What Donnie wrote about "the delay" prompted me to post an item I'd forgotten about since last year:
Delay-o-tron' to iron out commentary glitches
It's a perennial problem for the Australian sports fan - how can you listen to the radio commentary while you watch the match on TV?
Thanks to a delay in the broadcast of the TV pictures, this has been next to impossible unless people were happy to hear the action a few seconds before they saw it.
Not much fun if they are sweating on a crucial goal in the final seconds or screaming an LBW appeal at the screen only for the radio to give the game away.
But some ingenious engineering students from Melbourne University have come up with what could be a salvation for a nation's sports fans.
The 'Delay-o-tron' is a gadget that matches radio broadcast with the TV pictures.
Wonder if Channel Nine will pay out the inventors to prevent the delay being eradicated. Or if they will invest in technology to maintain the delay.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 05:20 PM
Don't mind the delay. I can knit, read, vacuum, give a blow job whilst listening to the radio and then if an important event occurs I can look up at the telly, wipe my chin and see the action.
Posted by: Martin | Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 11:14 PM
The inventors will be 'disappeared' just like Max Walker was.
Posted by: Simon | Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM
The best way around "The Delay" is to stream ABC cricket on the internet. The way I found it work was you have the options of Windows Media or Real Player. With WM the radio coverage happened a second or 2 after Ch 9 pictures. With RP it happened a bit before. When the radio coverage first comes up on RP it has a bar down the bottom which moves across the screen, so what you do is delicately click on the bar and adjust until the radio coverage is in synch with Ch 9 pictures. Difficult to do, so you need some patience. Found this out on Day 4 of the Sydney Test of course and was forced into it because WM wasn't working most of the Sydney test. Forced into it generally by fatheaded Ch 9 commentators, disgraceful KFC / Solo ads.
Posted by: RT | Friday, January 23, 2009 at 10:34 AM
The internet idea is worth a shot. Hadn't thought of it before now because my WM stream is not a couple of seconds, but around a ball and a half behind Channel Nine.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Friday, January 23, 2009 at 01:36 PM