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From: clauzon@watarts.UUCP (Cecilia Lauzon)
Newsgroups: net.sport,net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: officials watching replays?
Message-ID: <8189@watarts.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 15:41:06 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 27 15:41:06 1984
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There is one main problem with replays that cannot be overcome:  the fact 
that some camera angles that are used are misleading.  My experience is that, 
when you have good camera angles and good cameramen, you almost always get
good, non-misleading replays.  Unfortunately, most television telecasts do
not have this.  I find a *great* difference between the quality of 
telecast done by Hockey Night in Canada and those done by others (even 
CTV's coverage of international hockey).  I never have any problem following
the puck or using replays on HNIC but the Sabres' games that we get here
are something else!  Several times, I've seen pseudo-goals in a Sabres game
that cannot be definitively called simply because of the camera angles
(of course, to the announcers, if it's a Sabres' pseudo-goal, it's in :-)).
If this type of quality is characteristic of a money-making telecast, imagine
what quality would result from the 'official's replay' angles.  I really
don't think that it is practical.


		- Carlo Sgro  (formerly of oscvax)