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Old Wed Aug 06, 2008, 02:19pm
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Because the camera has a straightline angle and is taken from, what, 90 feet away? If it was HD, you might have solid evidence one way or the other. In the absence of a clear video, my thought is to defer to the official who was standing less than 10 feet away.
As blurry and bad as the video quality is, it is more than adequate, when viewed frame-by-frame, to establish that the defender was moving sideways after the shooter jumped. No HD needed. Regardless of the resolution, motion relative to fixed points on the wall/bleachers is pretty visible.
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