Getting technical: defining the latest sports technology advances.Tarek Tomes, as the president of ASN (1) (Autonomous System Number) A unique identifier of an autonomous system on the Internet. Of the 65 thousand ASNs available, more than 30 thousand have been assigned to ISPs and NSPs. ISPs usually have only one ASN, but NSPs may have more than one. Technologies, a software company based in Woodbury, MN, and also an a assistant basketball coach at Tartan Tartan, in the Bible Tartan (tär`tăn), in the Bible, official title of two Assyrians sent to Hezekiah by Sennacherib and Sargon. tartan, pattern tartan: see plaid. High School in St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery for the past six years, has a pretty good idea of what coaches are seeking in sports-related technology. That relationship has produced the Practice Manager and XO Illustrator. Created by coaches for coaches, the basketball coaching software is cutting edge in its design and simpliflies both the teaching aspect and the technological use of the product. "The use of technology allows coaches to organize themselves and gain efficiency," says Tomes, a former professional basketball player in Germany. "Right now, technology is relatively on the bottom end of the proverbial hockey stick. But, whether it's video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. packages or play diagramming packages, as the tools mature they will become easier to use. "Many of the tools created by great technology people aren't really pertinent for coaches. They are too difficult to use or too time-consuming. They have to be made with an eye toward the basketball problem that the coach is trying to solve, not the technology problem." From video and digital editing systems to software to scoreboards and video display systems to sound systems, coaches and AD's expect a smooth, glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. free procedure that is simple to operate and produces maximum results. LRS LRS Lawyer Referral Service (Ontario) LRS Library Research Service LRS Linear Referencing System (transportation engineering) LRS Logistics Readiness Squadron (USAF) Sports Software is making great strides in productivity and performance. Its Ultima Multi-Stream video editing workstation has a new feature called multi-capturing, or quad-capturing, as the company refers to it. The technology allows the user to capture four streams of video simultaneously from one computer. "You call do four times the work," says Ron Wojcicki, LRS Sports Software's marketing manager. "College video coordinators keep asking, 'How can I get the video and the data faster In the coaches?' Now they can". LRS's Gamer digital video editing and game analysis system allows the user direct edit from digital and analog cameras, using a firewire cable out of the camera Straight into a hard drive connection. This allows the user to not only capture the video to a tape, but also capture the video to a hard drive. The hard drive version is a file copy that can be reproduced. John Barkley, director of marketing and business development for Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Systems, Inc. is a California-based American manufacturer of digital video hardware and software for the consumer and broadcast markets. It was founded in 1986. In 2002 Pinnacle purchased VOB Computersysteme GmbH (now pinnaclesys.de). , Team Sports makers of the popular SportsEdit digital video editing and analysis tool, knows that coaches are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to help expedite the burden of team preparation. First, they don't want to deal with videotape anymore. Second, they want a complete set of tools that work together-a nice seamless environment in which to get through their day and complete their game plan. "They're looking for a greater integration of tools," says Barkley. "They want to do more, better, and faster produce more streams of video in quicker time or speed up the process of getting to digital video." Barkley used a sports technology analogy that would combine Excel, Power Point, and Word a complete Suite--in order to streamline the tasks of play drawing, game planning, and team meetings. Barkley estimates that 30% of Pinnacle's customers are tapeless today, meaning once it's on the computer they never go hack to tape. Mow and more high school coaches are making the transition to video editing. "I think people wig centrally to go digital," says harry Bryant, president of CoachComm Sports Electronics, which has partnered with Pinnacle in the sales of SportsEdit. "More and more are doing so because they want to. But a lot of is because they have to. There's just not