- 07:20 AM
- 11/23/24
Woohoo. Always good to hear what people are thinking, even if it's resoundingly negative. :) Re: Video and Macs: We generally have to deal with a lot of video content that we don't own, and the owners typically want to apply some sort of content protection on top of it. What that historically meant is that we used a lot of Windows based DRM stuff, which doesn't play nice with Macs. We are moving forward with our general flash offerings, though (see Yahoo! Video), and I'm pretty sure that our general video player (Windows codec and all) is supposed to work on the Mac. Check out the Mac system requirements for the NFLGamePass ( http://sports.yahoo.com/nflgamepass : bottom right of the page); if you fit all of those requirements, then it should theoretically work? I'll try to test it out with the Thrashers/Capitals game today. Re: StatTracker: We're working on moving all of our StatTrackers to Flash, like we did for the NFL/MLB versions. It's a big project, though, and we're a pretty small team with lots and lots of stuff to work on. Sorry. :( Re: Only in the US: Ah, I suppose that would be part of our deal with OLN. Yeah, okay, that sucks. At least the non-Americans can use all of the NFLGamePass stuff and none of us can! ...sigh. I hate the hoops we have to jump through to show good video. Don't know if we have a schedule in advance, but the weekly schedule is available on our NHL site, right beneath the featured stories. Seems like a pretty random sampling, but I think we do have home games from some of the Canadian NHL teams (see Stars at Canucks on Monday). Re: Website suckage: I've gotta disagree with the overall premise, but yeah, there are lots of points on which we can improve. We're working on it, really. Check back in a few months. Or enjoy our fine Fantasy offerings! :P Thanks for all the comments, really.
posted by seanm514 at 02:28 PM on November 03, 2006
I work at Yahoo!, and I'm mainly just asking this as a matter of curiosity: did anyone know that Yahoo! Sports streams 3-4 live NHL games each week? Do you think that having live games is a useful service, or are delayed/classic games more compelling?
posted by seanm514 at 07:22 PM on November 01, 2006
NHL and Google sittin in a tree. A W E S O M E
Just one last follow-up: I tried to watch the Thrashers/Capitals game on my manager's computer. Using Safari was patently unsuccessful, as you guys indicated -- we showed an advertisement and then sat around for a bit. However, Firefox (2.0, in this case) worked pretty well, so give that a shot if Safari doesn't work. It's still flaky, though, definitely. Also, side note: if you have a pretty good network connection, you can get a pretty damn high quality feed by clicking the Customize button in the upper left and increasing your selected Connection Speed. Streaming at 700 Kb/s, I had excellent full-screen quality. Very visible puck. :D