The system streamworks provided MLG shows great potential. The live-rewind feature was sick good for rewinding the last moments of the game as was the fact the as-live VOD was available immediately after the broadcast finished. Obv the VODs and authentication need work but that will come.

The decision to go for high bitrate over high resolution meant unmatched clarity in battles compared to most streams.

If GOM is able to afford improvements to it's international stream, the PVR rewind feature and higher bitrates for live viewing have got to be up there.

DusTerr

2520 Posts

August 06 2011 11:59 GMT

#22

I'd love to get the gamepass, but it's just WAY out of my price range

Really wish they had some cheap (legal) alternative.

Oblivion753

United States73 Posts

August 06 2011 12:00 GMT

#23

It is too late in the season for me to do it now, but i was wondering if the MLG's full year package is worth getting? If anyone has it from this year i'd love to get your feedback and help me to decide whether or not to purchase it for next year.
Thanks in advance :D

UniversalMind

United States326 Posts

August 06 2011 12:02 GMT

#24

wow the picture quality in the NFL pass is WAY better then the Gom player and MLG for that matter. man the MLG high quality feature is pretty much none existent, you pretty much pay for other features and vods but the "high quality" in the MLG pass is a joke

andytb

United Kingdom180 Posts

August 06 2011 12:06 GMT

#25

On August 06 2011 21:00 Oblivion753 wrote:
It is too late in the season for me to do it now, but i was wondering if the MLG's full year package is worth getting? If anyone has it from this year i'd love to get your feedback and help me to decide whether or not to purchase it for next year.
Thanks in advance :D

It's 12 months rolling, not a season pass, so you can buy any time.

Soap

Brazil1546 Posts

August 06 2011 12:17 GMT

#26

On August 06 2011 20:59 andytb wrote:
If GOM is able to afford improvements to it's international stream, the PVR rewind feature and higher bitrates for live viewing have got to be up there.

I doubt it's a matter of affording. NASL's first season, with the worst production I've seen since grade school, regularly drew 15-20k viewers for its interminable group play and 80k for the finals and apparently was a success, I wonder why Justin.tv isn't knocking on Mr. Chae's doors with a contract for full 1080p broadcast. With MLG if they see value on flying their players over, it shouldn't be hard to strike a deal for a video signal.

jacen

Austria3644 Posts

August 06 2011 12:44 GMT

#27

On August 06 2011 20:59 DusTerr wrote:
I'd love to get the gamepass, but it's just WAY out of my price range

Really wish they had some cheap (legal) alternative.

My advice is just buying a monthly pass for the playoffs. It's 12x3 hours live games and the whole season archive of 3 years for 56€. Much cheaper than cinema for instance.

Grettin

42381 Posts

August 06 2011 12:54 GMT

#28

On August 06 2011 21:44 jacen wrote:

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My advice is just buying a monthly pass for the playoffs. It's 12x3 hours live games and the whole season archive of 3 years for 56€. Much cheaper than cinema for instance.

Thats right, but correct me if im wrong, but dont you need to buy a pass for Super Bowl also? So this pass won't cover that?

Soap

Brazil1546 Posts

August 06 2011 21:01 GMT

#29

On August 06 2011 21:54 Grettin wrote:

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Thats right, but correct me if im wrong, but dont you need to buy a pass for Super Bowl also? So this pass won't cover that?

According to the NFL website the season pass costs $129.96 or 4x $32.49, and the postseason $49.99 for a total of $179.95, don't know where the op got the $300 figure.

That is if you don't already have postseason games on cable in your country, or like me you can't stand the local commentators

forgotten0ne

United States951 Posts

August 06 2011 21:54 GMT

#30

Wait... Gamepass isn't available in the US... TEH FUX?!

Ichobicho

Norway79 Posts

August 06 2011 22:32 GMT

#31

On August 07 2011 06:54 forgotten0ne wrote:
Wait... Gamepass isn't available in the US... TEH FUX?!

It's to make it easier for us outside "nfl on tv" countries to follow it. like here in Norway, there is a pay channel that plays 1 random match/week

NFL gamepass is a really great service. But Gom isnt that far behind.
They both got
dedicated (VOD) site that has Vods and is
Spoiler free (actually gom isn't 100% spoiler free cause you can see ro4 on the same page as ro8)
-Other tournaments like nasl needs to learn from this

The auto adjust is great on gamepass as 4hours sessions very rarely gets interrupted due to lag and stuff, while this happens more often with gom.

I think if you going to have a stream with a tournament, you can probably get a lot of good ideas from gamepass, which is the best stream site I've experienced.

Also you get to watch coach cam with Gamepass, which would be equivalent of having first person views in sc2(imo).

jacen

Austria3644 Posts

August 07 2011 05:57 GMT

#32

On August 07 2011 06:01 Soap wrote:

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Prices are different from region to region. And since he is from Finland (IIRC) my Austrian rates might apply more accurately.

On August 06 2011 21:54 Grettin wrote:

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Thats right, but correct me if im wrong, but dont you need to buy a pass for Super Bowl also? So this pass won't cover that?

There is no seperate pass needed for the superbowl. But i just remembered that the postseason games span more than 4 weeks, so with the monthly subscription you either miss the wildcard (and possibly the divisional) round or the superbowl. You can still watch these games from the archive though, aswell as all season games.

Golgotha

Korea (South)8418 Posts

August 07 2011 06:00 GMT

#33

lol this is awesome. maybe gom will get some ideas? heck even MLG should get some ideas.

echO [W]

United States1495 Posts

August 07 2011 06:10 GMT

#34

What is GameRewind then? Seeing that GamePass is only availiable outside the US+Canada /UK restrictions. Is GameRewind the VOD-only version of GamePass?

Derity

Germany2952 Posts

August 07 2011 06:17 GMT

#35

i wonder how gom stream quality is so bad (even hq) compared to most justin.tv streams. maybe i missed sth but it seems their encoding is just bad...

Emporio

United States3069 Posts

August 07 2011 06:23 GMT

#36

The single team only subscription intrigues me. I wonder if there is financial interest in selling the VODs of a single player through a single season of GSL? They would have to readjust cost based on how many games that player actually played, but I could see people buying the player pass to study their games.

Tegin

United States840 Posts

August 07 2011 06:24 GMT

#37

On August 06 2011 20:15 tooPrime wrote:

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I was confused for a second and thought to myself "Holy crap, I didn't know I can buy the Direct TV package as an online streaming service!" Then more logical thinking prevailed and sadness ensued.

Exactly how I felt:/ Damn TV.

WarSame

Canada1950 Posts

August 07 2011 06:24 GMT

#38

Can someone explain to me what exactly the point of this post is? Not hating, I just don't really get it. I guess maybe I'd get more out of it if I were interested in that sort of stuff?

WarSame

Canada1950 Posts

August 07 2011 06:26 GMT

#39

On August 07 2011 15:23 Emporio wrote:
The single team only subscription intrigues me. I wonder if there is financial interest in selling the VODs of a single player through a single season of GSL? They would have to readjust cost based on how many games that player actually played, but I could see people buying the player pass to study their games.

I think a more applicable one would be to buy a team pass to follow one team through the GSTL. I don't think they'd want to let you follow a player.

nalgene

Canada2153 Posts

August 07 2011 06:36 GMT

#40

gomplayer has copyright infringement of other's intellectual property even if they changed some parts of the source code and they didn't submit the completed source. It's still in violation of some LGPL things. but the NFL one seems fine without such things

http://www.gomlab.com/eng/gomdevel/