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Post by Germansuplex on Sept 25, 2015 0:50:02 GMT -5
At last year's Wrestlemania, Randy wasn't too happy with those cubes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 5:15:00 GMT -5
Broadcst monitors are not cheap, they are durable, ridicolously accurate with colours and have a low refresh rate.
WWE are quite cheap and I assume they havent upgraded them in years.
Also I don't know what the resolution is on them, but having "hd" ones would make little to no difference as its a small screen thats being looked at from far away
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Post by somsta on Sept 25, 2015 9:33:45 GMT -5
The problem is what's on the monitor, not the monitor itself. And the people watching them.
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Post by whtbldclls on Sept 25, 2015 9:40:23 GMT -5
They're vintage. Like Randy Orton.
Michael Cole's a secret hipster.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 9:43:27 GMT -5
Because it's heavy production equipment, which I'm sure is still built like that.
And because YOU KNOW if they ever hit a guy in the head with a flatscreen monitor, shards of it would be embedded in the eyeballs of children at ringside and they don't need that PR nightmare on top of Hogan the racist and Superfly Jimmy Murderer.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 25, 2015 9:45:45 GMT -5
It's because those kinds of monitors have less delay than HD monitors and make it so the commentators are able to call the action as it happens live. And for those who ask "why use monitors when they can see the action right in front of them?" It's because the commentators are supposed to commentate what's on TV, not what's in the arena. So if something happens in the arena off camera that's supposed to be a surprise for when the camera changes angles, they can't spoil it. This. I volunteer at a television station the HD monitors have a delay, when trying to do a running commentary of what's shown on Television you want as little lag as possible. Analogue televisions provide that.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Sept 25, 2015 9:50:33 GMT -5
At last year's Wrestlemania, Randy wasn't too happy with those cubes. Poor guy, haha. I'm sure he was cursing up a storm under his breath.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Sept 25, 2015 10:42:34 GMT -5
Some time in 1983, Vince bought a truck full of them, real cheap, and they still haven't run out?
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Sept 25, 2015 10:45:37 GMT -5
If its good enough for use in Big Bird its good enough for Cole
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Post by Chris the Bambikiller on Sept 25, 2015 10:56:17 GMT -5
It's definitely the delay, analogue monitors like that give an actual live feed of the action whereas the HD flat panels would have a minor delay If you are live at an event, I don't think it's a big problem if your monitor shows you what's happening 0.1 second later. I'd imagine it's getting harder and harder to even find a place that sells CRT displays.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 25, 2015 12:47:48 GMT -5
At last year's Wrestlemania, Randy wasn't too happy with those cubes. Poor guy, haha. I'm sure he was cursing up a storm under his breath. He just does not have any luck with tables, does he?
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Post by thegame415 on Sept 25, 2015 21:47:38 GMT -5
OT, but I'd like to see the announcers move to a press box somewhere else in the arena.
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Post by nisidhe on Sept 25, 2015 22:47:55 GMT -5
My question is why the announce table has to be destroyed on every.single.episode. I understand why they'd want the announce table at ringside (to focus the promos, interviews and matches in one general area inside the arena), but its destruction as a trope is about as stale as heel authority figures and over-dominant heel factions.
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Post by Burst on Sept 26, 2015 8:52:59 GMT -5
My question is why the announce table has to be destroyed on every.single.episode. I understand why they'd want the announce table at ringside (to focus the promos, interviews and matches in one general area inside the arena), but its destruction as a trope is about as stale as heel authority figures and over-dominant heel factions. On a similar cliched note, has there ever been a show where they've pointed out the Spanish Announce Table that it HASN'T been destroyed?
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Post by joeiscool on Sept 26, 2015 12:17:26 GMT -5
My question is why the announce table has to be destroyed on every.single.episode. I understand why they'd want the announce table at ringside (to focus the promos, interviews and matches in one general area inside the arena), but its destruction as a trope is about as stale as heel authority figures and over-dominant heel factions. well the easy answer is they don't destroy the table every episode. Every year they might do the spot 5-6 times. They also seem to be varying the tables.. Now some of them don't break
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Sept 26, 2015 14:55:34 GMT -5
It's definitely the delay, analogue monitors like that give an actual live feed of the action whereas the HD flat panels would have a minor delay If you are live at an event, I don't think it's a big problem if your monitor shows you what's happening 0.1 second later. I'd imagine it's getting harder and harder to even find a place that sells CRT displays. They're commentating live, it's one of those things you think is minor, but you'd notice the little delays all the time. From what people say, sounds like in TV they're still useful on a technical level, so I'd imagine there are specialised seller they can go to, they just cost more these days.
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Post by Hobby Drifter on Sept 26, 2015 23:31:17 GMT -5
Has there ever been an in-universe explanation for why the wrestlers remove the monitors before putting an opponent through? "I want to hurt this guy, but not *that* badly" doesn't seem to fly. If nothing else, shouldn't it be the announcers rushing to clear the monitors off?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 4:43:31 GMT -5
Has there ever been an in-universe explanation for why the wrestlers remove the monitors before putting an opponent through? "I want to hurt this guy, but not *that* badly" doesn't seem to fly. If nothing else, shouldn't it be the announcers rushing to clear the monitors off? Higher fines than just destroying the table, maybe?
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Post by Hobby Drifter on Sept 27, 2015 4:53:40 GMT -5
Has there ever been an in-universe explanation for why the wrestlers remove the monitors before putting an opponent through? "I want to hurt this guy, but not *that* badly" doesn't seem to fly. If nothing else, shouldn't it be the announcers rushing to clear the monitors off? Higher fines than just destroying the table, maybe? I would be more than ok with that. Vince: Alright, you worthless millennials, listen up! I don't care if you want to to smack each other around with chairs, put people through tables, or even trash the sets...but these monitors are expensive, so if you mess up even a single one of them, I am going to fine you like you've never been fined before. I'm talking "chairshot-to-the-head" type fining, people! So smack around the announcers, level their tables every week or so, and do whatever it is you need to do...but do NOT mess up those monitors. HHH: You heard the man. *makes jerking off motions.*
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 27, 2015 10:45:30 GMT -5
Shoot reason? They get smashed so much they use cheap ones.
Kayfabe? Uh...
...LOOK OVER THERE, CENA'S TURNING HEEL! *runs*
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