FC: One reason why U.S. Supreme Court might want to allow TV cameras

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 16:02:23 -0800
> To: declan () well com, politech () politechbot com
> From: David Honig <honig () sprynet com>
> Subject: Re: FC: Photos from Supreme Court protests, MP3 of arguments
>   online
>
> At 05:33 PM 12/1/00 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >For the first time, an audio tape of the hearing was immediately released.
> >The court gave just one copy, and broadcast news organizations shared it.
> >Here's a glimpse inside the van where it was being sent out:
> >http://www.mccullagh.org/image/950-17/supreme-court-van.html
>
> The TV stations, with all that bandwidth to fill, had synthetic renditions
> of flythroughs of the courtroom and of course static photos of whoever was
> talking at the time.  A view of the empty bench was labelled with who
> was sitting there; and this was preceeded by a short clip of them
> in robes, again with sans serif labels floating around them.
>
> In a few years they'll use Media Lab-ish tech to make animated
> heads in real time.    If the Supremes remain camera shy.
> You just need a few headshots (no, not that kind) and some tricky software.
>
> Since it would be entirely computer generated you could also do the rendering
> as, say, clowns heads on lizard bodies; if that were to continue
> it might convince Justices that doing video won't degrade respect
> for the court's image any further; though they might still worry
> about effects on presentations and comments.





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