Ivy League Digital Network

Chris '03
It's probably unfair to bury news about the new streaming service in the redcast sucks thread forever.

Weder
One-year subscription now available for $71.95. Price goes up to $89.95 on Aug. 21. Shorter subscription terms also are available.

Chris '03

Weder
One-year subscription now available for $71.95. Price goes up to $89.95 on Aug. 21. Shorter subscription terms also are available.

One year of league-wide access is $95.95: [www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com]

Kyle Rose

Chris '03

Weder
One-year subscription now available for $71.95. Price goes up to $89.95 on Aug. 21. Shorter subscription terms also are available.

One year of league-wide access is $95.95: [www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com]

I've been burned by Cornell's streaming video promises too many times. I'll pay for it *after* I see how it works, and whether it works on all my devices.

Al DeFlorio
Do we know whether the Cornell channel will have video of Ivy away games? Or will we require the all-Ivy channel to watch away football, hockey, b-ball, lax, etc.?

Press release
The package includes everything the channel has to offer from live home and selected away games in HD as well as on-demand programming and other premium content.

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio
Do we know whether the Cornell channel will have video of Ivy away games? Or will we require the all-Ivy channel to watch away football, hockey, b-ball, lax, etc.?

All indications have been that it's all home and league road included for each school. So you only need the whole league subscription if you want to watch two non-cornell teams play.

Press release
The package includes everything the channel has to offer from live home and selected away games in HD as well as on-demand programming and other premium content.

Al DeFlorio

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio
Do we know whether the Cornell channel will have video of Ivy away games? Or will we require the all-Ivy channel to watch away football, hockey, b-ball, lax, etc.?

All indications have been that it's all home and league road included for each school. So you only need the whole league subscription if you want to watch two non-cornell teams play.

Press release
The package includes everything the channel has to offer from live home and selected away games in HD as well as on-demand programming and other premium content.

That's true if "selected" is synonymous with "Ivy."

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio
Do we know whether the Cornell channel will have video of Ivy away games? Or will we require the all-Ivy channel to watch away football, hockey, b-ball, lax, etc.?

All indications have been that it's all home and league road included for each school. So you only need the whole league subscription if you want to watch two non-cornell teams play.

Press release
The package includes everything the channel has to offer from live home and selected away games in HD as well as on-demand programming and other premium content.

That's true if "selected" is synonymous with "Ivy."

Which I'm guessing it is when read in conjunction with the DP articles ("New online streaming service will allow fans to follow their team during road Ivy League games" and such. But I might be slightly wishful in my thinking/interpreting.

Al DeFlorio

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio
Do we know whether the Cornell channel will have video of Ivy away games? Or will we require the all-Ivy channel to watch away football, hockey, b-ball, lax, etc.?

All indications have been that it's all home and league road included for each school. So you only need the whole league subscription if you want to watch two non-cornell teams play.

Press release
The package includes everything the channel has to offer from live home and selected away games in HD as well as on-demand programming and other premium content.

That's true if "selected" is synonymous with "Ivy."

Which I'm guessing it is when read in conjunction with the DP articles ("New online streaming service will allow fans to follow their team during road Ivy League games" and such. But I might be slightly wishful in my thinking/interpreting.

Hope that's all correct. Would like to see away Ivy games and not at seven, eight, ten dollars a pop.

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio
Do we know whether the Cornell channel will have video of Ivy away games? Or will we require the all-Ivy channel to watch away football, hockey, b-ball, lax, etc.?

All indications have been that it's all home and league road included for each school. So you only need the whole league subscription if you want to watch two non-cornell teams play.

Press release
The package includes everything the channel has to offer from live home and selected away games in HD as well as on-demand programming and other premium content.

That's true if "selected" is synonymous with "Ivy."

Which I'm guessing it is when read in conjunction with the DP articles ("New online streaming service will allow fans to follow their team during road Ivy League games" and such. But I might be slightly wishful in my thinking/interpreting.

Hope that's all correct. Would like to see away Ivy games and not at seven, eight, ten dollars a pop.

If there are 5 road Ivy games and the difference between the CU only and full league plans is $24, then it's ~$5/each if you buy the full league plan and are concerned solely about hockey and don't value 3-4 road lax or football games that would come with it too.

