Red Cast Really Sucks

[Towerroad]

Redcast Highlights from QPac Game 2

Apologies for cross posting in Other Sports

Come on Redcast is not THAT good.

[Trotsky]

Redcast Highlights from QPac Game 2

Apologies for cross posting in Other Sports

No way is that Redcast.  Quality is too good.

[snert1288]

Is there a reason that Redcast for lacrosse has replays, but for hockey it does not?

[Weder]

Is there a reason that Redcast for lacrosse has replays, but for hockey it does not?

I'm guessing that the donors who ponied up for the scoreboard also paid for the replay equipment.

[Al DeFlorio]

Is there a reason that Redcast for lacrosse has replays, but for hockey it does not?

I'm guessing that the donors who ponied up for the scoreboard also paid for the replay equipment.

Right.  RedCast is just picking up the video feed that supplies the big video screen, which gives us the wonderful GOAL graphic, the corny, short video of the player scoring, etc., in addition to replays.

[TimV]

Especially love the contrived, sappy shots used for player intros where they start with their heads down as if scrutinizing their genitalia then look up at the camera as if caught in the act.::wtf::

[Al DeFlorio]

Especially love the contrived, sappy shots used for player intros where they start with their heads down as if scrutinizing their genitalia then look up at the camera as if caught in the act.::wtf::

I suppose they could be scratching.::bolt::

[TimV]

Who looks down when they scratch?  Who does that??

[Weder]

The Ivy League is launching an online network in August. Each school will have its own channel, and it looks like the schools will set their own subscription prices.

The service will be run by NeuLion, which in my experience does a really nice job with streaming content.

[RichH]

The Ivy League is launching an online network in August. Each school will have its own channel, and it looks like the schools will set their own subscription prices.

The service will be run by NeuLion, which in my experience does a really nice job with streaming content.

Very interesting. I'm assuming one subscription gives you access to all nine channels, which is very good.  This does bring up a few questions:

1) Will this completely replace RedCast?  

2) Does this mean that for simultaneous events like say hockey & basketball, each school will have to make a choice as to what to show on its channel?  One negative, if so.

3) Does this remove the availability of getting streaming audio from a non-Ivy road game? For example, Cornell at St. Lawrence hockey. I doubt you can count on the Cornell NeuLion team getting access to every road venue.  Another negative.

4) Does/Will NeuLion have apps for things like Roku, AppleTV, smart TVs?

Overall, good news, with some cautious optimism that this has the potential to be thrilling news. My two concerns are #2 and #3.  And hopefully the solution is not a double-dip charge with both RedCast/NeuLion.

[cbuckser]

Regarding your second concern, I can see no reason why each channel wouldn't have subchannels.

Also, it has been my impression that the league-wide streaming would replace, rather than supplement, individual schools' streaming.

[The Rancor]

will it be available on Ruku?

[Trotsky]

Single subscription model for all schools is a fine thing (as long as the other concerns are addressed).

This is bad, though:

"It's not just about streaming video," said Chris Wagner, EVP and Co-Founder of NeuLion. "It's about the fan experience, the high quality video on any device, and the interaction with the game or match which includes stats, social media and more.

No, Chris, it is just about streaming video (quality).  Everything else is either provided better elsewhere (stats) or worthless crap (social media, "fan experience", etc).

[Jim Hyla]

The Ivy League is launching an online network in August. Each school will have its own channel, and it looks like the schools will set their own subscription prices.

The service will be run by NeuLion, which in my experience does a really nice job with streaming content.

Very interesting. I'm assuming one subscription gives you access to all nine channels, which is very good.  This does bring up a few questions:

1) Will this completely replace RedCast?  

2) Does this mean that for simultaneous events like say hockey & basketball, each school will have to make a choice as to what to show on its channel?  One negative, if so.

3) Does this remove the availability of getting streaming audio from a non-Ivy road game? For example, Cornell at St. Lawrence hockey. I doubt you can count on the Cornell NeuLion team getting access to every road venue.  Another negative.

4) Does/Will NeuLion have apps for things like Roku, AppleTV, smart TVs?

Overall, good news, with some cautious optimism that this has the potential to be thrilling news. My two concerns are #2 and #3.  And hopefully the solution is not a double-dip charge with both RedCast/NeuLion.

It would seem by this,

The new network, powered by the NeuLion College Platform, will provide live and on-demand video and audio content from each school

that online away game audio would go. There's no reason NeuLion needs to worry about SLU, they get the audio from CU. Dartmouth already uses NeuLion, I suspect for all sports but I'm not sure, and I looked at their Live listing. It shows video of both baseball and softball this Sat. So check out some of the sources and I think you can be somewhat reassured.

[Weder]

The athletic department has been sending bits of information about the new service today via Twitter. Of note, it seems that they are planning significant equipment upgrades at Lynah, Schoellkopf and the wrestling center.

Let's hope that this turns out to be true:
https://twitter.com/CornellSports/status/327860258653478912