- Sportvision
Sportvision is a private company that provides various
television viewing enhancements to a number of different professional sporting events. They work with NFL, NBA,NASCAR , NHL, MLB and PGA broadcasts. They also work withcollege football broadcasts.In 1996,
Stan Honey developed a way to trackhockey puck s with a red dot as seen by television viewers. It was assumed at that time that viewers had a hard time keeping track of the puck. Released as theFoxTrax puck, it was not a success but led to the 1998 formation of the Sportvision company and later that year the development of the 1st & Ten computer system, which generates and displays the yellow first down line that a TV viewer sees during a live football broadcast. The system became a major hit with television viewers when it was in theSuper Bowl broadcast. It has since become part of all standard American professional andcollege football and Canadian pro football broadcasts.Another popular Sportvision product is seen in broadcasts of
NASCAR races. It is calledRACEf/x , and creates virtual flags above the cars to make them easier to follow by the viewers.Sportvision also created the
Pitch f/x system used byMajor League Baseball to provide pitch data to users ofMLB.com GameDay and viewers of Fox, Fox Sports Net, Rogers Sports Net and TBS.External links
*http://www.sportvision.com/
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