Comments on: New Poll: How Did You Watch the Olympics?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:06:58 +0000

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.

By: mrcool10

mrcool10 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:53:26 +0000

I don’t have a “traditional TV.” It’s online or bust for me.

By: Omar Upegui

Omar Upegui — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:34:28 +0000

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.

By: Miles

Miles — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:20:38 +0000

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.

By: EP

EP — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:58:03 +0000

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”…