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Bernard: The Odeon Leicester Square have done DLP presentations in the past (e.g. Toy Story 2), so maybe they just plumbed a TV tuner into that projector.

I wonder what the TV licensing implication is? If they showed MurdochVision (or other satellite or cable) coverage they must surely have had to pay a pretty hefty sum to screen the match to an audience of nearly 2,000. But if they showed free-to-air coverage then presumably a normal TV licence is all they needed. I don't think there's any condition on a licence which limits the number of people who can watch at any one time; it just licenses the named address to receive terrestrial TV.

I think in another 10 years as the sport becomes more popular with our younger generation you will see interest increasing.

However unless you have grown up watching this it seems very slow moving and with scores like 2 - 0 and 1 - 0 the game lacks a degree of excitement.

In baseball, many really enjoy "pitchers' duels" more than games with scores in the teens.

Rochester is a real "soccer town":

http://rhinossoccer.com/
http://www.mlsnet.com/

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I love a game where there is a "Pitcher's Dual" and the game ends up 1-0. This can create it's own excitement. Getting a walk or an error can put people on base and excitement builds. There is focused action on a baseball game. There are many senarios.

However, with the way the soccer games are played there doen't seem
very exciting. As I stated it's only my opinion. I know from the reaction in Austrailia, New Zeland,Europe and England there are millions of fans and I wish them well. I'm just not one of them.

I like the way you think.

From this day forward it's American Football.

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I find soccer a sport of continuous motion, like a choreographed ballet, especially when playbacks in slo-mo are shown. In the NY metro area, it is shown daily on th UHF channels, mostly narrated in Spanish or Italian. The patter is continuous, and when there is a goal, the announcer yells GGOOOOOOOOOAAAALLLL in a cry that seems never-ending. It's very easy to follow, even without understanding the finer points. For example, I can't even name the positions the
players hold nor the plays, nor do I understand some of the rituals.
Example: When two players tear off their jerseys, jump up and down, and embrace each other's hairy sweating torsos. Are they the captain and the goalie celebrating a victory, or competing captains showing
good sportsmanship? Or swapping jerseys for souvenirs? Two women
on the US olympic team did this, to the criticism of some prudes,
but all the TV cameras showed it over and over as a significant ritual, which I see in every game on TV.