EPT[GSL] About GSL Streams and VODs - Page 55
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0mgVitaminE
United States1278 Posts
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MaleficOR
United States315 Posts
And there are ways to find these streams that "don't" exist outside of TL, as for the VoDs google what a torrent is  | ||
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Av4st
Canada92 Posts
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dahornnn
United Kingdom395 Posts
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leetchaos
United States395 Posts
On September 02 2010 12:17 dahornnn wrote: not looking through 55 pages to see so sorry if i missed something relating to ---> but, can't tasteless/artosis get something done about this ;o? As if they have some unholy power, they are hired to commentate. Business professionals are hired to do business. I think the entirety of their viewer's holds more weight than 2 casters. | ||
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drew-chan
Malaysia1517 Posts
Is international bandwidth so expensive to warrant 20 USD for a 500k stream? | ||
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EleanorRIgby
Canada3923 Posts
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Shymon
United States620 Posts
But for the love of god please please please please please post in a polite manner. Droping f bombs etc does us no good. Now go TLnetizens, go win the internet again! | ||
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d_so
Korea (South)3262 Posts
i'm not saying it's a good strategy, but i think it has something to do with their rationale behind their decisions. | ||
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Elevators
United States56 Posts
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Crissaegrim
2947 Posts
On September 02 2010 11:20 theqat wrote: The notion of any company "doing it for the fans" is ludicrous. They are capitalist companies. Their job is to make as much money as possible. I don't know why anyone thought otherwise at any time. Maybe because they constantly say it? Use that line as their number one reason to do anything? I guess it more of the hypocritical side than anything people are angry about. | ||
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AmaZing
Nepal299 Posts
Sorry about your monetary situation Gomtv. Too bad the whole community suffers with it. Why don't you get international sponsors and get ads up and running with 30k+ viewers watching it live with another 100k viewers on vods. Charging that type of money for a live show will get you 100 viewers. This was obviously very hard for a multimillion dollar corporation to think about. /sarcasm. | ||
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FindingPride
United States1001 Posts
they are a company afterall... also something that bothers me is that they jack up the price for vods by $10 cause they know DAMN WELL alot of us arn't willing to getup/stay up at 3-6 in the morning. | ||
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lac29
United States1485 Posts
Edit: The sad thing is that I think there is just enough demand for foreigners to be paying for a stream/vod of this event. I'm certainly not going to be paying for this. I'll just wait for the written summary from a TL writer. | ||
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On September 02 2010 12:59 FindingPride wrote: what if blizzard were to cease all outside tournaments. and forced people that wanted to watch high competition have to go through gom ~.~ they are a company afterall... also something that bothers me is that they jack up the price for vods by $10 cause they know DAMN WELL alot of us arn't willing to getup/stay up at 3-6 in the morning. It would cripple SCII as an esport overnight. On September 02 2010 13:01 lac29 wrote: What ever happened to traditional advertising of sponsors? Make it a free low quality stream and a paid high quality stream ... and let the sponsors advertise the shit out of the event/stream. That guy in the email said it's because they only have shitty sponsors like Intel. *facepalm* | ||
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ShaperofDreams
Canada2492 Posts
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biscop
United States4 Posts
I'd imagine part of Gom's negotiations w/OGN involves a stipulation that alternative coverage should *not* be freely available online. Korea is the prime market here, not us. We are lucky to get English commentary at all, and since advertising is less developed/lucrative for our niche market, it makes sense to have to deal with some PPV costs. If I had to guess, I'd say they are choosing a high price point (at least initially) for a few reasons. A high PPV price will limit the audience, which will avoid high traffic numbers that stress the stream. They probably also are wondering what PPV price point the market will bear...and anyone can tell you it's easier to start high and go down in price over time. Also, they likely expect restreaming, but don't care too much...preferring the people down market use a restream that doesn't hit their servers anyway.. | ||
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Elevators
United States56 Posts
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lac29
United States1485 Posts
Also isn't this event going to be broadcasted on Korean TV (at least parts of it ... like the round of 8 and beyond)? | ||
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SwiftBunny
Canada134 Posts
So why would they even use 3rd party streaming providers like ustream or livestream. They as a company HAVE to use gomplayer even if it's a terrible player, bad system ( as far as relaying, transferring data, bandwidth needed). Correct me if I'm wrong in this, I'm under the impression this is true. Also I hate using Gom Player in general and installing odd plugins to watch their stream ( octoshape is okay because it's unreasonable that some sites cant pump a lot of bandwidth out to 40,000 users, but gom player, I have no idea how gom plugin/player works.) | ||
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