Plans for the ‘world’s first’ live streaming of a village cricket match continued apace over the week – with the help of a herd of cows!
As I wrote at The Guardian’s tech blog last week, John Popham will be using basic video kit in order to give the cricket match of Wray the full ‘live’ treatment as part if his campaign to highlight the neeed for faster rural bradband.
The tests included this ‘milking live’ update from the dairy herd of fellow campaigner Chris (@cyberdoyle on Twitter).
I caught up with John who told me it was now all systems go for next week and he has had interest from potential sponors too:
“The connection available to the field where the match will be played is possibly not quite robust enough for what we want. It worked, and I could live stream from it, but it kept dropping out. The purpose of the cows was to compare the connection at Chris’ farm, which is where the fibre comes into the village. And that proved much more robust. This will not be a problem, as it simply proved that we need to take up the offer from Guy Jarvis at NextGenUs to fill in any gaps in connectivity before the match takes place.”
John also talked about the project in this interview with radio Lancashire.
Dim Sum Digital 
good news, we now have a great connection on the field. We have even got a static IP address from the university for the stream connection straight from the fibre in the village institute. All systems are go. GameOn.
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