Yes that is an issue.
But remember the live action on the inhouse video is shot in the stadium, switched in the production truck, beamed up to a satellite, down to the effects production folks, back up to another satellite, down to the network, back up to another satellite and back to the local station and then broadcast, picked up by the cable company and fed back into the stadium. All told enough time to watch the play live and then again on the TV set!
In the days of baseball being new on radio, the play by play was telegraphed to the studio where the announcer would read it as if he were watching it live, but the clicks were heard in the background. It was known for guys who knew Morse code to make bar bets such as when a fellow approached the plate to offer to bet the would hit a home run.
Not sure if folks are placing internet bets during the games today.
So the tradition is for the electronic live version to be all screwed up from the begining.
A side story, when the Pittsburgh Pirate baseball team played at Forbes Field, the press box was added after the ballpark had been open for a while. So it was hung from the upper deck. To save weight the floor was an open grating, made by the folks who made them for battleships and later seen as sidewalk vents.
The rather feisty woman who was the first radio sportscaster in town on her first time doing a baseball game, entered the press box to the other horrified folks there. As they tried to usher her out, she at first resisted what she thought was rather rude and inappropriate sexism. Finally one of the guys pointed down to the crowd below the floor who were looking up. Next time she came she wore slacks instead of a skirt with only a slip.
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In those quarters, time is engineered to stand still.
Right Howie. I make use of it too.
The application you saw earlier is not the handiest of all but makes available all the filters on my latest receiver. MW/FM/DAB filter takes care of the images from the strong broadcasting transmitters around (the curse of many SDR dongles).
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George
My brother is the pastor at a church in Dennis Port, MA.
I could ask him to pop over and minister to your spiritual needs if you like.
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If he doesn't wear a white suit and have a wife called Tammy-sue or similar then he's just not in the same league as Scott was referring to!
Nah. Regular kind of decent guy with a PhD in Theology who I have one or two many beers and whiskies with when we get together 😉
Ha! That reminded me of something:
A few decades ago, back when Jim & Tammy Faye were a thing, the Roland Corp. were having trouble with some of their chip sockets. The PLCC receptacles in certain digital pianos weren't holding the ICs tightly enough, resulting in all manner of intermittent freezes & crashes. Someone came up with these little plastic comb-thingies, which we jammed into the socket behind the contact loops. This increased the contact tension just enough to keep the chip from taking a walk.
This mod was offered at no charge; it never even got a part #. We field techs were simply instructed to order the "Tammy Faye mod," as apparently the little parts reminded someone of Tammy's long fake eyelashes!
Just had a look through the Roland bins here in the shop, and by god I still got some! (I laid out a couple of 'em on top of the bag here)
As a side note, this little piece of archaeology also reveals my meager early attempt at a computerized parts inventory. That label was likely printed from a database kept in my trusty Psion Series 3c! Anyone remember those? 🙂
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Yes - the psion organisers were brilliant - portable, massive battery life, and features still missing from modern calendar apps....
Yup I remember them and Psion for a very specific reason. Back in about 1998/9 I’d decided I’d had enough of Philips and was hunting for a job elsewhere. An interview came up with a crowd down in Reading for a marketing job. I went down for the interview and the guy I spoke to was the marketing director for Psion and they were looking to go into what I can now describe accurately as IoT.
He had an ego the size of a truck and spoke for most of the two hours I had to endure. Anyway, cut a long story short, I drove back home to my town, Buxton. It was summer and I remember driving through the countryside from Chesterfield to Buxton across the beautiful Derbyshire countryside and thinking why would I move down there to a rat race to work for a guy like that. I got a call about a week later for a second interview and politely declined.
My situation at Philips improved over the next few months and I decided to stick it out. Wise move on my part for all sorts of wonderful reasons career wise
Sometimes being interviewed by a jerk can have pleasant ramifications.
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He had an ego the size of a truck and spoke for most of the two hours I had to endure. Anyway, cut a long story short, I drove back home to my town, Buxton. It was summer and I remember driving through the countryside from Chesterfield to Buxton across the beautiful Derbyshire countryside and thinking why would I move down there to a rat race to work for a guy like that. I got a call about a week later for a second interview and politely declined.
My situation at Philips improved over the next few months and I decided to stick it out. Wise move on my part for all sorts of wonderful reasons career wise
Sometimes being interviewed by a jerk can have pleasant ramifications.
🙂
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IMHO an academic analysis of a cow pie by a PhD (Post Hole Digger) would not be able to make the stink palatable...
But I like Jandek's music fine...I could hear David Thomas singing over it at times...
Cheers!
Howie
And on the technical side... I just came across a consultant's specification for 30,000 seat stadium where for the microphone and line lever cable he has found a shielded twisted pair type that specifies 13 pF per foot.
Last guy who tried using lower capacitance cable tried to tell the electronics manufacturer his gear did not have flat frequency response!
Typical audio, and one parameter shall rule!
Last guy who tried using lower capacitance cable tried to tell the electronics manufacturer his gear did not have flat frequency response!
Typical audio, and one parameter shall rule!
Last night I wanted something soothing for washing up time so put on some Eliane Radigue. SWMBO came in and said 'what on earth is this' and I said 'music' 🙂. She initially thought it was the fridge on the way out!
A dryer with a bad bearing is excellent for found "music". I had a friend record an hour of the last throes of his.
Y'all would have loved some of the recitals given by the music department grad students/staff when I was at UCSD. Washing machines with broken bearings and doubling as rock tumblers would have at least had a rhythm! 🙂
