Comments on: YouTube might be the best place to watch the Olympics (if it doesn’t break) http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/28/youtube-might-be-the-best-place-to-watch-the-olympics-if-it-doesnt-break?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=youtube-might-be-the-best-place-to-watch-the-olympics-if-it-doesnt-break Cringely on technology Wed, 22 May 2013 01:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: coach hire hertfordshire http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/28/youtube-might-be-the-best-place-to-watch-the-olympics-if-it-doesnt-break#comment-277083 coach hire hertfordshire Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:13:56 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4542#comment-277083 Magnificent beat ! I wish to apprentice whilst you amend your web site, how could i subscribe for a weblog web site? The account aided me a acceptable deal. I were tiny bit acquainted of this your broadcast provided shiny clear idea

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]]> By: Sick of #NBCFail? Watch the 2012 Olympics Online Without Cable | MacGateway http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/28/youtube-might-be-the-best-place-to-watch-the-olympics-if-it-doesnt-break#comment-253527 Sick of #NBCFail? Watch the 2012 Olympics Online Without Cable | MacGateway Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:08:37 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4542#comment-253527 [...] streaming is available through YouTube. In the United States, however, online viewing has been problematic for some and requires a paid cable [...]

]]> [...] streaming is available through YouTube. In the United States, however, online viewing has been problematic for some and requires a paid cable [...]

]]> By: Ronc http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/28/youtube-might-be-the-best-place-to-watch-the-olympics-if-it-doesnt-break#comment-253028 Ronc Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:36:24 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4542#comment-253028 2 GB!!! What service provides that? That's 2,000 mbps or twice as fast as Gigabit Ethernet.

]]> 2 GB!!! What service provides that? That’s 2,000 mbps or twice as fast as Gigabit Ethernet.

]]> By: Greg http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/28/youtube-might-be-the-best-place-to-watch-the-olympics-if-it-doesnt-break#comment-253022 Greg Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:14:33 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4542#comment-253022 I don't know about everyone else but the performance of these video feeds has been really bad. I know that not everyone liked the Silverlight based video streaming from the China Olympics but it was far better without the jerky video quality.. I've tried it out now on 2 different Verizon FiOS connections in NY and DC and 2 Comcast connections and ran into the same problems everywhere... YouTube just doesn't seen ready for this. :-( Perhaps Microsoft made better use of the CDN networks???

]]> I don’t know about everyone else but the performance of these video feeds has been really bad. I know that not everyone liked the Silverlight based video streaming from the China Olympics but it was far better without the jerky video quality.. I’ve tried it out now on 2 different Verizon FiOS connections in NY and DC and 2 Comcast connections and ran into the same problems everywhere… YouTube just doesn’t seen ready for this. :-( Perhaps Microsoft made better use of the CDN networks???

]]> By: Tony http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/28/youtube-might-be-the-best-place-to-watch-the-olympics-if-it-doesnt-break#comment-252918 Tony Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:24:56 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4542#comment-252918 I'm not convinced it is your computer spec.. I can watch full screen olympics on youtube on my iPad which has almost no ram and a slow processor - and a 2GB connection to the house which then sends the data to the iPad over wifi

]]> I’m not convinced it is your computer spec.. I can watch full screen olympics on youtube on my iPad which has almost no ram and a slow processor – and a 2GB connection to the house which then sends the data to the iPad over wifi

]]> By: I, Cringely » Blog Archive YouTube's Olympian Recovery ~ I, Cringely - Cringely on technology http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/28/youtube-might-be-the-best-place-to-watch-the-olympics-if-it-doesnt-break#comment-252132 I, Cringely » Blog Archive YouTube's Olympian Recovery ~ I, Cringely - Cringely on technology Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:24:41 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4542#comment-252132 [...] calling. How many people get calls from YouTube? The message was simple: I’d written a column critical of YouTube’s live Olympic coverage and they wanted me to try [...]

]]> [...] calling. How many people get calls from YouTube? The message was simple: I’d written a column critical of YouTube’s live Olympic coverage and they wanted me to try [...]

]]> By: A. Goat http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/28/youtube-might-be-the-best-place-to-watch-the-olympics-if-it-doesnt-break#comment-251118 A. Goat Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:25:00 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4542#comment-251118 Just further confirmation - AT&T U-verse Internet/Landline subscriber here (No TV). I went ahead and tried to log in on the nbc site, and it came back and said "great, you're ready to go!" and about half a second later I got an overlay that said "nope, you're not a subscriber". I would definitely fall into the category of people who *might* consider paying a one-off fee for something like this. Generally I do not watch TV at all by any method, online or off. I don't own a TV, and 99.9% of the time I really don't care. I went to Atlanta in '96 however, and there are a handful of Olympic sports I might care to watch if I could. This makes some sense from the standpoint that NBC expects you to pay for their channels if you want to watch their content. All this is doing is exposing how desperately the market wants more options (ala carte cable anyone? This would be cake on the net), but the media companies won't provide it themselves and won't let anyone else have access to the content to provide something competitive. Incidentally my situation really just blows AT&T's little corporate mind. I get no end of junk mail from them enthusing about how awesome U-Verse TV is and how I could get all three services for $99/mo! That "deal" comes with 3 Mbit internet service, which would certainly be an upgrade from the 12Mbit I'm already getting from them.

]]> Just further confirmation –

AT&T U-verse Internet/Landline subscriber here (No TV). I went ahead and tried to log in on the nbc site, and it came back and said “great, you’re ready to go!” and about half a second later I got an overlay that said “nope, you’re not a subscriber”.

I would definitely fall into the category of people who *might* consider paying a one-off fee for something like this. Generally I do not watch TV at all by any method, online or off. I don’t own a TV, and 99.9% of the time I really don’t care. I went to Atlanta in ’96 however, and there are a handful of Olympic sports I might care to watch if I could.

This makes some sense from the standpoint that NBC expects you to pay for their channels if you want to watch their content. All this is doing is exposing how desperately the market wants more options (ala carte cable anyone? This would be cake on the net), but the media companies won’t provide it themselves and won’t let anyone else have access to the content to provide something competitive.

Incidentally my situation really just blows AT&T’s little corporate mind. I get no end of junk mail from them enthusing about how awesome U-Verse TV is and how I could get all three services for $99/mo! That “deal” comes with 3 Mbit internet service, which would certainly be an upgrade from the 12Mbit I’m already getting from them.

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