E3 Press Conference Countdown errors

Hey everyone,

Some of you have been experiencing issues with the countdown messages on our conference videos. Because the video it tied to your computer time, this is the reason for the bug we cannot fix at the moment.

If you want to know when to drop by for the conferences, check the schedule to get the pacific time and drop by the time converter. If you use Firefox you may want to install the foxclocks firefox application.

We are sorry any inconvenience this may cause.

so are you saying that the video doesnt work after the countdown is complete is because of the time on our computers?

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so are you saying that the video doesnt work after the countdown is complete is because of the time on our computers?

SteveN

Yes, in a way.

Here is an example:

The Nintendo Conference will be shown at 9:00AM Pacific Time.

Let's say the time on the west coast is 7:00AM. If you are on the east coast, then it would be 10:00AM. Your computer clock should show the time as 10:00AM. For the east coast person, our video player will show the "Video is Live" message due to the flash player determining the countdown based on your computer clock settings. But, the video will not begin because it is still 7:00AM on the west coast and the conference hasn't begun.

Now, if your time is aligned with the PST time and the video has not begun, then that is a totally different problem.

I knew it 4rm tomorrow & I have told this to many many people crying in the comments.........

That the the message appears "The Live Stream is now Available" and video doesn't play.................

E3 Live Show Schedule on Gamespot (Click Here)

ahh I get it, so because the Flash is running on the client machine it can only read the system time from the client computer instead of being able to read from the server time itself... and because flash behaves like a sandbox this is not something that can be easily solved.

Makes sense now.