Gatherings to watch 2/10 CU-Rensselaer Webcast (Long Island, Pittsburgh, Dallas/Ft. Worth)

[Hillel Hoffmann]

The good folks at Rensselaer Alumni Association have been kind enough to invite Cornellians to join RPI alumni who will be gathering to watch their free webcast of Saturday's Cornell-Rensselaer hockey game at several locations around the nation.

LONG ISLAND: Sutton Place Bar & Grille, 124 W. Park Ave., Long Beach, NY. 516-431-3133 / http://www.spgrille.com

PITTSBURGH area: Pittsburgh Bottleshop Café, Collier Town Square Plaza, 1597 Washington Pike/Route 50, Bridgeville, PA. 412-279-8170 / http://www.bottleshopcafe.com

DALLAS/FT. WORTH area: Wizards Sports Café, 747 S. Central Expressway, Richardson, TX. 972-235-0371 / http://www.wizardssportscafe.com

If you go, please thank the local Rensselaer alums who helped make these gatherings happen -- and invite them to future viewing events in your area should we play them again on TV.  

The Rensselaer webcast is also available for free on your home computer (broadband only) starting at 6:45 p.m. ET on Saturday, Feb. 10. For more information, go to http://www.alumni.rpi.edu/involved/hockey.html

A big thank you to Peter Pedone at Rensselaer.

[billhoward]

Let's get this straight. Rather than charging seven bucks for a video feed that may or may not work, RPI has this thing called "taking the longer view" that happier alumni will reach deeper into their pockets later?

If the feed works well, does this mean RPI has smarter engineers than Cornell? Or a savvier athletic department working hand in hand with a savvy development office?

[ursusminor]

[quote billhoward]Let's get this straight. Rather than charging seven bucks for a video feed that may or may not work, RPI has this thing called "taking the longer view" that happier alumni will reach deeper into their pockets later?

If the feed works well, does this mean RPI has smarter engineers than Cornell? Or a savvier athletic department working hand in hand with a savvy development office?[/quote]
This is only the third time that RPI has done a webcast, one last season, and this is the second this year. I suspect that they will charge if they do it regularly. Hopefully, they won't.

The feed has been good the two times before, but the camera work could improve.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote ursusminor]This is only the third time that RPI has done a webcast, one last season, and this is the second last year. I suspect that they will charge if they do it regularly. Hopefully, they won't.[/quote]

But they won't take down the WRPI audio feed, right?  Since Cornell Athletics introduced their fabulous new "business model" we've had a subscription audio feed, then separate subscription audio and video feeds, then a unified subscription audio and video feed, and now a unified subscription audio and video feed that micro-manages your choice of OS and web browser.

[ursusminor]

The audio feed at www.wrpi.org is still there. Last time the same audio was used for both the video and the WRPI audio.