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I just listened to the Ince interview on STFC World and the sound quality is totally abysmal. At one time it was the same as listening to the radio on an FM frequency i.e crystal clear but it's gone right down hill. Today it sounded like Ince had his head stuck down the bog or in a cupboard or some other confined space.

The club must have some control over the quality because on other official websites they even have video interviews with players/management and the sound quality is spot on.

That was embarassingly bad.

And yes, I will e-mail STFC World / the club. I just wanted to moan about it.

Thanks for your time.

I think a lot of it is probably down to the equipment used ...

I'm pretty sure a lot of the recent interviews have been done on dictaphones which is just not ideal at all. Ok if all you're doing is transcribing, total shitter for the general public to listen to.

Dunno if STFC have a decent video camera or a person trained to used it properly.

Hopefully with the new regime in place that will be looked at in due course. It wouldn't exactly cost the club a lot of money after all!

in their defense though, i have noticed that when they actually do get their act together and actually broadcast swindon commentary, we are a bit spolit - the time we had to listen to the stockport commentary it was abysmal (one chap really quietly would say something, then his fuckwitted mate would then repeat what he said, in words of one syllable, at ear splitting volume) and the bit of darlington commentray i listened to sounded like an mp3 recorded at 4bits/s.  The swindon commentary at least occasionally comments on whats happening in the game and is reasonably good quality - if only they could remember to turn it on before kick off, we'd be laughing

yeh the sound quality has never really been that good, well since i have had it.

yeah it'd be good for them to make the effort - I reckon it pays off. Just take a look at the club sites that have made some effort, they're streets ahead of our own.

I think they are looking to improve the quality of the website & want to start doing the video interviews soon - there was a thing in the programme against stockport asking for any 'budding steven speilbergs' to contact the club if they were interested in helping out with video filming & editing etc

Good. That must be to do with the website then.

If you take a look at, say the Peterborough site, it's not exactly Sky Sports standard but is still way better than ours.

There must be some Town supporting media studies student out there who would jump at the chance to kick it into shape.

i'd jump at the chance to kick it into shape!
im taking web design and photography at college and have got a B grade GCSE in media they should let me do it!! i designed a swindon programme for my final piece in media last year taught my teacher all about the team! by the end of the year she was asking me about players and everything!

contact the club then! worth a shot

Steam in then!

I imagine the only other requirement would be that you don't go "ga ga goo goo" when placed in front of a camera and microphone :wink:

i contacted them about doing that and haven't had a response  :? i thought it'd be a good opportunity for me to get some experience with using cameras/editing suites but oh well!

i think the poor quality interviews are probably ones which are done at the training ground as opposed to the county ground, hence the use of dictaphones et al.

I remember when I worked there we did a great interview with kjingy pre-season, really funny. Problem was the pitch was being mowed in the background - you couldn;t hear owt! I suspect it's the dictaphone, or depending on where the interview took place...

my account ran out and i have not renewed it.

The problem i now have is every time i clcik on any article it says that i have to be a member.

so basically are they telling me unless i pay them money i cannot even read the match report on the official site?

that is fucking wrong!!!  :nono:

unless it's my computer internet settings messing it up

You have to register to get on the official site (which will also allows you onto all the league clubs' official sites) but you don't have to pay anything. I imagine you will just need to re-register.

Got a number or anything? Considering I just spent a year pretty much learning how to do that and I'm just about to start another year doing it I could give that a go.

contact the media department on 01793 333740 or email [email protected]

..and put in a good word for me

i was interviewed by stfc world last season and they record the interview on a dictaphone, thats why the sound quality is so crap! Chris Tanner is the chap who does the website!

Just to confirm, before i cancel my subscription.. does everyone else who listens to the World match commentary get endless short interruptions.. they don't seem to be connection issues.. just a poor quality link from premium tv..

I decided to mark it down every time my commentary was interrupted.. and in 80 mins the count was 102 times...

It was fucking pissing me off..

I regularly stream audio / video of a much higher quality without disruption.

Does exactly the same to me. It's fucking shyte. They need to sort out their capacity problems ...