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http://www.therugbypaper.co.uk/feat...in-pay-for-a-proper-tmo-system-or-bin-it-off/
I have to agree with the closing paragraphs of this article.
I'm all for the TMO - some alterations aside.
Some of the equipment being used by the refs seems substandard to me, though.
For god's sake someone get the officials some proper in-ear monitors, the ones they currently use look like £1 shop radio headphones.
One particular gripe I have is when the TMO has to manually check to see whether someone is out of touch before or after they've grounded the ball by flipping between two different camera angles and figuring out which cues signal the current time.
It seems to me as if this could be sorted with some sort of tagging system whereby you are watching the camera angle which shows the grounding of the ball and you "tag" the frame in which this occurs.
You then switch to the angle which shows the feet/body of the player going out of touch and tag the moment they do so.
If the "ball grounded" tag is before the "player out of touch" tag then you know the grounding was OK.
There is no need to keep ooing and aahing about whether it was out - you can say with absolute certainty (particularly if you are using high FPS cameras).
(The cameras are all synchronised to a clock - the clock knows the exact time that a frame occurs... this technology is very low-tech - it's just a matter of commissioning someone to make it.)
I have to agree with the closing paragraphs of this article.
I'm all for the TMO - some alterations aside.
Some of the equipment being used by the refs seems substandard to me, though.
For god's sake someone get the officials some proper in-ear monitors, the ones they currently use look like £1 shop radio headphones.
One particular gripe I have is when the TMO has to manually check to see whether someone is out of touch before or after they've grounded the ball by flipping between two different camera angles and figuring out which cues signal the current time.
It seems to me as if this could be sorted with some sort of tagging system whereby you are watching the camera angle which shows the grounding of the ball and you "tag" the frame in which this occurs.
You then switch to the angle which shows the feet/body of the player going out of touch and tag the moment they do so.
If the "ball grounded" tag is before the "player out of touch" tag then you know the grounding was OK.
There is no need to keep ooing and aahing about whether it was out - you can say with absolute certainty (particularly if you are using high FPS cameras).
(The cameras are all synchronised to a clock - the clock knows the exact time that a frame occurs... this technology is very low-tech - it's just a matter of commissioning someone to make it.)
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