New Sky Sports Active - Cricket

With the start of the 2nd Test today, Sky Sports have launched their new Active Cricket service. It is simular to the new football one, heres some screens:

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http://netville.future.easyspace.com/TVH/cri2.jpg
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http://netville.future.easyspace.com/TVH/cri6.jpg
http://netville.future.easyspace.com/TVH/cri7.jpg
http://netville.future.easyspace.com/TVH/cri8.jpg
http://netville.future.easyspace.com/TVH/cri9.jpg

If anyone from Sky is reading this - Please put the interactive features back on domestic cricket!

Any comments from anyone?

Ste

Looks really good Ste. I thought they would do the interactive facility for every game. They could be just testing the system at the moment to get feedback from viewers about the service, before deciding if it's feasible to apply the interactive facility to all cricket games.

You may be lucky yet!!

Hope you don't mine me asking Ste - what make / model is your capture card?

I have a Voodoo 3500 TV - i used to have WinTV, and I think that I should have kept it!

Do you have any ideas how to improve the quality - ive tried DScaler but it doesnt work with the Voodoo.

Ste

Have Sky got live coverage of the 2nd test, damn, now I've missed two live tests!

Hehe - sadly I would have to agree (stongly)! The Voodoo cards had a great reputation upto around 1998, but they tapidly seemed to lose it after the Voodoo2.

Anyway - I'm thinking of getting a new graphics card / TV tuner for my PC over the summer - looking at getting the Hercules 3D Prophet ALL-IN-WONDER 7500 which is based on the ATI Radeon 7500 - anyone seen one of these running the TV and what sort of quality it is - the specs look very impressive although I guess they should be for £175!

Anyway sorry to make this a bit of a PC technical post - with regards to the topic, I find it rather stange that the interactive applications graphics (at least the front end menu) seem to be designed on the old Sky Sports graphics set... that's my only 'quibble' though.

The scorecard graphics are identical to the old Sky Sports graphics. I will get a grab if I can tomorrow.

Ste

Sky have the rights to show one Test match from each series, so there's the match on at the moment, plus one of the Tests against India later this year