OT: CBS streaming does it right

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:01 PM
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buddhafrog
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OT: CBS streaming does it right

While the gov't is kneeling to the pressure of TV and cable and attempting to crack down even harder on streaming sport games, CBS has chosen to go the opposite direction.

http://www.ncaa.com/mmod/player/console.html

They stream every second of every game.  If you missed the Morehead State upset of Louisville (like I did), you can go back and watch every second of it.... or like I did, skip ahead to any part of the game you'd like (last two minutes for me - underdogs!).  Tired of watching Wisconsin score less the UM football team?  Skip over to BYU loosing to mighty Wofford/

The streams are fast and near-HD.  Everything damn game is available for the entire tournament.  For free.  The catch of course is that they show the commercials just the same as the TV broadcast.... so their revenue source is still getting their investment.  The key is that when the stream goes to a commercial, you can't click out - you have to stay on that stream until the game resumes.  Not a bad price to pay.

Why can't other sports/stations do this?  It must take an incredible amount of bandwidth to do what CBS is doing, but I bet they're raking in the viewers.

I live in South Korea and watch all my games online (I'm the one in my apartment building screaming at 4am Sunday morning to not kick the field goal).  But even if I lived back in AA, I'd have the TV on as well as CBS' streams.

The future of online streams will either be more restrictions or more freedom.  Looking as how well CBS does this, I can't imagine why others wouldn't follow suit. 

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:06 PM | Is anyone else having any (Score:1)
Blake
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Is anyone else having any problems with the CBS streaming?  Mine has been saying "loading" for at least 15 minutes.

March 17th, 2011 at 8:08 PM | No problems here. There is (Score:1)
wlubd
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No problems here.

There is a time delay between the TV and MMOD which has resulted in my having to block the ticker on the TV so I don't know what will happen before I see it, but quality is great.

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:11 PM | did once (Score:1)
buddhafrog
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I did once and just refreshed it - started with no problem.

Good luck - hopefully you won't miss the end fo the tension-filled Florida game.

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:10 PM | Awesome! (Score:1)
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This is great! Thanks for the heads up.

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:17 PM | I've been pleasantly suprised (Score:1)
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I've been pleasantly suprised with the streaming.  Even though it doesn't seem like it's quite at HD quality, it's really smooth and I'd take that over choppy HD any day.  Anyone tried the iPad or iPhone app?  From what I've heard that's pretty solid too.

March 17th, 2011 at 8:25 PM |   i've been using the iPad (Score:1)
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i've been using the iPad app all day long without ANY issues.  Real impressed with how quick I can switch from game to game.  CBS really has done it right with the March Madness on demand app.

March 18th, 2011 at 12:29 AM | iPhone app (Score:1)
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is superb.  I streamed the last few minutes of the MSU game on my iPhone, and it went without a hitch.  I wasn't on wifi either -- I was streaming over 3g.  I've been extraordinarily impressed with the entire MMOD experience.

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:23 PM | Hurdles to clear (Score:1)
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Networks can't really do this with Pro sports, b/c the leagues won't allow it (they have their own streaming for pay sites). My question is, are there any hurdles for networks doing this for college sports? Cant he b10 network do this without any red tape?

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:34 PM | I agree about Pro sports.  I (Score:1)
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I agree about Pro sports.  I assume they make good money on their pay sites since I see commercials for them all the time.  One option would be for the networks to pay for the right to broadcast the games online in place of the pay sports.  Imagine how much traffic they would get on Sundays.  How much more woudl they generate with advertising?  I have no idea of course.  But just want to say that it is impossible now b/c of the contracts, but in the future, everything is possible [Disney tune playing in the background]

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:29 PM | How do you rewatch games? All (Score:1)
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How do you rewatch games? All I see are highlight videos.

 

 

 

March 17th, 2011 at 8:36 PM | Use magic. Or, once you (Score:1)
buddhafrog
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Use magic.

Or, once you click "highlights", you'll see four windows: stats/chat/leaders/VIDEO.  The video screen upons up under "highlights" tab, but on top of thevideo you can click the "replay" tab.  Amazingly, you can go back and forth to any time in the game.  Awesome.

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:31 PM | The streaming is nice (Score:1)
J_BRIGHT
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but the improvements to the boss button really set CBS apart

March 17th, 2011 at 8:37 PM | ? maybe this is a joke (Score:1)
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?

maybe this is a joke which I don't get.  In which case it's not funny.

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:46 PM | If you watch a game in full (Score:1)
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If you watch a game in full screen mode, there is a button at the top right that says "Boss Button."  (I guess it's there on the normal viewing mode as well, screen placement depends on screen resolution or something, mine is somewhere between the top center and right corner)  If you click it, the screen switches to what looks like an email inbox with an open email, to hide the fact that you're watching the game at work.  In the past, I believe it was a generic spreadsheet that didn't really look like you were actually working.

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:49 PM | OK, that's awesome and point (Score:1)
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OK, that's awesome and point worthy.

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March 17th, 2011 at 8:52 PM | ROFL this is great, I didn't (Score:1)
wolverhorn
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ROFL this is great, I didn't click on it but saw it up in the corner.  So genius.

March 22nd, 2011 at 12:58 AM | it's even functional.  you (Score:1)
icactus
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it's even functional.  you can click the emails from the frame on the left and close and open them.  too bad i'm unemployed......................

March 17th, 2011 at 8:31 PM | I don't really get why all (Score:1)
TheHoke.TheHoke...
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I don't really get why all network television isn't streamed live and free online.  I mean, it's free TV that you can pick up with an antenna anyway, so what are they losing out on?

As for cable, I've ditched it and refuse to ever order it again until I can purchase channels a la carte.  I want ESPN, FSN, CNN, and Comedy Central - in HD and HD only.  That's it.  No speed network bs or America's best whatever reality network.

March 17th, 2011 at 10:23 PM | I wish they would provide (Score:1)
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I wish they would provide better downgrade capability for those of us with slower connections.  I mean it's in their interest to have you use less bandwidth so you'd think they'd have a feature for those of us on a 1 mbps connection, like how google lets you select resolution.  I get 15 seconds of game and then 10 seconds of loading.

 

Anyway, I'm rooting for Ganzaga cause they have Mike Hart.

March 17th, 2011 at 11:11 PM | Cute bug... (Score:1)
Tater
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When the white display of the current score shows up in the middle of the score bar, it shows the score and time about two minutes ahead of what they are showing on the video.  I have to keep making it go away.  

Not that it made much of a difference in the MSU/UCLA game.

 

 

 

March 18th, 2011 at 12:34 AM | Yes yes yes (Score:1)
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the MMOD streaming experience -- from web to phone app -- should set an example for the entire sports world.  It's absolutely ideal.  The major sports leagues and tv networks need to learn from this.

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March 18th, 2011 at 1:52 AM | All games on espn (Score:1)
bluewings
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I watched the mich state game from espn.  "watch now" was listed next to all games on.

March 18th, 2011 at 10:32 AM | That's because it links back (Score:1)
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That's because it links back to NCAA.org, which is hosting all the video.  However, since CBS pretty much owns the rights to march madness, they're the ones supporting the streams.

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