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Originally Posted by macallan25
Why would he not get access to the ABC feed or control over camera angles. That is the most insanely idiotic thing I have ever heard. One look at atleast 3 of the ABC camera angles would have made the call more than easy.
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To clear one thing up. NOBODY gets "Control" over TV's camera angles except the producer and director of the telecast.
If the TV crew is doing its job, though, as I said above they're going to play every replay that have that has ANY view of the play. Remember that some of the cameras may be isolated on different players -- but there are always at least one or two cameras (replays) that "follow the ball."
For the replay official not to have access to ALL of those pertinent replays is ridiculous.
ETA that when NFL replay began, a separate feed from the TV truck directly to the TV booth was added and the booth official had two VCR's of his own, with slo motion capability (and a person to operate them for him), so that he could look at the "first" replay, while the second machine was still recording the rest of the replays so he could watch the rest when he was finished with the first and nothing would be missed.