msnbc.msn.com— NBC is using the Olympics as a "billion-dollar research lab" to get a sense of how people are using different media platforms to experience the Beijing Games that begin Aug. 8.
Jul 7, 2008View in Crawl 4
They can hype it as much as they want. The Olympics will always suck. Nobody cares about s**t like that when we got the best sports leagues of all the best team sports right here in the US. (Except for soccer).
I could tell you how people are "using different media platforms to experience the Olympics", and I won't even charge you a billion dollars: They're using different media platforms to not watch the Olympics the same way they do with TV.
Given NBC's past performance, you're going to be able to use all sorts of media to watch the back stories of the athletes and very little of the actual games. With the problems that Victoria's Secret had with their show streaming attempts is NBC going to limit their streaming to just the US or are they going to try for worldwide? And yes I do realize that more people want to watch women parade around in their underwear than watch a bunch of people running around competing in events, but I'm still curious if NBC has taken possible worldwide viewership in to account.
Closed AccountJul 7, 2008
I'll use digg, and bury NBC links.
ivand67Jul 7, 2008
They can hype it as much as they want. The Olympics will always suck. Nobody cares about s**t like that when we got the best sports leagues of all the best team sports right here in the US. (Except for soccer).
Closed AccountJul 7, 2008
I could tell you how people are "using different media platforms to experience the Olympics", and I won't even charge you a billion dollars: They're using different media platforms to not watch the Olympics the same way they do with TV.
dmouratiJul 7, 2008
Olympics rule. I don't know what you naysayers are talking about.
Closed AccountJul 7, 2008
Given NBC's past performance, you're going to be able to use all sorts of media to watch the back stories of the athletes and very little of the actual games. With the problems that Victoria's Secret had with their show streaming attempts is NBC going to limit their streaming to just the US or are they going to try for worldwide? And yes I do realize that more people want to watch women parade around in their underwear than watch a bunch of people running around competing in events, but I'm still curious if NBC has taken possible worldwide viewership in to account.
minorthreatJul 8, 2008
then you would not be posting comments
artzyladyJul 8, 2008
Obviously NBC has figured it out. Good for them! The question is will the other major networks follow suit? Let's hope they will in our lifetime!
chayesfssAug 11, 2008
funny, they won't see me using a proxy and surfing over the the f**king BBC because silverlight f**king sucks ass