NBC Olympics Online Coverage
August 10th, 2008
I learned about NBC’s plans to offer extensive online video coverage of the Olympics at the Microsoft Server 2008 launch event earlier this year. It’s definitely impressive. I’ve used IE and Firefox and had no problem (I already had Silverlight installed). I’m especially impressed with the “Live Video Control Room” that lets you follow 4 events at one time, swapping them between the big windows and the small windows.
If you’re watching video and trying to find the Control Room, click on “Enlarge video” and then the Control Room icon:
ABC News report about aged tires
August 4th, 2008
Or see on ABC News site here: abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4826897
Mediterranean Cable Break
February 2nd, 2008
On January 30, several submarine cables were severed in the Mediterranean Sea just north of Alexandria, Egypt.
You can read more about it on the Renesys blog and the BBC, and read more about submarine cables at TeleGeography.com.
Bummer. When I went to the NBC site, they told me that they were not allowed to show it to computers outside the USA. That means I have to watch only the coverage here which doesn’t show the USA events unless they are competing against an Aussie.