Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!clauzon 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 Article-I.D.: watarts.8189 Posted: Thu Dec 27 15:41:06 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Dec-84 05:12:03 EST References: <359@busch.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 20There 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)