2013 Lessons Learned: The Negative

[hiyou102]

I think the speeches on Einstien went on for too long this year. Imagine if at any other competition the speeches were plentiful and went on for this long. We want to make FIRST exciting, not bore the audience.

Another thing that's already been beaten to death is that we had 8 matches. This needs to be fixed for next season. Maybe 400 teams is too many.

[xraymypanda]

The champs webcast quality left something to be desired. Even if it was not possible to broadcast in 720p with 4 fields running due to bandwidth, they probably could have gotten 720p at least for Einstein.

[bardd]

Originally Posted by xraymypanda

The champs webcast quality left something to be desired. Even if it was not possible to broadcast in 720p with 4 fields running due to bandwidth, they probably could have gotten 720p at least for Einstein.

There was a high-quality webcast on NASA's website, and it was really good... Better than Midwest's quality IMO.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by bardd

There was a high-quality webcast on NASA's website, and it was really good... Better than Midwest's quality IMO.

There was a link under the VLC/WMP stream link that was an HD flash stream. Also, the best quality stream (up until 6 PM EST) was the Ustream stream that is(I think) whatever's on NASA TV. Sadly, at 6 it skipped to the regularly scheduled NASA programming.

Also, the HD Flash stream was a few seconds ahead of the VLC/WMP stream for me-and it was definitely significant.

[bardd]

Originally Posted by DevenStonow

Also, the HD Flash stream was a few seconds ahead of the VLC/WMP stream for me-and it was definitely significant.

I'm pretty sure they were globally 15 seconds apart.

[xraymypanda]

Originally Posted by bardd

There was a high-quality webcast on NASA's website, and it was really good... Better than Midwest's quality IMO.

Huh, I was watching that stream for a while and it didn't seem to be much better than 480p. I figured that the Blue Alliance sourced its stream from the NASA stream. Or maybe my Internet wasn't doing too well.