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Old Fri May 09, 2008, 02:18pm
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
There's still an undetermined(by rule) time lag to adjust. They'd still have to guess how much time to add. And as you said(and I agree 113%), you sureasheck can't accurately guess in tenths of a second.
Although I agree that it may be difficult to count in tenths of a second, people certainly have the ability to differentiate between x, x.5, and x+1 seconds.

Case in point: you know that I work in TV graphics. When I evaluate system performance for 24/7 live operation, and if the HD signal blips, I can often tell to within a few frames what frame number(s) were the one(s) that hiccuped. Ya, I may have some specialty training, but it's not that difficult at all. With 30 frames per second, you can do the seconds/frame math.

Recall those plays in state finals where watching in full speed first, (hopefully) your instinct is to waive off a basket. These cases had the release 0.5 seconds or less after the buzzer.
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