One thing I will focus...
much more on are things that I do. Knowledge that I have gain through hard work, countless hours, and ingenuity, will definitely be put in play. Now, one of the things I have seen is, some MF'ers want something for nothing.
Yes, USTREAM does not give you NBC, ABC, and NBC quality but I really don't think guys understand the type of breakthrough this was. I had been working on this from 1997, with Live365.com to the Vegas company to now.
I invested my time and money just so the games could be shown live in households across the country. Some guys like Mozeek would pull the game up on his 72 inch screen and watch it like it was Monday Night Football.
For those who want to recruit people to the game (and we all say we do), this was the perfect mechanism. Just show them one of your league games and they would feel like a Hollywood star.
Mike Robertson always says, "If Reg is in, I am in". I love Mike for that because he knows, we will have fun, we will hype the game, and we will do whatever it takes to bring the game in living color - at my expense.
It's been a lot of hard work and yes, the advancements or highlights have been minimal. On some games, I have had upwards of 25 people watching at once. I will not do much broadcasting of anything that does not feature my products anymore. I figure, I put in the time, the work, the equipment and the knowledge so I will do what is best for what I see in the game and for my company's interest.
However, the advancements have been there-at least in my MF world. While some of us thought reality TV would be our way, this is our reality. A free Internet TV that may have some stops and starts because streaming video is just like that. From a scientific and technical point, there is differences in video equipment, the change from analog to digital, and things like "noise" that plays a major role across the network. It will always be a problem.
I will continue to do things from a broadcast perspective and those that watch, will watch. And those that will not, won't. People have choices and that's something we should all be able to live with.
Reg
Last edited by Reginald Rutledge : 10-13-2010 at 09:39 AM.
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