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Re: It's time for FIRST to update their AV systems....

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Originally Posted by orangemoore View Post
How about we hold off on this until FIRST can get livestreams/recordings to be consistent across all events. Then we can worry about this.
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Originally Posted by timytamy View Post
^^This. As an international team, live-streams are the only way we can see other teams/comps that doesn’t involve an airfare. it's improved a lot in the recent years but there is still quite a bit to go, especially in the recording area.
Agreed that playing field projections shouldn't happen at regionals until live streaming is consistent (the money for 20+ projection systems like that would be better spent reducing registration fees anyway), but this would be a perfect intro to Einstein at Championship.

Now that said, in case anyone's curious/fascinated, here's 2 stories, one from WIRED and one from Sports Video Group on the tech behind ice projections:

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/epic-fu...cal-illusions/

http://sportsvideo.org/main/blog/201...jersey-devils/
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