SNY To Take First Swing With MVP Enhancement System
Mets Games Will Showcase Magnify, Flow Motion, Pitch Differential Features
Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 3/2/2009 4:00:57 PM
The New York Mets will play in new digs at Citifield this season,but that won't be the only think fresh for the Amazins in 2009.
Executives at SNY, which is scheduled to televise 125 Mets regular-season games this campaign, say it will become the first regional sports network to field the MVP sports enhancement system -- a new in-game application -- provided by Orad Hi-Tec Systems.
This new system will allow SNY and its on-air team to enhance the game story with post-production capabilities in real time. With this new technology, SNY will incorporate five new features into its 2009 Mets telecasts: SNY magnify, flow motion, pitch differential and speed and distance trackers.
SNY magnify will not only hyper-zoom over the magnified area, but it will move with the player or object as the clip is played. SNY will be able to use this enhancement for plays at any base, a hit batsman, a ball near the foul pole or outfield wall. For example, on a close pickoff play at first base, the ball, glove and foot or hand of the runner can be magnified and followed into the bag.
With flow motion, SNY analysts Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez can dissect a pitcher's motion or batter's swing through overlays on repeated plays that will identify patters over the course of a ballgame.
The regional's pitch differential feature will illustrate a sequence by zooming in to where a catcher sets up, where the ball finishes and the point of contact with the bat.
As for the speed and distance trackers, SNY will be able to trace the speeds and distances of players on the base paths or in the outfield, as well as on balls that are pitched, hit or thrown by the fielders.
In addition, SNY will throw the first pitch out on a new, true HD, state-of-the-art graphics package that will unify the Mets brand. This new graphics package will be implemented on the network's in-game coverage, pre- and post-game shows, Mets magazine programming and SNY's minor league coverage of the Brooklyn Cyclones and Buffalo Bisons.
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