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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mr. E @ Jul 9th 2008 11:13AM
"With a couple HD DVRs, you ought to have no troubles at all." Well, only if that 3,600 hours includes a LOT of repeats (which I'm sure it does). Fortunately I'm really only interested in a fairly small set of events, so I'll be able to manage with my one HD TiVo.
Big Wizz @ Jul 9th 2008 11:15AM
I don't know if my work's network team is going to like all the bandwidth I'm going to eat up in August...
Landlocked @ Jul 9th 2008 3:10PM
I've always wanted to see Chinese smog in HD!
riverside_guy @ Jul 9th 2008 3:13PM
Crime Warner has just announced that it's contract with Universal HD is up and it could be dropped at any point.
Meaning that this up-until-now-part-of-the-digital package channel will undoubtedly be put on a pay tier.
Except in Manhattan, NYC, where I anticipate it will be dropped completely.
Doc @ Jul 9th 2008 7:05PM
Who cares? HD or not the Olympics are a F'ing joke IMO!!
LenSp @ Jul 9th 2008 9:35PM
My interest in the Olympics has dropped to almost nil. The inability to guarantee drug-free winners took all the fun out of it for me back in the 90's.
Plus, the increasing reliance on the pre-made soap operas about the athletes bores me to tears. Most top-notch athletes are obsessive jerks. The less I know about them, the greater the chance I might actually root for them.
And with the totalitarian-loving IOC putting the Olympics back in a nasty dictatorship again, I'm not really in the mood for a giant NBC-run Chicom love-fest. How many stories will they run about the wonders of the People's Liberation Army's earthquake relief efforts? And how friendly those Chinese cops are -- at least when no nasty Tibetans or freedom-loving Chinese protesters are around?
I can't even get excited about Phelps either -- the new swimming suits render any new world records as meaningless inflation.
Unless there's another Tienamen Square beatdown or the pollution starts killing tourists and athletes by the hundreds, I won't watch anything with one exception. The marathons might be entertaining just to watch runners bleeding from their lungs in the second half of the run.
Andrew @ Jul 10th 2008 1:31AM
Wow that is crazy, if you look at the schedule, there is only one half hour period every 24 hours when no Olympics are being televised!