I just saw your comments, here is my final say on this- i believe that ANY sports accomplishment in front of a sizable ( for that type of sports venue) audience is more prestigious than something done for a camera audience- why? Several reasons, not the least of which is that for a live audience performance, you are performing at an appointed time and place NOT to your own personal scheduling, and NOT in a timeframe that you already know is MOST comfortable for your performance- Mosconi, Crane, etc. had to SHOW UP somewhere in a not too overly familiar place to set the records that they set in front of multiple distractions. who knows how far they traveled, how much sleep they got prior, etc. You want to compare THAT do setting your own schedule to be in front of a camera at YOUR own appointed time when You feel ready and relaxed? I don't think so, and that is just ONE factor- how about table familiarity, how about the air conditioning or heat or lack thereof where those guys competed OVER 60 + years ago- Come on- you were kidding on your comments right? How about if someone hits a simulated baseball 600 feet on a computerized screen measurement? You want to count that as the furthest baseball ever hit- more than Mantle's 565footer at Cleveland Stadium 60 years ago? How far do you want to take it- next we'll have lasers guiding the balls in the pockets and people will say that is OK too! You claim to be a purest, great, show up at an unfamiliar billiard room on an evening and time arranged FOR you, not by YOU, in front of 200 people you do not know, on a table you NEVER played on before, with 1940s/50s lighting and air conditioning, use an old Rambow cue, and try to break some records- GOOD LUCK!