So, I’m watching the Detroit - LA game on FSN Kings or whatever this is on center ice.  They’ve got these robotic cameras at the Staples Center and they make me feel like I’m actually there in the arena watching the game.

I feel like I’m sitting in really shitty seats and so drunk that I can’t move my head fast enough to focus on the play

The cameras are making this game borderline unwatchable.  There’s two cameras over each goaltender that only give you a good view when someone is in a corner.  When players are behind the net all you can see is the top of their heads.  Every view of the action is either from directly above or zoomed out so far that you can’t read the numbers on the back of the players’ jerseys… Let alone see the puck.  There’s also a camera over the glass at center ice that’s constantly behind the play because it’s being controlled remotely.  The fact that the cameras are clearly being controlled by someone watching a tiny screen on the other side of the stadium is made worse by the jerky robotic camera movements.

This is insanity.

Comments

wtf?
are there announcers or are you just watching some CCTV feed?

Posted by on Oct 28, 2008 at 06:47 AM

The normal FSN west feed, usually I get the detroit feed, but sometimes I get the visiting team’s coverage on center ice.  Brutal.  Glad I don’t have to watch the kings all that often.

Here’s another dude bitching about it

http://purplecrushedvelvet.blogspot.com/

At least Detroit won.  I continue to be amazed that we gave Quincey away for nothing

Posted by on Oct 28, 2008 at 10:21 AM

more more more

http://www.insidesocal.com/kings/2008/10/rinkside-view.html

http://battleofcalifornia.blogspot.com/2008/10/calm-condemnation-of-rinkside-view.html

Posted by on Oct 29, 2008 at 10:50 PM
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