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With the terrific work of Sean Buckley, Dean Mills, Jeff Converse and Mark Meeks - we at race/network were able to stream to you, Live, the Western World Championships.

As of last week we put up the On-Demand rebroadcast of both Friday and Saturday night's action. For the sake of getting these greats races up for people to watch again, we did not spend anytime to edit, alter, or enhance any of the footage. What you have is the raw footage that was captured on both nights of the Western.... approx. 11 hours between Fri. and Sat.

For those who were unable to attend or did not purchase the Live Stream from racenetwork.tv, you missed out on one of the greatest runs put in by any Open Wheel driver. Jerry Coons Jr. drove a simply unreal race on Sat. Night for his 21st victory of the year.

Watch Jerry sweep both nights of the Western World in dominant fashion racing against the best of the best. Catch it all in its entirety at race/network (http://www.racenetwork.tv)

Friday $3.99
Coons Wins and Ballou goes for a wild ride.

Saturday $5.99
Jerry Coons Jr. unbelievable run from 24th to 1st and Hagen from 26th to 5th! Plus Late Models with JJ Yeley in the field.

PS If you see green light on the front stretch, that is not from us, Manzy actually had a green bulb in one of their light towers.
The main night from the Belleville Midget Nationals is also available - another great performance by Jerry Coons Jr. (this has been edited, but none of the racing was cut)

That was indeed great coverage by your team. Excellent camera work and Sean did a SUPER job calling the action. Regarding the green light on the front stretch - your cameras were indeed properly white balanced - no worries there. Seems the lighting at Manzy hasn't improved much since I was there for the TNN Slick 50 winter series years ago. TNN brought in extra lighting but it was still a mixed-match of color temperature all around the track - I call it "jelly-bean" colored lighting. When lamps of the variety they use age they begin to deviate from their original color temperature and they start turning off-color. In terms non-technical folks can understand -- human eyes are able to adapt to different color temperature lighting and see "white as white". Video cameras have to be "white balanced" and "black balanced" to tell the camera's electronics what to interpret as white and black. Basically you have to tell the camera what is white and what is black and it takes it from there. All colors produced by the camera is based upon those baseline reference readings to produce properly color corrected images. When video cameras are not properly white (and black) balanced - white is not white but rather pink, green or blue-ish and the same goes for black -- and I dislike that a LOT (please refer to my previous rants in the SPEED and the WoO finale thread).

Now that I've got that out of my system (once again) -- I have a question. If you buy the replay is the fee for a one time viewing or can you come back at a later date and watch it again?

Phil Taylor

home-theater-systems-advice.com

Will picture quality improve? I projected up on a ten foot screen and it looked to be about ½ SD broadcast quality, but I still enjoyed the hell out of it.

Phil, any opinions on the PT-AE2000U projector, get it now or wait? I'm on a 2600 lumens, 3 lcd, 1024x768 unit now.

Streamed video over the internet "is what it is" - and the bigger you view it the more apparent the digital compression artifacts will be. Even over a very quick broadband connection packets must remain manageable in order to accommodate multiple simultaneous viewers unless you have servers the size of one of the major broadcast networks (and even their streaming video doesn't look all that great on a 7ft wide projection screen).

As for the new Panasonic 1080p projector I haven't seen one yet in person but it's getting very good reviews like this one at Projector Central. http://www.projectorcentral.com/panasonic_ae2000_home_theater_projector.htm

It's only 1500 lumens but should do fine in an ambient lighting controlled environment - and has some VERY nice features such as power zoom and focus, both horizontal and vertical lens shift and great contrast specs. I'd go ahead and get it now if you like it -- street prices won't drop much on it for quite a while yet since it just started shipping earlier this month. At $2699 it's a very good entry into "1080p-land".

Phil Taylor

home-theater-systems-advice.com