Maybe Making the Olympics Suck Online is Good For Business

So. Let’s recap 2008’s Olympics coverage. NBC got Microsoft to front a good portion of the development costs for a video platform that didn’t meet expectations, and they forced those who wanted to watch in high quality on-demand to view on Television or on Vista.

That’s good for NBC, their TV ratings have been stellar. While [...]

What’s Up With NBC’s Olympics Streaming?

Less than two months away from the beginning of the summer Olympics, NBC has yet to announce their complete technology plans for the games. Here’s what we know:

Microsoft paid a hefty portion of NBC’s development costs to get them to use Silverlight, and is still working to remove the beta from Silverlight 2.0 ahead of [...]