I searched YouTube and the quality is pretty good on it. What about ability to add graphics, run commercials and put on screen banners? Something similar to what Diamond Billiards or Main Street Billiards have?
Do you have a video example of the quality?
Hey Lenny! Glad you inquired. Mad respect for your works over the years in live streaming. I would enjoy to be able to provide back end support for your live streams and recordings on the internet so you can get the most out of your production. Here's how I can help.
The offer, if you were to get a V59 camera and pay monthly, it would include unlimited web hosting. This would help offset your costs if you are currently paying a monthly fee to host your website some place else. Transferring your website to our servers is also included with a hosting control panel. This may help justify the $139.95 a month, because your hosting is now included in the monthly payment.
If at this time you're not interested in a V59 camera, I can still provide unlimited web hosting for your web site that also includes the live streaming back end for an affordable monthly rate that we can discuss. Even trade services if necessary. It still puts you in a position to consolidate your web hosting with the live streaming back end.
It would also be a choice to you if you wish to host your website (ontherail.tv) on our Wordpress multi-site network which instantly grants you access to users who've signed up for previous streams on other live web spaces we currently host. Such as; thetornadoopen.com, spaceceityopen.com, pistolperez.com, snapregionaltour.ca, gulfcoastwomenstour.com, feltcam.com, and onsitepool.tv. It is very similar to how users sign up on a free streaming service (which you currently use), and that same login is available for all live web spaces that are on the network. I would recommend to join the Wordpress Multi-Site network, as you can leverage all users to promote your stream. (and every user will be of billiards interest) Currently we don't have subscribe buttons, and things of that nature, but with how small the billiard community is, users would know that your streams are part of a group of live billiard streamers. Much like what justin.tv/twitch.tv did for gamer streaming. Except, this would be for billiards.
The Wordpress Multi-Site network also has it's own merchant gateway for PayPal, Stripe, and others, that you can exclusively link to your online accounts. You can create pay-walls for past content, such as your Scott Frost videos, or other works, but have 100% control of the content and income generated from it. Your only cost would be the merchant fee. No 3rd party fee with my system (or hopefully yours in the future)
To answer your questions about running commercials, sponsor banners, and quality. With dedicating hosting on the same network as the live stream back end it eliminates the embedding process that diverts web traffic. If the viewer can only watch the stream on ontherail.tv, then everything on the page surrounding the live broadcast will be seen 100% of the time. Your site analytics will be your own and 100% accurate. Instead of having to cram all of your sponsorship and advertising in a tiny video window to make sure exposure is adequate for your sponsors, (since a free streaming service hogs much of the web space) You now can utilize an your entire web space to do the duty of commercials, and sponsor banners. Adding it to the video would be a BONUS. This can give you more options in your advertising packages to boot!
You can see the quality here with a few highlight videos I made from The Tornado Open. Amazingly, these highlights are at a very low bitrate. 600kbit/s, and the V59's quality even looks great at 360p.
http://thetornadoopen.com/2015/10/11/efren-reyes-3-fouls-james-davis-jr-highlight-9-ball/
You will notice that this highlight video has its own analytics, is Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Optimized when shared. With this new network you, I, and all others who host on the network have 100% of the traffic flow. No 3rd party will ever be needed again!
I'll get you on the live stream this weekend from The Space City Open so you can judge for yourself the quality of the V59's and the live streaming backend. I'm pretty busy here this week, and after the Space City Open stream lets get together on the phone and chat about it.
If necessary, I can give you a 30 day free trial of the web hosting and such, if you want to test the waters and make a decision.
Hope this was informative enough for ya buddy.
Make an account @
http://apbglobal.com/spacecityopen/wp-login.php (click register) and I'll give you the on-demand pass for this weekend so you can check it out.
Zach.
