On Aug 15, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Helen Huntley wrote: > They're not going to be that way forever. > > The only certainty in technology is that it gets faster and > cheaper, exponentially, always. > > Imagine, then, a day not too far away when fans from their seats > will use their phones to stream onto the Internet a video feed, for > free, that conceivably could approximate the images for which ESPN > and CBS have paid billions of dollars. > Not hardly.
A lens the size of a pinhole will never create images remotely close to what an HD camera on the sideline will produce. It doesn't matter what technological advances occur; the optics simply aren't there - and I don't think that their laws have changed since the day of DaVinci. That, plus the fan is much further way the the sideline camera. Something about the square of the distance. A few hundred feet can be a very big deal for clarity. Now, even if it were possible, think of the size of an HD video feed. A dual-layer Blu-Ray is 50GB for a 2 hour movie. Let's call a 3 hour football game 75GB. Someone thinks a fan with a phone can stream a file that size over the cell network? I'm not even certain that a USB2 cable would offer that kind of throughput. -Zeb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
