Red Cast Really Sucks

[TimV]

Brock Hockey was fine on my setup tonight.  Fairly sharp, ran smoothly.  I like the roster with stats on screen, but the clock in that frame doesnt run realtime, and the power play on the five minute major looked as bad it looked on the old Redcast.  Overall much better aside from the archiving issues already pointed out.  I checked the Harvard lacrosse game on the archives and that resolution was horrible.  [Pointing left, then right] GOOD Redcast....BAD Redcast...

[upprdeck]

I watched Brock on my wired computer, it was grainy and choppy..  had to switch over to my kindle Fire HD using wireless and it was crystal clear and the picture was twice as big then fed the HDMI out to my 55" TV and it was great as well

[Al DeFlorio]

I watched Brock on my wired computer, it was grainy and choppy..  had to switch over to my kindle Fire HD using wireless and it was crystal clear and the picture was twice as big then fed the HDMI out to my 55" TV and it was great as well

Yes, much better video on my ASUS tablet than laptop.  Will have to try HDMI to TV.

[Jim Hyla]

Just watched the women beat SLU 5-1. The Redcast on my pc looked good, hopefully they are going to be getting better. Both that is.

[Chris '03]

Video is up... and crappy. But they seem to be trying to get the clock to be displayed, which would be nice.

[Rosey]

I see roughly the same quality (not HD) on both Android and my desktop. It looks smoother on Android, and less blurry simply because the screen is smaller. They still have work to do.

[Rosey]

I love how my stream was interrupted to let me know Sprint football is back. Thanks, guys. ::rolleyes::

[Rosey]

I really have to wonder if anyone at Sidearm or the AD actually uses their own product. It has really fundamental usability issues that should be caught in about 15 minutes of user testing. I repeat something I said on Facebook a few days ago: "If you talk to people who actually write software, you find that computers are the way they are because writing software is neat. Programmers don't actually care what users think."

[jeff '84]

Internet stream from CC. Crystal clear:

http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/webcasts/Athletics/TheEagle.m3u

Edit: audio, that is

[flyersgolf]

None HD picture tonight, same picture as all previous years.  I think every time the camera pans left the plug comes out and the screen goes black.  I have finally just started to laugh about this service.  My guess is no ones job is on the line concerning any part of this production.

[niss]

This has to be a joke.  I can't even get the thing to work, on any browser.  No video, no sound.  Yet a pop up box tells me when I log on that "all technical difficulties have been fixed".  Yeah right.

[Jordan 04]

Internet stream from CC. Crystal clear:

http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/webcasts/Athletics/TheEagle.m3u

Edit: audio, that is

Very good announcer.

[CowbellGuy]

Programmers don't actually care what users think."

Speak for yourself!

[Rosey]

Programmers don't actually care what users think."

Speak for yourself!

I'm speaking empirically. Of course I care what my users think, but I'm a single developer with a user base of about 100. From experience in larger organizations, I know this attitude dominates: developers *claim* to care what users think, but they don't act in accordance with that, which means they don't really care.

[upprdeck]

i will second that.. stay around cornell enough and you can see it.. programmers think everyone "think" like they do but dont bother to actually find out.  Its also a case of the only thoughts that matter is how fast can i get this done.