Post by Ye Olde Dawg on Aug 12, 2008 15:11:55 GMT -5
I couldn't find this elsewhere. NBC, tvtonic.com, and Microsoft (I presume) are offering something they call "NBC Olympics On The Go".
www.tvtonic.com/olympics/install/
The Limiting Factor: this only works with Windows Vista's Media Center feature.
The good news: I finally got this working and watched some of this, and the video and sound are excellent. It's HD video, looks like wide-screen format. I don't know the exact resolution, but it's seamless, it has more detail than anything else I can watch online or record from (standard definition) live TV. You download the episodes before watching, so the video quality is not limited by bandwidth.
The bad news: the one match available as of this morning was the women's USA vs. Japan match -- very old news by now. It's just not the same watching a match when you already know the outcome.
I understand that the plan is to make all the events that NBC has broadcast available online this way after they've aired. In theory it could be a good way to watch things that you have to DVR anyway, without having to hunt for your event in an hours-long recorded block. In practice -- well, I hope they can do future matches without such a huge wait.
www.tvtonic.com/olympics/install/
The Limiting Factor: this only works with Windows Vista's Media Center feature.
The good news: I finally got this working and watched some of this, and the video and sound are excellent. It's HD video, looks like wide-screen format. I don't know the exact resolution, but it's seamless, it has more detail than anything else I can watch online or record from (standard definition) live TV. You download the episodes before watching, so the video quality is not limited by bandwidth.
The bad news: the one match available as of this morning was the women's USA vs. Japan match -- very old news by now. It's just not the same watching a match when you already know the outcome.
I understand that the plan is to make all the events that NBC has broadcast available online this way after they've aired. In theory it could be a good way to watch things that you have to DVR anyway, without having to hunt for your event in an hours-long recorded block. In practice -- well, I hope they can do future matches without such a huge wait.
