Yeah, get you. The ambiance is sort of good there. (shouting "Baji!" or
"come on Sachin! come on!"), or the hard-hitting sound of a bat and ball,
for instance.
May be, it is possible to bring in the same ambiance in radio also, but
I'm technically not savvy enough to explain it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Niran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] a question for all
> Unlike the majority, I really enjoy the commentary on TV (ESPN Star)
> compared to the radio's running commentary where only the ball-to-ball
> description is spoken and other information/discussion is often neglected.
> + the quality isn't up to my liking. Anyhow, watching cricket on TV makes
> me feel lot closer to the game than listening the radio.
> I am only referring to cricket here.
> Nirandas
> Website: http://www.nirandas.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: prateek aggarwal
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 2:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [AI] a question for all
>
>
> Respected George sir,
> Firstly I will thank you for razing such a sensitive matter which is
> definetly in the favor of maximum in the community.
> Watching sports is one of the most common hobbies of human beings.
> The type of sport may vary, but the natural zeel remain same in
> everyone all around the world.
> Though sports event are happening since very long, but there won't be
> any exaguration to say that media played a very vital role in
> popularizing them.
> In fact, almost every common man takes interest in watching the live
> telecast of matches on tv or listen the commentary on radio.
> Earlier DD started this work in india, but now many sports channels
> are accomplishing this task with great enthusiasm.
> Reason is that because a great number of mass watches the telecast,
> the scope of promoting the prodict is very much for companies.
> The sports channels get a big amount of money from companies to show
> their adds during the matches.
> As we said that almost everyone likes the sports, visually impaired
> people can not be separated from the statement.
> radio has been a very good friend of a visually impaired since long.
> This not only gives them the flare of music and news, but also
> present sport's commentaries which gives a big amount of pleasure to
> visually impaired people.
> Unfortunately, because of some rights and other related issue, AIR
> doesn't brought cast every match/ series. therefore, the one and only
> alternative is TV.
> While Imerging technologies and trends made the experience of
> watching matches more entertaining for cited persons, this created
> some problems for visually impaired people.
> As we are completely dependant on the commentary, inaccessible
> commentary has produced many problem in order to understand the live
> actions.
> Specially, the commentary brought casted on international channels
> like ESPN, star sports, sony max, z cricket etc. really made the
> task of enjoying live sporting actions very difficult.
> The unfortunate part is that now a days,
> Door darshan is also brought casting the same commentary as other
> international channels which abolished the last hope too.
> As a summary, enjoying the sports through TV has became a very
> challenging task for us.
> Though problem is same for whole world I suppose, but I will talk
> about india only because I better know the actual situation of only
> here .
> As we know that india has biggest misfortune of having maximum
> visually impaired in whole world, it's the responsibility of
> everyone to provide accessible environment for them.
> As I already told that like everyone else, sports is one of the basic
> requirement of the lives of differently ables.
> The TV channels will have to understand the need of providing
> accessible commentary of sports so that every visually impaired person
> can easyly understand and enjoy the live action.
> Though it's understandable that making them completely accessible is
> very difficult if not impossible, but it's a high time for sports
> channels to think about adding some fair accessibility features in the
> commentary.
> Here are some suggestion which must implemented.
> 1. Commentriators should announce score after every minute at least.
> 2. They should speak the names of players time to time. For
> example, if it's cricket, name of baller, name of striking batsman,
> name of fielders, etc.
> 3. Sometimes, they don't tells the discribtion of very important
> happenings. For example, if it's cricket, four, six, wicket,
> etc. they should give it's discribtion sincerely instead of
> discussions.
> 4. They should speak the important stats/ records which are presented
> time to time on TV screens. For example, if it's cricket, number
> of wicket for a baller, number of matches for batsman, number of
> catches, etc.
> 5. They should announce all the other relevant informations related to
> the particular sport.
> If TV channels can consider the above suggestions, they can make
> visually impaired enable in enjoying sports.
> With profound regards,
> Prateek agarwal.
> Cell: 09928341197
> e-mails:
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> impaired and others.
> Please go on to
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