Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get

[Miles Lane]

Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
> > Are you talking about one of those "eavesdropper"
> > parabolic microphones?  Are you thinking of having
> > someone on stage redirecting the microphone as
> > each speaker starts talking?  It could work well,
> > but you'd either lose the first few words each
> > person in the audience said or need to go to a
> > "hand raising/acknowledgement" to create a pause
> > during which the microphone could be redirected.
> 
> Yeah, but that is still way way way faster than walking across the room to
> hand someone a mike.

I like this idea quite a bit.  It would probably not
be terribly expensive to rent/buy the required equipment,
it would be easy to use and would not be terribly disruptive
to the preceedings.

I'm curious, didn't you find that those mikes are too
directionally sensitive?  I've noticed that the movement
of the speaker by just an inch or two can cause major
variations in signal reception (I've only tried that
little plastic parabolic eavesdropping "toy" that was
all the rage about two Christmasses ago -- there was one
floating around my office).

	Miles