- Joined
- Apr 2, 2009
First, congratulations to all of the medallists, especially baby girl Alysa Liu! Awesome job for a summer event! Vincent also did awesome, and surely these two will be named to the crucial Nebelhorn trophy! Hopefully, if they're both assigned there, they will each gain the U.S. a third spot in the ladies and men's events, respectively.
As to the quality of the stream - On another message board, someone who was there spoke to the tech who was handling the stream. He said he was aware of the problems with buffering, etc. but he said that the issue was due to bandwidth. Per that tech, better bandwidth would have cost the organizers more, and they would have had to charge the viewers a fee. I personally wouldn't have minded paying for a better quality stream but, especially in these hard times, I do understand that many of us are on strict budgets. Just the same, I am grateful for what we could see, and I'm especially grateful for the good quality videos that were uploaded by the kind guests who were there!
This was no World Cup of course, but it was certainly important to the skaters who were hoping to get assignments to Nebelhorn (a VERY important Olympic qualifying event!), and/or to the GP events like Skate America!
As to the quality of the stream - On another message board, someone who was there spoke to the tech who was handling the stream. He said he was aware of the problems with buffering, etc. but he said that the issue was due to bandwidth. Per that tech, better bandwidth would have cost the organizers more, and they would have had to charge the viewers a fee. I personally wouldn't have minded paying for a better quality stream but, especially in these hard times, I do understand that many of us are on strict budgets. Just the same, I am grateful for what we could see, and I'm especially grateful for the good quality videos that were uploaded by the kind guests who were there!
This was no World Cup of course, but it was certainly important to the skaters who were hoping to get assignments to Nebelhorn (a VERY important Olympic qualifying event!), and/or to the GP events like Skate America!
