This is true but one word of caution.  Many tvs have some sort of stereo
enhancement whereby the stereo spread is widened by tampering with the phase
of the 2 channels.  This usually happens at the expense of whatever is in
the center and that is generally the announcers.  so make sure this is off
to get the best announcer to crowd ratio.  Lou WA3MIX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "don bishop" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: another freeby possibly going away


> Walt,
>
> I totally agree.  Around here on the morning news they often play sound
bites of the highlights from the previous nights games.  Quite often these
are taken
> from the tv broadcasts.  Most of the time you can't even hear a word
they're saying because of the crowd noise.
>
> When my dad was alive we often enjoyed watching the football games
together on a Sunday afternoon.  I finally completely gave up trying to
follow the
> game on tv and use a radio with an earphone.  I got some interference from
the tv, but it was still much better than trying to figure out what was
really going
> on from the tube.
>
>
> Don
>
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:58:33 -0400, Walt Smith wrote:
>
> I would _never_ try to catch sports on television, anyway. I'd rather go
> without than try to fill in the blanks that the so-called play-by-play
> announcer leaves because describing something to somebody who is using a
> visual medium is...well, pretty stupid, if you think about it. It's either
> radio or nothing for me where all sports are concerned and that's been my
> rule for a lot of years. In addition to the lack of any meaningful
> description, television sound engineers could take a lot of lessons from
> radio sports broadcast engineers where crowd noise is concerned. I've
never
> yet tried to listen to any sporting event on radio where the crowd totally
> blotted out the announcers, but this happens all the time on television.
> It's just not worth all the hassle.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fred Olver" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:47 PM
> Subject: Re: another freeby possibly going away
>
>
> yah, but I bet it'll be on Sirius.
>
> Fred Olver
>
>
>
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