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XXIX Summer Olympics
Aug. 10th, 2008 12:28 amMy name is Carbonel and I'm an Olympics junkie. And I think this year I may overdose.
During the last couple of Olympics, NBC has been expanding its coverage. I believe it used seven different channels for the 2006 Winter Olympics, and I recorded a goodly amount of it, and even watched most of it. (I decided that one curling match was all I ever needed to see, though I understand it's more fun to play than watch.)
But this year, there's even more channels showing stuff; and to top it all off, there's one 24-hour channel. Plus another couple of thousand hours of live streaming material on the website.
What I'd really like to do is to be able to pick one sport (archery, say), and watch all the coverage there is of it, sequentially. But I don't think there's any way to do that except to keep careful track of what's going on when and watch the live streaming video at the right time. And given the 13-hour time difference between China and here, "the right time" is probably not the right time for me. Especially on Monday, when I have to go back to work.
Instead, I've been watching just the coverage on the main NBC channel, which I'm not going to be able to keep up with. Today (IIRC), there was eight hours of coverage from 10 to 6 (swimming, cycling, gymnastics, volleyball, beach volleyball, and I forget what else), then four hours of primetime coverage from 7 to 11 (more of the same, but finals instead of semis, and higher-profile semifinals). I watched all 12 hours of that, fast-forwarding through the commercials (except for the United commercials, which are gorgeous, and the one with the dalmatian training the Budweiser horse, because it was cute and caught my eye) and the repeats of bits of the opening ceremonies, because I'd watched all 4.5 hours of that the night before.
And right now my DVR is recording NBC from 11:30 to 1 a.m. (which I assume will be a roundup of the day's events, so I may be able to fast-forward through that, unless it does what I'd like and does quickie coverage of all the stuff that I didn't see on NBC that day), and will continue with additional coverage from 1 to 4 or so (which I assume will be live coverage, given the time difference). And then there's another twelve hours tomorrow. Counting "tomorrow" as "when I wake up," I mean.
And so on. I don't need to see water polo, or boxing, and my tolerance for yachting is pretty limited, but I can get involved in just about any other Olympic sport for quite a while.
There just aren't enough hours in the day. Obviously, I should have arranged to take the next two weeks as vacation. Instead, I had eye surgery. See what lack of planning will get you?
During the last couple of Olympics, NBC has been expanding its coverage. I believe it used seven different channels for the 2006 Winter Olympics, and I recorded a goodly amount of it, and even watched most of it. (I decided that one curling match was all I ever needed to see, though I understand it's more fun to play than watch.)
But this year, there's even more channels showing stuff; and to top it all off, there's one 24-hour channel. Plus another couple of thousand hours of live streaming material on the website.
What I'd really like to do is to be able to pick one sport (archery, say), and watch all the coverage there is of it, sequentially. But I don't think there's any way to do that except to keep careful track of what's going on when and watch the live streaming video at the right time. And given the 13-hour time difference between China and here, "the right time" is probably not the right time for me. Especially on Monday, when I have to go back to work.
Instead, I've been watching just the coverage on the main NBC channel, which I'm not going to be able to keep up with. Today (IIRC), there was eight hours of coverage from 10 to 6 (swimming, cycling, gymnastics, volleyball, beach volleyball, and I forget what else), then four hours of primetime coverage from 7 to 11 (more of the same, but finals instead of semis, and higher-profile semifinals). I watched all 12 hours of that, fast-forwarding through the commercials (except for the United commercials, which are gorgeous, and the one with the dalmatian training the Budweiser horse, because it was cute and caught my eye) and the repeats of bits of the opening ceremonies, because I'd watched all 4.5 hours of that the night before.
And right now my DVR is recording NBC from 11:30 to 1 a.m. (which I assume will be a roundup of the day's events, so I may be able to fast-forward through that, unless it does what I'd like and does quickie coverage of all the stuff that I didn't see on NBC that day), and will continue with additional coverage from 1 to 4 or so (which I assume will be live coverage, given the time difference). And then there's another twelve hours tomorrow. Counting "tomorrow" as "when I wake up," I mean.
And so on. I don't need to see water polo, or boxing, and my tolerance for yachting is pretty limited, but I can get involved in just about any other Olympic sport for quite a while.
There just aren't enough hours in the day. Obviously, I should have arranged to take the next two weeks as vacation. Instead, I had eye surgery. See what lack of planning will get you?