Al DeFlorio

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio
Do we know whether the Cornell channel will have video of Ivy away games? Or will we require the all-Ivy channel to watch away football, hockey, b-ball, lax, etc.?

All indications have been that it's all home and league road included for each school. So you only need the whole league subscription if you want to watch two non-cornell teams play.

Press release
The package includes everything the channel has to offer from live home and selected away games in HD as well as on-demand programming and other premium content.

That's true if "selected" is synonymous with "Ivy."

Which I'm guessing it is when read in conjunction with the DP articles ("New online streaming service will allow fans to follow their team during road Ivy League games" and such. But I might be slightly wishful in my thinking/interpreting.

Hope that's all correct. Would like to see away Ivy games and not at seven, eight, ten dollars a pop.

If there are 5 road Ivy games and the difference between the CU only and full league plans is $24, then it's ~$5/each if you buy the full league plan and are concerned solely about hockey and don't value 3-4 road lax or football games that would come with it too.

Right. But I do "value" those (and maybe women's hockey and men's b-ball--if that gets turned around) and have little interest in a Brown-Dartmouth game in any sport, so, if the Cornell package includes away Ivy games, that's all I need.

We'll be here for a live chat about what the Ivy Digital Network means for you tomorrow at 12 pm @cornellsports #IvyDigital Send your ???s

— Cornell Big Red (@CornellSports) July 25, 2013

Jim Hyla
Since my yearly Redcast subscription does not renew on 8/21, I wonder if they are going to refund the difference?

phillysportsfan

We'll be here for a live chat about what the Ivy Digital Network means for you tomorrow at 12 pm @cornellsports #IvyDigital Send your ???s

— Cornell Big Red (@CornellSports) July 25, 2013

They are having a chat on Twitter 12-1 to answer any questions

Seems like a good deal, dont remember how much the full Redcast used to cost but it was around this new price and you still had to pay for road games

Jordan 04

phillysportsfan

We'll be here for a live chat about what the Ivy Digital Network means for you tomorrow at 12 pm @cornellsports #IvyDigital Send your ???s

— Cornell Big Red (@CornellSports) July 25, 2013

They are having a chat on Twitter 12-1 to answer any questions

Seems like a good deal, dont remember how much the full Redcast used to cost but it was around this new price and you still had to pay for road games

Someone ask if the service will be run as well as the listserv announcing the service.

phillysportsfan

We'll be here for a live chat about what the Ivy Digital Network means for you tomorrow at 12 pm @cornellsports #IvyDigital Send your ???s

— Cornell Big Red (@CornellSports) July 25, 2013

They are having a chat on Twitter 12-1 to answer any questions

Seems like a good deal, dont remember how much the full Redcast used to cost but it was around this new price and you still had to pay for road games

Chris '03

Jordan 04

phillysportsfan

We'll be here for a live chat about what the Ivy Digital Network means for you tomorrow at 12 pm @cornellsports #IvyDigital Send your ???s

— Cornell Big Red (@CornellSports) July 25, 2013

They are having a chat on Twitter 12-1 to answer any questions

Seems like a good deal, dont remember how much the full Redcast used to cost but it was around this new price and you still had to pay for road games

Someone ask if the service will be run as well as the listserv announcing the service.

Ditto.

Al DeFlorio

Kyle Rose

Chris '03

Weder
One-year subscription now available for $71.95. Price goes up to $89.95 on Aug. 21. Shorter subscription terms also are available.

One year of league-wide access is $95.95: [www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com]

I've been burned by Cornell's streaming video promises too many times. I'll pay for it *after* I see how it works, and whether it works on all my devices.

Well, they do say it will be "an experience unlike any other." Give 'em credit for honesty, at least.

@JStrangelove I promise it won't be annoying like this morning's inbox. But if you like Cornell sports, will be vast improvement on RedCast.

— Cornell Big Red (@CornellSports) July 26, 2013

TimV quoting Hartigan
"All home games will be on the channel, plus road games involving Ivy League schools or NeuLion partners. That entire list will be out closer to the season (when we have it)."

Chris '03

Al DeFlorio

Kyle Rose

Chris '03

Weder
One-year subscription now available for $71.95. Price goes up to $89.95 on Aug. 21. Shorter subscription terms also are available.

One year of league-wide access is $95.95: [www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com]

I've been burned by Cornell's streaming video promises too many times. I'll pay for it *after* I see how it works, and whether it works on all my devices.

