Soundog Solves A Problem You Don't Know You Have
February 07, 2008 at 01:00:00 AM, by John Birch
Soundog from Sprox USA lets sports bar/restaurant patrons listen to any flat panel they want. No more baseball blaring when you want to watch soccer. Keeps kids quiet too.
On a recent trip to Naples, FL I found myself in a pretty darn good sports bar with plenty of Flat panels to watch Tv.
Lots of selection, but of course while I wanted to watch Tiger Woods, the management had football blaring. So I could watch Tiger, but not hear such commentary as Kelly Tilghman suggesting that Tiger be "lynched in a back alley." Dang.
However, I am used to getting short shrift in sports bars and thought nothing of it.
That is, until by chance, I ended up in what I am going to call an Applebee's, Version 2.0. I travel a lot and Applebee's is one of my staples. This new style Applebee's keeps the same basic layout, with the "U" Shaped bar in the middle. But the overhead cabinetry is gone, and room is vastly opened up as a result. Surrounding the patrons are perhaps a dozen flat panels.
I am also a political animal, so I asked the bartender if she could put FoxNews on with the closed captioning. Not only did she change the DirecTV channel, but she plopped a box called a Soundog from Sprox USA in front of me. At first I thought it was a game like NTN. Seeing my confusion, she told me my screen number was 3, and to just press 3 and turn up the sound.
It was an instant transformation. The speaker is loud enough to be easily heard, but not so loud that others are bothered by it. If you want total privacy, bring your headset and use the jack which mutes the speaker. Each Soundog has 7 different audio sources, enough for everybody to enjoy the flat panel of their choosing.
So yes, an excuse to hang around for one more wine (while carefully staying well under the .08 BAC level of course.)
Now here is the punch line, Applebee's is a family restaurant. Accordingly, a family showed up with a child that decided to pitch a fit. The fit stopped instantly however! The server turned a flat panel to the Cartoon Network, plopped a Soundog in front of the child...and silence.
This is a great example of very basic technology, re-purposed, to solve a problem I didn't even know I had....
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