2008 Championships Webcast

[Bongle]

I think they should stick a small camera on the BAE systems blimp that I just saw floating around inside. It probably has the payload capability.

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by Bongle

I think they should stick a small camera on the BAE systems blimp that I just saw floating around inside. It probably has the payload capability.

They have cameras on them (or at least available), they are RPI's blimps, they ran into range and interference problems with the cameras in Manchester

[flyingcrayons]

cnn is doing a live broadcast right now on their site!

[DarkJedi613]

Originally Posted by Bongle

I think they should stick a small camera on the BAE systems blimp that I just saw floating around inside. It probably has the payload capability.

Originally Posted by JamesBrown

They have cameras on them (or at least available), they are RPI's blimps, they ran into range and interference problems with the cameras in Manchester

Really late reply: The white blimp had a camera on it that was being fed to the video guys. It showed up on the FLL screens a few times, I'm not sure it was on any FRC screens though (we were too busy flying them!). So, yeah they had cameras on them, they weren't the greatest quality footage though and were breaking up a little bit (the transmitter uses 802.11x so it can get interference pretty easily if there are networks around -- but it seemed to be working pretty well unless we went way up high).

[Mark Pierce]

I really didn't get to see much of the webcasts, but I was extremely pleased with what I saw when I did:

Every time I brought it up it worked the first time.
There were very few streaming/bandwidth/technical problems.
The sound quality was much improved compared to previous years.
The awards presentations were not chopped short or lost by the camera.
The field shots were pretty clear.
In general, the shot selection and transitions were done well.

I see the previous posts mentioning some issues, but I didn't run into those. I remember many more in other years.

While it's been a few years since I personally watched a Championship webcast, I've seen and heard reports of many problems in these areas nearly every year. I've also seen many problems with regional webcasts.

Thanks for all those involved in continuing to improve this service!

[chinckley]

I am trying to find out if there are video of the matches from Galileo/Championship that will be posted online? I did a search and nothing came up. I would like to show the students in my class the video and I have only the two I was able to video. I would like to show more.

Carolyn