Webcam update time

[BilgeMonster]

So when it was the Grand Event I wrote a little program to record the webcams every minute so I could put it all together as a little video to show it all. The webcams used to update once a minute,

Today out of out of curiosity I ran my program again and noticed the webcams only update once every 2 minutes. Not a lot you say! But because the images are so small I would not have thought it would cost much but I am surprised that even these have been cut down.

Surely this can't be right when other cruise lines offer better quality images... How much money do they save by doing this?

[david63]

It is not something that I have really considered - especially as it seems most of the time one or more of them doesn't seem to be working anyway.

I have no idea what the "load" is for downloading seven webcams and it may be down to technical reasons more than financial (although I suppose you could argue that they are one and the same)

In the majority of cases though I don't reall think that it makes that much difference, after all one view of the sea will be pretty much the same in two minutes as it will in one - likewise when a ship is in port, I know that there will always be exceptions (entering Venice, Panama Canal etc.) but personally it is not something that would worry me.

[Not so ancient mariner]

Every two minutes? Just recently Adonia's has been updating about once in 24 hours!

As you say often one or more of them are not working: - usually blamed on satellite strength - yet I have known two ships virtually alongside each other in Stavanger, where one had signal and one didn't.

[Not so ancient mariner]

Another example of the dubious excuse for webcams not working. Today Oriana and Oceana are moored bow to bow in La Palma. Oceana's webcam is working fine - and showing a good view of Oriana. By comparison, hers is not working - again due to 'satellite strength' (or lack of it), when the two can only be a few tens of yards apart!