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February 22, 2006
Addictions
I'm an addict. I admit it. I've been openly embracing my addiction for the past week or so. My crutch? The Winter Olympics. All of it. I've never been a huge fan of ice skating, it's always seemed too artistic to me to be an Olympic sport. I've even been watching that.
I'm a little annoyed at the coverage provided by NBC though. First of all, their website is awful. Yeah it looks great, but under Safari, I have yet to be able to play a video from it. Second, even the videos are awful little snippets. Why can't NBC put a full clip or the entire event online for watching? I really don't think it's that hard a request, and you can even insert the same lame ads into it. Why do I want this? Because whoever the ad-genius at NBC is that decided to put curling on at 2 p.m. really needs to have his head examined. Curling, the event that took the US by storm at the last Olympics, is going no where this time because you can't see it! Everyone I know is at work when curling is on. The length of time it takes for a single stone to move is longer than the clip lengths NBC is providing online. It's awful!
At least Google Video is able to play the same clips a lot easier, clearer, and frankly with a better interface.
Now back to your regularly scheduled curling events...
Posted by Dan at February 22, 2006 01:35 AM