r2.pdf

DEVELOPMENT KIT PDF
http://www.wwcoms.com/products/product_brochures/ww20k-pb-r2.pdf

Broadcast quality HD video, low bit rates and low delay delivered by the WW20000BA H.264 encoder from W&W Communications

W&W Communications, Inc., the leader in H.264 HD codecs, today announced that its WW20000BA H.264 HD encoder was successfully used by Broadcast Sports, Inc. inside their on-board wireless HD cameras for transmission of live video feeds from racecars in this month's Daytona 500 race.




http://www.l-3com.com/wescam/products/products_services_5_2a_1.asp
http://www.l-3com.com/wescam/products/products_services_1g.asp


Broadcast Sports, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3 Communications/WESCAM, delivered the compact, wireless HD broadcast camera systems that were mounted in the cockpits of several cars in the race. A COFDM microwave transmission link provided non line-of-sight transmission of the AV bit stream to production and satellite uplink units. The WW20000BA video encoder was used in these camera systems to compress the video in HD broadcast quality at bit rates low enough and with very low latency, to make live coverage in HD over wireless links possible from cameras within the racecars.


http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/510904

Will this be technology that will spill over in to CCTV video surveillance?

http://www.wwcoms.com/products/vsurveillance.html

http://www.wwcoms.com/products/realtime_video.html

http://www.wwcoms.com/products/introduction.html



What was your favorite part of the race?