rte- hearing the action before you see it [Archive]

aidz1

09/09/2004, 8:15 AM

CuanaD

09/09/2004, 8:17 AM

george "great cross from duff (voice raises) , morrison heads - GOAL!!!!"

and at that duffs cross was in mid air, and we knew the end result before we could see it

i cant stand when it hapens, and it seems to happen rte considerably often.
ruins the moment ......well ever so slightly!

You see George has the script BEFORE the match - hes just reading from the teleprompter - you dont think that game was REAL, do you?
:eek:

irwinsalegend

09/09/2004, 10:47 AM

Agreed, it was the first time i've watched a match in the house for a long time. Started watching on RTE but when I realized I was hearing it before I could see it I tried switching over to Sky but bloody hell Frank Stapelton was on there so back I went to RTE and georgie.

i liked the bit when the Swiss player was going to throw the ball in and Graham Kavanagh was warming up right beside him and the camera man was nice and close so you could clearer hear Kavanagh giving the Swiss lad a bit of advice, "you're a f@cking W@nker" was how it went.

pete

09/09/2004, 10:56 AM

This has p!ssed me off about RTE coverage for years now & i'm gald i;m not the only one who noticing it. If watch match in a pub won't notice cos of noise etc...

Does anyone know how this happens? I'm guessing that they receiving a sound & a picture signal but that RTE are not matching both signals together.

I've never noticed this on any other channel but maybe its just a combination of RTE plus George too qucik for his own good? Will never hear at RTE domestic game in GAA, rugby whatever either...

:mad: :(

boc123

09/09/2004, 11:02 AM

Ya, I noticed that before. To be honest if I have a choice , I watch it on a different channel, then tune back in at half-time to hear Dunphy or Giles give their opinions

Dan Druff

09/09/2004, 11:03 AM

Sound travels faster than picture..however they could put a delay on the sound..I noticed Brian Kerr after the match had a few lip synch issues!

brendy_�ire

09/09/2004, 12:46 PM

For a time, in the second half, was the sound not behind the picture by about a second? Most notably when Given made one of his great saves from a long range shot.

Slash/ED

09/09/2004, 1:16 PM

I watched it in a pub so didn't hear it but this is consistently a problem with RTE. In fact every live game they cover that's not in Britain or Ireland seems to have this problem. Very very frustrating.

trevy

09/09/2004, 1:28 PM

Yeah it was very obvious for the Irish goal.Has anyone got rte's email address?

dublinred

09/09/2004, 1:36 PM

Skys coverage was reasonbly good last night , Paul Dempsey always puts in a good performance and Rob Hawthorne got very excited when the goal was scored I reckon he must of had a few quid on Clinton to score the first goal.

Only bad thing about sky coverage is Frank Stapleton and Kevin Moran , both great players but not commentry material they are very wooden also Quinn never shuts up when he is on reckon McAteer would liven things up a bit also McGrath could do a better job. Great moment near the end when Kavanagh told Hacking Yakin to his face what he thought of him.

Slash/ED

09/09/2004, 1:46 PM

Yeah the panel on Sky can be absolutley awful. Aldo is the best person when he's on and Houghton is good too, at least they're not at the soul destroyingly dull and negative levels of Stapo. Quinn is awfull too, he just cannot say anything negative about anybody ever.

4tothefloor

09/09/2004, 10:02 PM

I couldn't stop laughing at Kavanagh. He was caught rotton by the camera man telling Bernt Haas that the referee was a w@nker, after the ref told him to get out of Haas's way. Then he told Hakin Yakin that he too was a w@nker, not once, but about 5 times! The final time he said it was comical! :D

bitored

12/09/2004, 10:22 AM

I watched RTE's live coverage of Bolton v ManU on Saturday and they were having the same problem... it's so amateurish and so annoying. I'm gonna find an email address and post it here - please bombard them with complaints until they sort it out :mad: :mad:

bitored

12/09/2004, 10:35 AM

I'm gonna find an email address and post it here - please bombard them with complaints until they sort it out
popeb@rte.ie and/or complaints.review@rte.ie

DolansWaistcoat

12/09/2004, 11:41 AM

It's very annoying alright,I was in the pub but the tv was very loud so we could hear everything happening in the commentry b4 it appeared on screen.

Pity it George wasn't a few minutes ahead of the picture,then we could have ran to the bookies when we scored and hope they had the sound turned off. ;) :D

pete

13/09/2004, 9:25 AM

Sheridan

13/09/2004, 10:48 AM

I remember this phenomenon occurring at USA '94, so if they haven't bothered sorting it in ten years, they're not going to do it now. It happened during Shels' Euro games too. In the second half of SWI-IRL, the commentary was too far behind the picture, presumably the result of some failed corrective measure.

Watch out for it on every single RT�-covered game, it might not always be as evident as it was last Wednesday, but eight times out of ten the gap will be noticeable. Hours of amusement!

Peadar

13/09/2004, 10:52 AM

This isn't a problem if you go to the games :D

gspain

13/09/2004, 11:43 AM

I think its a combination of the lightening speed of George plus RTEs amateur ethos. ;)

Was particularily obvious when Ronaldo hit cross bar as George raised his voice... :(

I wouldn't expect RTE to even reply let alone actually fix cos must be obvious to them too.

Not George's fault - it is a skilled technical job to get the commentary and pictures aligned. Normally RTE are fine but something has gone wrong. I haven't watched a game on RTE since depor v Shels and that seemed ok.

It would be a worrying sign if RTE started to screw this up as it would show dropping standards. While Aertel make the Port Tunnel designers look competent the rest of RTE is normally of a decent standard

pete

13/09/2004, 12:05 PM

Not George's fault - it is a skilled technical job to get the commentary and pictures aligned. Normally RTE are fine but something has gone wrong. I haven't watched a game on RTE since depor v Shels and that seemed ok.

It would be a worrying sign if RTE started to screw this up as it would show dropping standards.

RTE have always had this problem for LIVE games abroad. Was the same for recent games in la Coruna, Basel & Bolton...