#MACtion Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 The biggest complaint about UND’s new hockey league, the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, was the television deal, which barred the league’s teams from appearing on national networks outside of CBS Sports. Fenton has been in contact with officials at CBS Sports this summer and multiple sources tell the Herald that CBS appears willing to alter, in some way, the exclusivity clause in the network's contract with the NCHC. http://www.grandfork...ing-tv-contract More national TV hockey games on the way. At a minimum this sounds like it will allow for Fox College Sports to pick up games like North Dakota had before the CBSSN deal. I just hope FCS picks up a conference-wide package and not just a UND package where they get a ton more coverage like the Notre Dame / NBCSN / Hockey East deal. Really hope Miami is doing a much better job getting Miami home games televised as I think they can do better than the 4 TWCSC games we got last season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNDColorado Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 The biggest complaint about UND’s new hockey league, the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, was the television deal, which barred the league’s teams from appearing on national networks outside of CBS Sports. Fenton has been in contact with officials at CBS Sports this summer and multiple sources tell the Herald that CBS appears willing to alter, in some way, the exclusivity clause in the network's contract with the NCHC. http://www.grandfork...ing-tv-contract More national TV hockey games on the way. At a minimum this sounds like it will allow for Fox College Sports to pick up games like North Dakota had before the CBSSN deal. I just hope FCS picks up a conference-wide package and not just a UND package where they get a ton more coverage like the Notre Dame / NBCSN / Hockey East deal. Really hope Miami is doing a much better job getting Miami home games televised as I think they can do better than the 4 TWCSC games we got last season. This is great news. I really like the new conference and CBS Sports did a great job with the broadcast. However, it was great seasons prior when games would be on Fox College Sports. Living in Colorado that gave me a chance to take in a lot of games on TV rather than my computer. What does TWCSC stand for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 This is great news. I really like the new conference and CBS Sports did a great job with the broadcast. However, it was great seasons prior when games would be on Fox College Sports. Living in Colorado that gave me a chance to take in a lot of games on TV rather than my computer. What does TWCSC stand for? Time Warner Cable sports channel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redneksioux Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I'm very excited to learn of the CBS schedule for the year. Any coverage beyond that is a bonus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#MACtion Posted August 11, 2014 Author Share Posted August 11, 2014 Time Warner Cable sports channel Yep, it's our version of MidCo Sports Channel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner_Cable_Sports_Channel_%28Ohio%29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fetch Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 League wide games ? Like all games That would be great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackheart Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Fox College Sports would be awesome to be able to get again...anything that gets away from webcasts is welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxfan512 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Fox College Sports would be awesome to be able to get again...anything that gets away from webcasts is welcome. Exactly, I'll take webcast over nothing, but I was not impressed with the quality last season. It was watchable, but certainly not the high quality that UND was touting online. It would sometimes glitch and freeze, and the picture was never sharp for supposedly being HD. Rather disappointing, getting FCS back in the picture, and getting UNDs entire home schedule online would be a huge improvement! Hopefully they can work some more Football and Basketball games into the deal too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagies Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 I watched a handful of games on webcast last year and I was pretty pleased. I don't recall many issues with freezing or buffering (maybe a couple of times) and thought the video quality was decent. However, I was pretty much comparing it to watching the SD broadcasts from previous years, so by comparison it worked out fairly well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 I watched a handful of games on webcast last year and I was pretty pleased. I don't recall many issues with freezing or buffering (maybe a couple of times) and thought the video quality was decent. However, I was pretty much comparing it to watching the SD broadcasts from previous years, so by comparison it worked out fairly well. I think the biggest problem wasn't UND webcasts, but the other schools. webcasts. UNO and WMU webcasts were brutal and not worth the money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackheart Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 I think the biggest problem wasn't UND webcasts, but the other schools. webcasts. UNO and WMU webcasts were brutal and not worth the money.Webcasts in general aren't worth the money. (IMHO) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70'sguy Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Webcasts in general aren't worth the money. (IMHO) Yes I agree with this poster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southpaw Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 I think the biggest problem wasn't UND webcasts, but the other schools. webcasts. UNO and WMU webcasts were brutal and not worth the money. The NCHC has been encouraging the schools to improve their webcasts because now it will reflect on them. I know CC invested more money in upgrading their in-arena cameras and equipment and in turn, their stream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 The NCHC has been encouraging the schools to improve their webcasts because now it will reflect on them. I know CC invested more money in upgrading their in-arena cameras and equipment and in turn, their stream. Yeah, it was those two schools that had bad webcasts. I know in the past C.C. has had decent webcasts. I remember that MTU's were poor, too. Actually, we watched the webcasts of the two games in B.C. last season, and they had a decent webcast as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackheart Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Used to watch the away games vs Anchorage on GCI?? The picture was fairly poor but at least it didn't buffer and freeze too much...maybe it's time to upgrade my PC...the old Commodore 64 just can't keep up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxforeverbaby Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 The NCHC has been encouraging the schools to improve their webcasts because now it will reflect on them. I know CC invested more money in upgrading their in-arena cameras and equipment and in turn, their stream. Does that mean no more floating Tiger head?....or can one only hope? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southpaw Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Does that mean no more floating Tiger head?....or can one only hope? They likely will have something similar if they're just pulling the in-house feed. All schools with in-arena videoboards have some sort of generic graphic they put up during dead time. It's the same way with Air Force hockey's webcast as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxfaninseattle Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Not sure why people have had such poor experiences with the UND webcasts last season. I started watching on my PC and it was lousy but switched to my laptop and the quality was great. Maybe those of you that have had poor pictures and buffering need to try different equipment. Having said that, give me Fox Sports! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southpaw Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Not sure why people have had such poor experiences with the UND webcasts last season. I started watching on my PC and it was lousy but switched to my laptop and the quality was great. Maybe those of you that have had poor pictures and buffering need to try different equipment. Having said that, give me Fox Sports! I actually prefer the webstream. It's in HD and played nearly flawlessly all of last season on multiple devices in several locations. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackheart Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 . Having said that, give me Fox Sports! THIS^^^^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big A HG Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 If you're on 56k, you're gonna have a bad time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagies Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Not sure why people have had such poor experiences with the UND webcasts last season. I started watching on my PC and it was lousy but switched to my laptop and the quality was great. Maybe those of you that have had poor pictures and buffering need to try different equipment. Having said that, give me Fox Sports! Had this same issue. My home computer just couldn't handle the stream, but my laptop (borrowed from work, thank you work!) ran fine. I've since upgraded my home computer so should have no issues running that this year, which will make my wife happy since I won't be hooking that up to the TV :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxczech29 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Had this same issue. My home computer just couldn't handle the stream, but my laptop (borrowed from work, thank you work!) ran fine. I've since upgraded my home computer so should have no issues running that this year, which will make my wife happy since I won't be hooking that up to the TV :-) Has anyone tried streaming to their smart TV? If so, how'd it work? I am tech stoopid with a smart tv... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#MACtion Posted August 15, 2014 Author Share Posted August 15, 2014 If you're on 56k, you're gonna have a bad time... Big A HG is a regular on the Miami message board. Hope to see you back this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crb1 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 I have posted this in another thread but can't remember which one. Piece of advice. The best way to watch a video stream is if you can to be hardwired from your cable modem/router. Streaming from wireless can be decent but usually packets of data get dropped and it is far more inconsistent than being hard wired. So when you hook up your laptop/desktop to a TV either through VGA, DVI or HDMI have that computer hardwired with an ethernet cable. It will make a world of difference. Edit: Here is a link to my previous post about this. http://forum.siouxsports.com/topic/18619-und-webcast/?p=655785 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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