How closely will you be following the Olympics?

Did he also lead a study to see if a Michael Caine movie is on TV?

 

I really enjoy the Olympics, largely because I enjoy watching a lot of sports and seeing the best in the world compete at them.

I much prefer the winter Olympics -- I love hockey, skiing, bobsled, luge and curling -- but often gorge out on track & field, swimming (to a lesser degree), water polo and some of the more esoteric sports. I'd love team handball if it were ever on. Unfortunately, the Peacock shows us nothing but nonstop gymnastics and beach volleyball, and might sprinkle in a swimming or track event.

2008 was fun because we had just been to Beijing three months earlier, and so we got to re-live the trip in a lot of ways. The nationalistic fervor China had for that event was unreal.

 

You've heard you can watch any event online, right?

nbcolympics.com. Check it out.

 

You have to subscribe to cable or satellite to take advantage of that.

 

Yeah ... are people still watching on antenna?

(Oh ... saw your earlier post there. I guess a few are.)

 

There are a few I know who don't have cable or satellite, and it's pretty tough to pick up a signal in some areas, even with a big antenna.

 

Well ... anyway ... if you have cable or satellite, you should be able to watch every single competition you want online.

I tried it tonight for the Great Britain-Senegal soccer. No announcers, which in a way was pretty cool. It felt a little more like you were there, with the ebb and flow of a soccer crowd.

 

I wonder if you could use somebody else's log-in to get on there.

 

Shoot, I would think you could, Inky. I seriously doubt they're tracking IPs on every Olympic viewer login and checking them.

 

Yep. You just need a user name and password. NBC is using YouTube this time around instead of Microsoft's Silverlight, which makes for a much better user experience.

 

Another thought, though. I wonder if two people using the login at the same time would trigger anything. I think MLB.tv checks users like that.

 

You'd just need to borrow a login from someone who never watches the Olympics online.

Never expect Comcast to do anything to benefit those of us who still get our television over the air, as their business model is still in the mode of trying to force people to purchase 400 channels to get the three they really want to watch.