We said so. Seems like most people agree. Check the comments from Chris Albrecht’s piece this morning.
I tried to watch a few live streams and was only able to after telling the player that I had a different cable provider. The content was of fair quality, a bit stuttery, and overall, very difficult to navigate. I just wanted to watch some women’s team archery, damnit!
Andy Plesser, over at Beet.TV, seems impressed with the stats that Neilsen put out, though. To each their own, but I’m still disappointed so far. I’m with Chris. The navigation is a little clunky, and I’d really like to have set up Miro to download the events I wanted while I was at work or sleeping and watch at my leisure. When I went to the “Longform Rewind” page, and selected the RSS feed, I was greeting with a “Sorry, the requested page is unavailable” message. Bummer.
But to Andy’s point, there’s myriad videos to choose from, and probably satisfies most people’s needs. Damn us nitpicky bloggers.
The fact that they make you download silverlight is a real bummer!
I’m watching ping pong (I mean table tennis) right now and not having any problems.
I’m guessing there’s not a ton of demand for that particular stream at 2am. Out of curiosity, how does it look? I’d imagine that ping pong and other sports with fast moving balls are tough to see.
We are fortunate that NBC has any video online however I agree the experience could be a lot bigger/ better. As NBC and other companies continue to find additional ways to monetize vs. the costs I am certain these events will improve in quality moving forward.
The viewing experience was good, but since I’m not too much into the sport I only watched about 5 mins of it.