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#323379 26-Nov-2025 10:34

I might alone here but lately have been watching the Ashes cricke and then the NZ T20's and 50 over broadcasts and can't help but notice how the Fox broadcasts really overdo their on screen graphics, to a point where it's not informative but distracting.

For example from the Ashes series

THis takes up fair bit of the screen realestate

From the NZ broadcasts

You can see they are slightly more discrete not taking up the entire left and right hand side

And just for kicks an American broadcast of football - the US are really big into onscreen graphics

This is reasonably discrete and informative

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#3437618 26-Nov-2025 10:38

In a perfect world the video/audio feed would be unbundled and you could subscribe to your preferred on screen graphics and commentary!

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#3437634 26-Nov-2025 11:27

Multiscreening is a thing now. All the other crap can be delivered in an app that you can look at on your device if you are interested.

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#3437673 26-Nov-2025 13:38

richms:

Multiscreening is a thing now. All the other crap can be delivered in an app that you can look at on your device if you are interested.

lol, you're not seriously suggesting you can use Sky with multiscreen/graphics overlays are you? As that looked like a cricket feed, which is more than likely ex Sky.

But as richms said, you can with say F1TV as you can run the video feed on tv, and then run the dataonly feed on a 2nd screen if you want.

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#3437675 26-Nov-2025 13:43

davidcole:

lol, you're not seriously suggesting you can use Sky with multiscreen/graphics overlays are you? As that looked like a cricket feed, which is more than likely ex Sky.

But as richms said, you can with say F1TV as you can run the video feed on tv, and then run the dataonly feed on a 2nd screen if you want.

The viewing is done on a box with a full operating system and graphics system and a data connection to the rest of the world. It should be trivial for them to overlay things on that in the app that is viewing the live stream of content. Youtube manages to overlay a chat on every device that has the app on it.

When they start scrolling thru stats and crap making moving distractions, showing leaderboards etc can all be done via a second screen instead of cropping into the live content on the main screen.

Mind you, they keep still trying to put these live events into channels and putting them on different channels depending what else is on because of legacy of how things were done in the past so it will be a long time before they break from those traditions.

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#3437691 26-Nov-2025 15:16

Was this kind of stuff ever done as Teletext overlay?

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#3437693 26-Nov-2025 15:19

yitz:

Was this kind of stuff ever done as Teletext overlay?

probably, but I dont remember how far behind it would have been. I mean probably fine for Test cricket, and the old 3 hours Americas Cup races. But nothing else.

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#3437916 27-Nov-2025 10:16

I find the information useful but there has to be a way to make it less obtrusive.

I had seen a video about how onscreen graphics developed in NFL broadcasts and when they first decided to put the running score on the screen. There was some objections to this since it meant people could start watching a game after it had started and know the exact situation but the benefits soon outweighed the perceived negatives.

This is a great video on the developments of on-screen graphis in sports broadcasts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkWWcjeL_zM

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#3437923 27-Nov-2025 10:23

lchiu7:

I might alone here but lately have been watching the Ashes cricke and then the NZ T20's and 50 over broadcasts and can't help but notice how the Fox broadcasts really overdo their on screen graphics, to a point where it's not informative but distracting.

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I hadn't really noticed. The thing I find distracting, and jolly annoying is when they reduce the display-size of the coverage and have it in the top-corner of the screen, and have a big wide border on the bottom and side blasting you with an ad. (Fortunately only during replays or breaks in play.....for now.)

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