Cornell 6 at RPI 1 post game

[cth95]

Bell, horn, and megaphone (even after the 1987/88 rule)?  Those must have been wonderful nights for the ears.

[Liz '05]

[quote cth95][quote ursusminor]Just curious, how does the quality of the broadcast that RPI produced compare to Cornell's? [/quote]

The quality was ok for a free feed, but definitely more grainy than the Cornell CSTV feed.  It looked a little like an artsy view or the beginning of a fade-out, except that it stayed the same.  I couldn't really see the numbers or colors well.  I didn't realize I could access your feed until the 3rd period, so I can't speak for the whole game, but I don't think I had one freeze-up.  The motion was actually very smooth.

I agree on the ice-level camera.  It was an interesting angle, but you can't see much from there.[/quote]

Agreed on all counts, including that I can only speak for the last 10 min or so.  I'll add that, like Cornell, it often seemed too zoomed in, resulting in a lot of jerky movement, and that, like Cornell, the corner cam was overused, resulting in momentary confusion every time they switched angles as I reacquired the puck and my sense of the play.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Liz '05][quote cth95][quote ursusminor]Just curious, how does the quality of the broadcast that RPI produced compare to Cornell's? [/quote]

The quality was ok for a free feed, but definitely more grainy than the Cornell CSTV feed.  It looked a little like an artsy view or the beginning of a fade-out, except that it stayed the same.  I couldn't really see the numbers or colors well.  I didn't realize I could access your feed until the 3rd period, so I can't speak for the whole game, but I don't think I had one freeze-up.  The motion was actually very smooth.

I agree on the ice-level camera.  It was an interesting angle, but you can't see much from there.[/quote]

Agreed on all counts, including that I can only speak for the last 10 min or so.  I'll add that, like Cornell, it often seemed too zoomed in, resulting in a lot of jerky movement, and that, like Cornell, the corner cam was overused, resulting in momentary confusion every time they switched angles as I reacquired the puck and my sense of the play.[/quote]
And a third vote.  I had both the RPI webcast of hockey and the Cornell webcast of basketball running simultaneously, and the CSTV production--hard to believe as this may seem--was brighter, crisper, had more vivid color, and froze up less frequently.

For some reason I can't explain, the CSTV basketball webcasts are much superior to the hockey webcasts (lighting?) and even the wrestling webcasts seem of better quality, with fewer glitches.  The absence of announcing or graphics telling the viewer who's wrestling, what the individual match score is, etc., does make it difficult to follow the matches, however.

[ursusminor]

[quote cth95]
I checked the box for rooting for Cornell.  I will be curious to see what the end results are as well.[/quote]

from Pete Pedone, the RPI Alumni Coordinator who set this up:

The numbers aren't in for the Cornell Webcast, but the Freakout numbers are logged.

There were 854 viewers of the Webcast and of those numbers, 149 were SLU fans.

I am expecting similar numbers for the White Out Webcast.

Peter

I would be surprised if the Cornell numbers aren't bigger than the SLU numbers considering the relative size of the student and alumni fan bases.