Re: [GEEK] How We'll Watch Sports in the Future..

Steve Dossick (sdossick@cs.columbia.edu)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:32:24 -0400

What would be really cool is if you could select (via SAP feed) audio of
the clueless announcers or just stadium audio on a separate channel....

-s

--On Thursday, June 17, 1999, 5:24 PM -0700 Ian Andrew Bell
<ibell@cisco.com> wrote:

>
> Picture this: No need for graphic overlays of scores or player bio info
> on your television. The TV broadcast is mated to an IP-driven device
> that mounts a Java Web applet like this one:
>
> http://scores.espn.go.com/cgi/gamecast/nhl/index.asp?season=1999&date=990
> 617&hteam=dal&live=true
>
> For maximum effect, you should be watching tonight's NHL Playoffs game,
> or any game in the future. Very impressive. Detailed player profiles
> at the click of a button -- no sports trivia question goes unsolved!
>
> I find this to be excellent compensation for the fact that US Play-by-
> Play announcers rarely have a clue what's really going on. Next techno-
> logy step: sending the commentary in a separate stream so I can turn it
> off but still listen to the game!
>
> -Ian.
> .:|:..:|:.