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Sports in bars is a very different experience with sound on vs. off. Without sound, it's a background distraction that a few folks may be interested in. With so
by schnevets 7y ago
Sports in bars is a very different experience with sound on vs. off. Without sound, it's a background distraction that a few folks may be interested in. With sound on (even if the commentary is indecipherable), it's a collective experience that holds everyone's attention. Usually the bar will mute or put on music during commercial breaks.
I do wonder if alternative commentary would ever catch on. Imagine if instead of talking heads you had a music track that would mimic the tension of the game like a music score.
- KingMachiavelli 7y agoPersonally, I feel a slapstick comedy track would work best. /joke What could work really well is some live radio, podcast, twitch of commentary to supplement the detectable pirated audio. The biggest issue would be syncing the video and audio.
- Scoundreller 7y agoThat could be solved with a camera pointed at the pirated video feed and then... oh wait...
- myself248 7y agoSo someone out there could make a killing by running their own stream that acts as alternate audio for the matches. Couple of super-fans in a booth with a video feed of the match, no audio passthrough, their own SFX person and statistician feeding them talking-points... Charge bars a few dollars for the feed, and watch 'em rake it in.
- batiudrami 7y agoIt used to be reasonably common to mute commercial TV and listen to the ABC (public radio)'s broadcast for commentary in AFL and cricket in Australia. I don't hear about it much anymore which I would guess is due to the encoding delay of digital TV vs analogue radio broadcast and the general lack of AM/FM radios in the living area. Foxtel (pay TV) also trialed an alternative commentary track with a more parochial commentator for Collingwood games.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoHonestly the best way to watch baseball at least is to mute the TV and turn on the radio—vastly higher quality commentary, and you can look up in time to see the play you just heard. The ads also tend to be more local and less obnoxious.
- petepete 7y agoIf you like your commentary to be totally out of sync with the picture, yes.
- a_f 7y agoI wonder if you could steam an sports FM service through an app and add a delay equivalent to the feed you are watching?
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoHonestly this is far preferable to listening to the TV commentators.