I was just going to reply about how my MLB experience mirrored the tennis situation. I just subscribe to MLB.TV gameday audio, which broadcasts the home/away radio portion, as I've moved away from my team's broadcast range for radio signal. In between innings, when I first got the package, they would play the ambient stadium mic by default- it was tremendous. Like you were there. I really loved that. Then some genius decided- hey! Even though we are charging them for what amounts to radio, let's put ads in every half inning so we can make even more money, so they did it. They are piping in local ads, so the majority are ads for things I'll never care about (I'm not driving 1400 miles to buy a truck from Miller Ford or wherever). Then they decided- hey! Why should we play ads at normal volume? Let's put the ads at roughly twice the volume of the broadcast so our paying customers will pay more attention to the ads!
I wrote to them with my complaints and an idea of paying more for the ad-less feed, which they can obviously and easily deliver, and received a similar response- well, it was more of a form letter they answer *everybody's* problem or question with on their forums. It is like $20/yr, so it isn't much, but I would pay $25/yr just to have no ads- but they'll never understand that. My critique and idea were filed in the appropriate trash bin.
This is kinda what I'm lookin' for- a monitor that's rugged and can move from place to place. I'm tired of luggin' a 15" CRT out to a location to see what's wrong with a drone computer that has no monitor (like a security camera computer). It could also quickly tell me if it was the video card or monitor that just blew out. Ideally, I'd want something even smaller, but I haven't found anything stand-alone that's built with portability in mind..
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I was just going to reply about how my MLB experience mirrored the tennis situation. I just subscribe to MLB.TV gameday audio, which broadcasts the home/away radio portion, as I've moved away from my team's broadcast range for radio signal. In between innings, when I first got the package, they would play the ambient stadium mic by default- it was tremendous. Like you were there. I really loved that. Then some genius decided- hey! Even though we are charging them for what amounts to radio, let's put ads in every half inning so we can make even more money, so they did it. They are piping in local ads, so the majority are ads for things I'll never care about (I'm not driving 1400 miles to buy a truck from Miller Ford or wherever). Then they decided- hey! Why should we play ads at normal volume? Let's put the ads at roughly twice the volume of the broadcast so our paying customers will pay more attention to the ads! I wrote to them with my complaints and an idea of paying more for the ad-less feed, which they can obviously and easily deliver, and received a similar response- well, it was more of a form letter they answer *everybody's* problem or question with on their forums. It is like $20/yr, so it isn't much, but I would pay $25/yr just to have no ads- but they'll never understand that. My critique and idea were filed in the appropriate trash bin.
This is kinda what I'm lookin' for- a monitor that's rugged and can move from place to place. I'm tired of luggin' a 15" CRT out to a location to see what's wrong with a drone computer that has no monitor (like a security camera computer). It could also quickly tell me if it was the video card or monitor that just blew out. Ideally, I'd want something even smaller, but I haven't found anything stand-alone that's built with portability in mind..
I can't wait for this guy to write his 3DMark03.exe optimized drivers for the VGA card ;) Then we'll have something..