Frozen Four TV

[Nowheresville]

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That's probably the difference in playing at the Kohl Center versus the Capitol Ice Arena. Any time the attempt is made to broadcast from a community rink from which games are seldom televised, the likelihood of technical difficulties will increase.

Except the 4OT game was at the Kohl Center. Up until "fill the bowl" it had been the only time I've seen the 2nd deck opened for the women.

I'm at least hoping the stream quality is better than what the WCHA put up for the tourney. I'm pretty sure I got to see 2 seconds of action for every 30 seconds of frozen video for all 3 games. At least the audio kept streaming, but geez that was practically unwatchable.

 

[Nowheresville]

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I know at Amsoil Arena in Duluth, for example, they dropped a cool $1 million just for a video scoreboard. During the games you're getting live video, slow-mo replays and they use several mobile cameras for things like crowd shots and the dreaded KissCam. If a school (or a donor like at PSU) is going to throw a huge pile of money at a new arena, I assume video production is on the shopping list. I don't know if UMD is going to start doing its own webcasts next season or not, but why spend all that money on a video system and crew and then pay someone like B2TV to webcast a crappy feed of the game?

I watched one of the MN@UMD men's games via b2tv and it actually was the in house/scoreboard video feed and they put the radio broadcast over the top of it. It actually worked out pretty well, I thought.

 

[ARM]

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Except the 4OT game was at the Kohl Center.

You're right -- I was thinking of the Mercyhurst game the year before.

 

[videohockey]

I'm at the ECAC championship and word from my CBS CS friends is that CBS CS doesn't own the rights to the NCAA championships this year. I believe they have softball and that's it. I don't know where the NCAA plans to air most of them.

Yeah...but it sucks to move in a backwards direction so to speak. To have the coverage and then lose it...perhaps permanently. I understand the women's FF broadcast isn't going to generate revenue for CBS. I assume that's the reason behind CBS dropping coverage.

I hope you're right Hux...regarding access to a "quality" webstreamed video. The BC / Minnesota webcast I watched was fairly poor quality.

 

[LGR03]

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I'm not in anyway defending CBS or any other broadcasting company, but can you imagine if you were an athlete at the national swimming, or wrestling, or field hockey championships, or the parents of said athlete...they are never broadcast ever, so I think we all will have to suck it up and realize hhat basketball rules the world! That said, I'll bet within 5 years, all of the D1 schools will broadcast their entire seasons and all playoffs via the web...by then all TV's will be hooked up to online and cable tv will be onl it's way out.....however until then.....we suffer

Useful link for broadcast info: http://web1.ncaa.org/NCAATV/exec/query
Wrestling is on tv for sure (finals are on ESPN tomorrow. Semis on ESPNU).
Looks like swimming was on ESPN3 and tape delay. Field hockey highlights made tv...

Last time women's hockey semis were on tv was '07.

 

[Bumbles]

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So far the NCAa stream looks like it's taken leaps and bounds since the feed that was provided last year. Hopefully I didn't just jinx it...

 

[brookyone]

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So far the NCAa stream looks like it's taken leaps and bounds since the feed that was provided last year. Hopefully I didn't just jinx it...

Not too bad...freezing somewhat frequently for me, but for just a second or two.

 

[dave1381]

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I was really concerned first minute of the broadcast, then it's worked out ok for me since then.

 

[FlyingPig]

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It's been pretty smooth for me.

 

[Blackbeard]

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Lighting is good...yet, no ice glare to lose the puck in...but as for the "streaming video"...it's more like "hopscotching video"...not impressed...even some B2 broadcasts that I saw this year were better and that's saying something.

 

[ARM]

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The feed froze for a minute so that I didn't see the 2nd UW goal, other than that it has been good. AJ should slow down; I think she'd be more effective if she didn't try to rush through what she's trying to say. It's not like she needs to free up more space for the play-by-play guy, because he doesn't add a lot.

 

[brookyone]

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deteriorating now with increased freezing video in the 3rd.

 

[Blackbeard]

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So do I take it, not being a computer genius, that different results/quality is experienced by different viewers on their different machines/capabilities/updated (or not) programs...or is it more of a difference in perceptions among the viewers with respect to what they are experiencing (which may also be a function of their past experiences) that is determining whether or not what they are experienceing is acceptable to them?

 

[ARM]

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...or is it more of a difference in perceptions among the viewers with respect to what they are experiencing (which may also be a function of their past experiences) that is determining whether or not what they are experienceing is acceptable to them?

Mine only froze twice, but both were for long periods (30 seconds one time, over a minute the other), so not really a perception issue.

 

[Blackbeard]

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Mine only froze twice, but both were for long periods (30 seconds one time, over a minute the other), so not really a perception issue.

And mine never froze, but quickly hopscotched along for 3 periods...interesting.

 

[brookyone]

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The video streaming continuity for the 2nd semi was very poor for for me with pretty constant freezing throughout. Sure hope this does not occur during the title game.