nanders
18th January 2008, 15:45
Since many of us will be looking for an alternative to watch the CCWS this season, I want to get a different thread going about Race Director.
I started to reply to BobbyC in another thread but after I wrote it I thought that I'd give people the opportunity to pile it on me because I'm highly critical of Race Director. So for those of you that have another observation, pile it on baby.
This is to get people to buy Race Director! Somebody's cashing on this package, and it's CC and their Race Director move.
If last years Race Director quality was an audition for this seasons big push to get RD sales up then I have to say, "it's a miserable failure." I have bought RD for the last 3 seasons and it has gotten worse each year.
First off, it's a tiny little Poor Definition webcast. If they are going to force us to this itty bitty POS screen to barely be able to see the race then they have another think coming, because I'll be bashing it to the ends of the earth. It sucks! CCWS needs to step up the resolution of the screen they're encoding so we can see it! Yes it takes more bandwidth to do so, but the cost of bandwidth has fallen to very very low prices so it's affordable for them now and there should be no resistance to streaming a higher resolution product.
Secondly, the webcast is only as good as the "encoding process." This last season the encoding was way worse then the season before and it was worse then the season before it. You know they have as many as 4 or 5 camers to choose from,right? At the European races they didn't have the "broadcast audio" even on the broadcast video ... it was on a corner camera ... so you couldn't follow the action and hear the braodcast audio at the same time.
They also used to have "car sound audio" on the in car camera feeds ... but no more. When you go to an in car camera it's just silence. Have these people never watched a race before?!?!?!?!! What a bunch of idiots!!!! CCWS and whoever the webcasters are have NO QUALITY ASSURANCE for Race Director. It is below amateur SIM Racing webcast races that I'm familiar with.
Thirdly, Since Global Media bought out VFX the quality of the application has went down rather then up. 3 years ago the navigation on the web application built for Race Director allowed for multi-camera viewing and being able to see the "timing and scoring" application. Now you can only view one feed and receive timing and scoring.
Forth, The ability to make a connection at the beginning of the race and sometime throughout the race has become very difficult to marginal. On many occasions last season, I would have to sit there clicking and clicking hoping I could get the webcast to start and then if you went away from the site you couldn't log back on to the site becuase it eas too busy. I call that a rip off. It happened many many time last season. They need to increase their capacity.
If I had to give a grade to last years Race Director it would be "sub 0."
I started to reply to BobbyC in another thread but after I wrote it I thought that I'd give people the opportunity to pile it on me because I'm highly critical of Race Director. So for those of you that have another observation, pile it on baby.
This is to get people to buy Race Director! Somebody's cashing on this package, and it's CC and their Race Director move.
If last years Race Director quality was an audition for this seasons big push to get RD sales up then I have to say, "it's a miserable failure." I have bought RD for the last 3 seasons and it has gotten worse each year.
First off, it's a tiny little Poor Definition webcast. If they are going to force us to this itty bitty POS screen to barely be able to see the race then they have another think coming, because I'll be bashing it to the ends of the earth. It sucks! CCWS needs to step up the resolution of the screen they're encoding so we can see it! Yes it takes more bandwidth to do so, but the cost of bandwidth has fallen to very very low prices so it's affordable for them now and there should be no resistance to streaming a higher resolution product.
Secondly, the webcast is only as good as the "encoding process." This last season the encoding was way worse then the season before and it was worse then the season before it. You know they have as many as 4 or 5 camers to choose from,right? At the European races they didn't have the "broadcast audio" even on the broadcast video ... it was on a corner camera ... so you couldn't follow the action and hear the braodcast audio at the same time.
They also used to have "car sound audio" on the in car camera feeds ... but no more. When you go to an in car camera it's just silence. Have these people never watched a race before?!?!?!?!! What a bunch of idiots!!!! CCWS and whoever the webcasters are have NO QUALITY ASSURANCE for Race Director. It is below amateur SIM Racing webcast races that I'm familiar with.
Thirdly, Since Global Media bought out VFX the quality of the application has went down rather then up. 3 years ago the navigation on the web application built for Race Director allowed for multi-camera viewing and being able to see the "timing and scoring" application. Now you can only view one feed and receive timing and scoring.
Forth, The ability to make a connection at the beginning of the race and sometime throughout the race has become very difficult to marginal. On many occasions last season, I would have to sit there clicking and clicking hoping I could get the webcast to start and then if you went away from the site you couldn't log back on to the site becuase it eas too busy. I call that a rip off. It happened many many time last season. They need to increase their capacity.
If I had to give a grade to last years Race Director it would be "sub 0."