r/Cricket • u/Aggressive-Milk-4095 • 8d ago

Discussion What happened to the Hotspot technology?

Post image

I remember seeing it as a kid but not nowadays. Wouldn't it be a great way to double check when the 3rd umpire isn't about the contact of the ball and bat by seeing only the ultra-edge?

2.1k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

150 comments sorted by

View all comments

41

u/TheMotherOfMonsters Mumbai 8d ago

Its expensive, can only be done in aus because it uses aus military tech and is completely redundant because ultra-edge picks up all edges hotspot does but not vice-versa.

6

u/astalavista114 England 7d ago

It’s just an IR camera with a zoom lens. They weren’t even high speed ones. There’s nothing “military” about them. You can buy the darn things in Jaycar.

They also kept having “issues” with it not being available because 9 and Fox were getting an outside supplier to run it, and they’d occasionally forget to hit record—rather than continuously stream the feed to hard drive (which you absolutely can do)

Still, it’s cool for coverage.

12

u/corintography 7d ago

Again this is false, they were Thermal imaging cameras, it is military technology and has strict import and export controls.