Yeah... Speedvision really sucks!! BTW, let me suggest that a few of you there in the US write more often to these guys and demand that they stop with this idiocy. If you're a *paying* customer you have every right to complain AND very loudly if you can. I do and did, but lost their address.
It's time to again complain about this. Perhaps a good example would be for us to show them "the other face". How would THEY feel if someone would broadcast football games exclusively in meters, or if one would refer to Indy 500 as Indy 800!!! :-( That should teach them a lesson or two! GRRRR... I'd also like help with FIA. F1 coverage is provided in English ONLY by Speedvision. I think we have a very strong argument (monopoly) to sell our case before FIA to demand that they allow more competition for the broadcast of F1 events, if only to get rid of this mile nuisance!... :-( Marcus On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:23:58 Brian J White wrote: > >This isn't that outrageous. The feed you watched was the "World Digital >Feed" and will show only kilometers, k/mh, etc. >The announcers usually mix in miles and mph....especially Speed Channel >(formerly Speedvision). They've even converted their rally coverage which >used to be stated in kilometers, to using miles. It's annoying, and I've >emailed them several times about it. > >Rallys are in kilometers....no need to convert. > >>I certainly hope that I was not the only one to have seen this, but on >>Sunday, 2002-09-29, ABC Sports' live coverage of the Formula 1 United >>States Grand Prix at Indianapolis, IN was mostly in metric with >>relatively few instances of 'Olde Englishe' measures mixed in. The >>commentator most often spoke kilometers and 'km/h' (with a few 'MPH' >>translations) and ALL of the on-screen graphics were metric only, >>including the starting weather conditions. >> >>BTW, I taped it for later viewing both because of my work schedule and >>its being on opposite the Packer-Panther game. >>;-) >> >>-- >>___________________________________________ ____ _______________ >>Regards, | |\ ____ >> | | | | |\ >>Michael G. Koerner May they | | | | | | rise again! >>Appleton, Wisconsin USA | | | | | | >>___________________________________________ | | | | | | _______________ > > Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
