Outrage against NBC Builds and Builds....

What is the interview process like at NBC for sports broadcasting?

NBC Exec: "So, you want to announce athletics, do you have any experience at all?"

Tom Hammond: "Nope."

NBC Exec: "You're hired."

How many commercial breaks were there during the men's 10,000m? 3 or 4? I once saw a CBC broadcast of a Diamond League meet. It was incredible how few commercials there were.

Mike Honcho wrote:

Exactly...NBC needs to back off and allow others to take better coverage. And how about those trials? What a fiasco...wish Flotrack woulda handled that. And isnt Tom Hammond the commentator for horse racing? Bring back Frank Shorter from the 80's!

Actually the Trials coverage was considered exceptional by many here. The Games coverage is even better. Everything live in HD....what more could you want?

2012 Digital Revolution wrote:

Denise wrote:

I take it you people don't have the internet where you are.

Go to nbcolympics.com. It's all on there...LIVE. Plus, you can see replays anytime you want.

False. Continually repeating the same thing using different usernames does not make it true.

The NBC online stream sucks. 30 second commercials all the time and a big delay from real time in London. I've been watching everything on an illegal BBC stream I found online and it's great. The picture quality sucks, but it's worth it not to have to deal with NBC's shit.

Like right now, I still haven't seen the 800 semis, but I there is no replay option for those videos on the NBC's site. Plus they are not shown tonight during the TV coverage. WTF???

YOU MUST BE COMPUTER ILLITERATE.

I have watched everything live. I watched the entire steeple chase LIVE on NBCOLYMPICS.COM.

I WATCHED the 100m live on NBCOLYMPICS.COM.

I have always hated Bob Costas and NBC until now.

I watch all of the track live so far on NBCOLYMPICS.COM.

Thankfully there is no comentary. Just the entire race live with now comment.

If you haven't been able to watch it here is how you do it.

Go to NBCOLYMPICS.COM.

Click on Video

Click on Live Extra

Scroll down to Track and Field

Click on Live feed

Then put in your password that you get from your cable provider. You have to have your cable bill handy. Create a login ID and password. If you need help call cable company.

Once you put in password you get totally live content.

I watch Usain Bolt Live run the OR for 100m and the full 10,000m uncut.

wait, you're complaining that they're delaying events to show them in prime time when the audience is larger and the commercials more lucrative?? First time watching the Olympics?

They still haven't shown the 1500m final. I watched the women's 200m semifinals and the finals of the 100m hurdles. I expected NBC to show the last track event from the day, the 1500m final. Instead, NBC keeps showing some boring gymnastics matches, which I couldn't care less about. NBC ought to go shampoo my crotch.

I watched the 1500m live this morning at 10:15am Hawaii time on nbcolympics.com.

Been watching the whole olympics live.

Everything is live on the NBColympics webpage.

If you haven't figured this out yet you might be computer illiterate.

See my previous post to walk you through how to get the live feed.

I really do not understand the whining. Yes NBC has chosen dollars over providing the people with the "people's games".

So what. Play around them.

get a UK IP by using unblock-us, then go to BBC and watch ANYTHING you want, when you want.

Some people can't watch on their computer during the workday, and were expecting to come home to be able to watch it on full replay at least, if they refuse to put it on prime time.

I'm thrilled with their coverage of womens gymnastics. I love looking forward to sitting down in front of the tv and lusting over those beautiful asses! Gymnasts asses are the best!

Night Runner wrote:

Triplecast from Barcelona was best. This was three additional channels added just for the Olympics to show specific sports. For example Track and Field was shown live in its entirely and nothing but T&F on that channel for two weeks. Every heat was shown etc. Good times those.

Right! I loved the fact that I had 12 straight hours of track (with no announcers!!! Hooray!) ... and then the next 12 hours is totally repeated.

They had the Red, White & Blue channels. One of the channels was devoted just to T&F.

Unfortunately there's not many like me. My wife loves all that "Up Close & Personal".

To me, $200 was cheap.

Today, technology is even better and I would gladly pay a subscription for the same service.

It apparently didn't have many fans like me & lost money and was universally panned as a failure... but not in my mind!

Bring back TripleCast !!

Will E wrote:

I'm thrilled with their coverage of womens gymnastics. I love looking forward to sitting down in front of the tv and lusting over those beautiful asses! Gymnasts asses are the best!

Yeah, I'm sure they'd be interested in you.

Strip the peacock of its feathers. Revoke NBC Olympic Broadcasting Rights 2012.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/revoke-nbc-olympic-broadcasting-rights-2012/

The mistake they made with triple cast is that they required people to pay the $200. in one pop, if they could have made it so that people could pay that over the course of the next year on their cable, they might have captured more subscribers and made the concept worthwhile...

As with others, for now, I'd rather just hit a bootleg bbc feed and get it live with decent announcers...and fuzzy if that be the case, and then catch the replays...whenever ifever nbc decides to show it.

Did you watch the 5000 live because the nbc feed does not work this morning. Hmmmmve

I WATCHED IT LIVE ON NBC wrote:

I watched the 1500m live this morning at 10:15am Hawaii time on nbcolympics.com.

Been watching the whole olympics live.

Everything is live on the NBColympics webpage.

If you haven't figured this out yet you might be computer illiterate.

See my previous post to walk you through how to get the live feed.

2 billion people watched around the world

I WATCHED IT LIVE ON NBC wrote:

YOU MUST BE COMPUTER ILLITERATE.

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Then put in your password that you get from your cable provider. You have to have your cable bill handy. Create a login ID and password. If you need help call cable company.

How many times do you have to be told that the people complaining are people WHO DON'T HAVE CABLE? It has nothing to do with computer literacy, moron, it has to do with NBC not offering a digital streaming package for purchase. Get a grip.

Get on the interwebs.

There are several ways to watch the Games Live. NBC Olympics, BBC, etc. If you can't watch it live, you can watch the primetime broadcast or wait until the feed is on replay.

And you idiots complaining about not having cable. I assume you loners don't know anyone is the world who has cable.

categorically wrote:

Online streaming will be much better in 4 years.

I beg to differ.

Online streaming has diminished substantially since the 2008 Olympics and 2010 World T&F Championships as marketing chairwarmers near and far find newer and more devious ways to screw it up.

Also they are using a shittier CODEC now as well. (In retrospect, it really WAS "too good to be true.")

Back then you were getting a state of the art live video feed that ran fine from a single core 2.4 Ghz processor. Raw video from the stadium that would preceed the session by a half hour, no commercial interruptions at all too-all this just for the effort of having the right CODEC loaded and clicking a mouse.

Now you have to tell NBC that you are a cable subscriber somewhere and be ready prove it. What's more my former cable company, (the only one that serves this area) has never been on their list. Otherwise you'll get two minutes of commercial for three minutes of action video.

Unless you are referring to hitting foreign streaming resources through a proxy server I don't think you should assume that they will ever offer the quality and content that they offered in 2008 and 2010 again.