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Originally Posted by skeena1
Lets keeps in mind its quite likely the camera in the drone recorded the footage, landed and then the footage was uploaded and edited. Not quite ready for "broadcast."
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You would be shocked at what you can buy as consumer Joe now. This stuff is moving incredibly fast. I have a DJI Phantom Vision, and it broadcasts FPV straight to the phone or flight goggles, records HD (streams to your tablet in SD) and stays airborne for 25 minutes on a single charge. I made a simple antenna mod to mine, and I can fly it 2kms away, and still have a clean FPV signal. These also have autonomous flight options available that you can load flight plans from your ipad. And if it loses signal, no problem, it auto pilots bake to it's take offl spot, and lands itself.
I just upgraded to the Vision+ which adds a 3D stabilized gimbal for ridiculously smooth video. All this only costs you $1500-$2000 now. And DJI just released light bridge which streams HD from the drone instead of SD. Basically, 5 years ago, these could be sold to the military for $60-100k/copy, and are now available at your local hobby shop. It's scary.
Right now if you want to go full prosumer, and have $10k to spend you can buy drones that can handle SLR's, stay airborne for 40 minutes on a single charge, and shoot cinema quality stabilized video. You can also set up a dual pilot mode, where one controls the craft, the other controls the camera. Sending a broadcast feed from them is entirely doable as well now. And with the 8 prop rigs, which they would likely use for this, they can have up to 2 props fail before they crash.
This is awesome if true.