Red Cast Really Sucks

[ugarte]

And you're right, Age was doing this a decade ago, and do you know why it was better? Because he cared about it.

What a unique characteristic! I doubt there is anyone else who cares about Cornell hockey and would do this for free.

How does this one sentence not invalidate most of your rant? The "why don't we have HD broadcast" complaints are a bit much but the "why do we have to pay for a shitty streaming service" complaints are dead on.

There is, somewhere in Tompkins County, a guy who would love to stream the video. He doesn't even have to care about hockey. He just has to want to get experience at video production. If there isn't anyone at Cornell, I'm sure someone at IC would want to do it. Not because she cares about Cornell but because she'd also do it for TC3 or Elmira or whoever needs the help just to do it.

The real demand here isn't unreasonable: stop asking us to pay for a shitty product when a much better product is so readily available. The TV stuff is just a pipe dream.

[marty]

Blah blah blah

Sorry, but as others have pointed out, this is utter horseshit when you see what students at other schools are actually doing.

And FWIW I'm not suggesting that Cornell's hockey streaming has to be as awesome as CBS's online offerings: I'm simply asking for better video quality and a cameraman who has some idea of where the puck is. I'm even willing to sacrifice overlays for the clock/score/etc., if they're too difficult to implement, simply to get 30+ fps video that I can watch in a window larger than a postage stamp (or even on, say, an actual TV!) without getting a headache from the artifacts, blockiness, and ghosting and without it going down or being unavailable because someone tripped over the power cord and didn't notice. You can get something 10x better than RedCast with a very cheap consumer video camera and free software. Age did it TEN YEARS AGO, back when streaming video was still pretty immature.

I don't get why anyone would defend the shittiness of this service. You have to be willfully ignorant or incredibly stupid to assert that RedCast is the best Cornell can reasonably be expected to offer. Since I don't know you, I can't judge which is the case.

Oh, where to begin with all of this...

This may be hard for some on here to read, but as long as Cornell is the type of school where the vast majority of students (not all, but most) have a superior sense of entitlement, what we have now IS as good as we should expect. Why is RPI's better? Because they have a video production MAJOR. You have students going to school there who have their own Video Production business before even enrolling in school. Frankly, RPI's is better because their students have the same level of intelligence that Cornell's do, but without the silver spoon stuck up their ass.

RPI has, as I have said, two services. The streaming is done by B2 and is not of the quality of the student run RPI-TV.  So their alums who watch live streaming have a less than ideal product to watch.  Only half of  RPIs service is vastly superior.  The live side of their product is at best half-vast as is your argument.

[bnr24]

Is it just me or has redcast sucked worse than normal today?  It paused halfway through the women's game and then it locked me out of the first half of the second. ::bugeye::  It is barely even working now.

[Trotsky]

Is it just me or has redcast sucked worse than normal today?  It paused halfway through the women's game and then it locked me out of the first half of the second. ::bugeye::  It is barely even working now.

It was Not One Of Their Better Efforts.  But at least they didn't actually lose signal during the game.

[bnr24]

Yeah, between the audio and video, I got almost all of the game(s).  So much frustration.

[Chris '03]

I presume no Redcast for the playoffs again this year?

[Rosey]

I presume no Redcast for the playoffs again this year?

FYP.

[mackek2]

I presume no Redcast for the playoffs again this year?

I don't know about individual first round or quarterfinals, but I am gong to hint that the Championship games may be the best 'made for internet streaming' broadcast the ECAC has ever seen. I should be able to release more details in the next couple of days.

[bnr24]

Does this include women's games for playoffs?  I didn't have to worry last year when I was actually on the Hill for the games.

[Ben]

Does this include women's games for playoffs?  I didn't have to worry last year when I was actually on the Hill for the games.

The two quarterfinal games this past weekend were on RedCast. Nothing listed for this weekend, though.

[billhoward]

I don't know about individual first round or quarterfinals, but I am gong to hint that the Championship games may be the best 'made for internet streaming' broadcast the ECAC has ever seen. I should be able to release more details in the next couple of days.

The bar is not that high.

[billhoward]

Let's make a four- or six-panel poster. Help with some ideas for the panels and captions. Starter suggestions:

This is what Cornell thinks Redcast is. [image: Cowboy Stadium jumbotron]
This is Redcast on its best day. [image: the lingering question mark?}
This is what my wife / girlfriend thinks I'm doing watching Redcast.
This is what the Redcast videographer thinks Redcast is [image: guy texting, sleeping, reading textbook; camera shows center ice; red glare from off-camera suggests goal light just got lit]
This is what Cornell thinks of the gear [HD broadcast camera on massively tall tripod]
This is the gear [flip cam on tabletop tripod behind three guys with tall caps]
This is what RPI [fill in the blank]
This is Redcast most days [a still photo will do it justice]

[Trotsky]

I'd just like to see the infamous question mark above the caption, "streaming video.  ur doin it wrong."

[Aaron M. Griffin]

I'd just like to see the infamous question mark above the caption, "streaming video.  ur doin it wrong."

[Trotsky]

I'd just like to see the infamous question mark above the caption, "streaming video.  ur doin it wrong."

Very nice, but the meme requires the awful "UR" abbreviation.