San Jose Sharks use TiVo-like recorder for hockey coach

San Jose Mercury News front page for April 22:
HOCKEY GOES HIGH-TECH AT SHARK TANK
Handheld monitor among tools at disposal of Shark's coaches.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...ks/8491270.htm

Tim Hunter has been transformed from the eighth most penalized player in NHL
history to a techno-geek. Rob Zettler, in his second season as a Wilson
assistant, is moving in that direction.

Hunter talks the talk, describing how a TV signal passes through a TiVo-like
recorder and a server before being wirelessly transmitted to the tablet PC on
the bench. He explains how game feeds are converted from analog to digital en
route to each coach's laptop.

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:32:02 +0000, Joe Smith wrote:

San Jose Mercury News front page for April 22:
HOCKEY GOES HIGH-TECH AT SHARK TANK
Handheld monitor among tools at disposal of Shark's coaches.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...ks/8491270.htm

Yeah, I saw a story about that in Wired:

http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,63105,00.html

Good stuff!

|| When Scott Mellanby of the St. Louis Blues apparently scored the tying
|| goal late in a recent National Hockey League playoff game with the San
|| Jose Sharks, Sharks assistant coach Tim Hunter wasn't worried.
||
|| He quickly replayed the whole scene on his tablet PC equipped with
|| TiVo-like functionality and verified that there was no goal. In
|| contrast, it took officials 2.5 minutes to call up to the booth and
|| then rule on the play.

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Lenroc