[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by Pavan

I do not think many people protest to the fact that the best action for someone unfamiliar with FIRST would be to watch a robot up close “strutting its stuff”. What people are complaining about is that for our [FIRST veterans] purposes, the zooming in does us no good. Although these two ideas of how cameras should be zoomed/paned/tilted is something that we would like changed there is a possible solution. How many cameras are at the regionals? I saw at least two on the floor and one sitting up high in the stands. Let’s utilize our resources. If we could have a small section of the screen, not even 1/2 or 1/4 of the entire screen, just a small section of the screen that would stay consistent I can guarantee more than half of the complaints would be gone.

Example of what I’m talking about:
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Pavan.

This "picture-in-picture" would be great for TV broadcast - especially Discovery Channel HD!!

BTW, I'm 1080p ready too! I'm waiting for something special from Dave's next (big) car on Mars...

It would work well even for standard definition TV, but it might be too few pixels for webcast. Oh, that's right, we'll just have a dedicated full-field webcast channel available!

It's OK to dream, isn't it??