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Unread 11-03-2002, 13:01
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I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think the only way to make everyone happy, allowing viewers to keep track of score AND showing mechanisms and bots up close is to have two streams. One low bandwidth stream showing the full field, and one higher bandwidth stream showing what is on the big screen. This would probably be a lot of trouble for NASA to set up, especially since the streams would have to be in different formats to allow most people to view both at once.

EDIT -- Ooh, I just had a better idea. I don't know what kind of video processing equiptment NASA has at these events, but simply putting a Picture-in-Picture view of the entire field in the corner would allow one really usefull stream. I'm not sure how practical that is, but I know it is more reasonable than two streams.
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