The Sport Thread

[Worzel]

Have to say I've been really disappointed by the overall standard of Eurosport's coverage of the WDF darts from the Lakeside.

Several failures in transmission with picture breakups since Sunday, including the whole broadcast falling off air tonight and cutting to a fault caption for about 10 minutes. This evening's been the worst whereby a microphone was left live over the caption with a director saying that the sat truck was dead and god knows what they were going to do. They've had to have 2 breaks in play as the technical problems continued and they seem to have just given up with a locked off camera from the back now.

The graphics seem to get stuck a lot as well, wrong check out scores being shown and the directors seem a bit slow at cutting to certain shots, almost missing important check outs. At one stage yesterday the white balance was so off on the camera focussed on the board it was like peering through fog to see it. It took them almost half way through a match to fix it.

Edit. Looks like they've abandoned the live coverage altogether as of 22:52.