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Originally Posted by the_short1
Although i agree it would be nice, i think the first thing we need to do is get better QUALITY before special features. The video/sound quality comming out of the nasa webcast is horrible (although i do apreciate what they do, as it is better then nothing). We had a banquet for nationals, all sat in our auditorium and had it on a good quality projector w/ desktop computer, and sound wasnt always in sinc and video quality was just .. bad. I know its hard with the many many viewers to keep it high quality.. . but what about GOOGLE.. they have a plentora of bandwidth exp: google video.. . maybe we try to get google to supply the bandwidth next year?
-kevin
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I would almost say that NASA has as much if not more bandwidth as GOOGLE. The Video quality isn't due to the connection, instead its more due to the computer/equipment which is picking up the video feed and converting it to digital files. They simply don't put large bit-rate due to the fact they don't have the bandwidth at the competition venue to transmit and most people's connections cant handle a constant high bit-rate. If you were to have gotten onto the fields, behind Einstein, you would see the satellite truck parked with the satellite dish which is doing the transmitting. You also have to realize that NASA's servers, which is where you are getting your feed from, aren't only running this web feed. They're also running thousands of other programs and storing terabytes of files! If GOOGLE were to do the web-casts I am sure they would do the same quality wise. There are dozens of threads about this subject. Higher quality is likely to happen but probably not until the INTERNET as a whole gets better, and the venues get a better upload connection.
-Mike