i2sports Game Video

[Josh '99]

Is there any way to purchase other than Paypal?

[crodger1]

I don't believe so.  Season pass folks got an email about a week and a half ago that said, in part:

[q]Recent changes at our Internet Service Provider required us to switch
credit card processors from Verisign to Pay-Pal. We have just completed
transferring your subscriptions onto the new system.[/q]

Chris

[Josh '99]

Ah well, guess I'll deal with it.  Thanks!

[skijmpr]

Hmm, I never got that email, and I did purchase the season package...  ::uhoh::

The new system doesn't seem to accept my login...

[skijmpr]

Sonofa...my email program apparently must have filtered out that email as spam...sigh

[skijmpr]

I wish those guys had a "Forgot password?" form on their site...kind of inconvenient to have to dig thru their entire site and find the only phone number to them under the job opportunities section ::rolleyes::

[jtwcornell91]

Yeah, that kind of screwed me up since the email I used to subscribe was a spam bait address I don't read often.  ::uhoh::

[skijmpr]

Just to follow up on this, I was able to reach somebody at i2sports via phone about 5 mins before the start of the game Friday night, and he was very friendly and helped set me up with a username and password for the new system (apparently my email program filtered out the automated message they sent notifying subscribers of the change).

They reduced the size of the video window though.  I tried opening the vid feed directly in Windows Media Player, so that I could scale it up, but there was discolorings in the image for some reason that were not present when I viewed it embedded in the web page.  Maybe they could let you adjust the size based on your bandwidth.

[Ken \'70]

How's the picture quality?  Is it worth it?

[DisplacedCornellian]

Ken '70 wrote:

How's the picture quality?  Is it worth it?

Well....it's not ESPN, but it isn't terrible either.  It's worth it to me :-)

[Greg Berge]

The picture is very sharp in the default (small) view, and very crappy in the full screen view.  There is no in-between.

[Greg Berge]

BTW, Jeff, that's an extremely good idea.  I will forward it as a user CR to i2 and I recommend the rest of us do so as well.

[skijmpr]

Some sites will do an auto-detection to set it initially, but then they have ~3 buttons, usually labelled something like:

Dial-up
Cable modem/DSL
T1 or higher

and I believe the speeds usually fall somewhere around, respectively:

56kbps
128-300kbps
300-512kbps

This amounts to the higher bandwidth streams being able to produce a larger default image in the browser window.

[jason]

Full screen is indeed poor, but if you watch it in the WM player (rather than confined in the web page) and drag the window corner to adjust the size, I've found there's a pretty good size/quality compromise that is bigger than the default window size but well short of full screen. Plus, the extra screen real estate leaves me room for the chat program.

As for different sizes for different bandwidths, I think i2sports's philosophy is that if your not broadband (300kbps+), don't bother watching.

[kaelistus]

How do you make the live stream go to your WM player?