BBC Recieves 545 "vuvuzela" Complaints

[Mr. Adventure]

It's kind of funny, I've been hearing horns for a while watching soccer games on TV occasionally but no one ever knew what I as talking about when I'd bring it up. They were more occasional but just as annoying. Now apparently it has hit a level no one can ignore.

 

[Skywalker]

The vuvuzelas don't really bother me, but I'm sure it would be a very different story were I actually at the games.

 

[StolenThunder]

^ I get the impression that it's really something when you're at a game. Very exciting.

In light of that, the BBC have offered an alternative audio track via the red button, but it's just the commentary from the BBC's sports radio station, and is pretty poor and lacks the atmosphere of the TV commentary.

They've been doing it for the last few tournaments now. I use it occasionally if I don't like the second commentator or Motson - though sometimes that means switching Mick McCarthy for Graham Taylor? :/

 

[Roger Wilco]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10317767.stm



Obviously, 545 morons can't figure out that the BBC has no control over noises made by the crowd during a live football game. I mean, did they think the BBC had added them for atmosphere?

That is not true. In fact it is very easy to filter out certain frequencies from a broadcast and vuvuzelas always sound at a specific constant frequency. The local Sky channel here does that, on of its audio tracks the vuvuzelas are almost inaudible, and it almost sounds like normal stadium atmosphere. But of course that's an editorial decision that could be argued either way. [btw. the sound you hear of the spectators in a football stadium are often (if not even usually) edited and influenced by the tv station, they have various methods of doing that with the goal for example of making one team's supporters appear louder. I know for a fact that German tv stations often do that in European Cup matches of German clubs for example.]

google "vuvuzela filter".

 

[Bloodwhiner]

My wife can hardly watch the games with sound on, it triggers her migraines.

But it is a simple program to reduce/eliminate that particular frequency. There is already a freeware program out for Macs to reduce the annoyance.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I really don't get the hate.

Oh no?

 

[Misfit Toy]

I look forward to the inevitable spread of vuvuzelas to Wimbledon.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I really don't get the hate.

Oh no?

That's my new home page.

 

[Raxor]

I look forward to the inevitable spread of vuvuzelas to Wimbledon.

As much as we would all love that it doenst look like it is going to happen (at least this year)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/wimbledon/8744027.stm

Seems they have been banned, but in other news no premier league clubs have banned them yet.

 

[HappyDayRiot]

I wouldn't worry too much. Once the African teams are eliminated, which will be soon, most will vanish. You could barely hear the vuvu's over the Mexican fans last night. Great stuff.

 

[Amaris]

It's really more of an "All Good Things In Moderation" issue. I like the occasional drone of the vuvuzela, but the constant buzzing does annoy me after a while and I can't enjoy what I'm watching. I want to hear commentary, I want to hear the roar of the crowd, but with the constant buzzing it becomes nothing but droning, and I can't watch that. I'm reduced to watching highlights, and even then, the everpresent buzzing is annoying.

 

[Hugo Rune]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/south-african-vuvuzela-philharmonic-angered-by-soc,17625/

 

[firehawk12]

I really don't get the hate.

Oh no?

That's my new home page.

What can I say, the noise just doesn't bug me. I think sports crowds should cheer and I'm not sure there's all that much difference between a vuvu and a chant that implies the other team is a bunch of homosexuals or that their wives are extremely promiscuous women.

 

[Kanenas]

Why not just create a counter sound that zeros out the tone?

If they can edit out a politician being booed then this should be easy.

 

[Training]

It has actually grown on me. I used to hate it but now I kind of wish those saffers kept it up for 90 minutes.

Why not just create a counter sound that zeros out the tone?

If they can edit out a politician being booed then this should be easy.

Apparently it will also take out the crowd noise and make the commentators sound weird.

 

[Trekker4747]

Why not just create a counter sound that zeros out the tone?

If they can edit out a politician being booed then this should be easy.

They can isolate the "tone" the thing makes and with computer-technichal equipment remove or dukk that tone. Unfortuantly, it'd also remove that tone from speech the commentators use which could probably make them sound... odd.

 

[Hermiod]

^Our commentators already sound odd.

 

[Cicero]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10317767.stm



Obviously, 545 morons can't figure out that the BBC has no control over noises made by the crowd during a live football game. I mean, did they think the BBC had added them for atmosphere?

That is not true. In fact it is very easy to filter out certain frequencies from a broadcast and vuvuzelas always sound at a specific constant frequency. The local Sky channel here does that, on of its audio tracks the vuvuzelas are almost inaudible, and it almost sounds like normal stadium atmosphere. But of course that's an editorial decision that could be argued either way. [btw. the sound you hear of the spectators in a football stadium are often (if not even usually) edited and influenced by the tv station, they have various methods of doing that with the goal for example of making one team's supporters appear louder. I know for a fact that German tv stations often do that in European Cup matches of German clubs for example.]

google "vuvuzela filter".

Indeed, Canal+, a French broadcaster, intends to remove the vuvuzela sound from games airing on their station(s).