Red Cast Really Sucks

[Jordan 04]

This is not rocket science: as Yale has shown, this is a solved problem.

This is really the heart of the situation.  The remaining question is whether RedCast (and perhaps, by extension, Cornell) is stupid, crazy or malevolent.

Stupid: They are doing the best they can, they're just incompetent.

Crazy: They sincerely don't know they suck; they actually think the product meets user requirements.

Malevolent: They don't care.  Every dollar clawed from the users is pure profit when effort is zero.

I'm not sure if that's malevolence, so much as apathy. If people are paying for it at a relatively constant rate, why bother trying to improve it?

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone here who complains about a shitty product year after year keeps purchasing it.

[Rosey]

This is not rocket science: as Yale has shown, this is a solved problem.

This is really the heart of the situation.  The remaining question is whether RedCast (and perhaps, by extension, Cornell) is stupid, crazy or malevolent.

Stupid: They are doing the best they can, they're just incompetent.

Crazy: They sincerely don't know they suck; they actually think the product meets user requirements.

Malevolent: They don't care.  Every dollar clawed from the users is pure profit when effort is zero.

I'm not sure if that's malevolence, so much as apathy. If people are paying for it at a relatively constant rate, why bother trying to improve it?

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone here who complains about a shitty product year after year keeps purchasing it.

I heard reports it was better. Those reports were mistaken.

[css228]

This is not rocket science: as Yale has shown, this is a solved problem.

This is really the heart of the situation.  The remaining question is whether RedCast (and perhaps, by extension, Cornell) is stupid, crazy or malevolent.

Stupid: They are doing the best they can, they're just incompetent.

Crazy: They sincerely don't know they suck; they actually think the product meets user requirements.

Malevolent: They don't care.  Every dollar clawed from the users is pure profit when effort is zero.

I'm not sure if that's malevolence, so much as apathy. If people are paying for it at a relatively constant rate, why bother trying to improve it?

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone here who complains about a shitty product year after year keeps purchasing it.

Why do people keep coming back to the NHL even though we know that they'll lose a season every time they go to collective bargaining? If you want it to get better you have to vote with your wallet, but most of us, being hardcore Cornell Hockey fans simply aren't willing keep up with the team through minimal means such as box scores and recaps on the ECACHockey.com

[Jordan 04]

This is not rocket science: as Yale has shown, this is a solved problem.

This is really the heart of the situation.  The remaining question is whether RedCast (and perhaps, by extension, Cornell) is stupid, crazy or malevolent.

Stupid: They are doing the best they can, they're just incompetent.

Crazy: They sincerely don't know they suck; they actually think the product meets user requirements.

Malevolent: They don't care.  Every dollar clawed from the users is pure profit when effort is zero.

I'm not sure if that's malevolence, so much as apathy. If people are paying for it at a relatively constant rate, why bother trying to improve it?

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone here who complains about a shitty product year after year keeps purchasing it.

Why do people keep coming back to the NHL even though we know that they'll lose a season every time they go to collective bargaining? If you want it to get better you have to vote with your wallet, but most of us, being hardcore Cornell Hockey fans simply aren't willing keep up with the team through minimal means such as box scores and recaps on the ECACHockey.com

Most of our opponents have free audio feeds.

[smcg]

This is not rocket science: as Yale has shown, this is a solved problem.

This is really the heart of the situation.  The remaining question is whether RedCast (and perhaps, by extension, Cornell) is stupid, crazy or malevolent.

Stupid: They are doing the best they can, they're just incompetent.

Crazy: They sincerely don't know they suck; they actually think the product meets user requirements.

Malevolent: They don't care.  Every dollar clawed from the users is pure profit when effort is zero.

I'm not sure if that's malevolence, so much as apathy. If people are paying for it at a relatively constant rate, why bother trying to improve it?

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone here who complains about a shitty product year after year keeps purchasing it.

I heard reports it was better. Those reports were mistaken.

As did I. And regardless of the quality, they have close to a monopoly on being able to watch Cornell hockey online.

[Rosey]

This is not rocket science: as Yale has shown, this is a solved problem.

This is really the heart of the situation.  The remaining question is whether RedCast (and perhaps, by extension, Cornell) is stupid, crazy or malevolent.

Stupid: They are doing the best they can, they're just incompetent.

Crazy: They sincerely don't know they suck; they actually think the product meets user requirements.

Malevolent: They don't care.  Every dollar clawed from the users is pure profit when effort is zero.

I'm not sure if that's malevolence, so much as apathy. If people are paying for it at a relatively constant rate, why bother trying to improve it?

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone here who complains about a shitty product year after year keeps purchasing it.

I heard reports it was better. Those reports were mistaken.

As did I. And regardless of the quality, they have close to a monopoly on being able to watch Cornell hockey home games online.

FYP.

