NBC Olympics: soap opera vs. raw footage
August 14, 2008
Watching NBC’s nightly Olympic coverage of the same three sports and the 4 same people again and again forces huge groans out of me each night. The made-for-TV prime time soap opera is once again so melodramatic and drawn out, that it doesn’t even feel like I am watching sports.
I guess enough of us have groaned load enough that they decided to let us access other sports via NBCOlympics.com, which has a ton of raw footage completely sugar free. You can even watch 4 feeds at once. Unfortunately they relied on Microsoft to develop YET ANOTHER STREAMING VIDEO format called Silverlight to do it. It really messed with Safari and can crash Firefox, but it’s still worth the price of admission to watch my favorite spectator sport: Badminton.
Stumble it!
Tags: , Badminton, NBC, Olympics, Silverlight, TV
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August 15th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Don’t dog tech that you don’t understand. Microsoft did not develop Silverlight for this…. Silverlight was out last year. I’ve been running the Olympics stream in Firefox 3 nightly with not one crash yet. I’ve gone so far as to have multiple browsers open streaming so I can have more than one sport on the larger screen.
I’m on your side where I’m sick of seeing the same thing on TV every night It seems like the other sports aren’t even Olympic events to the press. On the other hand, I really don’t like seeing things like to comments about Silverlight in press where impressionable people will instantly think MS SUCKS and never try it for themselves.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:29 am
OK noted that I’m no expert on Microsoft. But why do we need another streaming format again?
Silverlight still crashes my Firefox for mac and Safari might have to be reinstalled since I get bizarre spyware stuff since the hour I installed it.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Hi there… gamil.com user here… oops no actually gmail.com… happened upon your website by freak accident; am generally a fine speller/typist. really. anyway, glad to see your blog format and love your comments about the nbc olympics coverage. seems we are kindred spirits in this regard.
i have been watching sports since as far back as i can remember owing to a sports-obsessed family. i have always wondered about newpaper coverage, i.e. what planet do those writers come from, anyway? i have observed the network coverage become more and more subjective to the point of being so hard to take that i just avoid at all costs. however, as my spanish improved i found nd that i can get my soccer fix, especially during world cup, and avoid the yukky american reporting, by simply tuning in the the spanish language stations. way (WAY) more objective coverage. haven’t had the luxury for this year’s olympics; got rid of my television completely four years ago and never looked back. would be interested to know about other language speakers’ experience. p.s. will be checking back in occasionally…
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