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Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup
qubezz writes "World Cup soccer fans may think a hornet's nest has infiltrated their TVs. However the buzz that is the background soundtrack of the South African-hosted games comes from tens of thousands of plastic horns called vuvuzelas, that are South Africa's version of ringing cowbells or throwing rats. It looks like the horns won't be banned anytime soon though. A savvy German hacker, 'Tube,' discovered that the horn sound can be effectively filtered out by applying a couple of digital notch filters to the audio at the frequencies the horn produces (another summary in English). Now it looks like even broadcasters like the the BBC and others are considering using such filters on their broadcasts."
No need to turn it off, just change the channel to a real sport.
I have a better idea: change the channel to something that isn't a sport at all. Spectator sports are a complete waste of time.
If only I had mod points... This is no more annoying than the singing that goes on in other countries. Or the rioting and drunken hooliganism.
Which sort of "off" switch, though? .30-06? 7.62x54R?
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Mate, it's soccer, a game so boring the crowd have to invent their own entertainment. :-)
I blame English imperialist expansion. One of half the globe - Oceania, The Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent got stuck with Test Cricket. As if that weren't bad enough, they inflicted soccer on South America and, it seems, southern Africa.