Unfortunately, I have Time-Warner/whatever they're calling themselves after the merger and they don't seem to have picked up that package, or at least haven't advertised it in any way that I know how to find it, but the Comcast thing sounds like it would be good. I'll admit that I'd prefer something that doesn't require me to pay enough attention to know to turn in to a specific event at a specific time (basically a cable version of the Gold Zone stream.) Having seen the BBC's "red button" coverage of Wimbledon with live video of umpteen simultaneous matches in the early rounds, I know that that kind of thing can be transformative if it's done well, but we feel very behind the times on that kind of stuff here.
I tried to watch some of the streaming when the USA's women's rugby match was (I thought) pre-empted (actually just delayed) due to NASCAR running long and was not impressed with the experience. Video quality wasn't great, though that may just have been my connection, and it was tough to navigate to a specific point in an 8-hour video with the same slider control that you'd get for an 8-minute YouTube video. One interesting thing from tonight: the medal round for men's team gymnastics, normally a marquee event, didn't start airing until well after 11:00 ET and was partly pushed to late night. Of course, it was kind of obvious from the way they covered what we saw that there wasn't a comeback from the early stumbles that made it into the prime time show (i.e., there were neither leaderboards at any point nor any coverage of any of the other teams.) On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:56 PM, M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: > For what it's worth, NBC has been streaming every event (including the > marquee events, like gymnastics) on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports > app. If you have a Comcast X1 box, it's even easier to get the streams - > just hit "C" on the remote, go to Rio 2016 in the Sports app, and select > which sport and stream you want to view. My wife and I watched all of the > Women's Gymnastics team during the day - we knew how the US would finish > before dinnertime. > > > On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 2:53:10 PM UTC-4, Bob Jersey wrote: >> >> >> Doug Eastick, to David Lynch and Tom Wolper, in part: >>> >>> As I watched the live coverage I kept thinking. .... you poor Americans >>> stuck with NBC. >>> >>> >>> Unsure if you guys can stream from cbc.ca or not but it's got lots of >>> luce streams on my android app. >>> >>> >>>> You're kidding, right? >> >> B >> >> -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
