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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8050136" data-attributes="member: 29398">Not sure how to put it, really, but to me the highlights-only version loses something. Maybe it seems too pre-packaged? Maybe it's as if someone else is making the choice for me as to what bits of the game I get to see, instead of giving me the option of watching the whole thing or of choosing what I watch?If I want the quickie recap then the highlights-only version is fine.&nbsp; But for me it's a poor substitute for having seen the whole game including the bits between the highlights - which in many cases lead to the highlights being what they are.&nbsp; In baseball, for example, the highlight version always has the back-to-back home runs but doesn't show the two preceding ten-pitch at-bats that, while not resulting in hits, tired out the pitcher such that he served up those two home run balls.Simply removing the down time e.g. commercials and between-play bits in an NFL game is fine if you still get to see every play.&nbsp; Here in Canada they've been rerunning various classic hockey games like this during the lockdown.&nbsp; They do two versions - one's an hour long and skips quite a bit of the actual play; the other is two hours long and you get to see the whole game but without the intermissions and with some play-stoppage downtime skipped, and with fewer commercials than the original broadcast would have had.&nbsp; I far prefer the two-hour version over the one-hour.The highlights-only baseball shows I'm referring to are 30-minute packages that don't show every pitch by any means; they show only the pitch where a batter strikes out or gets a hit or something odd or contribersial happens - or the last ball if the batter walks.&nbsp; Sometimes they skip entire innings if it's 3-up 3-down.With D&amp;D it's the same for me: I want the whole experience that makes the highlights what they are, not just the highlights and nothing else. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8050136, member: 29398"] Not sure how to put it, really, but to me the highlights-only version loses something. Maybe it seems too pre-packaged? Maybe it's as if someone else is making the choice for me as to what bits of the game I get to see, instead of giving me the option of watching the whole thing or of choosing what I watch? If I want the quickie recap then the highlights-only version is fine. But for me it's a poor substitute for having seen the whole game including the bits between the highlights - which in many cases lead to the highlights being what they are. In baseball, for example, the highlight version always has the back-to-back home runs but doesn't show the two preceding ten-pitch at-bats that, while not resulting in hits, tired out the pitcher such that he served up those two home run balls. Simply removing the down time e.g. commercials and between-play bits in an NFL game is fine if you still get to see every play. Here in Canada they've been rerunning various classic hockey games like this during the lockdown. They do two versions - one's an hour long and skips quite a bit of the actual play; the other is two hours long and you get to see the whole game but without the intermissions and with some play-stoppage downtime skipped, and with fewer commercials than the original broadcast would have had. I far prefer the two-hour version over the one-hour. The highlights-only baseball shows I'm referring to are 30-minute packages that don't show every pitch by any means; they show only the pitch where a batter strikes out or gets a hit or something odd or contribersial happens - or the last ball if the batter walks. Sometimes they skip entire innings if it's 3-up 3-down. With D&D it's the same for me: I want the whole experience that makes the highlights what they are, not just the highlights and nothing else. :) [/QUOTE]

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