enough analog equipment out there. "If you try and lind a full size VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. camcorder, you won't succeed because basically it doesn't exist. You have to get one of the smaller formats. Schools are looking for that standard to swap tapes. It used to he VHS forever. Now schools are being forced to go digital or go another route." As an aside. CoachComm has developed the Commando Control RF wireless remote. It uses radio frequency (RF) instead of infrared. Features include a familar button layout, built-in laser pointer A laser pointer is a portable, pen-sized laser designed to be held in the hand, and most commonly used to project a point of light to highlight items of interest during a presentation. , and instant replay on select models. "With your home remote, if you point it at the TV it works fine," CoachComm's Bryant says. "But if someone walks in front of it and breaks thai infrared beam, it blocks it. All coaching remotes, up until this one, have been wired remotes, This will allow coaches to be mobile." The beauty of a product such as SportsEdit--which is Windows compatible and runs, the gamut from football and basketball to lacrosse lacrosse (ləkrôs`), ball and goal game usually played outdoors by two teams of 10 players each on a field 60 to 70 yd (54.86 to 64.01 m) wide by 110 yd (100.58 m) long. Two goals face each other 80 yd (73. and hockey to soccer and volleyball is its simplicity. Even the least computer savvy coach can be up and editing within a co.pie of hours. "You're making cut ups in two and a half hours," Barkley says. "Which is something you really can't do on videotape. It's simple and intuitive." Sports-Edit was initially designed for an individual coach to do his own work. By the end of the year, several coaches will be able to work and share information simultaneously in what is being dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. , a "team work" environment, which essentially will link, or network them, it you will SOFTWARE SOLUIONS Simple and intuitive also applies to ASN's Practice Manager and XO Illustrator. The Practice Manager software-which comes with 50 pre-loaded drills that will increase to 100 by late fall-allows coaches to organize and plan practices, with the added luxury of printing and analyzing the printouts. Practice plans are created and displayed on a calendar for easy recall and editing. The unique analysis feature lets coaches review how much time they spend in practice on various drills New drills can he added and organized in any manner for easy organization. The Practice Manager also allows you to organize team rosters coaches, and practice teams. "Every coach in the world plans his practices," Tarek Tomes says. "Some scribble scribble - To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on low core. it on a napkin napkin See Sanitary napkin. and some on index cards. The more advanced coaches used to sort of word process their practices or maybe doing it in Word or Excel None really tied it together, including me to for a lot of years " The XO Illustrator is a drill and play-book animation and illustration tool. It also comes with numerous drills and plays pre-loaded. Drills or plays can easily be created in several different ways. They can be animated so that the coaches can actually see and show how different plays or drills develop and progress. They can also be printed in a professional manner for scouting reports or for creatting play-books. "This is a great visual learning tool," says Tarek Tomes. "You can diagram opponent's plays and present them in a scouting report where they visually move. It also comes with plays and drills that are already animated. Coaches will be able to download a certain play and see how it actually operates instead of watching it on a video." Both products, which run on Windows, sell for $80. Users can try a free demo on ASN's web site, www.hoopsnet.com. Another novel software idea comes from Vision Ventures, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , manufacturer's of scheduleUS Publisher. The product, which is Windows and Palm OS compatible, is an ideal way for schools and athletic departments to keep the families of student-athletes abreast of games practices, and school-related activities. Coaches and AD's can credit a calendar of events that can be uploaded onto a school's respective Internet homepage. Revisions and updates are a simple upload on the administrator's end and download on the user's end. Best of all, there is nothing to print and no server software is required. THE NEXT WAVE Coaches have exchanged game tapes for years. What used to be 8mm became VHS. Now, they