I envy those who can watch the HD Stream.

I hope one day the infrastructure will allow foreigners to watch that too, maybe for next season. I'd gladly pay $50 for non laggy HD feed.

Demi9OD

United States56 Posts

September 07 2010 15:04 GMT

#62

Since I am never going to be up at 5am to watch the games with my full time job, I purchased a pass so I could view all the VODs. VOD quality is really quite shoddy, but I want to make sure it's not just my setup (Win7, ATI 5770). I did try with Firefox, Chrome, and IE, all yielded the same result. The VODs are completely unfiltered, there is no scaling/smoothing, it looks like Flash with "low quality" selected, even though flash is correctly set to high quality.

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Aikin

Austria532 Posts

September 07 2010 15:11 GMT

#63

Well I watched the free stream and I´m happy with the quality. Wont complain as long as it runs smoothly and I can see whats going on and the stream run fine for me most of the time.

But if GSL is really successfull maybe they will aquire servers in the us and eu to stream from. But for that they either have to get a lot of viewers or sell a lot of tickets I guess.

Deathfairy

148 Posts

September 07 2010 15:14 GMT

#64

i Bought the 20$ package to watch VODs and it is NOT worth it. quality of vods is same as low quality stream. For 20$ a month i expect HD period, nothing else. ESL was 3.5 euro per month for MUCH better quality.

AdelSC123

France362 Posts

September 07 2010 15:27 GMT

#65

When i paid my account i was expecting HD vods/stream...

I'm disappoint...I wont pay again.

Piski

Finland3461 Posts

September 07 2010 15:30 GMT

#66

I agree that HD streams and VOD's would be nice but why not read what are you buying before you buy them? If I remember correctly they do say the stream is HQ and HD and only 600? or was it 500?

Deathfairy

148 Posts

September 07 2010 15:31 GMT

#67

On September 08 2010 00:30 Piski wrote:
I agree that HD streams and VOD's would be nice but why not read what are you buying before you buy them? If I remember correctly they do say the stream is HQ and HD and only 600? or was it 500?

I DID read before i bought it and VODs were suppose to be 500, not 300.

Stealthpenguin

Finland393 Posts

September 07 2010 15:40 GMT

#68

It's quite blurry but it's free so I don't have any problems with it. If I had any extra money to throw around I would pay for HQ though.

LaustinSpayce

United Kingdom58 Posts

September 07 2010 15:41 GMT

#69

Something that's mildly irritating is that the HD streams will only work in the GOM media player which is Windows only, what about people who want to watch on mac/linux/mobile devices?

shannn

Netherlands2891 Posts

September 07 2010 15:44 GMT

#70

Getting my salary next week and was planning to buy premium service but if it's quality like low stream then I won't bother yet.
I'll be better off waiting for next season which hopefully will be successfull and with better streams.

NonY

8751 Posts

September 07 2010 15:51 GMT

#71

I'm really disappointed. Blizzard is definitely losing their reputation for quality with SC2.

I know many people have said that SC:BW could never become as popular a game as SC2 because of the graphics but when the stream quality is this bad it makes no difference.

Gomtv and Blizzard should have made a partner like glhf.tv to stream to non-Koreans. Either they didn't have time or they're all just terrible at their jobs. Probably both.

Martijn

Netherlands1219 Posts

September 07 2010 16:33 GMT

#72

On September 08 2010 00:51 Liquid`Tyler wrote:
Gomtv and Blizzard should have made a partner like glhf.tv to stream to non-Koreans.

Longshank

1648 Posts

September 07 2010 17:09 GMT

#73

I was very happy with the SQ stream today(except for it crashing once), the quality is great for a free stream.

Ghad

Norway2551 Posts

September 07 2010 17:16 GMT

#74

I payed the $20 before the first day, and so far I have gotten about 50% of my value.

First day, HQ unusable all day.
Second day HQ usable first 4 games.
Third day, HQ usable last 3 games. (Did they tune down free stream?)

Several times, the video has skipped for several minutes, meaning that I miss big parts of some of the games.

Video quality on HQ is about what i expected, still far away from HD. Vods are really bad quality, that is very disappointing.

Roffles

Pitcairn19291 Posts

September 07 2010 17:17 GMT

#75

Been able to use HQ no issues except for Day 1. But the VODs are pretty poor quality, and even on the HQ stream, I can barely make out the unit counting station as well as hit points and whatnot.

0neder

United States3733 Posts

September 07 2010 17:23 GMT

#76

I paid $20 just for the VODs and I would like HD in the future but it's passable for now. At least it's wide format.

Ohdamn

Germany765 Posts

September 07 2010 17:25 GMT

#77

the paid quality is better then the one from MLG raleigh!

edit: plus its way more matches to watch for the money

Nokeboy

United States1009 Posts

September 07 2010 17:28 GMT

#78

TL is only hurting the GSL. Teamliquid needs to refuse to put restreams on front page. There is like over 5k people usually in a restream. If GSL actually got them numbers, better things could happen

Grond

599 Posts

September 07 2010 18:37 GMT

#79

I'll add my 2 cents here. I am interested in watching the tournament. Watching the streams is out of the question due to the time difference. I would like to watch some of the VODs if the price and quality is reasonable. I will not watch all or even close to all because of time constraints. While the price cut was good $20 still seems high for mediocre quality when I will only watch maybe 10 of them. I don't feel GSL is offering any sort of option that I am interested in. I'd rather not watch illegal VODs or restreams but it seems like I have to do that or not watch at all. I should add that video quality is pretty important to me, if it's not at least 720p I'm not going to watch it. I may be an unusual demographic but Gretech may want to do some market research on this.