Okay, you're wondering what Family Guy has to do with F1. Bear with me. I have a large number of series recordings set on my DVR. One of these is the animated Fox show Family Guy. Last night I finished watching another recorded show and deleted it, which brought me back to live TV. The Family Guy recording had ended about nine minutes earlier, but what should confront my eyes but the very episode that was supposed to be over?
So I pulled up the recording of The Simpsons from 90 minutes before and found the recording polluted with about 25 minutes from the end of whatever boring NASCAR race took place this weekend. As I fast-forwarded through this tripe it hit me that I was scrolling through a technically beautiful, high-definition telecast, live and complete with TV heads right there at the track (using the term loosely).
Although there is much to enjoy and praise about SpeedTV's F1 broadcast's here in the States, it sadly still cannot be found in HD, nor is the crew normally physically at the track. That's when the contradiction hit me: NASCAR is stuck by rule and choice in the deep technological past yet is covered by the most technically sophisticated means here in America. F1 is the most technologically advanced motorsport (currently threatened by the FIA's bag 'o rules, but that's for another post), but is covered in a limited way, with archaic technology, and often tape-delayed when optioned by the "major" networks.
So what did Family Guy have to do with F1? Not much besides prompting me to write this post. But now they are forever linked...or however long the 0s and 1s that make this post exist somewhere on a server hard drive.
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