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Vuvus are a no no
THE WORLD CUP has not been with us long, but almost as soon as it started people were complaining about the noise coming from the omnipresent Vuvuzela horns.
Already, judging by comments on sites such as the BBC, people would rather be faced with the horn of a rampaging rhino than the Vuvu equivalent, which are blown, blared or driven through your ear hole during each game.
The BBC has already had over 500 complaints about the noise caused by the horns during its broadcasts and is thought to have been working on a technical solution to its horned woes. In fact, according to a report on the BBC's own news site, it is considering offering a 'without Vuvezela' option through its interactive red button services.
"If the Vuvuzela continues to impact on audience enjoyment, we will look at what other options we can take to reduce the volume further," a spokeswoman told the Beeb, presumably around the coffee machine.
If you can't or don't want to wait for Auntie to solve the problem, then maybe you could try this hack, which offers to filter out the sound of the horns with a little soundcard tweakery.
Because the horns play one tone, one long annoying continuous tone, users can filter its range out without having too much of an impact on important things like commentary and inter-player swearing, according to the German firm that came up with the idea to flush the TV sound output through a computer.
Although we are loathe to quote the Google translate version of the page, it blogged, "For the Vuvuzela-killer, we need only a high-slope band stop filter that takes out the entspechenden frequencies".
Curse those entspechenden frequencies. µ
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I have stopped watching all World Cup matches and only find out the results via the News, due to the annouying horn noise.
Shame on you South Africa.
I hope the Word Cup is never in your country again due to the stupid annouying horns!!!!!!
Listening to this vuvuzela annoyance a thought came to mind. I bet the white colonists, banned the bands of vuvuzela players to the other side of the hill/valley to get some night rest, and days free of headache..
No doubt this let to apartheid with time.
In Finland the broadcaster started suppressing the Vuvuzela freqs at Monday, and the difference is striking, you can actually hear when there is something happening on the field besides the buzzzzzzzzzz...
So why on earth BBC does not do it already?
It's not like the it eats all the Vuvuzela sounds away, just the monotonous ones which fills all the goal situations and other spectator roars.
Maybe the BBC people has the same problem as Finnish counterparts? They just need to get the information from the internets, thats where they allegedly found the suppression instructions :)
In Israel, the channel 1 who is transmitting the games, started to use software to reduce the vuvus annoying sound and seems to work. Probably till the final, they will manage to reduce their sound much more than now, but the differences are audible already.
Hope that vuvuBlatter sees the error of this world cup.
"loath"
Great. Instead of the humming of thousands of vuvuzelas you hear the equally uniform and monotonous noise of tens of thousands of spectator voice. What a substantial progress.
I assume it is also annoying for the people there so just forbid it, only a few will be unhappy that they can't blast someones ear out.