Ball Colors On Stream

sudocrushms

sudocrushms

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Don't want to start a fight over this, just acknowledging different perspectives (literally).

After watching a bunch of DCC matches this weekend, I can see why Matchroom tweaked the colors for their tournaments.
It's irrelevant and personal preference when you're the one at the table, but the balls were really difficult to differentiate on a lot of the side table streams.
At times it was tough even to tell the 3 from the 1, 5, and 9.
The 2, 4, 6, 7, and 8 looked basically the same depending on where they were on the table.

I understand a lot of people don't like it (sorry to pick on you @Fatboy...), but for the cameras the pink 4, purple 5 definitely helps with differentiation.
At least until the TV tables that are better lit and have better cameras.

So the solution is to put really nice lights and cameras at all the tables and keep the 5 orange, right? ;)

Aside: really happy for April, she played really well.
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sudocrushms said:
Don't want to start a fight over this, just acknowledging different perspectives (literally).

After watching a bunch of DCC matches this weekend, I can see why Matchroom tweaked the colors for their tournaments.
It's irrelevant and personal preference when you're the one at the table, but the balls were really difficult to differentiate on a lot of the side table streams.
At times it was tough even to tell the 3 from the 1, 5, and 9.
The 2, 4, 6, 7, and 8 looked basically the same depending on where they were on the table.

I understand a lot of people don't like it (sorry to pick on you @Fatboy...), but for the cameras the pink 4, purple 5 definitely helps with differentiation.
At least until the TV tables that are better lit and have better cameras.

So the solution is to put really nice lights and cameras at all the tables and keep the 5 orange, right? ;)

Aside: really happy for April, she played really well.
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If the 5 was any color other than purple it would be ok.

The problem is the 4 has been purple for 100 years. Making the 5 the same color as a 100 year old 4 ball is the real problem.
 
Fatboy said:
If the 5 was any color other than purple it would be ok.

The problem is the 4 has been purple for 100 years. Making the 5 the same color as a 100 year old 4 ball is the real problem.
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Exactly. Why was the 5 changed to purple when we already had a purple ball? Just make the 5 pink.

I'm all for change, but when you leave the other 11 ball colors the same, this one just seems ridiculous.
 
Fatboy said:
If the 5 was any color other than purple it would be ok.

The problem is the 4 has been purple for 100 years. Making the 5 the same color as a 100 year old 4 ball is the real problem.
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I was just looking at this chart and thought the same thing. Light purple 4 and pink 5 would have made more sense.
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Maybe they're grace us with more $75 "expansion packs" so we can have the purple 4/12 and pink 5/13 as well as the orange 5/13... :ROFLMAO:
Eventually we'll be able to make a rack where they're all the same color.
 
sudocrushms said:
I was just looking at this chart and thought the same thing. Light purple 4 and pink 5 would have made more sense.
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Maybe they're grace us with more $75 "expansion packs" so we can have the purple 4/12 and pink 5/13 as well as the orange 5/13... :ROFLMAO:
Eventually we'll be able to make a rack where they're all the same color.
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We could start a gofundme 🤗
 
Nonsense. It was just lousy outdated video quality and not the greatest camera setups.

Of course something has improved there as they used not have enough bandwidth for just one table to get streamed.
 
For streaming as many tables as they did, it would have cost a fortune for equipment and bandwidth to get the quality up high enough to see the colors well.
 
great event but poor lighting and a simple single camera far away makes it hard to distinguish gorst from filler from labutis from zielinski
 
I used to wonder why so many long timers on AZ used to fuss about pool-ball colors. Now I know. Here's my story.

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For months I’ve had trouble telling the 4-ball and 8-ball apart on my table at night. (Daytime is fine.)

I’ve been using Aramith Super Pro balls with classic colors.

My lighting situation is not ideal, admittedly, but not much I can do about it for now.

Anyway, I decided a few weeks ago to get the Aramith Pro TV balls with the pink 4 and brown 7 and 15. Figured I would be able to see the balls better.

Alas, now I have trouble at night telling the 4 and 5 balls apart, and sometimes the 12 and 13! (Daytime is fine).

Which made me think: Now I know why Aramith/MR made the 5 ball purple. And a lighter shade of purple at that.

My next thought, logically, was why didn’t Amarith/MR just make the 4 ball a lighter shade of purple and keep the 5 orange?

Yeah, they goofed.

But there was a fix, sort of. They then came out with Aramith Black.

Unfortunately they added the black stripes to the 9-15. Why, I don’t know. Doesn’t seem like I can identify the individual Aramith black balls better on TV than the stripes with white.

I don’t mind the look, mind you, but I think white looks better. Why not just stick to white?

In any case, I decided to buy the Predator Arcos balls this week so I won’t have any trouble (I hope) telling them apart at night. We'll see.

Wish the Arcos didn’t have the logo on one side, but at least Predator got the colors right IMO: A lighter shade of purple for the 4, an orange 5, and a brown 7 and 15.

Admittedly, I never had trouble seeing the 7 and 15, but brown does make it easier to distinguish them on TV.

As for Dynasphere, none of their sets have ideal colors.

The Dynasphere Palladium purple looks lighter in most photos than traditional Aramith, but they are actually fairly dark. And the other sets with colors I mostly like have the charcoal gray 6. I think it is ugly.

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The upshot: There is still no perfectly colored set of pool balls. If Amarith used the same shades of colors in the Black version but made it white, it might do the trick.
 
Sheldon said:
For streaming as many tables as they did, it would have cost a fortune for equipment and bandwidth to get the quality up high enough to see the colors well.
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That was entirely sarcastic. I know full well no house could afford that, nor would they waste their money if they had it.
 
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