[78-L] TONY train wreck

[David Lennick]

The local promos and commercials on the Buffalo channel (via cable) also had 
sync problems..I guess we'll just have to put up with the industry learning how 
to deal with digital till analog finally goes away. But the audio really was 
ghastly, switching between two sources constantly with occasional bits of echo, 
the applause had that "spring reverb" effect, I couldn't tell Liza from Harvey 
Fierstein (ok, Harvey looks better)..

As for Neil, at least his bits were short and the closing number was good.

Whoever directed that tribute to the year's deaths should be forced to watch it 
forever. It would have been nice to see the names and faces, not the arty 
fartsy panning and dollying over the choir.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> We're watching and recording it on both a digital converter box and
> Leah's Time-Warner cable on WCBS-TV NYC.  The digital box is giving it
> to us in widescreen, but on cable we get it full screen with the sides
> cropped like David is getting.  The digital box's sync is OK but the
> cable box might be giving us a slight delay.  Sync is usually an
> external problem because digital does not exist in any real-time form
> due to all sorts of encoding and decodnig, and the audio never has the
> same amount of time delay as the picture, and always has to be re-synced
> all along the signal path.  
> 
> The audio problems are very evident to us viewers, but other than that
> noisy wirless mic at the start of "Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat" I
> doubt the celebs in the audience noticed.        
> 
> And I thoroughly disagree about Neil Patrick Harris.  I think he is
> doing a great job, far, far better than schlubs like David Letterman.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [78-L] TONY train wreck
> From: Johan Bos-Beijer <jjhwbb at msn.com>
> Date: Sun, June 07, 2009 9:32 pm
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>, 78-l <78-l at 78online.com>
> 
> 
> An absolute disaster and unintended comedy! How pathetic. Not only are
> most shows revivals but the talent on stage hardly does justice to any
> of the works. Obviously the director and crew are in snooze mode or so
> stunned by what happened in the opening seconds that they have yet to
> recover! Imagine what is going through the minds of the legends of stage
> in the audience (like Angela Lansbury)!
> 
> Johannes J. Bos-Beijer 
> 
> Director 
> 
> BBACE
> 
> 
>  
>> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 21:27:46 -0400
>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>> To: 78-L at 78online.com
>> Subject: [78-L] TONY train wreck
>>
>> Is anybody watching the TONY awards?
>>
>> Can anybody tell me who's in charge there? Mikes not working, camera crews out 
>> to lunch, audio sounding as if it's going through a spring reverb system and 
>> people's lips about a tenth of a second behind what they're saying, scenes 
>> staged for widescreen but the whole show coming to me with the edges chopped 
>> off....JEEZ!
>>
>> And what used to be Liza Minnelli.
>>
>> And Neil Patrick bargain basement David Hyde Pierce f'cryin' out loud?
>>
>> Aaaaaak! Whoops, commercial break's over..
>>
>> dl