I’m currently watching Vandy vs. Washington State on the CBS Sposrtsline streaming player. Not much has changed since the last version of the player I’ve posted earlier. Same advertisers, too.

But the quality is what its all about. CBS’s doubling of their bandwidth seems to have paid off. I’m curious how many concurrent streams they’re delivering right now, because they appear to be holding up. Despite a few frames being dropped here and there, its a huge improvement.

There is a full screen option when using IE, but not in the official player when using Firefox. But you can get to full screen by right-clicking over the video and selecting the full screen option directly from the Windows Media Player. The pixelation is a bit distracting and creates a ghosting or halo effect around the players. But if you can get past the fuzziness, its watchable.

If your face is painted, it very watchable.

The broadcast commercials in full screen look quite good, except for the Nike ad, which is essentially the same as watching the real game. Not their fault.

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