Chuck the Writer
08-23-2007, 08:00 PM
In a major announcement, the Utica Wreckers, champions of the ABA and USBL, have announced that they will participate in the new broadcasting project through PlayOn! Sports, and plan to broadcast all 36 of the team's home games.
"This is a major accomplishment for the Wreckers," said team spokesperson Abia Ausichser. We are looking forward to showing highlights of the team's great players and great athletes, all through the magic of the Internet."
To this effort, the Wreckers have purchased six top-quality cameras at the Utica Photography and Camera Shoppe on Genesee Street. "The cameras we bought are top-of-the-line," said Ausichser, "and the special film we will use are like no other camera on the market today."
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The six "Brownie" cameras currently take top-of-the-line 8mm cartridges, which apparently are in plentiful supply in Utica. "All we have to do is film the game," said Ausichser, "then we take the 8mm cartridges out of the camera and take them to Utica Photography and Camera Shoppe, then within five business days they'll send us some reels of developed film for us to watch."
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"After we've watched the reels, we then send the reels back to Utica Photography and Camera Shoppe, where they will transfer the filmed reels to VHS tapes," said Ausichser. "That process will take at least three business days, according to Utica Photography. Then, once we've checked over the final results on our VCR's, then Utica Photography will convert those VHS tapes to DVD. And once they're on DVD, and we've approved them, then we can send the DVD's back to Utica Photography and they can convert the images on the DVD's to a computer-stored digital format, which can be uploaded to PlayOn! Sports. Essentially, it should only take us three to four weeks after a game has been filmed, for it to appear on the Internet. But we feel our Wreckers' games are most definitely worth the wait."
If any of the Brownie cameras happen to fail, Ausichser has a backup plan. "We also purchased one or two Fisher-Price PXL-200 Pixelvision cameras, which are capable of recording six minutes of black-and-white action on a high-quality music cassette tape. So then once we've gotten that on cassette, then we can send the cassette to Utica Photography and they will try to get the images converted to film, most likely by playing the cassette in a music cassette player and trying to trace on stencil paper what type of action is going on at the Utica Auditorium at that moment."
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"This is a major accomplishment for the Wreckers," said team spokesperson Abia Ausichser. We are looking forward to showing highlights of the team's great players and great athletes, all through the magic of the Internet."
To this effort, the Wreckers have purchased six top-quality cameras at the Utica Photography and Camera Shoppe on Genesee Street. "The cameras we bought are top-of-the-line," said Ausichser, "and the special film we will use are like no other camera on the market today."
http://www.aidanandkate.net/aidan/images/KodakBrownieII.jpg
The six "Brownie" cameras currently take top-of-the-line 8mm cartridges, which apparently are in plentiful supply in Utica. "All we have to do is film the game," said Ausichser, "then we take the 8mm cartridges out of the camera and take them to Utica Photography and Camera Shoppe, then within five business days they'll send us some reels of developed film for us to watch."
http://www.standard8.org/images/film_reel.jpg
"After we've watched the reels, we then send the reels back to Utica Photography and Camera Shoppe, where they will transfer the filmed reels to VHS tapes," said Ausichser. "That process will take at least three business days, according to Utica Photography. Then, once we've checked over the final results on our VCR's, then Utica Photography will convert those VHS tapes to DVD. And once they're on DVD, and we've approved them, then we can send the DVD's back to Utica Photography and they can convert the images on the DVD's to a computer-stored digital format, which can be uploaded to PlayOn! Sports. Essentially, it should only take us three to four weeks after a game has been filmed, for it to appear on the Internet. But we feel our Wreckers' games are most definitely worth the wait."
If any of the Brownie cameras happen to fail, Ausichser has a backup plan. "We also purchased one or two Fisher-Price PXL-200 Pixelvision cameras, which are capable of recording six minutes of black-and-white action on a high-quality music cassette tape. So then once we've gotten that on cassette, then we can send the cassette to Utica Photography and they will try to get the images converted to film, most likely by playing the cassette in a music cassette player and trying to trace on stencil paper what type of action is going on at the Utica Auditorium at that moment."
More to follow...