NBC to shoot 3600 hours of 2008 Olympics, many in HD
If you thought 416 hours of Winter Olympic Games coverage was a bit much, the 3,600 hours (that's 150 days worth, folks) that NBC-Universal will be recording next year will seem like overkill in its finest form. Sure enough, it will supposedly be covering every facet of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing from August 8 - 24, 2008, and a variety of networks including NBC, USA, MSNBC, and CNBC will be carrying its programming. Notably, it will be displaying Olympics in HD on Universal-HD, NBC HD, and USA HD, and while the exact amount of HD coverage wasn't stated, even a fraction of the 3,600 hour total would be mighty impressive.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
humpty @ Aug 10th 2007 11:10AM
.... and, unless you're only interested in seeing the USA Team all the time (unless they are competing against another country), this is irrelevant given NBC's past Olympic coverage.
domerdel @ Aug 10th 2007 11:21AM
I hope they don't make the same mistake they did during the 06 winter olympics when they delayed footage, to show it prime time the following evening.
Michael @ Aug 10th 2007 1:21PM
Of course they'll delay stuff...you think they're going to do all that work to show it all at like 2am?
On a side note, I didn't even know there's a USA-HD, haha.
domerdel @ Aug 10th 2007 1:27PM
@Michael:
I don't object to showing it delayed, but I object at NOT showing it at 2am. Of course I want to see if I'm up I want to catch a glimpse rather than Hide from newspapers to see the results. It's like someone spoiling the end to a movie, and the next day you go watch it.
Big Sam @ Aug 10th 2007 2:00PM
Does USA-HD even exist yet? I'm tired of watching The 4400 in SD.
pipe912 @ Aug 10th 2007 3:33PM
Is that the new logo???
where is the ugly one? thank god they change it
david @ Aug 10th 2007 6:29PM
3600 hours of TV I wouldn't watch in SD or HD.
JBDragon @ Aug 11th 2007 2:02AM
I liked the 06 Winter Olympics in HD, because on the HD channel, it hardly had any commercials unlike the normal SD channel. Also showing all the Scenery all over in HD, that was almost worth watching even more. At least to me. I hope the Scheduling of Events is worked out better though. Plus this time I have a Dual HD Tuner, so I can just let it record and then FF though all the garbage I don't want to sit though this time. I hated when I wanted to watch the 1 Main event that was suppose to be on, and yet I had to set though 10 others during the program also that I didn't want to watch. Can't they have say Speed Skating at one time all at once for a Hour, and then Next Hour something else, and the Next hour something else, etc. With many people having DVR's, you can pick and Record the Parts of the Olympics that your Interested it and not have to bother with the stuff your not. With the Major Draw events played during prime time hours and the much less popular events at 4AM or whatever. With a DVR you can record it, and for those that don't have one, at least the Popular events are during prime time.
The way they did it last time was just so annoying. It's like wanting to watch a Football Game, and every 10 minute or so, start showing a Drama for 5 minutes, back to the Football for 10 minutes, then a different Drama, and of course between all that, Commercials. Really, WHO WANTS THAT??? I want to watch the Football game and could care less with all that DRAMA Show garbage.
JeffDM @ Aug 12th 2007 12:59AM
It almost seems like they should be able to shoot most of it in HD. The main exception that I can think of is if they have some sort of super compact camera where there isn't an HD version in that size.
ghostdoggy @ Aug 12th 2007 1:50PM
Why shoot any of it in SDTV? Seriously, consumers can go buy an HD-capable camcorder for under $1500 but NBC can't?
dan @ Aug 12th 2007 3:40PM
The "hd" camcorders available under $1500 are nothing like $50,000 broadcast quality eng cameras they would probably use to provide coverage.
They probably won't be able to broadcast all of it in hd because of the cost of the cameras, post production equipment, and satellite bandwidth required to televise 3600 hours of hd programming for just this one event.