It’s been almost a week since the Summer Olympics in Beijing wrapped-up. This year more than ever, the Internet made a difference in how people kept-up with the games. In two years the Olympics will be back, in Vancouver, and it’ll definitely be interesting to see once again, the role that the Internet will play and how things will have changed between now and then.
For this weeks poll we’re taking a look at how you watched the Olympic games this year. Did the Internet play as large of a roll as we expect that it did?
New Poll: How did you watch the Olympics?
- Traditional TV
- Online streaming television
- YouTube
- BitTorrent Downloads
- I didn’t watch the Olympics
- Other
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Previous Poll Wrap-Up
In our previous poll, we asked, “when traveling, does taking digital photos keep you from buying souvenirs?”
The results? It looks like digital cameras save some of you some money! 50% of voters said that they buy less because their souvenirs are in the form of digital photos while 46% of you said no, you tended to buy just as many souvenirs as you always have.
Watching the olympics on TV was not ideal, since many of the events were re-runs and you never got to see many events.
I used NBC olympics in multiple windows to view up to 5 or 6 different events + whatever was live on TV.
I think the online scheduling could have been better because I wanted to watch events that features specific athletes from the country of my choice not just “the Women 200m”…
Several times attempted to watch with MS Silverlight but it could never keep up with the download speed, pausing for long lengths of time — and the internet speed showed 1.5mb which should have been sufficient. Was hoping that would suffice since the computer is connected to the bedroom TV via S cable, plus it’s connected to the stereo receiver with 5 speakers in the room.
Finally watched it several nights on TV with ads and the rest of the junk.
We were lucky to view the Olympics though our local TV channels directly from Beijing. Internet was a reference source to read more intimate details of what went on. Yahoo was an excellent Olympics reference source.
I don’t have a “traditional TV.” It’s online or bust for me.
NBC’s Silverlight option was a bit disappointing for me. I remember having missed one of Michael Phelp’s races early on, and I went online to see if I could watch the replay. They said it would take something like a day for past races to be put up, but it was more like 3-days. Past events should have been put up within hours of completion in my opinion… after that people just don’t care about watching them.