The first Test of the series is being held in Australia.
England fans were spared having to watch their side struggle on the fourth morning of the first Test because of a global outage of television pictures from the Gabba.
The world feed was lost for around 30 minutes because of a power issue in the broadcast compound in Brisbane.
Test Match Special, who are live rights holders in the UK, were affected by the problems.
The decision review system wasn't in operation because local Covid restrictions don't allow for an engineer to enter the state ofQueensland in time to fix it, the latest technological issue to hit the first Test.
For a while, the only TV coverage was from a single camera at the boundary edge, giving an angle from third man or long on, depending on which end the bowling was coming from.
"We're seeing cricket from a very different angle - it's like when you go and watch cricket in the crowd," said former England captain Alastair Cook.
You don't know how fast the ball is.
England supporters lost pictures after they had lost three of their own for 11 runs in the first hour, and then Ben Stokes was dismissed.
Readers of the live text could see the silver lining.
Can't see England winning this Test!
England haven't lost a wicket in the new single-camera era. I'm a fan.
Karl wondered if we would lose a cricket match and nobody would see it.
Matthew Henry, who was writing the live text blog for the BBC Sport website, said he had woken up in cold sweats after having nightmares.
The pictures came back just in time for Ben Stokes to fall as England fell to a crushing defeat.
