Postgame: Cornell vs. Dartmouth

[Cop at Lynah]

Great finish to the CC - Minnestota game.  Minnesota tied it up with a little over a minute to go with agoal with the goalie pulled then CC answered with 36 seconds remaining for a 2-1 win.

[billhoward]

Don't know if you guys could see on Red Cast but ...

No. The Dartmouth hockey Redcast showed the same attention to detail, professionalism, and customer service provided by the crew of the Costa Concordia. Thank goodness we could flip over to watch the wrestling match where the video was flawless except for a women with a camcorder on the left taking up some of picture when the Redcast camera panned.  

I had just installed a new rec room flatscreen TV, dedicated PC, and speaker bar to watch stuff like this. The commercial cable TV feed has been awesome and so has the audio (check out zvoxaudio.com). Then I turn on the Redcast hockey feed and jeez, the picture is blurry, you can't even read the scores overlay, and there's no audio. So I spend 15 minutes debugging the cables, bring in a laptop known to work ... then flip over to the Redcast wrestling feed and find out the trouble is not with the hardware at my end. Once hockey came back (more or less), in the second period I timed the audio delay at 12 seconds behind the video. Anybody (everybody?) else find the scores overlay was blurry?

[Johnny 5]

Don't know if you guys could see on Red Cast but ...

Anybody (everybody?) else find the scores overlay was blurry?

If only I could have. Once again Time Warner Rochester decided to show gerbil bowling, or some such.

::cuss::

[marty]

Don't know if you guys could see on Red Cast but ...

No. The Dartmouth hockey Redcast showed the same attention to detail, professionalism, and customer service provided by the crew of the Costa Concordia. Thank goodness we could flip over to watch the wrestling match where the video was flawless except for a women with a camcorder on the left taking up some of picture when the Redcast camera panned.  

I had just installed a new rec room flatscreen TV, dedicated PC, and speaker bar to watch stuff like this. The commercial cable TV feed has been awesome and so has the audio (check out zvoxaudio.com). Then I turn on the Redcast hockey feed and jeez, the picture is blurry, you can't even read the scores overlay, and there's no audio. So I spend 15 minutes debugging the cables, bring in a laptop known to work ... then flip over to the Redcast wrestling feed and find out the trouble is not with the hardware at my end. Once hockey came back (more or less), in the second period I timed the audio delay at 12 seconds behind the video. Anybody (everybody?) else find the scores overlay was blurry?

Another fine argument for matriculating at a real school like RPI?::burnout::

[billhoward]

Another fine argument for matriculating at a real school like RPI?::burnout::

I've been good and haven't penned the words "HD TV" or "RPI" in the same post in many months. Now that you mention it ...

[billhoward]

If only I could have. Once again Time Warner Rochester decided to show gerbil bowling, or some such.
::cuss::

A small number of people complaining about the broadcast not being aired can have an impact so long as it's not cookie-cutter complaints where it's clearly orchestrated. One person says, I love college hockey and I can't get enough of it ... another says the highest concentration of Cornell alums is right here in Rochester ... a third says have you noticed how many sports and college sports channels are being added b/c of fan interest so why are you blowing off college hockey when it's handed to you on a platter ...

If it was bowling ... as a former sportswriter at Gannett Rochester, I recall how important bowling was to the Rochester sports mindset, that and the Rochester Red Wings and Americans. We used to run scores for organized bowling leagues, which of course is an oxymoron but it sounds better than telling your wife you going out drinking again.

[Trotsky]

Anybody (everybody?) else find the scores overlay was blurry?

I've seen this happen with Redcast when I change to full screen.  I've also seen it happen on competent TV HD broadcasts when I futz with the aspect ratio.  I think it has to do with the way our brains handle blurriness -- letters and numbers are actually harder to process than images for the same degree of blur.

For Redcast, nothing helps.  For the aspect ratio on HDTV, I have found from experience that after a few seconds the processor figures out what to do and redraws the image correctly.

Somebody who actually understands how the tech works can explain at great length.

[marty]

Another fine argument for matriculating at a real school like RPI?::burnout::

I've been good and haven't penned the words "HD TV" or "RPI" in the same post in many months. Now that you mention it ...

To be fair, RPI TV though excellent is not available live during the game.  To watch RPI games live one needs to buy B2 access.

RPI B2 Link

RPI TV was available live until B2 bitched. RPI TV is essentially an archival product at this time. And that sucks more than the cheers at Houston.

[Robb]

Another fine argument for matriculating at a real school like RPI?::burnout::

I've been good and haven't penned the words "HD TV" or "RPI" in the same post in many months. Now that you mention it ...

To be fair, RPI TV though excellent is not available live during the game.  To watch RPI games live one needs to buy B2 access.

RPI B2 Link

RPI TV was available live until B2 bitched. RPI TV is essentially an archival product at this time. And that sucks more than the cheers at Houston.

At least their archival product works.  I think I'm going to sit and watch "connecting..." for 3 hours this morning just on principle.

[Jim Hyla]

Another fine argument for matriculating at a real school like RPI?::burnout::

I've been good and haven't penned the words "HD TV" or "RPI" in the same post in many months. Now that you mention it ...

To be fair, RPI TV though excellent is not available live during the game.  To watch RPI games live one needs to buy B2 access.

RPI B2 Link

RPI TV was available live until B2 bitched. RPI TV is essentially an archival product at this time. And that sucks more than the cheers at Houston.

And that is the rub. Schools hire out to broadcast many sports. Yes you can get a dedicated group to broadcast something like hockey, but then who does the non-glamour sports? Unfortunately for us they farm this out to someone who'll do all the sports they want in whatever quality exists. That's not to say the U couldn't pay a little more to upgrade the hockey quality, but I'm sure it would cost extra money.

[TheMatrix]

The only Cornell goal I had a good vantage point for:
Ferlin's 1st period goal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlgrPukclJE

[ugarte]

Do we have an update on Espo / Jillson?

Jillson will play against Dartmouth.