Personally for myself, I like to watch the game on TV, or in person, but also be able to listen to the Radio Play-by Play. I feel you get a better play by play that way than you ever would from TV.
How do you like to watch your games
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Yeah, my father did same when I was growing up. Whenever the national football team would play, we would watch on Tv with the volume muted, and then turn on the radio and use that as our speak.
There's a tremendous difference between TV and radio speak. The TV speakers tend to not say anything for up to several minutes at a time, and often talk about stuff from earlier matches and various tidbits of useless football knowledge.
On radio they constantly tell you what's happening, which is fantastic if you're not sure about the players' names and certain techniques and so on. They're more like: "...And number 10 Michael Laudrup expertly passes across to number 7 Preben Elkjær, who brilliantly swings around opposing player number 5 Gilberto Gimenez but doesn't..."
I kinda like that.
There's a tremendous difference between TV and radio speak. The TV speakers tend to not say anything for up to several minutes at a time, and often talk about stuff from earlier matches and various tidbits of useless football knowledge.
On radio they constantly tell you what's happening, which is fantastic if you're not sure about the players' names and certain techniques and so on. They're more like: "...And number 10 Michael Laudrup expertly passes across to number 7 Preben Elkjær, who brilliantly swings around opposing player number 5 Gilberto Gimenez but doesn't..."
I kinda like that.
For Baseball and American Football, I favour the "Lying on the couch at 2.30am watching the live American feed on an English channel barely able to stay awake and indeed often waking up at 5am still on the couch with the TV blaring away and realising the game has finished yet unable to record it as my VCR is knackered" method.
^^^
Hehe, yeah. Why do they always have to play at such inconvenient times?
And I agree that radio commentating is a lot of fun.
Hehe, yeah. Why do they always have to play at such inconvenient times?
And I agree that radio commentating is a lot of fun.
Usually on the TV (I don't have HD and really am not in a hurry to get it) and I also listen to the games on Radio. It's good times.
You should come over and visit, tomalok HD sports is a beauuuutiful thing.
I like to watch it in my giant theater type recliners, fresh popcorn, beer or soda and surround sound to hear the crowd roar. I used to occasionally listen to the radio, but the likeliest radio broadcast of games/teams I want to watch/hear will be on satellite radio and on satellite tv. So the timing is going to be slightly off. You might hear the radio call and then see the play they talked about 10-15 seconds later. It would work if you're watching OTA tv and OTA radio, but I'm not a die-hard Orioles/Ravens/Terrapins/etc. fan, so I don't have what I want OTA most of the time.
When I'm in the car, however, I love getting the MLB radio broadcasts of every game on XM.
I like to watch it in my giant theater type recliners, fresh popcorn, beer or soda and surround sound to hear the crowd roar. I used to occasionally listen to the radio, but the likeliest radio broadcast of games/teams I want to watch/hear will be on satellite radio and on satellite tv. So the timing is going to be slightly off. You might hear the radio call and then see the play they talked about 10-15 seconds later. It would work if you're watching OTA tv and OTA radio, but I'm not a die-hard Orioles/Ravens/Terrapins/etc. fan, so I don't have what I want OTA most of the time.
When I'm in the car, however, I love getting the MLB radio broadcasts of every game on XM.
Times sure were different then, weren't they? It's changed so much more in the last decade, too. Used to be you had Monday Night Baseball, too. There was that game and the big Saturday game for MLB, the handful of games across Sunday/Monday for the NFL, etc. If you were really lucky, you got to see a team you liked.
We did a lot of radio listening to games back in the day, too. Mal, do you remember the NBC Dolphins-Jets game around '78 or so that was broadcast without any announcers? You might not have gotten the game, but it was a big deal as an experiment at the time. We got the game in Miami and just queued up the radio as always. Though it was fun to turn up the sound on the tv every so often just to hear the silence from the booth.
We did a lot of radio listening to games back in the day, too. Mal, do you remember the NBC Dolphins-Jets game around '78 or so that was broadcast without any announcers? You might not have gotten the game, but it was a big deal as an experiment at the time. We got the game in Miami and just queued up the radio as always. Though it was fun to turn up the sound on the tv every so often just to hear the silence from the booth.
On the largest t.v. I have access to.
TV if there is one, radio if there isn't. I love radio play-by-play, but I sometimes find that much more stressful, since I can't be positive of exactly what's going on (plus, they often delay in repeating the score, so there's agonizing moments if I turn on a game late when I have no idea who's winning).
Yeah, I remember that. IIRC the concept was to make you feel like you were at the game. Crowd noise and stadium announcements were about it.
I second that!!
My girlfriend doesn't really care about HD, and when watching movies she claims it doesn't really make a difference for her, and she barely sees the difference.
the other day however, we watched a football match in HD, and she was totally blown away. It might sound stupid, but the grass was what she really noticed, and the way the players almost light up on screen.
Sports in HD truly is beauuuutiful!
I much prefer watching the games live, of course. But if all I have is the TV feed, I'll go for it. Don't much care for listening to games on radio (although if I'm riding in my dad's car, I'll pull up the XM channel).
Where do you live. Whenever I'm in the area I'll know where to go.
Anyway, I've seen sports in HD before and you're right it is a beautiful thing. However, it's one of those things where if I see it in HD and then go back to Standard, I can live with it. I guess being frugal about the entertainments I have has pretty much made me make up my mind about that but yeah if I had more money and time, I probably would go the HD route.
Live, preferably. If not that, then live television for games where my teams are playing. Otherwise I prefer Tivo on delay so I can zoom through half-time, and for sports other than soccer, the commercials.
I wish all games were like that on radio or TV. I might actually listen, if they were.
Announcers annoy me.
I thought you'd upgraded to the foley catheter and bag by now.
http://delayplay.com/
I don't know how well it works, but it allows you to sync up the radio broadcast to the tv broadcast.
That's usually how I roll!
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