are exchanging either DVD's or hard drives. The concept of compressed digital video exchange via the WorldWideWeb is fast approaching. In fact, LRS's Ron Wojcicki predicts the technology will be fully functional in time for the 2004 collegiate football season. Companies like LRS and L3 are in the final phases of making instantaneous information exchange between a coach in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and a coach in California as simple as clicking a mouse. "The Internet is where every one will eventually go," says Wojcicki. "It's going te be huge. No doubt about it. Video technology changes exponentially." LRS, which has had discussions with four major college conferences, calls its video exchange technology, GaimX. The quality of the compressed digital video has improved dramatically. The standard format for playing compressed video compressed video - video compression on the internet is MPEG-4, the streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. file equivalent of MP3 audio files. MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). (Moving Pictures Experts Groups (spelling) Moving Pictures Experts Group - Incorrect expansion of MPEG, which stands for Moving Picture Experts Group. ) is a generic means of compactly representing digital video and audio signals for consumer distribution. "This format gives you good quality video at a much reduced downloadable size," says L3's Larry Cheesman. "The issue there is quality. As compressed video continues to get better, the technology will be a lot more feasible. We've been grappling to get the quality just right so that it can be used acceptably for coaching. We're close." Security issues, as well as costs, are major concerns. While the fees have yet to be determined, there are two main options for file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. the videos. They could be sent directly from one school to another's File Transfer Protocol A communications protocol used to transmit files without loss of data. A file transfer protocol can handle all types of files including binary files and ASCII text files. See Kermit, Zmodem and FTP. (FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to ) site, which handles large size files. Or they could be sent to a central repository. That could be either a company, a third party, or a conference office, which would want to have access to the game videos anyway. Says Ron Wojcicki: "As the technology improves, other schools will adapt to the technology, with all or most on board within three to five years. Then there will be the trickle-down effect This article discusses a marketing phenomenon. For the political term see trickle-down economics. The trickle-down effect is a marketing phenomenon that affects many consumer goods, including new technology and fashion. on the lower collegiate and high school levels." As an aside, the L3 Digital Video Recruiting Service will officially go nationwide this fall. L3 is working with the National Football Foundation in conjunction with the local chapters to help obtain videos from high school programs. L3 will digitize To convert an image or signal into digital code by scanning, tracing on a graphics tablet or using an analog to digital conversion device. 3D objects can be digitized by a device with a mechanical arm that is moved onto all the corners. the video and gather player information and offer that as a recruiting service to the schools. It will then rebate a percentage of the proceeds back to the NFF NFF Neutral File Format NFF National Farmers Federation (Australia) NFF National Football Foundation NFF National Forest Foundation NFF No Fault Found NFF National Folk Festival NFF Nantucket Film Festival . "Coaches can look a high school video either off the Internet or off a firewire drive See portable hard drive. ," L3's Larry Cheesman says. "You can put 300 games on one firewire drive." Pinnacle's SportsWeb is a web-based video streaming See streaming video and video stream. technology targeted for coaches, players, and recruiters to watch video on an Intranet. SportsWeb allows the coach to stream the video it today or download and take it with him on the road. The process is similar to MP3 music files that can be downloaded onto a portable player. Coaches can now download video and watch it wherever they want. Furthermore, SportsWeb can now work in conjunction with SportsEdit, providing an affordable solution at the high school and mid-major college level. Sights and Sounds Scoreboard technology is pretty much status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. several company insiders. The latest innovations--LED and wireless--have been on the market for at least three years. Companies such as Nevco, Sportable, Everson, and All American continue to produce quality products. "We're still on the tail end of completing the change from incandescent in·can·des·cent adj. 1. Emitting visible light as a result of being heated. 