For once, I can't wait until @Ylae. :-)

[billhoward]

Sometimes people who mean well get swamped with other things. In the matrix of important vs. unimportant and time critical vs. not time critical, this one is in the same quadrant as buying life insurance: It's important but you don't really have to do it today or tomorrow. Then all of a sudden a year has gone by and then two years.

[Trotsky]

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone here who complains about a shitty product year after year keeps purchasing it.

It's like health care.  You buy the best you can afford, that doesn't mean you don't want it to be better.

[billhoward]

1,000 Cornell alumni will get a chance to see and compare Redcast in a month. The annual CALC (Cornell alumni leaders) conference will be in Boston the weekend of Jan. 18-19 and Saturday evening is a Big Red tailgate (2012 event above) at the Boston Marriott Copley Place with three Cornell events projected onto big screens:

* Cornell at RPI men's hockey. Video by RPI, the gold standard as we know it.
* Columbia at Cornell men's basketball. Video by NBC sports.
* Clarkson at Cornell women's hockey. Video by Redcast.

It will be interesting to see how close the RPI webcast comes to broadcast TV and how the Redcast feed from Lynah fares.

It may be worth coming to as a way to see the games free, once you pay to get in. http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/calc/index.cfm

[billhoward]

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone here who complains about a shitty product year after year keeps purchasing it.

It's like health care.  You buy the best you can afford, that doesn't mean you don't want it to be better.

Even supporters of Obamacare can see a one-liner building quickly here. Maybe have a New Yorker style contest to come up with and then vote on the three best lines.

[Trotsky]

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone here who complains about a shitty product year after year keeps purchasing it.

It's like health care.  You buy the best you can afford, that doesn't mean you don't want it to be better.

Even supporters of Obamacare can see a one-liner building quickly here. Maybe have a New Yorker style contest to come up with and then vote on the three best lines.

You're right, I should have said "it's like hookers."

[Roy 82]

This is not rocket science: as Yale has shown, this is a solved problem.

This is really the heart of the situation.  The remaining question is whether RedCast (and perhaps, by extension, Cornell) is stupid, crazy or malevolent.

Stupid: They are doing the best they can, they're just incompetent.

Crazy: They sincerely don't know they suck; they actually think the product meets user requirements.

Malevolent: They don't care.  Every dollar clawed from the users is pure profit when effort is zero.

No, they are perfect and the definition of Goodness. The suffering that you go through to watch CU haockey is all part of a master plan that we simply cannot comprehend. Glory to RedCast.

[Jim Hyla]

This is not rocket science: as Yale has shown, this is a solved problem.

This is really the heart of the situation.  The remaining question is whether RedCast (and perhaps, by extension, Cornell) is stupid, crazy or malevolent.

Stupid: They are doing the best they can, they're just incompetent.

Crazy: They sincerely don't know they suck; they actually think the product meets user requirements.

Malevolent: They don't care.  Every dollar clawed from the users is pure profit when effort is zero.

No, they are perfect and the definition of Goodness. The suffering that you go through to watch CU haockey is all part of a master plan that we simply cannot comprehend. Glory to RedCast.

I know, you were just trying to mimic the Redcast. Or was it a poor Boston accent.::dribble::

[Roy 82]

This is not rocket science: as Yale has shown, this is a solved problem.

This is really the heart of the situation.  The remaining question is whether RedCast (and perhaps, by extension, Cornell) is stupid, crazy or malevolent.

Stupid: They are doing the best they can, they're just incompetent.

Crazy: They sincerely don't know they suck; they actually think the product meets user requirements.

Malevolent: They don't care.  Every dollar clawed from the users is pure profit when effort is zero.

No, they are perfect and the definition of Goodness. The suffering that you go through to watch CU haockey is all part of a master plan that we simply cannot comprehend. Glory to RedCast.

I know, you were just trying to mimic the Redcast. Or was it a poor Boston accent.::dribble::

I wish I were. But, as you can see, my humor is not that sophisticated. Just a typo from an imperfect being with diminishing eyesight.

[JasonN95]

This is not rocket science: as Yale has shown, this is a solved problem.

This is really the heart of the situation.  The remaining question is whether RedCast (and perhaps, by extension, Cornell) is stupid, crazy or malevolent.

Stupid: They are doing the best they can, they're just incompetent.

Crazy: They sincerely don't know they suck; they actually think the product meets user requirements.

Malevolent: They don't care.  Every dollar clawed from the users is pure profit when effort is zero.

I'm not sure if that's malevolence, so much as apathy. If people are paying for it at a relatively constant rate, why bother trying to improve it?

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone here who complains about a shitty product year after year keeps purchasing it.

I heard reports it was better. Those reports were mistaken.

I've skimmed parts of this thread, so maybe someone has already pointed this out, but it looks like the user controls the quality setting. I'm just noticing this now as I watch the replay of the St. Lawrence game that there's a slider on the control panel right below the volume slider. I had assumed that quality would be self adjusting and optimize based on my download speed, but it looks like sliding the bar yourself dictates the quality.