On Sep 14, 10:02 am, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still getting over the fact that CBS abandoned coverage of the > Men's Final of the US Open in place of its all-rerun schedule on > Monday evening leaving coverage to ESPN2.
I'm a tennis fan without cable. Here's what my experience was on Monday night, I was still at work when the match began, so I set my DVR to record CBS from 4pm to 9pm. I finally had time to sit down and start watching the match around 7pm. By the time I got through CBS' rain-curtailed coverage, then found out that the coverage had switched to ESPN2, it was around 9pm - and I had missed the end of the second set, all of the third, and part of the fourth. Fortunately, even though I don't have cable, I do have internet - and the match was being carried both on espn.com and usopen.org. While ESPN's coverage featured the CBS commentators (and I'm a big fan of Enberg and McEnroe), ESPN's video stream was choppy and cloudy. It would often stop for 10 to 15 seconds at a time or skip ahead 30 seconds; when it did work properly, the screen was so small and pixelated that I couldn't see the ball clearly. So I gave up on espn.com and switched over to usopen.org. I've watched matches there before, and I've never had any problems with their stream - it always plays very smoothly, with beautiful images, and in a window that takes up most of my screen. Unfortunately, their announcers (whose names I don't know) are terrible - especially the play-by-play guy, who sounds like he's narrating a grade school science filmstrip. And I'll give usopen.org credit for one more thing: Since they don't run commercials between matches, they ran the entire trophy ceremony, and did not cut away at the end. -Tim -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
