Two quick questions and a gripe about the Olympics.
1) Why do communist countries have to have "People's Republic" in their name? Who are they trying to fool?
2) It was great to see over 200 countries gathered together, having fun, acting peacefully, but then you had to think about everything else going on in the world today. Fundamentalists will try and disrupt the games. They will try and disrupt peace everywhere since it isn't the peace they want. Such a shame that there are people who are so diametrically opposed to peace and happiness that they feel the only way to advance their cause is through harm and destruction.
And a gripe...today on the NBC Olympic site, they had the opening ceremonies from 8p-12a on NBC. Fine - that's when they were. But they also showed them from 6p-10p on NBC HD. But upon closer inspection of my on-screen guide, the opening ceremonies were from 8p-12a on NBC HD. But then, when I turned it on at 8, they had highlights from 2002. The actual ceremonies didn't start until 9p and go until 1a. Also, while trying to watch the opening ceremonies in HD when they finally came on at 9, the picture kept flickering out, the audio would switch from the HD feed to the NBC feed of Costas and Couric and their banal drivel and to add insult to injury, they are only showing one commercial on the HD feed. Kudos to Sony for supporting the HD feed - but could you at least come up with more than one commercial that I have to watch 6 times an hour? Though...in one hour, having to only watch 6 commercials (3 minutes) is just fine by me - just annoying for it to be the same one every time.
Hopefully NBC can get their act together HD-wise for the rest of the games - though I'm not sure exactly what they're going to do. Basically, they're just repackaging the Olympic HD feed that goes out to all countries and just adding their own commentators since they were unable to get HD coverage of all major events this year - gee, NBC, guess the Olympics were just sprung on you and you had no time to prepare - right? At least for Turino in 2006, NBC has pledged to have their own HD coverage. But I'll believe that when I see it.
URL: INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHENS 2004
1) Why do communist countries have to have "People's Republic" in their name? Who are they trying to fool?
2) It was great to see over 200 countries gathered together, having fun, acting peacefully, but then you had to think about everything else going on in the world today. Fundamentalists will try and disrupt the games. They will try and disrupt peace everywhere since it isn't the peace they want. Such a shame that there are people who are so diametrically opposed to peace and happiness that they feel the only way to advance their cause is through harm and destruction.
And a gripe...today on the NBC Olympic site, they had the opening ceremonies from 8p-12a on NBC. Fine - that's when they were. But they also showed them from 6p-10p on NBC HD. But upon closer inspection of my on-screen guide, the opening ceremonies were from 8p-12a on NBC HD. But then, when I turned it on at 8, they had highlights from 2002. The actual ceremonies didn't start until 9p and go until 1a. Also, while trying to watch the opening ceremonies in HD when they finally came on at 9, the picture kept flickering out, the audio would switch from the HD feed to the NBC feed of Costas and Couric and their banal drivel and to add insult to injury, they are only showing one commercial on the HD feed. Kudos to Sony for supporting the HD feed - but could you at least come up with more than one commercial that I have to watch 6 times an hour? Though...in one hour, having to only watch 6 commercials (3 minutes) is just fine by me - just annoying for it to be the same one every time.
Hopefully NBC can get their act together HD-wise for the rest of the games - though I'm not sure exactly what they're going to do. Basically, they're just repackaging the Olympic HD feed that goes out to all countries and just adding their own commentators since they were unable to get HD coverage of all major events this year - gee, NBC, guess the Olympics were just sprung on you and you had no time to prepare - right? At least for Turino in 2006, NBC has pledged to have their own HD coverage. But I'll believe that when I see it.
URL: INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHENS 2004
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