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Post by mikes1531 on Mar 3, 2014 11:50:27 GMT
If there's anyone still considering whether to attend or not, following the link in the invitation recently produced a page that said the event was fully booked. As a result, having that video available is more important than ever. Live would be nice, but shortly afterwards would be appropriate as well. And afterwards also is essential for anyone unavailable at the time of the meeting. (Who knows? Merlin's wife might be interested in knowing what he's been up to!  ) |
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Post by bugs4me on Mar 3, 2014 13:27:54 GMT
If there's anyone still considering whether to attend or not, following the link in the invitation recently produced a page that said the event was fully booked. As a result, having that video available is more important than ever. Live would be nice, but shortly afterwards would be appropriate as well. And afterwards also is essential for anyone unavailable at the time of the meeting. (Who knows? Merlin's wife might be interested in knowing what he's been up to! ) A live feed may prove difficult Mike as there are so many other issues especially buffering and bitrate quality. But uploading a video for subsequent download and/or watching it play without downloading (depending on your BB connection speed) would certainly be good.
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Post by mikes1531 on Mar 3, 2014 15:36:21 GMT
If there's anyone still considering whether to attend or not, following the link in the invitation recently produced a page that said the event was fully booked. As a result, having that video available is more important than ever. Live would be nice, but shortly afterwards would be appropriate as well. And afterwards also is essential for anyone unavailable at the time of the meeting. (Who knows? Merlin's wife might be interested in knowing what he's been up to! ) A live feed may prove difficult Mike as there are so many other issues especially buffering and bitrate quality. But uploading a video for subsequent download and/or watching it play without downloading (depending on your BB connection speed) would certainly be good. I'm sure there are issues with live feeds, and an awful lot depends on the upload link at the venue. Our small (128-seat) local theatre hosted a production written by a local playwright that had been developed with the support of a small London theatre, and a video link was set up for the performance so that it could be seen 'live' in London. It used our theatre's broadband connection, supplied by a local wireless ISP, and it appears to have gone well, but I really know none of the technical details and haven't a clue how fraught the setting up of the process was. For something like the AC gathering -- a one-off event in a one-off venue -- it's probably not worth the effort to set it up.
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Post by bugs4me on Mar 3, 2014 17:33:58 GMT
A live feed may prove difficult Mike as there are so many other issues especially buffering and bitrate quality. But uploading a video for subsequent download and/or watching it play without downloading (depending on your BB connection speed) would certainly be good. I'm sure there are issues with live feeds, and an awful lot depends on the upload link at the venue. Our small (128-seat) local theatre hosted a production written by a local playwright that had been developed with the support of a small London theatre, and a video link was set up for the performance so that it could be seen 'live' in London. It used our theatre's broadband connection, supplied by a local wireless ISP, and it appears to have gone well, but I really know none of the technical details and haven't a clue how fraught the setting up of the process was. For something like the AC gathering -- a one-off event in a one-off venue -- it's probably not worth the effort to set it up. The feed is dead easy to set up and relatively inexpensive. It's the end user that may have the problems - all depends upon their BB speed. Hence you could upload it to the AC server for viewing if your personal BB speed was fast enough to minimise buffering or as a downloadable video file.
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Post by mikes1531 on Mar 4, 2014 4:41:41 GMT
I'm sure there are issues with live feeds, and an awful lot depends on the upload link at the venue. Our small (128-seat) local theatre hosted a production written by a local playwright that had been developed with the support of a small London theatre, and a video link was set up for the performance so that it could be seen 'live' in London. It used our theatre's broadband connection, supplied by a local wireless ISP, and it appears to have gone well, but I really know none of the technical details and haven't a clue how fraught the setting up of the process was. For something like the AC gathering -- a one-off event in a one-off venue -- it's probably not worth the effort to set it up. The feed is dead easy to set up and relatively inexpensive. It's the end user that may have the problems - all depends upon their BB speed. Hence you could upload it to the AC server for viewing if your personal BB speed was fast enough to minimise buffering or as a downloadable video file. I would have expected a limitation to be the 'A' in ADSL, which means upload speeds are considerably lower than download speeds. But if the venue is using something other than ADSL then perhaps there would be plenty of uploading bandwidth available. As for viewers' ability to download the video in real-time, a lot depends on whether it's Full HD or something less demanding. Ideally, you'd like for the uploading to be HD and the downloading resolution to be within the viewers' control, so that those with fast connections can watch the HD while those with slow connections could choose a lower resolution that would play smoothly for them.
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Post by bugs4me on Mar 4, 2014 8:46:46 GMT
The feed is dead easy to set up and relatively inexpensive. It's the end user that may have the problems - all depends upon their BB speed. Hence you could upload it to the AC server for viewing if your personal BB speed was fast enough to minimise buffering or as a downloadable video file. I would have expected a limitation to be the 'A' in ADSL, which means upload speeds are considerably lower than download speeds. But if the venue is using something other than ADSL then perhaps there would be plenty of uploading bandwidth available. As for viewers' ability to download the video in real-time, a lot depends on whether it's Full HD or something less demanding. Ideally, you'd like for the uploading to be HD and the downloading resolution to be within the viewers' control, so that those with fast connections can watch the HD while those with slow connections could choose a lower resolution that would play smoothly for them. If you're after Full HD (which is not necessary IMO) then you'll require SDSL. Most streaming though is done using variable bitrate depending upon your ADSL connection - don't think many of us have SDSL. Even in these cases you will require a bare minimum of 2MBps speed. So an edited video download as an option of the highlights should suffice I would have thought.
