NFHS Question

[PowerI66]

Does anybody know why NFHS makes you watch an ad about them (you know, the thing we already bought to watch the streams) every time you switch to a different game?

 

[MalleusMaleficarum]

Does anybody know why NFHS makes you watch an ad about them (you know, the thing we already bought to watch the streams) every time you switch to a different game?

Name recognition. lol!!

 

[Silver Rain]

Would NFHS be open to a class action suit?

 

[MC63]

Does anybody know why NFHS makes you watch an ad about them (you know, the thing we already bought to watch the streams) every time you switch to a different game?

It's the only time they don't get buffered.

 

[dweise]

I always rag on NFHS but I actually thought the marist York game was relatively tolerable today. No announcers but the camera actually followed the action. was still far from good

 

[4Afan]

I always rag on NFHS but I actually thought the marist York game was relatively tolerable today. No announcers but the camera actually followed the action. was still far from good

I don't think that has anything to do with NFHS. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but the broadcast is always from whichever school is filming the game and NFHS is just in charge of streaming the games. Really the only thing you can complain about regarding NFHS is the feed cutting out and the buffering. It's not like NFHS is sending camera crews to all these games to film.

 

[EdgyTim]

I don't think that has anything to do with NFHS. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but the broadcast is always from whichever school is filming the game and NFHS is just in charge of streaming the games. Really the only thing you can complain about regarding NFHS is the feed cutting out and the buffering. It's not like NFHS is sending camera crews to all these games to film.

And even the buffering is most likely on the production end of things and not NFHS. Here is my take....if IHSA is going to put it's name on something and charge people basically network prices for a product that is wildly unreliable (again not of their doing) the price better reflect that....if you are going to charge say $10 a month or per game or whatever it is now (same as say ESPN+ HBO Max and many others) it better be a really good product...if it's more of a community service deal then charge us accordingly. Also can they (IHSA/NFHS) get a bit more involved and a bit more active in regards to the bogus linking and third parties basically scamming fans into paying for a service that doesn't exist? I understand it's a complicated deal to fix/stop but how hard is it for IHSA to create a single home page and place all of it's NFHS approved links on it and flood social media etc each week?

 

[Sterling Warrior]

After watching about 6 different games yesterday, I now appreciate Sterling’s. Broadcasts more than ever. 5 of the 6 had no announcing, none of them had the graphics, stats, slow mo replay,
Or camera work. I think schools could take kids that want to work in the broadcasting field and form broadcasting clubs that could put in the time to producing these broadcasts making them better, but then I’m sure that takes money too.

 

[sporthog9er]

Not sure people realize most of the NFHS broadcasts aren't done by any people. It's almost all using the automated Pixellot camera (some Hudl Focus). It's set up one time, auto tracks the ball, can have graphic set up to view scoreboard. That's it. And then charge a ridiculous fee for anything that happens afterwards (bad connection, camera malfunction, etc)

 

[MalleusMaleficarum]

And even the buffering is most likely on the production end of things and not NFHS. Here is my take....if IHSA is going to put it's name on something and charge people basically network prices for a product that is wildly unreliable (again not of their doing) the price better reflect that....if you are going to charge say $10 a month or per game or whatever it is now (same as say ESPN+ HBO Max and many others) it better be a really good product...if it's more of a community service deal then charge us accordingly. Also can they (IHSA/NFHS) get a bit more involved and a bit more active in regards to the bogus linking and third parties basically scamming fans into paying for a service that doesn't exist? I understand it's a complicated deal to fix/stop but how hard is it for IHSA to create a single home page and place all of it's NFHS approved links on it and flood social media etc each week?

Watch out, Edgy! You're making WAY too much sense again. I've said it before and will again: When a product (game streaming in this case) is associated with your name (in this case IHSA and NFHS), shouldn't you do as much as possible to make sure it is the best? In fact, if you are charging people for the product, it is incumbent on you to do that!

 

[dweise]

When I watch these schools stream their own games on YouTube, I almost never experience buffering. It’s incredibly rare.

 

[iamgroot]

And even the buffering is most likely on the production end of things and not NFHS. Here is my take....if IHSA is going to put it's name on something and charge people basically network prices for a product that is wildly unreliable (again not of their doing) the price better reflect that....if you are going to charge say $10 a month or per game or whatever it is now (same as say ESPN+ HBO Max and many others) it better be a really good product...if it's more of a community service deal then charge us accordingly. Also can they (IHSA/NFHS) get a bit more involved and a bit more active in regards to the bogus linking and third parties basically scamming fans into paying for a service that doesn't exist? I understand it's a complicated deal to fix/stop but how hard is it for IHSA to create a single home page and place all of it's NFHS approved links on it and flood social media etc each week?

I manage a Facebook page or 3 and I can tell you the spam links are super hard to keep on top of. They post on basically every social media post, but each time it's from a new account, so deleting the comment and banning the account isn't really all that successful. There's no way IHSA can stay on top of it for all pages when a single school can barely keep up with their own stuff. Facebook and Twitter really need to step it up. The automated systems really struggle because the url is different each time so pattern matching is hard.

 

[iamgroot]

I don't think that has anything to do with NFHS. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but the broadcast is always from whichever school is filming the game and NFHS is just in charge of streaming the games. Really the only thing you can complain about regarding NFHS is the feed cutting out and the buffering. It's not like NFHS is sending camera crews to all these games to film.

They do send some crews out during post season events. Those are generally better run games.

The buffering is usually due to the host school having insufficient upload/bad internet connection. That's outside of NFHS control. When I stream for NFHS, I usually hotspot and bypass the host school Internet unless I know it's rock solid.