A trenching operation cut through a critical AT&T T-1 Feeder Cable in Kimberly last week, which severely hampered ISC TV’s access to the appropriate bandwidth required for streaming live video from the Sunset Park Press Box. During the first 5 days of the ISC World Tournament, the live streaming was very problematic. It was very frustrating that the problem, and the solution, were completely out of the control of our ISC TV operation.

The feeder cable was repaired sometime on Friday Aug 15, and the final two days of ISC TV live streaming, went quite smoothly. Viewers who weren’t already alienated, enjoyed those final 6 – 8 games, as the tournament wound down to the Championship Game on Saturday evening.

There are now over 50 hours of the 23 game videos from the ISC TV coverage of the 2008 World Tournament archived on the Spirtsjuice.com / ISC page. These games are now available for viewing, on demand, for the next year. With a high speed Internet connection, the games can be viewed throughout the world. Other than an initial 10 seconds of buffering when the game is initially selected, the videos should play without any delays or buffering that plagued the first 5 days of our live broadcasts.

Follow the Kitchener Rivershark Twins march to the 2008 ISC World Championship by clicking here.

Click on the archive window’s down arrow, and select the game(s) of your choice, for on-demand viewing.

Hopefully there won’t be any trenches dug in the Quad Cities during August of 2009.

Dave Blackburn
ISC Commissioner
Streaming and Broadcasting
310-266-7803
daveb@virtvent.com

Editor’s note: For optimum desktop viewing, you can increase the size of the stream to 200% by right clicking the picture, then click “zoom”, and select “200%” . If you want to watch full screen, works best from a distance, like a TV across the room.