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Dude, please continue. Between the rewards changes made to fixing dead embeds (going from a star to power point reward) and the motion to add a live streams channel, I feel like the Siftocracy is losing its curatorial hunger, which is a *quality trait. It was already difficult enough to weed out dupes and deads back when significant rewards were in place for the effort.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'news, channel' to 'news, channel, live stream, livestream' - edited by marinara

I just didn't do my homework first and noticed the poll and talk posts about this after I posted. Admittedly it was in a blind rage, however I still feel that streams have no place on a site that prides itself on filtering out the crap from the masses of videos, as opposed to allowing an unending stream of different videos to flood the site. Forgive me for wanting to preserve the natural intended purpose of videosift*.


*statement made reflects the opinion of the poster and not of the creator of videosift, or any other users, who/m may have a completely different view on what the natural intended purpose of videosift is.

>> ^burdturgler:

We already have one talk post about this and also a poll.
Do we really need another one or is this some lame attempt at popularity?
Personally, I posted the news streams because people are always interested in news here and I wanted to share.
I happen to watch those streams anyway, and when I saw the MST3K stream was allowed, I figured why not?
If you don't like the streams, don't watch them. Or downvote them. Pretty simple. Go vote "no" on the poll.
Here's a couple other things to consider. Not everyone lives in the US, so maybe some people outside of it might appreciate access to things they normally don't get to see. Same goes for people in the US being able to watch TV etc from other countries. And not for nothing, but a lot of people actually do have computers that output to their TV. I canceled cable TV about a year ago and I definitely appreciate the live streams on the net. Save over a hundred bucks a month and I don't miss a thing.
I was concerned about the streams here at first, then I realized I don't give a shit. Why shouldn't people enjoy them here if they want to? I don't care if they get voted on or not, though I don't see any reason why they shouldn't really. If we wind up with a stream channel it would be nice to sort them by popularity etc.
I just don't see what the big deal is with any of this.

We already have one talk post about this and also a poll.
Do we really need another one or is this some lame attempt at popularity?
Personally, I posted the news streams because people are always interested in news here and I wanted to share.
I happen to watch those streams anyway, and when I saw the MST3K stream was allowed, I figured why not?
If you don't like the streams, don't watch them. Or downvote them. Pretty simple. Go vote "no" on the poll.

Here's a couple other things to consider. Not everyone lives in the US, so maybe some people outside of it might appreciate access to things they normally don't get to see. Same goes for people in the US being able to watch TV etc from other countries. And not for nothing, but a lot of people actually do have computers that output to their TV. I canceled cable TV about a year ago and I definitely appreciate the live streams on the net. Save over a hundred bucks a month and I don't miss a thing.

I was concerned about the streams here at first, then I realized I don't give a shit. Why shouldn't people enjoy them here if they want to? I don't care if they get voted on or not, though I don't see any reason why they shouldn't really. If we wind up with a stream channel it would be nice to sort them by popularity etc.

I just don't see what the big deal is with any of this.

Live streams are pretty awesome. Would be cool to have a page for them.

Yeah, what's the argument against live streams?

I suppose I don't really care one way or another, but I'm not sure why anyone would take issue with live streams. As long as it's a video and in a flash player, I say it's fit for Sifting.

I love MST3K but I don't like the idea of voting on a live stream of their stuff as opposed to actually voting on a specific sifted video.

Everyone is seeing and voting on a different part of the stream or just for the stream itself.

Sorry Throbbin.
*discuss

if it winds up back in the queue I will definitely promote it.

This video has been declared a duplicate by the original submitter; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by JiggaJonson.

This video has been declared a duplicate by the original submitter; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by JiggaJonson.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Live-Stream-Recording-of-EPT-Berlin-Robbed-by-6-Armed-Men

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by burdturgler. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Live-Stream-Recording-of-EPT-Berlin-Robbed-by-6-Armed-Men

The gif shows the difference in the ball placement just before Derren crosses from the right to the left of the screen and after.

This is how he did it (it's really rather simple despite sounding elaborate):

1. Derren records an intro sequence where he's standing outside and walks into the studio to the television. He waves at a second camera, and there is a cut to it (the only cut in the entire sequence) that shows he is being filmed by a handheld camera. He then waves his hands in the air in an exagerrated gesture.

2. Derren moves out of the way and they then place a completely stationary tripod camera in front of the studio set up and record the whole thing for 10 minutes with no action.

3. When it's almost time to go live Derren stands next to the television with his hands in the air while being broadcast by the stationary tripod camera, watching the monitor for it to cut to him live.

4. A post process shake is applied to the entire live stream to give the illusion that Derren is being filmed by the handheld camera. It's important to remember that he's not, it is the static camera on a tripod.

5. The intro sequence cuts to Derren on the static camera; Derren sees this on the monitor and lowers his arms. Derren is now live.

6. Derren talks for a bit then walks over to the television. At this point, the left half of the prerecorded actionless segment is overlayed over the left half of the screen.

7. Derren turns on the television and watches the numbers being drawn and does his usual showmanship. When the numbers are drawn he then takes a moment start writing them down on a piece of card.

8. An assistant now places stickers of the numbers in order on the balls. You cannot see the assistant because of the overlay. The balls are tightly packed into the perspex tray to ensure there is no movement that will be spotted when the overlay is faded out.

Unfortunately, the tight packing and touching of the balls makes one of them (the 39 ball on the left) push up a bit so that it's no longer resting on the bottom of the tray.

9. The assistant leaves shot left and the overlay has a 1 second fadeout (around 5:06 on this video but the quality is very low to see the difference on the 39 ball).

10. The post process shaking is then stopped (5:09) and a cameraman takes control of the tripod. Derren begins walking over to the left, hesitating for a moment as he seems unsure if the timing is right (if the overlay is still there it'll obviously be disastrous when he disappears behind it). He then reveals the balls and is hailed as our new psychic overlord.

>> ^dystopianfu
turetoday:
I was just thinking about google maps the other day, and how eventually (in 20 years or so) all of the images will probably be live streaming, which would be both awesome and invasive to personal privacy at the same time.

I don't think they'd ever be streaming (at least for the public to use). Maybe they'd be updated several times a week.