The Olympic Live Stream: Observations, Recommendations, Predictions

lpress writes "The Tour de France and the Olympics were live streamed on the Web. The BBC streamed 2,500 hours of live coverage of the Olympics and NBC streamed the entire Tour de France and 302 events from all 32 Olympic sports. I watched both events as a fan and as an observer of the online content and the network performance. I blogged detailed descriptions of my experience and summarized it in 12 observations and recommendations. The summary concludes with predictions about the way live events will be covered in the future — coverage of these events was an early step in a major shakeup of the way live events are produced, distributed and viewed."

Re:NBC wouldn't take my money!!!!!!!!

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I paid $10 to watch the games. To a VPN provider who had servers in the UK, so I watched it on BBC. Beforehand, yeah, I would have paid $10 for access. After seeing how the BBC covered the games though, and hearing how NBC covered them, I don't think I would give NBC money for their chattering over future olympic games.