WWAY uses a "Soft" set?

[WXmanTim 88]

Yep. At least for their morning news.

 

From the cartoony-looking woodgrain to the to-perfect light sconces in the background, it looks awful.

 

I wasn't 100% sure until I watched the video. The tell comes at :15 when the anchor on the far right reaches for something and his hand magically disappears before his hand dips below the "desk."

 

http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/4362332?wpid=12071

[tw-804 192]

I think WWAY started using that virtual set a few months ago, I believe.

[swillh2k2 203]

 

Yep. At least for their morning news.

 

From the cartoony-looking woodgrain to the to-perfect light sconces in the background, it looks awful.

 

I wasn't 100% sure until I watched the video. The tell comes at :15 when the anchor on the far right reaches for something and his hand magically disappears before his hand dips below the "desk."

 

http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/4362332?wpid=12071

 

I think it was obvious the first second I saw it. They could have made some effort in at least animating the elements in the system and making it seem somewhat real.

Just plain bad. Not as bad as this, though:

[ChesapeakeTV 311]

Another new and exciting component of WWAY's attempt to run themselves into the ground. What's next, a social media roundup to replace the 5 o'clock news?

[memnews1 25]

Hahahahaha, thanks for the laugh. That set is too funny...it's so much of a joke it looks like something a 10 year old would post on YouTube, a 10 year old could at least find a better virtual set on Google. :rofl!:

[Weeters 1916]

Just wait 'till you get a load of how VizRT describes this kind of set.

 

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/72151/morris-stations-moving-into-the-virtual-future

 

 

U.S. broadcasters have long complained that virtual sets do not look realistic, says David Jorba, SVP of Vizrt Americas, but such complaints are misplaced.

 

“Based on the technology today, designers can accomplish that hyper-realistic look to the point where it’s indistinguishable to the average viewer at home,” he says. “Europe has been doing this for a long time because they don’t try to be realistic. They like the big white spaces and that more abstract look. U.S. TV stations want something that looks realistic.”

:rofl!:

 

Sorry, bud, but it still looks fake.

[Big Country News 435]

It always bothered me that there is a green tint on the anchors.

[swillh2k2 203]

$150 sounds about right.

[tyrannical bastard 3951]

I'm in Wilmington this weekend...and I had the pleasure of watching this station.....to say it looks bad is an understatement. It was an absolute trainwreck! From the set itself with the fake pushes, heads being cut off the top of the screen, graphics being miskeyed over other graphics, and even the so-called HD (if they've even gone HD). When I turned in, the signal itself had a jagged picture. The icing on the cake was when they cut to a full shot of the anchor, the picture would break up every time!

 

I turn over to the simulcast of WRAL news on WILM, and aside from the WILM graphics pasted onto the screen, seeing the awesomeness that is WRAL and their set blew me away. WECT looked a hundred times better than WWAY as well.