Gary, didnt Battlebots already do that in 1999?
Mind you saying that, they did get a Television series!
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Gary, didnt Battlebots already do that in 1999?
Mind you saying that, they did get a Television series!
Well if you want to do a internet series to attract a large audience, you would need a camera system inside the arena, because most fights have to be filmed through the polycarb and that is not always the best picture quality. Mind you there have been fights that i was amazed of the quality even though it was filmed with scratched lexan and bad lighting, but still for a larger audience it needs to be that much better.
And post production is also very important. Video editing, sound, credits, interviews. Its a lot of work of you want to do it right. Even for a internet series. It would be fun though.
my brother is into this filming lark, not on the large scale your on about im sure if this idea was put into action then he would be there to help
I will be brining a high quality TV camera to robots live Leicster. But it is difficult to get a decent picture with the lighting. Also all the robot wars cameras where actually in the arena on robot was and I am not prepaired to put a loaned University camera in there. :)
Hi All, I have the full set of VHS tapes of series 7 if anybody out there wants them. I shall be at Leicester on the 2nd and 3rd February and if nobody shows interest Ill bin them.
Glyn, I am interested in em but wont be at leicester.
OK Gary at least you may have won it by default but at least you won it! Ill keep them for you and let me know where you are going then I can bring them.
next event i will be at will be the robochallenge one in may.
If you dont fancy keeping them till then I would be happy to give you something to post them.
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most fights have to be filmed through the polycarb and that is not always the best picture quality
Very true Leo, although reviewing footage of the Robochallenge Thinktank event, it was also filmed through polycarb but was almost crystal clear quality (some of us forgot halfway through watching the footage that it was indeed coming from the other side of the polycarb). Combined with the lighting show they had in the arena it made for a very colourful and clear video.
Certainly something which has potential, this internet broadcast option
Hello all.
Jamie has just brought this thread to my attention as he has been aware of what Im about to say for some time now.
Ive been planning a video on demand internet TV network for a while now, theres still a lot more to do before its launched. I have all sorts of programming planned from cookery, to technology to DIY etc. Now me and Jamie were talking about this a while back. I wanted to recreate a robot wars as it was one of my favorite TV programs and I know theres a whole bunch of people that would want it back.
One of the major problems with internet TV is bandwidth. It isnt a small task, you dont just go to a web host and start renting space on a server, you outgrow it far to quickly. Im even having custom scripts and software written for distribution of files from multiple servers. So theres expense there as well. Anyway this is drifting off topic, my point is that sharing large files (such as video) can get very expensive very quickly. You need to go about it in the right way (by going direct to the major networks for transit like youtube, rapidshare, google as well as many smaller sites do) saying that though youtubes bandwidth bill is still millions of $.
Nothing is ever free. However viewers wont be paying... Funding is provided via sponsors (just like every other channel out there (besides the bbc) However sponsors will be related to the program that they are sponsoring, for example a program on robot wars isnt going to be sponsored by say, pot noodle, it would be something like a robotics/model shop, tool manufactures /shops etc.
The reason Im saying all this is: Id be more then happy to get involved in this. So if anybody wants to discuss this further, then feel free.
Im also interested to hear what any event organizers views are on this too.
Cheers
Danny