DC Viewing Parties This Weekend

Anybody attending the Alumni Leadership conference in D.C. this weekend interested in watching the St. Lawrence, Clarkson, or Harvard (basketball) games over Redcast?

Friday night there's a lot planned while Saturday night may be more open. You're bringing something bigger than a netbook? Some newer hotels, or older refurbished hotels, have in-room TVs with a PC or HDMI input. It's one of those questions you call and ask the hotel, and you can hear the blank-stare pause while the front desk tries to figure out who to foist your call on.

[edit add] Ideally someone would have a suite not just a room on Saturday (not me) and we'd borrow two of the LCD projectors used during the day's Cornell presentations, one showing the hockey game, one showing the Harvard basketball game (just webcast, no broadcast TV unfortunately). The Cornell-Harvard basketball game is the subject of a Wall Street Journal article, How Did the Ivy League Get So Good? (may need subscription). For Ivy League sports, being covered in the WSJ may be like the Sports Illustrated cover jinx. (It says we're favored, so Cornell is the one at risk, even if it's Harvard lads in the photo.) Last March, the Journal suggested in Ivy League Cornell Takes on College Wrestling's Giants that the Big Red had a shot to win the NCAAs. And we came up short.

You probably heard that Cornell recognized the fan interest and so is keeping the ballroom projectors active in order the webcast tonight's game - the Harvard basketball game. Meanwhile the hotel does have nice flatscreen TVs in room for those who brought a video cable with their laptop. If they do keep both projectors live maybe I'll try to hook my laptop to the second projector. Nice to see both at once.

You probably heard that Cornell recognized the fan interest and so is keeping the ballroom projectors active in order the webcast tonight's game - the Harvard basketball game.

I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the picture. I imagine the reason why hockey wasn't shown on the other screen was because they were both linked to the same computer?

Right, I believe both outputs siamesed back to the control room. A couple of us messed around with handheld phones getting the gametracker for hockey and trying, off and on, to get a video feed deep inside the building via Redcast. Once we were up 3-1 and also a couple drinks in, it didn't seem worth it. Besides, it was an awesine sight seeing us work to trip then quadruple the basketball point spread. It was momentarily confusing seeing Harvard play so well at outset, and having no sound, until we realized Harvard was in the other uniforms and they did in fact suck.