Well, they do say it will be "an experience unlike any other." Give 'em credit for honesty, at least.

@JStrangelove I promise it won't be annoying like this morning's inbox. But if you like Cornell sports, will be vast improvement on RedCast.

— Cornell Big Red (@CornellSports) July 26, 2013

But I thought Redcast was the best thing ever... that's what they kept telling me....

Trotsky
I signed up for ILDN's Cornell package. It looks like the first offerings will be around 6 Sept.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Kyle Rose

Trotsky
I signed up for ILDN's Cornell package. It looks like the first offerings will be around 6 Sept.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Let me know how it looks.

The triumph of cynicism.

Trotsky

Kyle Rose

Trotsky
I signed up for ILDN's Cornell package. It looks like the first offerings will be around 6 Sept.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Let me know how it looks.

The triumph of cynicism.

Will do, though women's volleyball probably won't be much of a load test.

Weder
One-year subscription now available for $71.95. Price goes up to $89.95 on Aug. 21. Shorter subscription terms also are available.

marty

Weder
One-year subscription now available for $71.95. Price goes up to $89.95 on Aug. 21. Shorter subscription terms also are available.

Last chance to save.

George64
Someone to be held accountable.

phillysportsfan
The video quality seems to be Redcast with better on screen graphics for the score, etc although there is no down marker on the screen. Barry's audio is terrible. Camera work is jittery and often zoomed in too close

Al DeFlorio

phillysportsfan
The video quality seems to be Redcast with better on screen graphics for the score, etc although there is no down marker on the screen. Barry's audio is terrible. Camera work is jittery and often zoomed in too close

Not sure which is worse: Cornell D or the webcast. Watched snippets of the Cornell-Penn field hockey game at Penn today and the video was superb. Guessing it's--what did you expect--a Cornell issue. Embarrassing.

scoop85
still using the same drunk camera people

Al DeFlorio

scoop85
still using the same drunk camera people

If the drunk cameraman at least had a high def camera I could put up with it.

scoop85
now experiencing technical difficulties

Al DeFlorio
Soccer at St. Joe's is supposed to be webcast but I can't get it to load.

@gr8tale Like a lot of things today, was an Internet outage issue. Hasn't been an issue before, should be fixed for Colgate.

— Cornell Big Red (@CornellSports) September 22, 2013

Kyle Rose
Glad I didn't pay for this turkey yet. After years of abuse, Cornell gets the assumption of failure from me: they have to prove me wrong.

phillysportsfan

Kyle Rose
Glad I didn't pay for this turkey yet. After years of abuse, Cornell gets the assumption of failure from me: they have to prove me wrong.

I didnt think it would be magically be much better but the option is to pay and see the games in low quality or not see the games at all, I would rather see the games

Al DeFlorio
Just received this email in response to mine sent to Robin Harris, Ivy League Executive Director:

Robin Harris forwarded your email to me regarding Cornell's football broadcast from Saturday.

We are aware that Cornell had bandwidth issues within the university's network and belief that to be the primary cause of the issues. The Red Rover network was the first to go down during the game, causing the press box to lose all wireless capabilities (including live stats). Shortly thereafter, other network capabilities began to dwindle. We were aware of the situation and had some of our people on the line with them, as well as NeuLion's technicians, trying to troubleshoot in any way possible.

After attempting to make some adjustments, the stream continued to cut out in the second half periodically due to the instability of the network. It would almost be the equivalent of a TV satellite truck losing electricity.

Below is a link to the archive of the game. If you are logged into the network, you can access the stream.

[www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com]

if you look at footage at the 52 minute mark versus the 1:26 mark you will see a significant difference. (You can adjust where you are in the timeline just above the play button with the gray / green slider bar.) The latter of the two is what you can expect to see in the Ivy League Digital Network.

Cornell does plan on carrying pregame and halftime analysis. Frankly, they spent most of halftime trying to figure out how to best troubleshoot what they were dealing with. Unlike a television network, we don't have a "SportsCenter" studio to toss it back to while we work out the technical issues. Maybe some day we will.

Thank you for concerns and I hope you will enjoy The Ivy League Digital Network more in the coming weeks and months.

Mike Hirschman
Assistant Executive Director for Communications & Championships
The Ivy League
cell: 336-383-7498
office: 609-258-2441

Josh '99
At least it's an actual response.

