[HN Gopher] Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to b...
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       Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to bypass broadcast
       restrictions
        
       Author : defrost
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2025-01-16 00:50 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.crikey.com.au)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.crikey.com.au)
        
       | grajaganDev wrote:
       | "the Australian Open's own channel has streamed select matches
       | using cartoonish avatars of players instead of the actual
       | broadcast."
       | 
       | LOL - but why not? They need to do this for every sport.
        
         | defrost wrote:
         | There's a startup here for someone . . .
         | 
         | Could even work for CSPAN, QuestionTime, and other political
         | coverage ..
        
           | inglor_cz wrote:
           | Presidential debates... perhaps the viewers could even choose
           | their favorite skin etc.
        
             | bdangubic wrote:
             | it is always two clowns debating so this would TOTALLY work
             | :)
        
         | teractiveodular wrote:
         | Then plug in another AI that maps the cartoons back to
         | deepfakes of the original players, and the circle of life is
         | complete.
        
       | voidfunc wrote:
       | Let's do this for baseball.. would probably make everything way
       | more interesting
        
         | oplav wrote:
         | MLB does something similar called Gameday 3D.
         | https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-gameday-3d-guide
         | 
         | The main difference is that it's rendered client side so you
         | can control the camera for yourself. You can watch in real time
         | during the season, the latency is around 30 seconds behind live
         | action.
        
         | mopenstein wrote:
         | At one point data for every MLB game was available from
         | MLB.com. I started writing a RBI baseball simulator using said
         | data and the graphics from the NES game. But then I realized
         | I'm not that good at programming but I still think it would've
         | been neat to watch game 3 of the 1970 world series as played
         | out by 1985 video game graphics.
        
       | pedalpete wrote:
       | Doesn't this harm the long-term value of AOs rights sales to the
       | broadcasters?
       | 
       | If I know AO is going to broadcast on youtube, why am I as a
       | European broadcaster going to pay them the same amount as I did
       | when they weren't trying to work against me?
        
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