John Whelan writes:
>One of the drawbacks I discovered the one time I watched a cricket
>match via RealVideo is that since they have the picture and sound from
>a TV broadcast, the play-by-play is sparser, assuming you can see
>what's happening, and so it's often worse than just listening to a
>radio broadcast.  [...]
 
>Did you encounter this problem with the ECAC RealVideo?  Or were the
>TV anouncers more verbose than usual?
 
The announcers were definitely targeting the "live" TV audience, not the
Internet viewers (as I'd expect on a sports network).  That said, they
were doing a "better" job than many TV announcers, so it wasn't bad.
 
>(BTW, I'll be looking forward to seeing it in any event; who'd have
>thought I could watch ECAC hockey at any frame rate in Switzerland?)
 
 
2 years ago I would have said the same about listening to a Michigan Tech
hockey game when I'm in upstate NY... which is exactly what I'm doing
as I write this.  :-)
 
Garrett Lanzy (Go MTU Huskies!  Beat those fake "Huskies" from St. Cloud!)
 
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