On February 13 2013 12:50 geokilla wrote: Wait.. If they don't have HD equipment right now, then how are they broadcasting in HD? Is that why Twitch is only 360P and 540P? /half sarcasm.
They're not. Even IPL5 had interlacing issues because it seems the gear they have involves some crazy upscaling and conversion of some sort. I would think that they just flat out don't have the latest HD gear, which I suppose makes sense. If I'm not mistake, Korea still uses a lot of 4:3 TVs, so things haven't had any reason to really move at a great pace in that regeard.
On February 13 2013 12:50 geokilla wrote: Wait.. If they don't have HD equipment right now, then how are they broadcasting in HD? Is that why Twitch is only 360P and 540P? /half sarcasm.
They're not. Even IPL5 had interlacing issues because it seems the gear they have involves some crazy upscaling and conversion of some sort. I would think that they just flat out don't have the latest HD gear, which I suppose makes sense. If I'm not mistake, Korea still uses a lot of 4:3 TVs, so things haven't had any reason to really move at a great pace in that regeard.
I thought IPL5 used the cameras and everything that IPL, the convention centre or wherever supplied. I didn't know GOM moved the studio over for IPL...
I'm surprised to hear you say Korea still uses 4:3 TV when they mass produce widescreen, and it's featured in Kdramas and everything. I assume you mean that the TV broadcasts are in 4:3 resolution? Because I think it's like that everywhere... Most of the channels here are in 4:3, only HD are well, HD, and they cost extra money.
Otherwise, most people don't throw out a TV unless it's broken, so won't be surprising if most average Koreans have a 4:3 TV, but I'm not sure how that relates to the HD video cameras and such.
On February 13 2013 12:13 isaachukfan wrote: While it may be sad that GOMTV has basically just announced a LoL tournament, Gangnam is crazy expensive for space, so they must be doing really well financially on just starcraft, and that is good news for our Korean scene!
On February 13 2013 12:13 isaachukfan wrote: While it may be sad that GOMTV has basically just announced a LoL tournament, Gangnam is crazy expensive for space, so they must be doing really well financially on just starcraft, and that is good news for our Korean scene!
2012-12-14 was the finals for season 5, 2012. There was a MONTH before code s started again. That is a month they could be making revenue from streaming a different game. Esp if that game is LOL considering how huge it is. Currently 45k watching LoL. 11k watching sc2. While GSL is on.
At the end of the day, its a world driven by money. Theres potential money to be made doing league also. They could even do league before/after or at the same time as sc2, depending on their capacity within the building.
Lastly, theres a lot of empty Sat/Sun/Mon days that could be another game, as well.
On February 13 2013 12:13 isaachukfan wrote: While it may be sad that GOMTV has basically just announced a LoL tournament, Gangnam is crazy expensive for space, so they must be doing really well financially on just starcraft, and that is good news for our Korean scene!
2012-12-14 was the finals for season 5, 2012. There was a MONTH before code s started again. That is a month they could be making revenue from streaming a different game. Esp if that game is LOL considering how huge it is. Currently 45k watching LoL. 11k watching sc2. While GSL is on.
At the end of the day, its a world driven by money. Theres potential money to be made doing league also. They could even do league before/after or at the same time as sc2, depending on their capacity within the building.
Lastly, theres a lot of empty Sat/Sun/Mon days that could be another game, as well.
I was joking but "11k watching sc2. While GSL is on." that doesn't count those watching on Gom, like myself.
On February 13 2013 12:13 isaachukfan wrote: While it may be sad that GOMTV has basically just announced a LoL tournament, Gangnam is crazy expensive for space, so they must be doing really well financially on just starcraft, and that is good news for our Korean scene!
2012-12-14 was the finals for season 5, 2012. There was a MONTH before code s started again. That is a month they could be making revenue from streaming a different game. Esp if that game is LOL considering how huge it is. Currently 45k watching LoL. 11k watching sc2. While GSL is on.
At the end of the day, its a world driven by money. Theres potential money to be made doing league also. They could even do league before/after or at the same time as sc2, depending on their capacity within the building.
Lastly, theres a lot of empty Sat/Sun/Mon days that could be another game, as well.
I was joking but "11k watching sc2. While GSL is on." that doesn't count those watching on Gom, like myself.
It actually potentially could. I remember when league used their client to pad numbers on streams. :p Companies can be tricky to get more viewership "numbers" to show sponsors.
IE: Say 10k are watching GOMTV, and 3k are watching Twitch TV. They could code the gomtv to count as twitch, as well, thus making twitch show 13k. When u go to a sponsor, you say "Hey, i had 13k on twitch, 10k on our player. Thats 23k" When really, its not.
I can't even begin to comprehend why people are mentioning lol negatively in this thread...
Good move for GOMTV! If I ever manage to make my dream trip to Korea, I can kill two birds with one stone and say I watched live SC2 and went to Gangnam!
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