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Re: Metrolink Cab Cameras
Author: Charley Pratt
Date: 12-28-2008 - 03:51

Has anyone (including a gullibule news media) investigated the feasibility, cost and practicality of trying to broadcast a live, real-time video from a moving train?

Come on, people. Let's get real.

Every time I see my friendly neighborhood TV ENG (electronic news gathering) van (think Eyewitless News) broadcasting live video, it requires a TALL, HUGE antenna sticking up out of the top of the van so it can transmit the signal to the nearest land-based transmission tower. And the van in not moving.

Are Metrolink trains going to be similarly equipped? Will the crewmembers remember to lower the antenna when the train is approaching tunnels and underpasses?

Just for fun, read the following URL and discover what a technological and logistical nightmare it was when ABC's "Good Morning America" transmitted live video from a moving Amtrak train:

[www.tvweek.com]

This is one more example of Metrolink board members and other politicians being hypnotised by equally-clueless paid consultants.

No one has done their homework in figuring out the cost and logistics involved in such a pipe dream.

Amazing. Simply amazing.

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