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To: wlcnyc who wrote (1936)	5/23/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Greenie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2393

OK, this is our competition. Now while I would rather be the only game in town, I've never run from a fight in my life. I also believe a little competiton is good to draw attention to the industry. Here our my thoughts on this: They have more money behind them, but, we have the jump on them. We've been around longer and have better relationships. SportTVision is in bed with ESPN. We are in bed with FOX. FOX is bigger and has a far greater reach then ESPN. WE are more then a one sport product, they, as far as I know, have only this lame baseball bat speed product. Our product does what theirs does, but they cannot do what our does. WE can track a ball, they cannot. We can track the bat speed etc. Like I said, I wish we were the only ones. But, the fact that others are trying to copy us, makes me believe we will be around for a while and that we are the leaders in an emerging industry. Sportvision's New Bat Speed Technology Debuts On ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball Click on our sponsors! Updated 12:48 PM ET May 20, 1999 Technology enables TV viewers to see bat speed in real time, providing first consistent measure of pitch speed NEW YORK (BW SportsWire) - - Latest enhancement for sports programming introduced by Sportvision, developers of popular "1st & Ten" technology - ESPN will utilize Sportvision's innovative bat and pitch speed technology during its Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts this season, it was announced today by Sportvision. The system was most recently seen last Sunday night (5/15) on ESPN's telecast of the San Francisco Giants-Houston Astros game. The advanced radar technology, developed by Sportvision to enhance the "Bat Track" system launched last year by ESPN, allows viewers to see immediately a player's bat speed and its relationship to pitch speed. Sportvision, one of the leading convergence companies in sports media, develops technology-based enhancements for sports television, the Internet, and new media platforms. The bat speed technology automatically displays the information in real time immediately after the batter swings. It illustrates and analyzes an important element of the game never featured on television before: bat speed and its relationship to both the hitter's swing path and pitch speed. "Bat Track" gives baseball fans an insight into a critical component of a hitter's performance that, until now, has not been objectively measured. The patent-pending system also offers the first accurate, consistent statistic for pitch speed. By automatically calculating the pitch velocity at the same point each time - as the ball leaves the pitcher's hand - it avoids the discrepancies and errors associated with the commonly-used method of the single, manually-operated radar gun. The pitch speed, calculated with the multiple-radar system, provides the first consistent measurement of pitch velocity for baseball telecasts. Reliable comparisons can now be made between data from pitchers in different games. "'Bat Track' is a wonderful tool which, for the first time, allows us to teach viewers about the relationship between pitch speed and bat speed," said ESPN's baseball analyst, Joe Morgan. "This important aspect of the game has never before been explored," Morgan added. ESPN's use of the new, improved bat speed technology is another step in pioneering the sportscaster's use of technology developed by Sportvision. Last year, ESPN introduced Sportvision's Emmy-nominated "1st & Ten" technology - the popular "yellow line" which electronically displays a first down line - on ESPN's Sunday Night Football telecasts. ESPN also utilized Sportvision's "MaXAir" technology during its Summer and Winter X Games, to accurately measure the height and distance achieved by competitors in Big Air events, including half-pipe, snowboarding and ski-jumping. About Sportvision Sportvision's engineering team developed the "1st & Ten" system, one of the most popular new sports innovations in years. Sportvision's first system, "AIRf/x(TM)", measured the vertical leap of basketball players and was seen on TNT and Turner Broadcasting: the same technology is used in "MaXAir." Sportvision also serves as broadcast technology consultants to the National Football League, the National Hockey League and to the New York Mets. Sportvision's headquarters are in New York, and its development facility is in Mountain View, California.