2. Shining brilliantly; very bright. See Synonyms at bright. 3. bulbs or lamps to LED scoring digits," says Jerrid Thomas, regional marketing associate for Daktronies, Inc. "A few years ago what you would see at many high school fields was a light bulb system. Now, any new board that we sell has LED technology. "There are so many more benefits to using LED than lamps. Power consumption is a huge factor. Because we sell LED models, we can offer boards in different colors. Electronic message centers are going on more scoreboards than they ever have." The one place where innovation is thriving is in the video display market. Specifically, the video products area, where company's like Daktronics are beginning to launch virtual pixeling technology, which is another way of getting a better image by allowing pixels to share with one another. Daktronics' Pro Star and Pro Ad Video Plus displays now offer 4.7 trillion shades of Noun 1. shades of - something that reminds you of someone or something; "aren't there shades of 1948 here?" reminder - an experience that causes you to remember something color, an increase from 64 billion from its last series. The company's V-Link 400 controller--a V-link is the interface that sends any signal out to the video board--is now available in an HD (High Definition) version. Jerrid Thomas says more and more high schools, particularly in Texas, are purchasing higher-end video display systems with their scoreboards. He Noted that a school in Ware County, GA, recently purchased a 34 mm Pro Star system. A very affordable for high schools." Daktronic Sports Marketing Sport marketing (or "sports marketing" in the US) (1) the specific application of marketing principles and processes to sport products (e.g., teams, leagues, events, etc.) and (2) the the marketing of non-sports products (e.g., cigarettes, beer, long-distance phone service, etc. , a division of Daktronics, Inc., helps with outside funding--mainly through corporate sponsors--so that schools can purchase scoreboards and video display systems. There's no telling where the next generation of scoreboards and video display systems will go. The sky and the imagination are the limit. "We'll have to see where our customers drive us," says Jerrid Thomas. "A lot of our customers are unique and have their own special needs. If a certain customer has a good idea and it's something that we can see as profitable for us as well as a better deal for our customers, we'll start to follow that and develop it." As for sound systems, Anchor Audio offers a complete line of products to meet a school's budget and preference. The MegaVox PA battery powered system, which boasts 22 watts of power and up to 16 built-in user selectable channels, can handle two wireless microphones. Made for efficient, the model, which operates on a UHF (Ultra High Frequency) The range of electromagnetic frequencies from 300 MHz to 3 GHz. In the U.S., analog television has used UHF channels 52 to 69 in the 700 MHz band. frequency, has two receivers built-in and also has a signal alert button. Weighing just 14 pounds, it's portable, as well as waterproof. "If you need hear a coach from across a football field this will do it," says Debbie Lombard, director of international sales and marketing. The MegaVox can handle crowds of up to 3,000 people. The portable Liberty Sound System can be used indoors or outdoors, but its 50 watts of power is perfectly designed for a large auditorium filled with as many as 2,000 people. The self-contained unit can accommodate up to three wireless microphones and has line inputs to handle tape, CD or DVD players. "I think the main thing is that it is much more self-efficient," Debbie Lombard says. "It has evolved. There used to be a time where you had a speaker, mixer, and tuner. Now it's self contained." 2003 Technology Company Directory ALL AMERICAN SCOREBOARDS 401 South Main Pardeville, WI 53954 800-356-8146 Contact: Douglas Wincelmann; score@everbrite.com (Scoreboards) ANCHOR AUDIO, INC. 3415 Lomita Blvd. Torrance, CA 90505 800-262-4671 Contact: debbiel@anchoraudio.com (Soundsystems/loudspeakers) Adv. p. 51 ASN TECHNOLOGIES, LLC 3234 Meadowbrook Place Woodbury, MN 55125 651-578-9346 Contact: Tarek Tomes; ttomes@hoopsnet.com (Basketball Practice Management Software and Play Diagramming) Adv. p. 35 BIG G SOFTWARE 1459 FM 102 Alleyton, TX 78935 800-222-3965 Contact: George King George King may refer to:
