Sound Running meet commentary

NERunner353 wrote:

LRC Note. We merged two threads into 1. The 2nd thread was entitled. "Sound Running meet commentary"

Way to go guys. No really, way to give in to the 12 people in the running world who are cranky about having to pay for a meet while someone in the sport tries to be innovative with 90% of the profits going back to the athletes. Way to merge the threads and keep the worse headline and have that right on the front page. Way to help support the sport and move things forward. Really great work. Exceptional stuff per usual.[/quote]

It's a business and you're buying into their narrative. Just like shopping at Whole Foods to save the world, or working at a company for less pay in order to Have An Impact.

At the end of the day we paid money for a product, and that product turned out to be low quality. I hope they can get their act together a deliver a higher quality product in the future.

YSA wrote:

No, it's "not just how it goes"

You don't charge money for something that does not work.

It was not a slight lag, it didn't work!

Worked for me with the exception of a couple seconds in the womens 10k when a camera blacked out.

Maybe check the internet connection in your mom's basement?

I was fine with it. For a first go. Don’t like the commentary turn off the volume and play some music. I knew who most of the major runners were, but mostly wanted to watch the racing. if the racing had been dull or the times slow I would have been disappointed. Great races. Commentary lacking and off track, Jester etc, but I mostly ignored them.

YSA wrote:

Rojo, anyway you can ask for comment on the poor feed ?

I gave up and went to bed here on the east coast.

What do you mean poor feed? I fell asleep by mistake while taking care of my kid so didn't watch. I'll watch tonight.

I dont' get what people are complaining about. There was no clock and you didn't like the announcer? So what. Start your own stopwatch, go to the live timing site and/or mute it.

It would cost $6 in gaas to drive to the meet.

Being negative isn't helping the sport. We just took this thread off the front page. I don't like how it was one of the first people saw and I don't like the overly negative headline. They tried something new. I think we can all agree it's better than paying $30 a month to some venture capitalist. I also changed the title to be less negative. I merged two threads about the stream last night and for some reason decided to keep the more negative headline of "Sound Running’s Track Meet Stream: Possibly the worst $5 ever spent? " instead of the one we have now. I'm taking the other headline now to be more positive. So whoever was complaining about that - you are right.

It's very easy to be a critic.

That being said, when we did our own broadcasts I did obsess about getting a clock on there.

I'm happy to serve as a remote broadcaster for any meet that needs one. I'm also happy to tell them how to get a clock on there.

NERunner353 wrote:

LRC Note. We merged two threads into 1. The 2nd thread was entitled. "Sound Running meet commentary"

Way to go guys. No really, way to give in to the 12 people in the running world who are cranky about having to pay for a meet while someone in the sport tries to be innovative with 90% of the profits going back to the athletes. Way to merge the threads and keep the worse headline and have that right on the front page. Way to help support the sport and move things forward. Really great work. Exceptional stuff per usual.[/quote]

I agree . I didn’t like the title and we’ve changed it.

People are free to criticize the stream .

This was their first tine trying to do this. I was watching before main races and my stream getting cutting out. I figure they’ll figure it out before tonight. Not the end of the world. We should create some resources for people trying to self stream. We learned a lot in our two attempts

Doesn't matter who the commentators are today. Looks like the ACC softball game will go to extra innings and the meet will be missed (well, at least some of it.) Go Duke, score a run so we can watch track!

Plenty of disappointing play-by-play Saturday. Flat footed at times. Ignoring Kate Grace... the 800 meter W winner (until after the finish).... wrong time posted in W-800m....

Can you view the stream from one account on multiple devices?

sharing streams wrote:

Can you view the stream from one account on multiple devices?

Yes

4thYearFreshman wrote:

sharing streams wrote:

Can you view the stream from one account on multiple devices?

Yes

can you watch the races on demand after the event is over?

The better commentators are at the SEC Champs meet. John Anderson, Dwight Stones, Jill Montgomery (maybe) and Dan O'Brien.

I've been around trach for 45 yrs in every capacity- they here HORRIBLE!

Get some English announcers, or the best on the west coast - Dixon Farmer.

Price was great - very fair. The QUALITY of the commentary ( and no running timing) was horrible. The female commentator has NOTHING to say...

How many times does it have to be said? "The female" is Leah Falland, formerly O'Connor. Reign it in

OXYRUNR wrote:

Price was great - very fair. The QUALITY of the commentary ( and no running timing) was horrible. The female commentator has NOTHING to say...

A little bit harsh all in all it was worth the price of a beer in an Australian pub. Impressive performances by the women.

Sound Running ironed out the technical problems that were happening Friday night before the races started, so that is good. We tend to compare the production to an event on ESPN, but that's not fair due to the huge budget difference. I wish Sound Running the best. I feel like I got more than my money's worth.

+1 for The Dead.

cutrack wrote:

How many times does it have to be said? "The female" is Leah Falland, formerly O'Connor. Reign it in

Goes to show that a journalism degree doesn't translate to live broadcasting skill.

Me too - I thought Leah was a natural and I really enjoyed it. Ideally, they’d have someone sat with them feeding them info on the races and spotting athletes.