2006 Webcasts Unwatchable?

[Donut]

Originally Posted by mtaman02

Yeah I had no problems using windows media player to view the webcast which I used on friday, saturday i used real player and boy was that a headache between the audio and the visual constantly going out and coming back then speeding up and going out and coming back and it would repeat, WMP did not have that problem at all - ok maybe one or twice it coughed but it wasn't like it continued. I do have one complaint to make however - NASA Broadcast, year after year yeah people volunteer their time to make the broadcast possible but at the same token year after year NASA just doesn't seem to get the picture that an event may have to overrun the time alotted for it to originally being aired (e.g. a program is 2hrs long but for some reason it runs a for a half hour longer or an hour longer but the host channel decides to chop the program and start the next in line) This is a fine example of Race Car Events in which get rained out, Baseball and many other outside sports as well that get rained out. Is their informative yet boring program that follows after FIRST that important that they must chop FIRST just to air it, Yesterday I missed the last few qualifying rounds which was not a big deal but today I missed the final matches and awards all because NASA felt they're boring yet informative program was more important then FIRST . They have they're own channel for a reason so that they can extend an airing program if needed. Maybe its shear laziness to just say okay you can a have a half hour more - Oh well enough venting - time to get ready for work - in shory I find they'er webcasts a lil more reliable then they're broadcast only b/c they don't cut they're webcast as quickly as they do they're broadcast.

The television station has some ground here. FIRST went close to 2 hours beyond when they said they'd be done, and NASA TV stayed with them for 1 hour after the program was supposed to end. They could have cut it right at 5 (2 my time), but let it run well past it's alloted time.

Maybe FIRST should start telling NASA they expect the program to run 9-6 instead or something? They always go at least an hour beyond when they expect to be done, so I really don't see the harm in doing it.