I was at the Oddball Comedy Tour tonight at Xfinity in Hartford, CT. It was a good show, 7 comedians, including a surprise Dave Chappell who showed up to make up for his boo'd out show last year. A great time was had by all. But... Xfinity Center, step up your frickin' game!
We were on the lawn, and there about half as many arrays for the lawn as they need. In addition the video, which is pretty much all you can see from the lawn was hideous. Of the 5 screens across the shed roof #1, 3, and 5 were old tired dim projectors, and #2 and 4 were fairly low res LED screens. Both LED screen had major panel issues, and no effort seems to be made to make it better. Screen #4 had about 25% of the screen random colors from crashed pixel blocks, #2 was about 10%. There were only 2 cameras, and they were not the same aspect ratio, so the switcher stretched one of the cameras to fit the display. Every time the cameras switched the artists heads bounced from squashed to normal. To make matters worse, all comedians seem to wear black and there was a black drape upstage, and no backlight. We only saw heads and hands on video. This was an audience of at least 16,000, it was a sell out (at least they called it a sellout, I think for a rock concert they seat 24,000).
We had a great time, but the production values were very low.
Mac
