Reviews of the Facebook broadcast?

mgfan · November 4, 2017

Great. Thought it was quality. I would recommended it.

THOR · November 4, 2017

4 minutes ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

It was grainy on the feed at Fuzzy’s through the first quarter. Then I refreshed the browser and then it was great. Zero buffering. I liked it being commercial free. I’m surprised no one called that out yet. Plenty of shots of the Mean Green faithful. I wished they’d interviewed some of them the way they did with LA Tech fans. Same for tailgating (assuming there were Mean Green tailgaters).

commentators talked through all stoppages of play, was very nice. watching utsa/fiu now and they have the stadium logo while on timeouts...not sure why the difference in the broadcasts....watched numerous games on stadium this year...VERY GOOD!!!! blows espn3 away

Marty · November 4, 2017

Watched every minute via the Facebook stream, thought it was solid. Very impressed!

BTG_Fan1 · November 5, 2017

19 minutes ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

It was grainy on the feed at Fuzzy’s through the first quarter. Then I refreshed the browser and then it was great. Zero buffering. I liked it being commercial free. I’m surprised no one called that out yet. Plenty of shots of the Mean Green faithful. I wished they’d interviewed some of them the way they did with LA Tech fans. Same for tailgating (assuming there were Mean Green tailgaters).

Had the same thing, was casting it and every other series or 2, I would have to disconnect then reconnect.. But still a solid feed

16 minutes ago, UNTX said:

I streamed the game thru the Facebook video app via AppleTV and the video qaulity was so bad I couldn’t even see the ball on the screen. It was just as bad when watching on my iPad directly thru the FB app. Anyone know what I could have doing wrong, for future reference?

The video feed allowed for you to 480p, 720p etc.. no idea but maybe that was it?

meangreenlax · November 5, 2017

I thought the stream was great. Good quality, no buffering, and good commentary. If this is the future of watching college football, I'm totally okay with it. Makes ESPN3 look very last year.

GreenN'walinsVet · November 5, 2017

Those bashing on ESPN3 should remember one thing. There are two very different feeds on ESPN 3. If you are watching a ESPN produced feed then it is generally a very good production (commentary maybe not so much). ESPN3 also picks up feeds from other sources (from the schools themselves, etc....) and those tend to be not so great in the production quality.

JRock · November 5, 2017

So much better than ESPN3. Never had an issue. Used Bluetooth to cast it to my TV. Didn’t miss a beat.

Tyler Maryak · November 5, 2017

I loved everything about it except one thing (although no one else has mentioned it, so I'm wondering if I just imagined it).

I was watching it during a 2 year old's birthday party, so I had momentary distractions from the game as I caught a kid about to faceplant into the fireplace or something. The screen would show 3rd&10, then I look away and it's 1st&10, and they get 5 yards and it's 4th&5. I'm no scientist, but it seems like someone wasn't doing a very good job of keeping up with what down it was.

jtm0097 · November 5, 2017

The broadcast was great. I was just tired of seeing all of the comments during the broadcast.

Matt from A700 · November 5, 2017

Commentators were good, sideline reporter was hot.

meangreenlax · November 5, 2017

42 minutes ago, GreenN'walinsVet said:

Those bashing on ESPN3 should remember one thing. There are two very different feeds on ESPN 3. If you are watching a ESPN produced feed then it is generally a very good production (commentary maybe not so much). ESPN3 also picks up feeds from other sources (from the schools themselves, etc....) and those tend to be not so great in the production quality.

I think that's one of the problems with ESPN3. Sure by paying for cable you get access to a wide cross section of games, but a lot of them (90 percent of UNT games) aren't great quality and they're piggybacking off whatever yokels are calling the game. The UTSA game with annoying SA announcers comes to mind. That's where I think Stadium/FB fills a void. Not sure how they monetize it, but if they're able to, they're on to something.

MeanGreenTeeth · November 5, 2017

Watched on my relatively modest Android phone and had no issue with picture quality or buffering. I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the commentators. The sideline reporting was pretty silly though.

rws69 · November 5, 2017

I thought it was great. I lost feed once, but that is neighborhood Spectrum issue. Picture quality was great. I watched first half on desktop while resolving a wi-fi driver issue on laptop. I watched second half on big screen TV. Lot of crowd shots, especially NT green section. They really gave NT a lot of credit, often showing stamdings and mentioned our record against teams that won bowl games last year. Interviews with Seth and Mason at the end. I loved the broadcast, of course the win made it much sweeter.

NT91 · November 5, 2017

The sideline reporter was good and nice to look at!

Christopher Walker · November 5, 2017

1 hour ago, UNTX said:

I streamed the game thru the Facebook video app via AppleTV and the video qaulity was so bad I couldn’t even see the ball on the screen. It was just as bad when watching on my iPad directly thru the FB app. Anyone know what I could have doing wrong, for future reference?

Probably your ISP, home network, or combination of both.

NT91 · November 5, 2017

How many people watched the game on FB?

jtm0097 · November 5, 2017

12 minutes ago, NT91 said:

How many people watched the game on FB?

There were over 2K when I was watching.

Edited November 5, 2017 by jtm0097

DeepGreen · November 5, 2017

Better than I expected. Much better than ESPN3.

SAGreenFan · November 5, 2017

30 minutes ago, NT91 said:

How many people watched the game on FB?

There were near 2250k when I shut it down... my stream was awful, but I think that has more to do with Spectrum's "excellent and upgraded service' than Stadiums broadcast.

SouthBendGreen · November 5, 2017

I streamed it on my 4K 65" TV and it was perfect. No issues great quality. Loved the no commercials. Can't remember the last time a college game lasted 3 hours, I thought play by play and color was great.

Ok, guys i get the sideline girl was hot but she was terrible. It's as if they allowed her to interject when she wanted to. Her two interruptions about the coaches spending 10 min talking to her and some guy on her flight in town was the worst thing ever. I don't care how hot she was she was painful to listen to. Let the game come to you and she didn't.

But kudos to the broadcast. that being said. Can we get on regular tv please?? Only three games this year,

Moobs · November 5, 2017

6 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

It was the choppiest feed I have experienced in years, before it petered out altogether. YMMV.

I had a similar experience. It was very choppy for me and got better in the 2nd and 3rd quarters.

@UNTSportsFan · November 5, 2017

I had zero issues. Streamed it from an iPad. Very impressed

drex · November 5, 2017

A surprisingly excellent broadcast...no issues with it...hope they do more of our games.

robwitman13 · November 5, 2017

Overall I really enjoyed Stadiums broadcast. I thought the play by play and analyst were better than what you get with ESPN3 and even BEIN sports. I watched it on my phone. To get rid of the comments, just had to swipe the screen to the right.

MeanGreenZen · November 5, 2017

I streamed the feed on my TV and listened to the KNTU pop up player. I couldn't sync them perfectly, but KNTU ended up being about a play behind which was fine. Picture quality was great.

I will always do what I can to listen to our local announcers.