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Without unnecessary brand name dropping, what current technology blows you away? (self.casualconversation)

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I was listening to the New Year's Day concert by the Vienna philharmonic and wondered who one of the composers was so used a popular song recognition app. (I expected it would make some fuzzy match on the piece and give me the name + composer). To my amazement it did give the name and composer but as played by the Vienna philharmonic in 2005 in the same location. The orchestra does not have the same members as 19 years ago, nor was it the same conductor, so it seemed the piece was matched on the acoustics of the Musikverein where they were playing, which I found astonishing.

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[–] Resol 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What better way to demonstrate international simultaneous television broadcasting than with an annual song competition? It's quite literally the only reason why I turn on my telly anymore.

The only thing I hate about it is the fact that it can get quite political, and it certainly results in often very depressing controversy. Last year was a prime example of this.

But still, the tech behind it was and continues to be just so cool. Thanks, Switzerland.

[–] Phoonzang 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What better way to demonstrate international simultaneous television broadcasting than with an annual song competition? It's quite literally the only reason why I turn on my telly anymore.

Oh, they are talking about ESC!

The only thing I hate about it is the fact that it can get quite political,

Awww, not really.

Seriously, ESC is the least political show on whole of television, they are trying to avoid anything controversial as much as they can, just look at how they handled that Dutch singer who fell from grace. There was zero discussion or mentioning, he was just cut from the show.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The votes are always political even when the show doesn't highlight it. Who wins and looses is mostly about which country the artist is from and the current events in that country. The music, performance, composition etc. barely matters

[–] Resol 3 points 4 days ago

Good job. Also, the fact that they couldn't just, idk, play one of his past performances and using that for the final instead of pretending he never even existed is a bit weird.