Amazon Instant Video for Clarkson, Hammond & May

The latter.

The news of Amazon Prime is very disappointing for viewers in Ireland who had the three guys presenting the old TG series.

Although as Ripper Street used to be co-produced with RTE and BBC NI and continues to be shown on RTE One in Ireland. There could be a likelihood that it could be shown on there for Irish viewers in the future.

Or

TV3 may snag the rights in Ireland to it if necessary if they have a scope for online TV shows.

Suspect this might trigger a little boost in Amazon Fire TV Stick sales... Particularly if they do a promotion to co-incide with the series launch. They've sold them for £25 in the UK in the past, and as little as US$20 in the States... (UK List price is £35) Wonder if they'll do a bundle with a year of Amazon Prime?

BSkyB own 39% of Roku as of late 2014.

I had a Now TV box which was £20 for 3 months when Game of Thrones was on so if Amazon did something similar it would definitely attract new users.

or could Amazon potentially sell this to ITV or another UK broadcaster a few weeks after the online airing?

Or perhaps shortly before series 2 launches, to raise interest.

An interesting aside .....

Amazon Instant Video is to be headed up by Alex Green the head of BT TV for the past four years,

(Source DTG)

This should be in UHD/4K, as all recent Amazon Originals have been produced in this format.

Will be a big selling point.

Are there UHD/4k mini cameras yet that can be used inside vehicles?

The new GoPro 4 can shoot 4K at up to 30 frames a second. Great little cameras.

Not great for reliability though. And they have that god-awful lens.

Did a job recently where we had 6 go-pros. Only 2 of them recorded everything we wanted. Two of the others crashed, one corrupted it's file system and the other pretended it was recording, when actually it was just storing the same still frame over-and-over again. That said, they're cheap, easy to rig, and when they work, you get pretty decent pictures (crap lens aside), so we just stick extras on the jobs we use them on and hope for the best. Would never use one for critical footage though.

There are some appearing. But you'd probably also be able to shoot the in-car stuff on good 1080p stuff if you wanted to and upscale for those sequences.

Suspect this means the show will go entirely 24/25p with no 50Hz motion on any internal 'studio', and circuit test, elements ? (Traditionally the studio and Star in a Reasonably Priced Car elements have usually been 50Hz - and look 'odd' on most iPlayer versions - excl Sky HD iPlayer and non-Tivo Virgin)