CALIFONE INTERNATIONAL INC. 21300 Superior Street Chatsworth, CA 91311 800-722-0500 Contact: timr@califone.com (Soundsystems/loudspeakers) COACHCOMM SPORTS ELECTRONICS 205 Technology Pkwy. Auburn, AL 36830 800-749-2761, x 213 Contact: Justin Zapp (Sideline communications, remotes, video and game analysis equipment) Adv. 49 COMPUSPORTS P.O. Box 1340, Frederick, MD 21702 301-668-5145 Contact: Nick Interdonato; info@compusports.com (Statistical software) DAKTRONICS, INC. 333 Thirty-Second Ave. Brookings, SD 57006 605-697-4636 Contact: Jerrid Thomas (Scoreboards) Adv. p. 52 ENDZONE VIDEO 5622 Village Park Dr., Katy, TX 77493 281-391-0104 Contact: Chad Walling (Video) EVERSAN INC. P.O. Box 260, Yorkville, NY 13495 315-736-3967 Contact: Mike Evke; unitec@borg.com (Scoreboards) FAIR PLAY SCOREBOARDS Fair Play is a company that manufactures scoreboards, video boards, and electronic displays. Fair Play is a subsidiary of Trans-Lux electronic displays. History P.O. Box 1847, Des Moines Des Moines, city, United States Des Moines (dĭ moin`), city (1990 pop. 193,187), state capital and seat of Polk co., S central Iowa, at the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers; inc. , IA 60506 800-247-0265 Contact: Jamie Steichen jsteichen@fair-play.com (Scoreboards, Message Centers and more) GAME OPS Ops (ŏps), in Roman religion, goddess of harvests. She was the wife of Saturn, by whom she bore Jupiter and Juno. At her festivals, the Opiconsivia and the Opalia, held in August and December, respectively, she was worshiped as a goddess of sowing COMMANDER One Center Court, Suite 200 Portland, OR 97227 800-346-8037 john.jackson@ripcity.com (Audio/Video Equipment) Adv. p. 56 KDM KDM Key Delivery Message KDM Key Distribution Manager KDM Cadmium KDM Key Decision Maker KDM Korean Domestic Market KDM Ken's Digital Music (digital music file format) KDM Keypad Display Module KDM Kde Display Manager ELECTRONICS INC./OCTASOUND 931 Progress Avenue Unit #12 Toronto, Ontario M1G 3V5 416-439-7158 Contact: kevin@octasound.com (Soundsystems) L3 P.O. Box 290, Snellville, GA 30078 770-979-6467 Contact: Larry Cheesman lcheesman33@hotmail.com (Video Editing Equipment) LRS SPORTS SOFTWARE 2401 W. Monroe St., Springfield, IL 62704 888-577-0001 Contact: Ron Wojcicki; rwojcicki@lrs.com (Digital video, game, analysis software) Adv. p. 47 MATCH ANALYSIS 1501 Powell St., Ste. K, Emeryville, CA 94608 510-655-8777 Contact: mark@matchanalysis.com (Video Equipment) NEVCO SCOREBOARDS COMPANY 301 East Harris Ave., Greenville, IL 62246 800-851-4040 Contact: Shelly Childerson nevco@nevcoscoreboards.com (Scoreboards) Adv. p. 54 PANASONIC 1 Panasonic Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094 201-348-7994 Contact: Jim Wickizer wickizerj@panasonic.com (Video Editing Equipment) PINNACLE SYSTEMS 55 Technology Drive Lowell, MA 01851 978-275-0201 Contact: Kate Putnam kputnam@pinnaclesys.com (Digital video analysis solutions for the entire organization) PORTA PHONE 145 Dean Knauss Drive Narragansett, RI 02882 800-233-1113 Contact: John Hooper
John Hooper (1495-1500 - February 9, 1555) was an English churchman, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester and a Marian martyr. john@portaphone.com (Wireless headset See headset. systems) PROSCOUT 5500 Market Street, Ste. 75A Boardman, OH 44512 Contact: Dan Policy (Statistical software) SCOREWARE 78 Stratford Street W. Roxbury, MA 02132 617-296-5300 Contact: Dave Rozerwski support@statkeeper.com (Statistical software) SOUNDSPHERE LOUDSPEAKERS 10 Research Drive, Stratford, CT 06615 203-386-9200 Contact: info@soundsphere.com (Soundsystems/loudspeakers) SPECTRUM CORPORATION 10048 Easthaven Blvd. Houston, TX 77075 713-986-8868 Contact: Donna Anderson (Scoreboards) SPORTABLE SCOREBOARDS 106 Max Hurt Drive, Murray, KY 42071 800-323-7745 Contact: Peter Cowen petercowen@scoreboard.com (Scoreboards) TIME-O-MATIC ELECTRONICS SIGNS 1015 Maple Street, Danville, IL 61832 800-843-4908 Contact: John Kunze (Outdoor electronic signs) TURBO STATS SOFTWARE 2 Stafford Place Towaco, NJ 07082 973-334-7828 Contact: Don Trifari don@turbostats.com (Statistical software) U.S. SPORTS VIDEO 916 Columbus Drive Amherst, OH 44001 800-556-8778 Contact: Mike Bokulich ussports@en.com (End-zone camera systems, digital cameras, projectors, analyzers, remotes and edit systems) Adv. p. 57 VISION VENTURES 263 Market Square Lake Forest, IL 60045 847-604-9256 Contact: Kim Kopp kim@scheduleus.com (Software connecting communities, schools and athletic departments) Adv. p. 31 WEBB ELECTRONICS 1410 Westway Circle Carrollton, TX 75006 972-242-5400 Contact: Bryan Ellis (Video/Editing) |
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