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NBC: Is it live or is it taped?
The New York Times blog questions NBC’s practice of screening broadcasts that are live to Eastern and Central time zones are actually taped for Pacific and Western time zone viewers. The feed shown to Pacific and Western time zone viewers still has the “live” water mark shown, even though it is not.
An NBC spokesman […]
Beijing Olympics a huge hit for NBC so far
The Beijing Olympics is proving to be a huge hit for US broadcaster NBC. There has been huge interest in Michael Phelps’ swimming events, the men’s gymnastics and women’s beach volleyball.
An average of 29.7 million viewers watched the fourth night of the Beijing summer Games, about 2.5 million more than during the comparable night in […]
How to watch the Olympic on Linux
NBC faced a lot of criticism for only making streaming broadcasts available to Windows Vista users.
Here is a way to watch the Beijing Olympics on Linux using Sopcast. Click here for instructions.
YouTube announced earlier that it would stream video live of the Beijing Olympics, but it was limited to countries that did not have any broadcast rights, thus excluding most of the western world.
Fortunately, YouTube has set up another Olympic channel for users world wide called: Summer Games. It will have a collection of videos […]
As strange as it seems, NBC delayed the broadcast of the opening ceremony 12 hours so it could be shown to a prime-time audience. Its “Today” show is even pre-recorded, even though they say they are “live from Beijing” according to this article in the Nytimes. With sites available to stream the games, […]
How is NBC’s streaming service
I found a link on Twitter to a replay of one of tonight’s matches on NBC’s Olympic video service. I made up a U.S. postcode and cable provider and downloaded Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin which you need to watch the videos.
I read so often that you need Microsoft Vista to see the videos, but it […]
Beijing Olympics to use IPv6
This post is for the tech geeks - myself included! China will be using IPV6 technology to transmit real time footage of Olympic events to live television broadcasting systems and video streaming on the internet.
Most of the events will be broadcast in high definition. Most internet systems still use IPv4. […]
- mayor boris johnson looks a little out of place #
- women's beach volleyball starting now . China vs US for the gold medal #
- rain is coming down even harder now in Beijing #
- Dark and raining in Beiing this morning, not good for the beach volleyball #
- the moon lights the torch picture http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/7567746.stm #
- @AussieOlympics this is great! I hope we can beat GB #
- US beats Germany in mens beach volleyball #
- just 18 gold medals today after yesterdays 37 #
- @AussieOlympics and great to see the girls all singing too! well done girls! #
- they should have microphones on the podiums to hear the athletes sing the national anthem #