Video Broadcasts of our home games

[valporun]

Mark,

Is the current situation of what group does the video for our men's and women's basketball games rest in the hand of President Harre or you? I ask this question because whomever does the video work when Lakeshore Public Television doesn't is doing a miserable and embarrassing job of it. I was watching the women's game today and in the closing seconds, when you want the video people on top of their game...the person manning the camera at halfcourt on the track did not follow the ball, so no one got to see the action that caused Leah Hochstetler to be on the free throw line in the closing seconds. I wish that you address this with the powers that be in the video department about remedying this before we get into the girth of our Horizon League schedule because right now our coverage is atrocious and as an alum and a fan, I'm not excited about watching slow videographers in action and a fuzzy screen for at least the first 15 minutes of the game.
Also, I don't know who is in charge of the halftime arrangements, but is there any way that the halftime show could be used more to showcase other parts of Valparaiso University, besides the focus on the business department and the local business scene in Valpo itself? I'm not the only viewer who is tired of the focus on Valpo business during every game.

Thanks for your info, research and time that will be spent on this matter, from not only myself but others who frequent this message board.

[stlvufan]

Let me add that my own impression is that the half-time program is not simply the same subject matter, but literally the exact same tape every game. It is possible I'm wrong about that, but for better or worse, that's the impression I've formed.

We missed your interview with Dick Harlan the other night, and I would have liked to have seen that.

[TD]

I had complained previously about the quality of the video feed to HLN. I would like to stay I noticed an improvement in the transition on sound and video during the breaks. I thought there was definitely an improvement from the Evansville game to the Chicago State game in that area. We still had the resolution problem at the beginning of the Chicago State broadcast which must be fixed and is extremely critical to the video feed but after the resolution problem was fixed I did enjoy the Chicago State game quite a bit.

Come on guys! Don't be all negative. Give them some good feedback too for what improvements you did see. Criticism must be even-handed.

[ml]

The video streaming is the responsibility of the Athletics Department. All of the technical aspects are handled by the University IT Department and the majority of the commercial break and half time content is handled by the University's Public Relations Office.

We have ongoing discussions with both of these offices on feed back that we receive on the broadcasts. We understand there are issues and we are working to correct them.

Please understand that these web casts are not intended to be the same as watching television. The investment in equipment is significantly less and Communications students are the main camera operators. We will continue to work to improve the quality of the web casts,

[stlvufan]

Thanks for your responses.

I know last year was supposed to be a dress rehearsal, but even so, I'm inclined to think that we're still in some growing pains, and it's bound to get better.

We'll try to be a little more patient than we sounded We do appreciate you reading our comments and responding to them.

[hckjag]

After watching tonights game vs. Milwaukee, the biggest problem with the video was the switching of cameras. I have some experience from when they used to film my hockey games and its similar if you watch basketball on ESPN. They should stay on the main half court camera and primarily swithch to the other cameras(which all seemed to be zoomed in as close as could be) while players are just bringing the ball up court, or to flash a look at the bench, etc.

During the game they were just too many camera switches while teams were already running their offense and the zoomed in camera view would only catch the ball for a second before they had passed off to someone else. This also happened too many times on shots with using the baseline camera to show the ball if it dropped through the basket. The problem was it wasn't a wide enough pan to view what the players on the court were doing with the ball in the air and couldn't see above the bottom two inches of the net.

So we were often stuck waiting for the ball to drop through or Adam to let us know who had gotten the rebound

Otherwise the sound was good and had good enough transitions during time-outs...I even saw a real commercial on there...more professional already