Yes, the graphics are better these days. Most big decent leagues put a visual line in where the offside was. Although it can be down to the broadcaster to do their own thing.
There are also lots more graphical techniques for highlighting players in replays. They tend to be done at half time or full time, but I'm surprised when I watch NFL coverage that "old school" light pen scrawling is used so much, and some of these fancier graphical systems aren't employed. Certainly it's a member of the production team rather than a co-commentator "in the booth" that are doing them, but even then it's possible to train people up. And it can look a bit clearer. But maybe it is happening. While Sky Sports in the UK will show the US network coverage of a match, we get our own halftime show and not the "Visa" one or whatever. On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 4:39 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:32 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> While I can understand the mistaken thinking that says you have to >> explain the rules, it tends to talk down to those who already know, and >> doesn't really help those who don't want the condescension. Everyone has to >> "learn" a sport for the first time, and you do that by just watching it a >> lot. >> > > The 2010 World Cup was the first time I saw a visual for offsides on > replay. They'd freeze the screen when the ball left the attacker's foot and > have a white line across the field at the defender's farthest back point > and you could see if a player was offsides and it didn't need the > announcers to explain. The more you can introduce the new viewer to the > rules that way the better. > >> >> Arlo White used to be a good presenter on Five Live, and Lee Dixon still >> does work for ITV in the UK. He does Champions' League coverage for ITV, >> and international fixtures including their World Cup coverage. He was also >> a pretty decent right back for Arsenal. >> > > Dixon's alternate is Graeme Le Saux and they actually worked a three man > booth on Saturday. Le Saux is also in the apology video along with White > and Dixon. During the NBC broadcast they showed footage from old > Arsenal-Chelsea derbies where Dixon and Le Saux fouled each other. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
