TAPS SHOW on scifi.com

I agree crypt, on the online cams there is no sound, and only one cam... the one that they want us to see for the moment.

Well, I am actually watching the TV and my laptop at the same time though.

The host for the TV kinda ruins the mood for me, I don't need recaps, or someone popping in creating plugs for their show.

Also the music is horrendous on the show, I want them to take it off, so we can hear sounds better, sounds that actually comes from the sanatorium itself... we are not watching a movie are we?

Edit Add - I kinda like their camera stream though, it does not lag or become choppy as the livescifi one and it is also much clearer, but overall, the content of this live ghost hunt is poorly done.

Agreed the video on the internet wasn't very good and took up a ton of bandwidth. Not to mention the chat was all distorted and I was unable to read it. Very disappointing!

And what the heck was up with the music getting louder when there was a sound? Or how about when they kept going to commercial break just as things were getting good?!

Makes me sad.

livescifi.tv FTW!

I agree with all above. Tim, Jay, and the crew have set the bar very high, and TAPS just didn't quite make it.

Keep up the good work guys.

Shout Out for LIVESCIFI.TV

Last year when I watched the live show and found out they had been streaming online most of the night and I had missed all but about an hour of it I was quite disappointed in myself for not seeing more. So when I found out they were doing the same thing with a different place this year I was all over getting online in time to watch everything I could get in before Halloween parties overtook me.

Well somewhere in between last Halloween and this Halloween I discovered the livescifi crew and.....well bottom line. I don't think I'll be looking forward to ghost hunter's live shows anymore and I know I've gained a whole new line of appreciation for the livescifi boys and gals. The TAPS boys and gals really let us down last night with their stream. Although I do understand that some of the stuff we are disappointed in them with are things that are not in their hands, but the stuff they could have fixed should definitely be things they should improve in if they do one again next year.

OK, I am on the other side about this. I enjoyed the broadcast but I only watched the TV show.

Yes, there were commercials. But this was commercial television. It's to be expected. It wasn't PBS. They had a host to explain, to the general public, what was going on. Remember that most people across the country don't waycj livescif.tv.

They have TV crews doing the camera work. Their job is to film (broadcast) only the investigators. I', sure that Tim will have something like this going in a year or so.... 🙂

Yup i do not get that channel on tv..so relied on the stream...i was horribly disappointed....the audio was so bad you could not hear them talk...they had one video screen....and the lag was really bad, you would be watching one team and be listening to another...i found it way to dark and very confusing......was not what i had hopped it would be

LIVESCIFI YOU STILL ROCK FOR THE BEST INVESTIGATIONS DONE THRU LIVE STREAMS.... NEVER STOP THE GOOD WORK

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The show its self would have been better without the background music I do agree. I was trying to figure out how the callers were hearing different things when all I heard was the investigators and the background music a train, and airplanes.
I found it to dark to really see anything going on in there also. I tried hard to see the ball move as they did but for the life of me I didn't because it was so dark.
I did call in on two of the pictures on the site to ask a question on something for my own piece of mine but other then that I saw nothing on the others. Hopefully next Wed. they will have something as far as evidence to show us.
I was like everyone else dissapointed not to have sound on the website. At first I thought it was just my computer but found out quickly that it was on their end. But I did during commersals go to the website to see what they were doing to pass the time away. But even if I would have had sound I noticed that the sound would not have matched up to the right time they were showing it seemed so it may have not been to good LOL. But I guess better then nothing.
All in all I will say that my favorite part of the show is when they all were together....or most of them toward the end and their guest ( that man with the braides and white beads) got scared and ran half way down the dark hallway by his self LOL. What a perfect ended to the show!!! Anyway...Just my thoughts. I am sure investigating a place that size is not an easy thing to do and there always room for improvment.

I am new here and I can't wait to see the next broadcast!

well so far i see one cam and no audio i was at least expecting something like livescifi.tv but the TAPS CREW HAS LEFT ME VERY DISSAPOINTED. you guys got the best show on the web!! TAPS should be taking lessions from the livescifi.tv crew as far as live streaming is concerned hope you all have a Happy Halloween!!!

Lets remember that the show is a production and TAPS is not in the production business. The Sci Fi channel is about 99% to blame for the problems with the show.

exactly stmac. I and likely many others understand that most of the stuff us (as fans of everyday paranormal investigating and are not in it for the drama) are problems of the production company. I do hope that -if- TAPS members are being complained to those doing the complaining are being nice about it and that the TAPS members can take back word to the production crew. I'm not saying anyone here would be doing it, just venting really.

So far the complaints I've seen most about the live show has been:
-no sound on web streams
-cutting off at dramatic moments
-having Jeff (destination truth) and Elijah (ECW) on the show
-background music getting in the way of hearing sounds

and these are all in the hands of production.

personally I think when Jason and Grant were in the death tunnel when they were hearing things behind them Jason could have turned the thermal along with his head. I didn't notice him doing this.

