<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>somehnguy</author><text>&amp;gt;Major benefit of analog video is a progressive degradation of quality as a signal gets weaker and almost instant reacquisition after a complete dropout. I&amp;#x27;m curious to see how DJI competes with that on a digital video.&lt;p&gt;The good news is that you can find that out right now. DJI HD FPV has been available for over a year, this is just their first drone offering in the category.&lt;p&gt;The short answer is that it degrades very gracefully. They have what they call &amp;#x27;focus mode&amp;#x27;, where the edges of the video lose quality before the middle (where the data matters the most). Once you&amp;#x27;ve used up that signal degradation threshold the rest of the frame slowly degrades to a lower bitrate, and then after that latency starts rising.&lt;p&gt;After flying analog for 5 years it only took me about 1 day to strongly prefer the DJI FPV video solution. The range is far better, and the video is mind-blowingly clear when compared to analog. On anything but my racing specific drones I have been installing the DJI HD FPV system instead of normal analog gear.</text><parent_chain><item><author>magnat</author><text>&amp;gt; Low res analog video -&amp;gt; high res digital video&lt;p&gt;Major benefit of analog video is a progressive degradation of quality as a signal gets weaker and almost instant reacquisition after a complete dropout. I&amp;#x27;m curious to see how DJI competes with that on a digital video.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ~5 minutes fly time -&amp;gt; ~20 minutes fly time&lt;p&gt;For FPV racing that&amp;#x27;s rather a downgrade. Ideally you&amp;#x27;d like to land with almost empty battery right after finishing the course. Any leftover charge is a dead weight that only slows you down. But then again - I don&amp;#x27;t think this drone will be used in competitive FPV racing.</text></item><item><author>Dave_Rosenthal</author><text>There has been a huge divide in the drone world between high performance first person view (FPV) drones capable of acrobatics and the &amp;quot;tripod in the sky&amp;quot; type drones that companies like DJI have popularized. The former has been very DIY and the latter have attracted companies to build integrated solutions.&lt;p&gt;This new drone from DJI brings an truly staggering amount of innovation and integration to the FPV space:&lt;p&gt;- Low res analog video -&amp;gt; high res digital video&lt;p&gt;- Modest transmission range -&amp;gt; long range&lt;p&gt;- Integrated simulation to learn to fly&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Bail out&amp;quot; button that almost instantly nulls drone movement and puts it in a stationary hover&lt;p&gt;- ~5 minutes fly time -&amp;gt; ~20 minutes fly time&lt;p&gt;- Adjustable camera tilt on the fly to maintain level horizon at a variety of drone speeds (drone tilts more with speed)&lt;p&gt;Extremely impressive first offering in this category.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DJI FPV</title><url>https://www.dji.com/dji-fpv</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baybal2</author><text>&amp;gt; Major benefit of analog video is a progressive degradation of quality as a signal gets weaker and almost instant reacquisition after a complete dropout. I&amp;#x27;m curious to see how DJI competes with that on a digital video.&lt;p&gt;Waiting for a degradation tolerant codec.&lt;p&gt;Old MPEGs were, as they had broadcast use in mind, but even 264 blow them out of the water on compression nowadays.&lt;p&gt;Loss tolerant codec + modern channel coding will likelly outrange analog for quality picture</text><parent_chain><item><author>magnat</author><text>&amp;gt; Low res analog video -&amp;gt; high res digital video&lt;p&gt;Major benefit of analog video is a progressive degradation of quality as a signal gets weaker and almost instant reacquisition after a complete dropout. I&amp;#x27;m curious to see how DJI competes with that on a digital video.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ~5 minutes fly time -&amp;gt; ~20 minutes fly time&lt;p&gt;For FPV racing that&amp;#x27;s rather a downgrade. Ideally you&amp;#x27;d like to land with almost empty battery right after finishing the course. Any leftover charge is a dead weight that only slows you down. But then again - I don&amp;#x27;t think this drone will be used in competitive FPV racing.</text></item><item><author>Dave_Rosenthal</author><text>There has been a huge divide in the drone world between high performance first person view (FPV) drones capable of acrobatics and the &amp;quot;tripod in the sky&amp;quot; type drones that companies like DJI have popularized. The former has been very DIY and the latter have attracted companies to build integrated solutions.&lt;p&gt;This new drone from DJI brings an truly staggering amount of innovation and integration to the FPV space:&lt;p&gt;- Low res analog video -&amp;gt; high res digital video&lt;p&gt;- Modest transmission range -&amp;gt; long range&lt;p&gt;- Integrated simulation to learn to fly&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Bail out&amp;quot; button that almost instantly nulls drone movement and puts it in a stationary hover&lt;p&gt;- ~5 minutes fly time -&amp;gt; ~20 minutes fly time&lt;p&gt;- Adjustable camera tilt on the fly to maintain level horizon at a variety of drone speeds (drone tilts more with speed)&lt;p&gt;Extremely impressive first offering in this category.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DJI FPV</title><url>https://www.dji.com/dji-fpv</url></story>