u/GriffGoalie

True has tossed their hat into the entry-level price point ring! The only place I've seen anything about these pads is on Pure Goalie so they must be just hitting the market. I have to say I'm interested to learn more about these pads. I have a pair of 7X3 pads I bought used & the sliding surface sucks, but they are used. The 2" thigh rise also ends up catching the tops of the pads on each other sometimes, which is a bit of a pain. I don't think these pads will solve that, but new pads with a fresh sliding surface would be nice. And I play once a week, twice at most, so I'm hesitant to drop a grand on new pads. I think it'd take me a while to wear out the sliding surface. At any rate, I'll be keeping my eyes on these. Especially looking out for when InGoal does a review of them!

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Hoo boy. I work for a school district as an AV tech and one of my roles is livestreaming Board of Education meetings. Currently we have an overly complicated system that was installed before I started. I won't get into what we have now because it's just a mess & my point is something else.

The system in the conference room I stream from is crap & my boss wants to have it redesigned. Ok, good. Today we had a meeting with a vendor about this and they suggested we go with full automation with Extron & Cisco systems. All good for replacing projectors with flatscreen displays, makes sense for day-to-day meetings.

At the end of the meeting I said it was important that it all integrate with the video production needs, and I asked if we could look into redesigning that too with a new switching system. They all looked at me like I had a 3rd eye. "You want to control all that yourself?" Apparently Cicso can automate cameras so they follow voice. Needless to say I'm pretty skeptical about this being the best solution. I think there's a reason humans still have to mix live audio & switch live video. I said I'd consider it based on learning more but I feel like my boss would like to automate everything.

I'll listen to what this vendor offers, but I suspect I'll end up being pretty resistant to full automation. We run 16 wireless gooseneck mics to the livestream system & room speakers. If the Cisco system follows voice, how will it know if it's a person or a speaker talking? Will it cut to a wide shot or will we just see the camera swing to another person? What if more than 1 person is talking? How will it know when to cut to a wide shot? How will it know to switch to a laptop presentation? What about PinP shots?

An automated system may be fine for video meetings but I don't see how it will replace an experienced human switching a live production.

Anyway, I'd appreciate any thoughts you folks have thanks!