America's Cup: First glimpse of new TV package from Media Trials

1:30 AM Mon 9 May 2011 GMT

'34th America's Cup - AC45 Test Event - Day 9' Gilles Martin-Raget/www.americascup.com Click Here to view large photo

The first video images from the America's Cup Media Trials have been released, showing clips from the much vaunted enhanced television coverage. A key part of the new offering will be the on-screen virtual lines overlaid to show laylines, which boat is ahead and behind and by what margin, and other on-screen information. Unfortunately there is insufficient continuous footage to be able to determine if the system is an improvement over the previous America's Cup coverage which relied heavily on Virtual Eye's computer graphics to provide similar viewer information. What the clip does show is what information can be overlaid. ...

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by Richard Gladwell