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Originally Posted by OZ_341
FIRST needs to start with a consistent high quality webcast of every event. They need to require a standard set of criteria for broadcasting an event and then it needs to be SUPPORTED and FUNDED.
A minimum production value standard and equipment list will raise the broadcast standards and attract more viewers. Viewership will not increase overnight, but this is playing the "long game". Lets also pay what ever fee it takes to eliminate all of the incredibly annoying commercials.
I need to be able to tell outside people to watch a webcast and not worry about what they will see. Some of the broadcasts this year were just flat out embarrassing. So many were bad this year that I stopped telling people to watch. If you do not know anything about FIRST, you are not going to watch a pixelated, commercial filled, webcast from a cheap robot camera struggling to figure out what you are watching.
It can be so much better.
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Yes. Some of these streams were unbearable. Some of them looked liked washed-out CCTV security cameras. Fixed views from the very back of the stadium does not a good stream make. As someone who already knows what's going on and into the program, I found it hard to watch them, so I know a random parent/friend/stranger that stumbled onto the stream was probably not impressed.
I feel like if there were production standards and a minimum budget, we may even see some local stations pick it up, whether live or after-the-fact. While we may not compete easily with NFL/MLB/NASCAR/LMNOP on Sundays, there's always the Saturday slots that are usually reserved for paid programming during the afternoon. Or the digital over-the-air channels such as 5.2, 8-3, etc.
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Originally Posted by fb39ca4
Then find a better website to host your streams. Try something new, like the new Bittorrent streaming protocol that needs significantly less bandwidth on the broadcaster's end.
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Twitch, Ustream, Justin and NASA all have plenty of bandwidth to stream up to 1080p+ (and Twitch can even go higher). That's not the issue. The problem is sending the video
to the streaming servers. Some venues only have access to DSL/T1, so they can't put out a high-quality video alongside normal internet usage.
That said, if you'd like to give that new Bittorrent streaming thing a try, then contact your regional director and see if you can try it out next year. I've never heard of it before, so I'm going to go look it up.