akronzips71 Posted December 27, 2009 Report Share Posted December 27, 2009 So as usual, Zips Zone SUCKSDoes anyone read their email and read this board?I pay for this shit and as usual it don't work all we get is PLEASE STAND BY.Just wait until the Univ asks me, as an alum, for a donation.Why should I give anything to a school that does not care?And suddenly, the audio link does not work either!!!! Getting some generic Sports Radio stuff, NOT the game..HOW THE HELL CAN YOU EXPECT TO MOVE UP WHEN NO ONE CAN SEE OR HEAR THE GAMES????????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valpo Zip Posted December 27, 2009 Report Share Posted December 27, 2009 I totally agree with you. The video is working now. But that's really frustrating and i am not renewing my subscription either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronzips71 Posted December 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2009 I totally agree with you. The video is working now. But that's really frustrating and i am not renewing my subscription either.Yup, I'm not paying for this shit next year. The hell with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z.I.P. Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 I totally agree with you. The video is working now. But that's really frustrating and i am not renewing my subscription either.Yup, I'm not paying for this shit next year. The hell with it.And that's when you're paying. I'm a cheapskate, and even I can't get anywhere! The gamecast or whatever they call this program is almost worthless, unless you have a high-speed modem/connection. WIth dial-up it takes me about 1/2 hr for the thing to load. Then when it comes on, it doesn't even refresh -- you have to manually refresh the buggah. In the end, I pull out my cellphone and can get a better stats and play-by-play presentation than the U gives on the wide screen. Now something's wrong here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksu sucks Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 And that's when you're paying. I'm a cheapskate, and even I can't get anywhere! The gamecast or whatever they call this program is almost worthless, unless you have a high-speed modem/connection. WIth dial-up it takes me about 1/2 hr for the thing to load. Then when it comes on, it doesn't even refresh -- you have to manually refresh the buggah. In the end, I pull out my cellphone and can get a better stats and play-by-play presentation than the U gives on the wide screen. Now something's wrong here. You have dial up internet but access to the internet on your cell? You got your priorities outta wack, bruddah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hip Zip Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 I tried it a couple years back when I could not make it down to the JAR due to an injury. I could not believe how poorly executed this program was. NEVER AGAIN !I hate to keep going on and on about the Horizon, but their online broadcasting is superb and free as well. I wish the MAC could come up with a similar network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 What the heck was up with the radio broadcast yesterday? When I got back to my car, Fenchy was interviewing KD using a cell phone, passing it back and forth. We have to do better than that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziptrumpet87 Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 What the heck was up with the radio broadcast yesterday? When I got back to my car, Fenchy was interviewing KD using a cell phone, passing it back and forth. We have to do better than that! Reading thru Razor's blog it sounded like they were having power problems on the media bench. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 The problem with Zips Zone is that it's not its own seperate video feed. It's just the feed for the scoreboard. It can still be the camera up top, but without all the animations.This should be a high-priority issue for the AD. Not just for basketball, but for all major sports. Model it after the Horizon network or come up with something of your own, but it can't remain like it is. Let the AD watch a game on ZipsZone instead of actually attending a game. Experience the product that you're trying to sell to your customers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronzips71 Posted December 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2009 The problem with Zips Zone is that it's not its own seperate video feed. It's just the feed for the scoreboard. It can still be the camera up top, but without all the animations.This should be a high-priority issue for the AD. Not just for basketball, but for all major sports. Model it after the Horizon network or come up with something of your own, but it can't remain like it is. Let the AD watch a game on ZipsZone instead of actually attending a game. Experience the product that you're trying to sell to your customers.At least this time they forgot to cut to advertising every time there was a foul shot. That drives me fvcking NUTS. And I have written to them many times about that, they never even respond.Let me tell you a little story about Akron back in the day (1967 to be exact). I was a freshman, living in the dorms (the big tower, I can't even remember what it was called). There was a plaza, with I think two low rise women's dorms, and in the plaza there was a "mess hall" where we took our meals, and the infirmary. BTW, we had to wear jacket and tie to dinner!!!!!Anyway, that fall, maybe October, I wake up one night with horrible cramps. I go to the common bathroom (there were two on each floor) and I just remember the alphabet soup from dinner all over everything (SORRY!). So anyway, after I take care of business I decide I better go to the infirmary, because I am SICK. I look out my window onto the plaza, and there is a line of literally over 100 people waiting to get in. So the hell with that, I man up and go back to bed.Well in the morning I find out that we all got food poisoning - from the veal cutlet patties. EVERYONE who ate the chopped veal patties got sick. It tasted good, I had seconds!At that time the mess hall was run by an outside caterer - no University employees.It was a radical time, Viet Nam war and all that, so we decided to do something about it. We had a "ceremony" in the lobby of the mess hall we we burned our meal tickets, led by Charlie Penn, President of our Dorm (there is a Charles Penn Jr memorial scholarship fund thru the University PD, BTW. Same guy). We then declared we would NOT eat there again until the caterer was terminated. We ALSO told mommy and daddy, who were for the most part PAYING for those meals.Within two days, the caterer was gone and the place was staffed by University employees, some of whom came over from the Student Center (Rathskeller??) cafeteria (they had good burgers and fries then). WE also decided that there would be no more jackets and ties for dinner. We simply refused to comply. Since the University wanted mommy and daddies money, they gave in, stopped poisoning us and fed us even when we wore blue jeans.Now the moral of this long story, my fellow fans, is this:IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY.IF WE STOP PAYING FOR THIS NON-SERVICE, THEY WILL NEED TO GET SOMEONE ELSE.IF WE STOP DONATING ALUMNI MONEY, THEY WILL LISTEN!!!!!So I hope someone here is paying attention. I have tried to be a fan for over 40 years. YES, FORTY YEARS.If you won't let me be a fan by providing a good service (THAT I PAY FOR), then no more fan.andNO MORE MONEY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zips Win! Posted December 30, 2009 Report Share Posted December 30, 2009 What the heck was up with the radio broadcast yesterday? When I got back to my car, Fenchy was interviewing KD using a cell phone, passing it back and forth. We have to do better than that! Folks, you get what you pay for!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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