Olympics: Official bitch about NBC's coverage thread

[aejones]

it's not 1988 though

[gusmahler]

Originally Posted by MicroBob

Yeah, this is truly awful.

I can just imagine the millions and millions of Americans who avoided twitter or simply watch only in prime-time (lol-old people for example) who mostly had no idea who the winner was...just as NBC wants it....and then everyone going, "What?!?!"

Exactly what my wife did. She didn't want to be spoiled and was looking forward to the 400 IM men's finals. I had watched it online in the morning, but didn't tell her the results. So she turns on the TV about 5 minutes before the broadcast starts. The local news says the results. So now she doesn't even want to watch the Olympics anymore.

But I also think that we (sports junkies who care enough about sports to write about it on the Internet) are the exception and most people (females in particular) are like my wife. The only event she's even watched so far is women's gymnastics.

[TheNoodleMan]

This NBC Stream is garbage.

I just watched two swimming finals, both times it froze just short of the finish and then restarted after the race was over.

The second one came back just in time for the announcer to call it one of the iconic moments in Olympic swimming history. Great job NBC. The commercials that immediately followed each race played just perfectly obviously.

[gusmahler]

I assume that's a bandwidth issue. It never fails during table tennis or other obscure sports, but always is jerky during swimming. Try reducing the resolution to 240p and see if that helps.

I also don't think this is NBC's fault, as youtube is handling the streaming.

[toddw8]

It is NBC's fault. If they were showing this stuff live on TV we wouldn't have to worry about a stream freezing.

[TheNoodleMan]

Originally Posted by gusmahler

I assume that's a bandwidth issue. It never fails during table tennis or other obscure sports, but always is jerky during swimming. Try reducing the resolution to 240p and see if that helps.

I also don't think this is NBC's fault, as youtube is handling the streaming.

I don't give a **** if the actual fault lies with NBC or Youtube. That is completely irrelevant. They chose their infrastructure partners, and they chose poorly.

I've got more than enough bandwidth on my end., they've just done a ****ty job on their end.

Try 240p... are you ****ing kidding me? I might as well just pay a courtroom sketch artist to send me their renderings of the game by snail mail.

[Tumaterminator]

ive been watching fine on the lowest quality

[Tumaterminator]

cmon shewin, do it for miyagi

[ut2010]

phelps is smashing records and i can't watch in the break room. stupid rowing is on tv.

FU

[Tokyo!!]

Come home, turn on NBC, watch the live USA/ESP beach volleyball (great match btw), leave room for 3 minutes. Walk back in, NBC local news is on, they immediately spoil every major result they are going to show on primetime (Phelps, gymnastics, etc). FU NBC

[ut2010]

Watch the women win gold tonight on Primetime.

WTF

[gusmahler]

Originally Posted by Tokyo!!

Come home, turn on NBC, watch the live USA/ESP beach volleyball (great match btw), leave room for 3 minutes. Walk back in, NBC local news is on, they immediately spoil every major result they are going to show on primetime (Phelps, gymnastics, etc). FU NBC

Yeah, my local news says, "Results alert" or something similar before the reveal the big events. But that's not helpful if you tune to NBC right after they say that or you walk in from another room. If they really plan on tape delaying and acting as if events didn't happen, they have to avoid giving spoilers all day long. If you want to be spoiled, you can go to ESPN. If you want to avoid spoilers, it should be safe to go to NBC.

[ClarkNasty]

lolnbc

I mean, how ****ing hard is it to show the events on TV both live and later. JFC.

[A-Rod's Cousin]

lolympics iyam

[yeotaJMU]

i really wish one of the swimmers would drown andrea kremer