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#26 Keith Tanaka

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 01:35 PM

For Today's webcast we have "2" channels to view (simultaneously if you like).

Our original channel now shows the race monitor: Race monitor view

The new channel shows the King track: King track view


Open up two separate views (one of each channel) and watch both at the same time on your computer screen.


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Posted 10 January 2010 - 12:07 PM

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Posted 10 January 2010 - 01:01 PM

Can we get an up to date link ?
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Posted 10 January 2010 - 07:01 PM

I got a chance to watch about 45 mins. of the streaming video and it was pretty cool! This was a first for me as far as watching a slot car race w/streaming video. :)
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Posted 10 January 2010 - 07:29 PM

THANK YOU KEITH AND GREG!!!!! Its a GREAT thing to watch these races when you can't possibly get there. I really appreciate it!!!

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Posted 10 January 2010 - 07:34 PM

It was fun Thanks .
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Posted 10 January 2010 - 07:40 PM

Will you be broadcasting the Jail Door Race?

Keith and Greg, Thanks for the great coverage
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Posted 10 January 2010 - 09:53 PM

Ray,

I tried to call you back. The JD is being webcast and starts in a few minutes.

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Posted 10 January 2010 - 10:29 PM

Is it me or can any one elce find it or is it not on live ?
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Posted 10 January 2010 - 10:34 PM

Joe- I can't get a picture either.
That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten.
 
 

 


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Posted 10 January 2010 - 10:39 PM

To bad I really wanted to see the JD qualifying but it is getting late here in NY.
Joseph Migliaccio. Karma it's a wonderful thing.

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Posted 10 January 2010 - 10:49 PM

Duran Wins the JD race, Paul Sterrett 2nd, Bryan Warmack 3rd.
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Posted 10 January 2010 - 10:54 PM

Same
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Posted 10 January 2010 - 10:56 PM

Thank you to everyone who gave their time and effort to set up and maintain the streaming video of this event.
That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten.
 
 

 


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Posted 10 January 2010 - 10:59 PM

DITTO MG. Very enjoyable to watch from afar. The live broadcast was outstanding..................

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Posted 10 January 2010 - 11:01 PM

Greg and Keith made the perfect team. Thanks, guys!
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Posted 10 January 2010 - 11:09 PM

I am sure that if we can get a 'team' together supporting each other with ideas, how-tos and the what we found to make it go better - perhaps ever an new forum on Slotblog - it's only going to get better.

I'm sure that putting some clever minds together we can come up some things that could add 'scrolls' across the top of the screen showing lap counts, fastest laps, positions, etc.

Just think of this being the beginning of broadcasting slot car racing live to the rest of the world.

Hey, if you can't be racing, why not be watching?
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Posted 11 January 2010 - 12:59 AM

Keith
After spending three days at BPR and having the best day in my life, I found myself enjoying the web cam, you think that I would had enough of it? ;)
Thanks Keith. :)
I'm getting to much into this way cool.

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Posted 11 January 2010 - 10:33 PM

I have to say I watch myself racing the F1 on the web cam and I saw all the mistakes that I did, I really think the technology is going to help me out to be a
better racer, I really can see the value in this broadcast now.
Have to admit I though I was consistent, but no... way I was all over the place, :shok: I was not focusing enough, tape is evidence and the facts is on the broadcast what happened. Thanks Keith. ;)
cheater my favorite nemesis, but you are not, had a good time smoking cartons of cigs. you almost killed me. :laugh2:

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It's our duty to remember the past so we can have a future.

Pistol Pete you will always be in my memory.

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Posted 11 January 2010 - 11:00 PM

I finally arrived home about 9:35 PM local and am really, really beat.

The webcasts are only going to get better as time goes on. Please remember that the webcasting of retro slot car races began at Sano III in October, 2009, just a few months ago. It has gotten better and will continue to improve.

We had a lot of technical issues at BPR. When I arrived on Friday, we could not get a wireless connection to the BPR broadband connection. I ran down the street and purchased a new wireless router, which resolved the wireless hookup but we still had a rather slow connection, about half of what it should have been according to www.dslreports.com.

On Saturday and Sunday, Craig Correia came to our rescue and everyone needs to give Craig a huge vote of thanks. He brought in a fairly new Toshiba laptop with 3 GB of ram and an unlimited Verizon wireless card. This is what we used for the track video feed on Sat and Sun. We relegated Keith's Mac laptop using the BPR net access to the lap counter monitor stream (and pushed down the resolution so it would work with the poor connection). Without Craig's help, we simply could not have done what we did.

I shudder to think of the cost of the bandwidth we used, had not Craig had an unlimited account.

Late in the weekend, Keith also discovered an intermittent connection at the power cord to his DV camera, which is why we think it dropped out so often. Oh well...

Nesta, I agree with you 100% that Keith deserves all the kudos, as he also took all the photos during the event, which is a bigger job than managing the video streams. Plus he raced some and even ran some of the Jail Door races. Compared to him, I took it relatively easy... LOL!!!

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Posted 11 January 2010 - 11:13 PM

Cheater,

Thanks for mentioning Craig Correia. Without Craig's help, we would have had only one webcam going. Thank,s Craig.

As usual, Nesta is not 100% correct on his Slotblog posts. :laugh2: Cheater, you deserve most of the credit for the webcast. Without your help, we would have been in total chaos. :shok: It's nice to have someone with your experience to keep the webcast going.

I'm looking forward to future webcasts. Hopefully, sometime in the future we'll have Verizon "FIOS" at BPR. If that happens, "HD" may not be too far away. :dance4:

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Posted 11 January 2010 - 11:27 PM

You are right Keith, I'm not 100% right. If so I would be rather boring. :laugh2:

Please don't cut yourself short you did a great job on this project and so did my cheater. ;) He needs to stop smoking; he is worse then me. :laugh2:

Good show, loved it because I can see it as a training film for my f... ups as a driver. ;)

So when is the next big gig Gentlemen? Need more excitement.

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It's our duty to remember the past so we can have a future.

Pistol Pete you will always be in my memory.

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Posted 11 January 2010 - 11:40 PM

So when is the next big gig, gentlemen? Need more excitement.

Nesta, hopefully I can do a live webcast of the "Frank'enMotor race on Feb. 27.

Keith :rolleyes:

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