Comments on: Super Bowl http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/ The Daily Doings of Steph Sat, 19 May 2012 07:32:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Leland http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-78 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:37:36 +0000 http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-78 One more piece of trivia just crossed my computer. Sunday morning the entire TV compound went dark. The gadget that kept the all those turbine powered generators in phase checked out. That power glitch took out some of the equipment that embeds the Dolby sound in the HD-SDI lines. Engineers were unable to resurrect it completely by game time. Don't know if the failure was storm related or not. One more piece of trivia just crossed my computer. Sunday morning the entire TV compound went dark. The gadget that kept the all those turbine powered generators in phase checked out. That power glitch took out some of the equipment that embeds the Dolby sound in the HD-SDI lines. Engineers were unable to resurrect it completely by game time.

Don’t know if the failure was storm related or not.

]]> by: Leland http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-77 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:59:13 +0000 http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-77 I managed to sit that one out. Several people I know were there and in partial answer to your question, here's what I know. - The lens on the cable camera (the close up overhead views) is completely flooded and is either totaled or will have to be completely disassembled dried, cleaned, possibly recoat the elements and reassembled. The zoom and focus motors and boards are all toast. - The handheld camera that took a tumble when the operator was hit is dead. Optical block and imager damage. - They lost some surround sound capability even before the game started. They lost more before half time. - The powers that be forbade tents in the press compound or the live shot risers outside the stadium. As a result lots of gear from local affiliates and the various network news crews got hosed off but good. Sorry I don't know anything about the half time show, no one I know worked on the stage. But you didn't have to worry about Prince getting zapped off the guitars. He was using wireless transmitters on the pickups. I managed to sit that one out. Several people I know were there and in partial answer to your question, here’s what I know.

- The lens on the cable camera (the close up overhead views) is completely flooded and is either totaled or will have to be completely disassembled dried, cleaned, possibly recoat the elements and reassembled. The zoom and focus motors and boards are all toast.

- The handheld camera that took a tumble when the operator was hit is dead. Optical block and imager damage.

- They lost some surround sound capability even before the game started. They lost more before half time.

- The powers that be forbade tents in the press compound or the live shot risers outside the stadium. As a result lots of gear from local affiliates and the various network news crews got hosed off but good.

Sorry I don’t know anything about the half time show, no one I know worked on the stage. But you didn’t have to worry about Prince getting zapped off the guitars. He was using wireless transmitters on the pickups.

]]> by: Pooh http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-74 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:23:28 +0000 http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-74 My head is of much more accurate size in these pictures then in the last set you posted... My head is of much more accurate size in these pictures then in the last set you posted…

]]> by: Steph http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-69 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:10:12 +0000 http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-69 Or is it Seth with the huge melon and little body? Or is it Seth with the huge melon and little body?

]]> by: sb http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-68 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:03:40 +0000 http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-68 Did you notice, by the way, that the one picture of Tyge battering Seth makes it look like Tyge has a huge body but a little pin head. Very weird. We all know that Tyge has a major melon. Did you notice, by the way, that the one picture of Tyge battering Seth makes it look like Tyge has a huge body but a little pin head. Very weird. We all know that Tyge has a major melon.

]]> by: Jeri http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-65 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:01:56 +0000 http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-65 Nice play by play! Our fave was the Bud Light hitchhiking axe/chainsaw guys ad. :) Did you know that you can go watch many of the ads at <a href="http://www.cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/postseason/superads" rel="nofollow">CBS's website</a>? Nice play by play! Our fave was the Bud Light hitchhiking axe/chainsaw guys ad. :) Did you know that you can go watch many of the ads at CBS’s website?

]]> by: Ski Boy http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-64 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:23:30 +0000 http://slatrat.com/index.php/2007/02/04/super-bowl/#comment-64 Wouldn't those more accurately be called "inaction shots?" sb Wouldn’t those more accurately be called “inaction shots?”

sb

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