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AFL's new streaming video site is a mess!
Posted By: George Madison
Date: Sunday, 2 April 2006, at 5:16 p.m. US Eastern Time
I don't know what prompted the AFL (and/or Telstra) to restructure access to the streaming video - but they've done a rotten job of it; I feel like I should apologize to anyone who went and signed up because of my earlier post.
Whereas before if one clicked on a video (whether it was a game or some other program that was subscriber only) and was not logged in, the system would pop up a window asking for the username and password, and then right on to the video.
While I'm hopeful it's just "teething pains" on the new site, getting logged in is by no means obvious, and it seems to be difficult to get access to anything older than the most recent rounds. (And I'm a pretty sophisticated, experienced web user; I can only imagine the frustration of someone who hasn't got that background to figure out what's going on.)
One thing that could be a mixed blessing is that they seem to have gone to all widescreen format for the videos; the only problem there is that they don't seem to have increased the bandwidth, so with more picture to encode into the same stream, we may see even more compression artifacts than in the past. One bright glimmer is that one of the introductory programs for Round 1 was available in a higher-bandwidth version; whether that was a mistake or not will remain to be seen, but frankly - it's in the fast action of the games one needs a better picture, not with gents just sitting around talking about the upcoming round!
I haven't yet written the AFL/BigPond/Telstra about these issues - though I think it was rather dim of them to leave it to the beginning of the season, rather than getting all this worked out in the off-season! I figure I'll give them a round to work on it - and then I'll give them a comprehensive keyboard-lashing, as it were. (The good news is that once you work your way through all the obstructions - it's still possible to use the techniques I wrote about - though when they get all the kinks worked out, I will probably have to re-do part of my tutorial to follow the new system.)
 AFL's new streaming video site is a mess! | George Madison | Sunday, 2 April 2006, at 5:16 p.m. US Eastern Time |
 Re: AFL's new streaming video site is a mess! | James Lake | Monday, 3 April 2006, at 5:53 p.m. US Eastern Time |
| Re: AFL's new streaming video site is a mess! | George Madison | Monday, 3 April 2006, at 9:28 p.m. US Eastern Time |
| Re: AFL's new streaming video site is a mess! | Tony Cudmore | Tuesday, 11 April 2006, at 10:54 p.m. US Eastern Time |
| Re: AFL's new streaming video site is a mess! | James Lake | Wednesday, 12 April 2006, at 3:04 p.m. US Eastern Time |
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