Al DeFlorio

Josh '99
At least it's an actual response.

Haven't heard back yet from Cornell's new media guru.

Al DeFlorio

Al DeFlorio

Josh '99
At least it's an actual response.

Haven't heard back yet from Cornell's new media guru.

And this morning a thoughtful response from John Lukach did arrive. Hope he won't mind my sharing it here:

The delayed response is because I wanted to be certain the cause of the issue before responding to our fans. We have been working since the tech issues Saturday to resolve the matter. There was a bigger connection issue during gameday that affected more than just our Ethernet connection for the stream that showed on the campus connection as well. It was more than just us seeing slower speeds. We tested the upload speed throughout the week and had no issues until Saturday.


We understand the disappointment from the support and dedication of the alumni/fans and have been working to quickly resolve the issue. We understand that the quality wasn’t HD at the beginning, but once we were able to enhance the quality during the second half, that is when the problem escalated. As the league office stated, if you go back to the archive you can see times where the quality during the second half was better. However, because of the bandwidth issues the connection to the ILDN could not consistently be maintained.


The issues we experienced started from internal IT issues. There was a problem with the bandwidth in the press box during this past game. We have been working on the issue since the occurrence and plan to continually monitor the connection speed. With the support of campus IT we are correcting the problems that arose from last Saturday. I have been meeting in each of our facilities to make sure the proper upload speed is met so that our productions will be sent in HD.


This is just the start of my third week here and I am still getting an understanding on the IT situations, to my understanding, have been an issue for a while. Since I was brought on so close to the start of our productions, it was difficult to get everything set as we needed it. We will be progressing quickly as I am getting a better understanding of Cornell’s infrastructure and adding to the setup of the productions. Saturday was the first production. I understand the disappointment and look to better the broadcasts quickly. Thank you for your continued support of Cornell Athletics.

Thanks,
-John


John Lukach
Director of Multimedia, Production and Web Communication

dag14
I don't understand why they list an away soccer game at a non-Ivy opponent as part of the IVY digital package when they don't offer any home Cornell soccer games [which used to be available via RedCast].

College Hockey News
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Each live event can be viewed beginning 10 minutes prior to start time.

Three price levels are being made available: Day Pass, Monthly Pass or Full Season Pass. All passes include on-demand viewing. Only live events can be viewed on mobile devices. A Day Pass gives you access to all games on that night for $8, plus an extra $1 for mobile viewing. A Monthly Pass gives you 30 days of viewing for $45. A Full Season Pass costs $150, or $125 if purchased by Oct. 1.

Monthly or Season Passes comes with on-demand access for previous 30 days events.

While the other conferences, including Hockey East and the new NCHC and Big Ten, have established nationwide broadcast deals, this is the first league-wide Internet streaming deal of its kind.

profudge
WCHA is live streaming whole season all games: WCHA Announces League-Wide Live Game Streaming

College Hockey News
...

Each live event can be viewed beginning 10 minutes prior to start time.

Three price levels are being made available: Day Pass, Monthly Pass or Full Season Pass. All passes include on-demand viewing. Only live events can be viewed on mobile devices. A Day Pass gives you access to all games on that night for $8, plus an extra $1 for mobile viewing. A Monthly Pass gives you 30 days of viewing for $45. A Full Season Pass costs $150, or $125 if purchased by Oct. 1.

Monthly or Season Passes comes with on-demand access for previous 30 days events.

While the other conferences, including Hockey East and the new NCHC and Big Ten, have established nationwide broadcast deals, this is the first league-wide Internet streaming deal of its kind.

I will be interested to see how quality of their service is this year.

Cop at Lynah
Was wondering if the issues have been resolved here at Cornell ? Is the product worth the cost ?

Trotsky
I was going to post after the York game, assuming it is streamed.

Chris '03

Trotsky
I was going to post after the York game, assuming it is streamed.

Both men's and women's games are on the schedule at least: [www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com]

Trotsky

Chris '03

Trotsky
I was going to post after the York game, assuming it is streamed.

Both men's and women's games are on the schedule at least: [www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com]

Yep. The CU preview says the radio call will be on the stream too, so this will be a good test.

Rita

Trotsky

Chris '03

Trotsky
I was going to post after the York game, assuming it is streamed.

