B2 will provide video webcasts for Brown, Clarkson, RIT, RPI, and St. Lawrence this season. The RIT game at Blue Cross Arena is on the list of the games that B2 will carry. The cost is $6 per game. The B2 website is http://www.b2livetv.com/.
For those of you in the Time Warner Central NY coverage area, the @Union and @RPI games will also apparently be televised on Time Warner Sports.
Thread bump for the Saturday, November 10 game at Brown. If you pay the $6, don't forget to turn down the volume on the Brown announcers. You can even hit mute, but then you'd lose the opportunity to play a drinking game based on whenever the Brown announcers accuse the referee of taking bribes from Cornell or Mike Schafer.
[quote cbuckser]B2 will provide video webcasts for Brown, Clarkson, RIT, RPI, and St. Lawrence this season. The RIT game at Blue Cross Arena is on the list of the games that B2 will carry. The cost is $6 per game. The B2 website is http://www.b2livetv.com/.[/quote]
So people did this for the RIT game, right? How'd it work?
I have the Clarkson season package and it's worked out well so far. The game is still being televised by the students, so you have the occasional miss following the puck, but they've improved greatly. The picture quality is better than the old webcast from the Clarkson website. It looks good in a 4x4 or 5x5 screen, to go full screen is grainy.
The audio for the Clarkson webcasts is our radio announcer Bob Ahfeldt, usually partnered with Josh Bartell ('96) for home games. Between periods, you get the students' commentary.
The only thing I will warn you... if you want to listen to your announcers and watch the game on B2, there can be up to a 30 second delay in the B2 broadcast. We've noticed that with people in our chat room that are listening to the radio versus the B2 subscription.
[quote dto]The only thing I will warn you... if you want to listen to your announcers and watch the game on B2, there can be up to a 30 second delay in the B2 broadcast. We've noticed that with people in our chat room that are listening to the radio versus the B2 subscription.[/quote]
Thanks.
Watching Cornell's game against Yale via Yale's free webcast while listening to the audio on Cornell's fee webcast, I found the Cornell audio trailed the Yale video by 15-20 seconds. Others reported the direct opposite experience. I suspect trying to get the two synched would be a fool's errand.
I was doing that as well on Friday (Yale video, Cornell audio) and it was off for most of the game but for some reason it synced up for the 3rd period. Not that I'm complaining but it was just unusual.
As stated in another thread, B2 Networks will stream the Florida College Classic for $10 per day.
http://www.b2now.com/news/read.asp?id=83
[quote cbuckser]As stated in another thread, B2 Networks will stream the Florida College Classic for $10 per day.
http://www.b2now.com/news/read.asp?id=83[/quote]
The most interesting word in that release is "multi-year." No details about that are given.