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Post by Ton ⓉⓞⓃ on Mar 4, 2014 10:30:55 GMT
I've just booked my ticket for the Broker event
then cancelled my ticket as timewise it's
a little inconvenient to get to and I'm
not a Broker.
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Post by mikes1531 on Mar 4, 2014 17:43:06 GMT
I would have expected a limitation to be the 'A' in ADSL, which means upload speeds are considerably lower than download speeds. But if the venue is using something other than ADSL then perhaps there would be plenty of uploading bandwidth available. As for viewers' ability to download the video in real-time, a lot depends on whether it's Full HD or something less demanding. Ideally, you'd like for the uploading to be HD and the downloading resolution to be within the viewers' control, so that those with fast connections can watch the HD while those with slow connections could choose a lower resolution that would play smoothly for them. If you're after Full HD (which is not necessary IMO) then you'll require SDSL. Most streaming though is done using variable bitrate depending upon your ADSL connection - don't think many of us have SDSL. Even in these cases you will require a bare minimum of 2MBps speed. You'd only need SDSL if you are supplying the video. If all you want to do is watch it, then ADSL should be fine as long as it could provide 2Mbps of downloading bandwidth -- you did mean 2Mbps rather than 2MBps, didn't you? I have to agree, though, that Full HD would be overkill in such a situation, and would be a bandwidth hog.
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Post by bugs4me on Mar 4, 2014 18:25:17 GMT
If you're after Full HD (which is not necessary IMO) then you'll require SDSL. Most streaming though is done using variable bitrate depending upon your ADSL connection - don't think many of us have SDSL. Even in these cases you will require a bare minimum of 2MBps speed. You'd only need SDSL if you are supplying the video. If all you want to do is watch it, then ADSL should be fine as long as it could provide 2Mbps of downloading bandwidth -- you did mean 2Mbps rather than 2MBps, didn't you? I have to agree, though, that Full HD would be overkill in such a situation, and would be a bandwidth hog. Sure did - 2Mbps. But that may not be adequate for streaming video as not all bandwidth is equal whatever the telephone exchange states as contention issues come into play depending upon time of day etc, etc. Anyway, all things aside, I hope AC can at least make a video download available for those that may be interested. Memo to self - read stuff before pushing 'create post' button 
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Post by j on Mar 18, 2014 22:14:48 GMT
An early 'Good luck' message for next Saturday for andrewholgate, chris, Dominic & co & fellow ACers who will be attending. Feeling quite envious for not being able to make it on the day but hopefully the planned video afterwards will make up for it to an extent  . Have a great time all  |
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Post by bugs4me on Mar 18, 2014 23:16:10 GMT
An early 'Good luck' message for next Saturday for andrewholgate, chris, Dominic & co & fellow ACers who will be attending. Feeling quite envious for not being able to make it on the day but hopefully the planned video afterwards will make up for it to an extent . Have a great time all I hope there will be a downloadable video as I'll be on a plane this Saturday jetting off a few thousand miles. Chris - are you there?
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Post by chris on Mar 19, 2014 16:46:48 GMT
Hello, please remember to include the @ symbol before my (or anyone elses) name so that we get a notification that our names have been posted. I don't have much time to follow the board at the moment but if I get an email summoning me then I can try and be little more responsive.
Our marketing team are organising a video recording of the event which will be made available afterwards.
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Post by j on Mar 19, 2014 19:31:21 GMT
Our marketing team are organising a video recording of the event which will be made available afterwards. Excellent! 
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Post by j on Mar 22, 2014 16:25:06 GMT
Whilst AC have promised to make a video available of the event at some point, this may be a few days in coming. It would be appreciated by those fellow members who were able to attend if they could provide bullet points or something similar to the more important parts of the event, esp the new bidding process & any new incentives, etc. Many thanks in advance |
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Post by oldnick on Mar 22, 2014 16:31:11 GMT
I'm returning from the event now and can report a highly informative meeting. The AC folk held up well under questioning, giving a potted history of the company and its ethos in the morning and a peek at all the new buttons and dials soon to appear in the loan section in the afternoon. I won't go into all the details as I'm sure to get them wrong, but the upshot will be much more control over a personalised lending strategy which can then be left to run on its own, tweaked at will, or switched on and off, as the mood takes us.
As if that wasn't enough, we can create a number of lending strategies with separate pots of money to feed them. (I didn't think to ask how many strategies would be permitted, but it reminds me of the time when ZOPA allowed easter egging). For those who don't want to change, the current set up will still be available.
Thank you Andrew et al for a very successful first meeting.
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