Both men's and women's games are on the schedule at least: [www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com]

Yep. The CU preview says the radio call will be on the stream too, so this will be a good test.

Does this mean that the exhibition game (and also the women's game?) will be carried by WHCU radio?

Trotsky

Rita

Trotsky

Chris '03

Trotsky
I was going to post after the York game, assuming it is streamed.

Both men's and women's games are on the schedule at least: [www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com]

Yep. The CU preview says the radio call will be on the stream too, so this will be a good test.

Does this mean that the exhibition game (and also the women's game?) will be carried by WHCU radio?

The WHCU broadcast of the men's exhibition game is supposed to be streamed. The CU schedule lists audio for both women's games this weekend (in addition to video) as well. I do not know whether that means WHCU is going to start broadcasting women's games (which would be great) or whether that is the usual "amateur PBP from the press box" that we have heard up till now (which is better than nothing).

ITHACA, N.Y. -- As the start of the men's and women's hockey seasons approach, fans can receive a 20 percent discount for four- or 12-month school or league passes for the Ivy League Digital Network. To gain access to all hockey games on the Ivy League Digital Network, use the promo code "IvyHockey2013".

Trotsky

Rita

Trotsky

Chris '03

Trotsky
I was going to post after the York game, assuming it is streamed.

Both men's and women's games are on the schedule at least: [www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com]

Yep. The CU preview says the radio call will be on the stream too, so this will be a good test.

Does this mean that the exhibition game (and also the women's game?) will be carried by WHCU radio?

The WHCU broadcast of the men's exhibition game is supposed to be streamed. The CU schedule lists audio for both women's games this weekend (in addition to video) as well. I do not know whether that means WHCU is going to start broadcasting women's games (which would be great) or whether that is the usual "amateur PBP from the press box" that we have heard up till now (which is better than nothing).

George64
Someone to be held accountable.

Chris '03
Audio is a disaster on women's hockey. I feel like I'm listening to the chipmunks. Video is good...

Trotsky
Once ILDN came in for the men's game (about 6 mins late) it was fine: decent video resolution and clear, albeit extremely quiet, audio. No drops or buffering. Good enough.

Chris '03

Trotsky
Once ILDN came in for the men's game (about 6 mins late) it was fine: decent video resolution and clear, albeit extremely quiet, audio. No drops or buffering. Good enough.

Agreed. The quality was generally good. But it's annoying that they cutoff the broadcast before the post game. They do the same for football.

Scersk '97
The preview indicates video coverage for UNO, so I suppose it's time for me to subscribe.

gomestar
somebody, i forget who, mentioned on twitter that both UNO games will be broadcast on the Ivy sports network.


I signed up for the league wide access for 4 months, and then I'll do a monthly pass for the final few games. The extra $15 for the league-wide seemed worth it to see (some) road games.

Rita
Hey all,

If you had a REDCAST subscription from last year that hasn't yet expired, it is valid and supposedly active on the ILDN. That is a way to try out the new system before re-upping for another year. Also the customer support guy I talked to said there should be a small box somewhere on the account page to deactivate the auto-renew function when you sign up for an ILDN subscription. Your REDCAST subcription won't renew because they just have log-in info, not billing info.

quickrabbit5

Rita
Hey all,

If you had a REDCAST subscription from last year that hasn't yet expired, it is valid and supposedly active on the ILDN. That is a way to try out the new system before re-upping for another year. Also the customer support guy I talked to said there should be a small box somewhere on the account page to deactivate the auto-renew function when you sign up for an ILDN subscription. Your REDCAST subcription won't renew because they just have log-in info, not billing info.

Don't see any option in my profile to cancel the auto renew option =/. If anyone could enlighten me to where it is, that'd be greatly appreciated.

Jim Hyla
Ivy League Digital Network Offers Discount For Hockey Season.

ITHACA, N.Y. -- As the start of the men's and women's hockey seasons approach, fans can receive a 20 percent discount for four- or 12-month school or league passes for the Ivy League Digital Network. To gain access to all hockey games on the Ivy League Digital Network, use the promo code "IvyHockey2013".

Expires 10/27

Kyle Rose
After all my bitching over the past decade, let it not be said that I don't give credit where credit is due: the games this weekend looked fabulous. I watched on my 1080p phone, and it looked crisp and smooth. Now, that's presumably with N-O's camera and internet connection, but nonetheless it is promising.