Synthetic Broadcast Replays and Ghost Matches : The Unregulated IP Frontier of Nostalgia Sports Media

Introduction : What if you could witness the famous Indian victory over the ‘unbeatable’ West Indies in the 1983 World Cup final in a completely different way? Ultra-High-Definition streaming quality, multi-angle synthetic replays, virtual camera movements that never existed, and commentary from your favourite modern-day commentators. Surely an exciting prospect, right? Synthetic Broadcast Replays, a technological extension of ‘synthetic broadcasts’ originated in Australia in the 1930s for...