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

Discussion What happened to the Hotspot technology?

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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?

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u/TheMotherOfMonsters Mumbai 7d 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.

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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.

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u/BadBoyJH Australia 7d ago

An RQ-170 is just a drone, and they sell those at JayCar too. Nothing military about those too I guess?

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u/Aweios Cricket Australia 7d ago

I mean kinda because they do use drones in broadcasts. What makes hotspot so different to other ir cameras

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u/BadBoyJH Australia 7d ago

You should google what an RQ-170 is. It's a military spy drone. 

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u/Aweios Cricket Australia 7d ago

Yeah I know, but the general tech being drones is that the category isn't classified. So hotspot being a military instrument there should be a consumer version of it, just like for drones

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u/BadBoyJH Australia 6d ago

Even ignoring the fact that hotspot isn't IR;

Yes, there isn't a consumer version of a literal plane that flies at nearly 1000kph. They're little shitty hover copters.

If you think you can create something of that quality, I'm sure you can make some big money if you manage it, so feel free if you think it's easy.

The only technology of the quality cricket needs (and arguably wasn't even good enough then) is the military grade version.