First UK venue to be 'AnswerBack Enabled' is the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham where rehearsals for the show took place during early June. Over five kilometres of cable linked 2,200 handsets to each other, and to ultra-speedy processors, which identify the players' fastest response to within a thousandth of a second. AnswerBack Interactive's MD Paul Krisman says "During the course of our largest shows we will be processing more than 10,000,000 messages with a peak greater than 7,000 per second - this is more than 10 times that achieved by the London Stock Exchange."
Other venues offering the AnswerBack Enabled facility include the Eastbourne Congress Theatre: Jersey Fort Regent, Grimsby Auditorium, Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre, Harrogate International Centre, Torquay Princess Theatre.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
