Thank you all for your compliments about the Webcast.
Let me give you some background.
I have been helping to coordinate the sponsorhip efforts with UTC for the past few years (since my tenure from team 178 expired). Usually UTC gives away some sort of promotional item at the regional. After last year's event, I made the recommendation that we look to do a Webcast instead - figuring that the money would be much better spent this way.
Now a student at Syracuse University, I settled into the role of Web Media Director at
UUTV (University Union Television). UUTV is the largest student-run television station in the nation. This year we partnered with
i2sports to broadast all of our programming via the Internet. i2sports is a start-up company based on the SU campus.
Impressed with the quality of their live streaming capabilities, I asked them to do the Webcast of the NE Regional. So far...so good.
We are struggling to keep the frame rate above 15 fps due to the massive amount of motion by the production cameramen within the 250kpbs stream.
Unfortunately I will not be attending the Nationals (the first time in 5 years
); however, I am interested in speaking with NASA, Soap and others so that users can receive the highest possible quality stream for FIRST events.
Please feel free to e-mail me at
eaflemin@syr.edu
Thanks,
Eric