Suggestion for the Sports section: Online Streaming

[StefanWolves]

I was thinking of creating a private website for Habbox Forum users to watch matches online, and I mean every Premier League game and what else is shown live on TV (e.g. Boxing, Championship football, league football, and other sports of interest).

I would have a website (www.websitehere.com/sports) and plan on having about 6 channels (www.websitehere.com/sports/sportchannel1) etc - on these pages would be the live game/sporting event, with the option of going full screen, kind of like www.iraqgoals.net, but on a less scale. Plus it would be more private - ONLY for HxF users and family/friends.

I have a website ready to set this up with, so it's all about the feedback I get.

If this idea proves popular, then I would have the website up for next week. I would create a thread here in the Sports section, that I intend on getting stickied, and every week I'd post the passwords to each channel of my site (will be password protecting them, to stop leechers/loss of bandwidth) which I will be changing every week. In the stickied thread I would post what is on what channel and what the passwords are for those channels.

I would be doing this in BETA stages, as I don't know the effect it'd have on my website bandwidth (I know it'll take a bit of bandwidth up, but shouldn't be too much, as the stream would just be an embedded code), BETA stage will last for the next five weeks, after that I may enhance the website make-up and take the passwords off the channels, to make it more popular.

If however I find it a pain in the arse and can't be arsed anymore, then I would just stop with this project, but I doubt that'd happen, as it'd give me something to do. (still haven't figured out how I would go about doing this when Wolves are at home, as I won't be in to maintain the streams... I'll figure it out though )

PLEASE NOTE - IF WHENEVER I CHECK HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE VIEWING CERTAIN CHANNELS (within the first five weeks), IF THE NUMBER EXCEEDS 20, I WOULD CLOSE THE THE CHANNEL/CHANGE THE PASSWORD.

When the sporting events are on, I will be checking the channels frequently to see if the stream has gone down, and if it has, I'll put an alternative stream on their.

I also understand that sometimes I will not be able to get EVERY Premier League match up, unfortunately this is down to if their are streams available for the match, but I am confident of getting MOST games up live.

On the website I would also have a 'schedule page' - where you will be able to see whats on what channel and when. (over the next one/two weeks or something)

So yeh, all down to your views, could be a good idea, could be crap. If you are going to post back in this thread, please don't post **** like ''OH NO IT'LL BE CRAP BLA BLA BLA" - Instead please post CONSTRUCTIVELY.

Oh and please MODs, don't move this to the suggestions forum, I want it to be here, as it'd be mainly the Sports forum viwers using it.

Would this be a good idea?
Please vote in the poll, and post CONSTRUCTIVELY only.

[lBlue]

Will you be hosting your own streams or just mirroring others..?

[StefanWolves]

Mirroring, that'd rape my bandwidth, totally. Which is why if a stream goes down, I would put another one on ASAP if possible.

[Jack.Lfc]

Are you hosting on your iphone?

[StefanWolves]

Are you hosting on your iphone?

What do you mean? Would it be available on your iPhone? if so then no.

If you just being a **** then shut it boyo!!

Nice win today eh?

[Andeeh]

Sounds like a great idea

[Jack.Lfc]

But the iphone does everything

[StefanWolves]

But the iphone does everything

almost everything!

you got yours yet?

[Jack.Lfc]

Nah not yet.

[Immenseman]

i'd use it yeah, whether it's a good idea or whether habbox would allow you do it through their site is another matter.