So what do you all think was good about the show though. It couldn't all be negative. Did you guys have questions about anything that was or wasn't investigated?

mine so far (I'm watching it off youtube and I'll throw up a topic with links to it for anyone like me who missed it)
-the figure Steve and Dave saw with the flashlight walk into a room before Steve's branch ordeal. I clearly saw a figure walk into the room, but I didn't hear an explanation, paranormal or normal, about it.

yeah i could`nt get to watch the show on the scifi channel either so i felt i missed a lot, one of our other members (curty) was nice enough to stream the show on his link on jtv so a couple of us could watch it, (thanks curty it was really nice of you to do that) so i only got to see a couple hours into the show for a couple hours. but with all the hype on the scifi channels website i thought it was going to be a much better stream on the website than it was, i did tune into last years show on the scifi channel website and hoped this year would be better as far as the stream was concerned. and as was mentioned earlier the livescifi.tv crew have set the bar really high and i was hoping that the TAPS feed was going to be a lot better than it was, i mean no disrespect to the TAPS crew and am looking forward to their reveal when it gets posted of the scifi channel website(but i`m not going to miss livescifi.tv`s show on weds.) hats off to our friends Tim, Jay, Donna, and Norene and the rest of the Regs. on livescifi.tv you have made this a wonderful and exciting experience and i look forward to each broadcast take a bow people you earned it

Well what i did see was when jason and crew were in the body shute, they were on the thermal, i seen what appeared to be something that not only once but 3 times move qickly infront of the camera from left to right.

i did not witness the ball moving, but i know they checked many times so i may have missed it.

i heard knocking sounds but was not confirmed as to who or what did it

But what was interesting is the story itself on the place...how many people where there and how many died so quickly, how the shoot was used to transfer food then used to transer bodies, how crazy large the place was, the amount of floors. The fact that most activity did occur on floors 2 and 5 and the body shoot....the route you had to take just to get to the body shoot was scary enough from leaving inside, going outside and back into a long tunnel that was dark yikes....i think they did the best they could considering it was a tv show an d not just a live stream..they were more dedicated to the tv show as more viewers, the music is part of any show, and for the tv people the commentating was needed, sometimes at the wrong times. same with the music but it was not rehearsed...i hope tho next time they do a live stream they take into accont the internet people and check and double check and have communication with the team so that if there is audio problems du to the production team or the camera crew or cam/audio people that when the viewers do complain about audio for say, they can get into conntact and try to fix the problem...my speakers were on full i hardly heard a word. Again i feel livescifi does a much better job with the streaming and communication to its viewers and taps should follow lead...but i cannot say im fully disappointed with taps, just expected to be able to hear or be able to enter a chat room with out difficulty as they did have like 20 rooms....for now tho i will stick to watcing taps on the internet thru missed shows and enjoy livescifi as they not only followup with audio, video problems and try to fix them, they are in communication with viewers also...no disrespect to taps as they had a large gathering of internet viewers that night....

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Well what i did see was when jason and crew were in the body shute, they were on the thermal, i seen what appeared to be something that not only once but 3 times move qickly infront of the camera from left to right.

i did not witness the ball moving, but i know they checked many times so i may have missed it.

i heard knocking sounds but was not confirmed as to who or what did it

But what was interesting is the story itself on the place...how many people where there and how many died so quickly, how the shoot was used to transfer food then used to transer bodies, how crazy large the place was, the amount of floors. The fact that most activity did occur on floors 2 and 5 and the body shoot....the route you had to take just to get to the body shoot was scary enough from leaving inside, going outside and back into a long tunnel that was dark yikes....i think they did the best they could considering it was a tv show an d not just a live stream..they were more dedicated to the tv show as more viewers, the music is part of any show, and for the tv people the commentating was needed, sometimes at the wrong times. same with the music but it was not rehearsed...i hope tho next time they do a live stream they take into accont the internet people and check and double check and have communication with the team so that if there is audio problems du to the production team or the camera crew or cam/audio people that when the viewers do complain about audio for say, they can get into conntact and try to fix the problem...my speakers were on full i hardly heard a word. Again i feel livescifi does a much better job with the streaming and communication to its viewers and taps should follow lead...but i cannot say im fully disappointed with taps, just expected to be able to hear or be able to enter a chat room with out difficulty as they did have like 20 rooms....for now tho i will stick to watcing taps on the internet thru missed shows and enjoy livescifi as they not only followup with audio, video problems and try to fix them, they are in communication with viewers also...no disrespect to taps as they had a large gathering of internet viewers that night....

train

Ok guys so heres my take on the whole thing, performing live events is never an easy thing and jay and I and the rest of the crew can attest to it. Curve balls seem to always get thrown your way and you just have to adapt quickly, and sometimes make the best out of bad situation, I think the Taps guys did ok for the type of show they are presenting, which is a reality character based gh show.