Do not buy the on-ride DVD.

Did anyone email and get a reply from the park about this yet?

I called and I am waiting for a response. I will send an e-mail when I get home from work.

Poor CP, they've been put on Consumerist.

No doubt they'll be responding now.

I'd emailed Cedar Point and CDRIDE Sunday at 1 am and have not received a reply yet. Today I called and left a message at CDRIDE, I'm still waiting on a reply. When I called Cedar Point I got hung up upon after asking who is incharged of the CDRIDE on Raptor and may I speak to that person.

ouch... that's not good on their part.

wow CP droped the ball on this one. here is the cam http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=6529

That's just on the front seats, the others are mounted to the backs of the seats in front of them.

I always ride front seat on inverts, so I hope these things aren't annoying being right on front of me. The whole reason I ride front is to watch the track whiz by and have an unobstructed view.

It looks like they're secured up top, and maybe only hang an inch or two down from it. I don't think they look like they'll impede your view much.

Here is another view:

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=6531

Dose Raptor still have its onride Photo now that this "Video" has been installed?

People have said the still image is just a frame from the video.

Go check out the FAQ @ cdride.info/ look at the first question.

LOL!

Well, today was the first time I'd ever seen the ride photo booth go down for mechanical difficulties. Then again, the ride its self followed suit for most of the later part of the day...

Hi guys,

Let me introduce myself, My name is Al and I’m the Product Manager for CDRide Corp.

Surprisingly enough I would actually like to thank you guys for your input. For the past two years since launching (in Ocean city, New Jersey) we have been striving to better our product, and as harsh as it may be reading these words, we can learn and implement a lot of changes from you guys (no butt kissing here), the fans of roller coasters. Actually, this is who we are too and how this product began.

As opposed to your comments, CDRide is hardly a huge Gas/Oil Corporation. We Started off three and a half years ago after visiting a killer thrill park, thinking… hmm… wouldn’t it be cool if instead of this picture our grandmother would put in an album and never look at again, we could actually video tape our ride, kicking and screaming and show it off to our friends.

Being the tech addicts we are, we immediately set up at a friend’s house and developed the basics for this technology literally from our garage.
We then moved on to establish CDRide Corp. and make our dream a reality. After endless tests and overcoming many and enormous technological barriers we finally began commercial development, and if you think you can just install a simple video camera on a ride an shoot the darn thing… think again! – it takes 70 engineers, physicists, optics specialists, software engineers, video specialists, tech supporters and many more - day and night to make it happen!

Our technology is the only one in the market that has proven to actually work and YES, this costs money.
We’re not greedy, we offer a full DVD video clip edited online for just a few dimes more than what you would have paid for a one poll camera output during these last 15 years.

The Raptor is one of our premium rides this year (along many other with Cedar Fair rides), it contains 48 digital wireless video cameras with huge servers behind it, filming in 29.97fps full D1 resolution and 48Khz stereo audio. Generating 10800 movies a day!!! – that’s 324,000 movies a month!!!
All rumbling under extreme G, quaking the electronic devices on-board.

After reading your comments we have decided to make a few amends:

A. Send out a film crew to reshoot the movie with specific ride materials – including never before filmed P.O.V. shots of the raptor and a re-edit of the whole movie from ground up.
I will keep you updated here on what it is ready (most likely mid June)

B. Offer each of you guys an replacement product and a complementary treat from us.
Come by our booth at CedarPoint and we’ll replace your DVD with the new re-edited version.
Again I will post a thread as soon as we’ll deploy the new movie.

C. Open my door to any of your suggestions on how to make this product work better for you guys and also try to answer any technical questions you may have on our system and how it works. just email al.orion@cdride.com with any idea and I promise to try and reply as soon as I can.

I can assure you this - we constantly aim to improve our product, not only for you guys – but also because we love what we do.

Sincerely,

Al Orion
Product Manager
CDRide Corp.
al.orion@cdride.com
*** Edited 5/15/2007 2:01:25 PM UTC by Al Orion***

Thats sounds awesome!!!!

Hows that for service??

Al, that is pretty great of you to come on here and address these issues head on.

Says alot for your company!

Awesome. I'll reconsider getting one then. Will the re-edited version include more than 30 secs of the riders? I would love to get the whole ride of myself riding, and then perhaps some cool off-ride shots of Raptor. I don't see why there has to be footage of other rides?

That's amazing service. I'll probably end up buying one later in the season then. Thanks for listening to your consumers, the same can't be said for all companies. Can't wait to see the new product!

What I thought would be a good edit would be a mix of your rider reactions, and first- and third-person video all timed to be edited together to show the fluid ride. Keep most of the weight on the rider reaction video, but use the F- and T-Person shots to establish where in the ride you are with 1-2 second cuts.

Al, That's awesome that you guys have seen the complaints and are going to do something about it. I'll look forward to getting one later this year when I visit.