I watched a soccer match that was at night, and there was no haze/smog and it lokked awesome!JohnH said:
I watched a soccer match that was at night, and there was no haze/smog and it lokked awesome!JohnH said:The soocer is okay, but quite a bit of Haze in the air over there.
Basketball is great. USA/Czech Republic live now. Looks like George Bush is there.
Thanks to NBC Universal for providing the channels sans commercials and Thanks to DiSH Network and apparently DIRECTV for carrying them.
I cannot tell what the actual 1080i resolution is, but it certainly beats any SD presentation.![]()
That would have been the universal HD maybe. However I did notice it that UniHD didn't pick up the Olympics until after opening ceremony which I was able to watch on my NBC affiliate OTA in HD. It was awesome.DustoMan said:Wasn't there supposed to be a NBC-HD feed added just for the Olympics too? I'm really disappointed that I missed out on seeing the opening ceremonies in HD because I can't pickup my OTA NBC affiliate.
There are multiple venues. Some are hazy and others are not. The opening ceremony was something to behold, haze or not. NBC and its partners are doing a wonderful job covering the games so far. There was a fantastic swim relay last night where the U.S. edged out the favored (and trash-talking) French team; What a finish! The Olympics in quality HD are a real treat. :up:kal915 said:I watched a soccer match that was at night, and there was no haze/smog and it lokked awesome!
Well the Picture Quality has been great, and lots of good camera angles. NBC, is killing me though with its coverage, if it wasn't the DVR, We would have already missed lots of the Olympics, and would have to live on pictures and news afterwards, and BEFORE HAND. If they Say LIVE coverage anymore, I am going to have to drink more Koolaid. Phelps and company when the Gold, and 8hrs later here on the west coast, we are able to finally see it, at just before Mid-Night, Granted we saw it this morning, while getting going for the day. Not sure when PRIMETIME was moved to between 11-12pmpeak_reception said:There are multiple venues. Some are hazy and others are not. The opening ceremony was something to behold, haze or not. NBC and its partners are doing a wonderful job covering the games so far. There was a fantastic swim relay last night where the U.S. edged out the favored (and trash-talking) French team; What a finish! The Olympics in quality HD are a real treat. :up:
Between games they show the schedule for the day, but you would have to get up pretty early to see that game on the schedule.Rick_R said:The problem with the Basketball channel is that the guide has no information as to what game is played when. I saw on Yahoo sports that USA is playing the semifinal basket ball game on 8/22 at 7:15 in the morning (that is 10:15 is the evening of 8/22 Beijing time). I set a manual timer for this event. I hope it works
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As my mildly irritated wife would tell you, I've been watching about four hours a day of Olympic soccer in glorious HD. It's the closest thing to Voom's WorldSport that we're going to get for a while.ZBoomer said:The extra HD channels look great to me, but what a total waste of bandwidth to carry soccer, man.
All I see on those channels is Soccer. I'm not a soccer fan.ZBoomer said:The extra HD channels look great to me, but what a total waste of bandwidth to carry soccer, man.
I watched Badminton the other day, and it was at least 4x as exciting. Where's the Badminton channel?
Maybe it isnt that it is exciting, and that it was shown throughout the whole omlympics. Started 8-6 ends 8-23ZBoomer said:The extra HD channels look great to me, but what a total waste of bandwidth to carry soccer, man.
I watched Badminton the other day, and it was at least 4x as exciting. Where's the Badminton channel?
You don't have to like soccer, but trust me, that is not a waste of bandwidth.ZBoomer said:The extra HD channels look great to me, but what a total waste of bandwidth to carry soccer, man.
I watched Badminton the other day, and it was at least 4x as exciting. Where's the Badminton channel?