I’ve never had great luck accessing the FCC’s video streams of its open meetings, but I was hoping for a better experience this time around. No dice. After a great deal of stuttering and regular disconnects, I lost the stream of today’s meeting entirely about an hour in. It’s not my individual connection that’s at fault either. Some notable tweeps are reporting similar problems.
As a reminder, the FCC is holding its open meeting today to discuss a number of broadband reform plans, including how to bring broadband to unserved areas, how to spur innovation in the video device market, and what the heck to do about the CableCARD fiasco.
Somehow it doesn’t bode well for the national broadband plan if the FCC can’t even figure out how to get its own Internet video stream to work. Is it irony? Or just sadly predictable?
UPDATE: Stream is live again! But still stuttering.
It stopped for me partway into the IP Gateway discussion. When it returned it stuttered a few times, but was pretty solid afterwords. Insteresting that when it came back the video quality was different. More digital.
Funny thing in the beginning, the video had an “analog” look to it, complete with grain and hum bars! Plus their levels were not set right because every time the character generator put text on screen, it caused excessive analog video booming. I though analog was dead, FCC!
Conspiracy theory anyone? Are you perhaps using an Cable company network to view this Mari?
Glenn- Laughing here. I’m not suggesting a conspiracy theory, just poor planning. And yes I’m using a cable company network. But I heard similar problems from people all over the country.