I don’t have specifics but generally the picture quality is awful. It’s either grainy or constantly freezing and buffering. Some broadcasts don’t have announcers which I’m fine with but the picture quality is terrible in most cases. I’ve watched a lot of high schools that broadcast home games on YouTube and they’re usually high quality. Hopefully this year will be better but I’ll believe it and give credit if I see it.
If a school is broadcast on Youtube, its because they have invested in their stream. They are manual productions and have people that are running the cameras, people that are probably providing live commentary, and have money invested into the gear that makes it. As a result, they end up being high quality productions.
NFHS productions on the other hand, specifically the automated Pixellot productions, are pushed to schools that don't have the people or the budget to run their own stream. As a result, when there are problems, they don't get fixed quickly, because the schools themselves aren't paying attention to it (see people/budget above) and/or people watching complain on internet forums rather than actually talking to people that can get it fixed.
The same thing that plagues the automated NFHS productions also affects the Hudl automated productions, because its the same set of issues. The schools wanted a low cost, low/no personnel required solution and that's what Hudl provides. When there are issues, if people don't tell the school or Hudl and instead just complain online, nothing gets fixed.
This is why I was asking for specific instances of problems, because if someone can tell me that Springfield High had terrible quality tonight, I'll ping my people and tell them that so they can check on it. It might be poor upload, it might be a dirty camera lens, etc. Whatever it is, knowing about it and getting that info to the right people is a huge step in the right direction.
