Olympic Fever and HD Discontent



If you're NBC, I understand why you want to show soccer games live, even given the time difference between the US and China. This means that games run from 5:00am to about 5:00pm everyday. But do you know what the NBC Olympic Soccer Channel shows after 5? Nothing. Not a goddamn thing. No replays, no highlights, nothing. Not a sausage. The time which the majority of people are home watching television features not a single second of olympic soccer. They throw up a banner proclaiming that more games will be on the following day. 12 hours of a screensaver listing tomorrows games. Is it just me or is this fucked beyond belief? The basketball channel shows the same shit, which pisses me off almost as much... and I don't really even care about olympic basketball (which is a totally separate post).

As a consequence of this mindboggling schedule, Meg gets to watch every game, every day and I get to watch half of one. Bullshit, no? There's not really even a good official schedule as to when games are on. I found this one after a touch of searching which explains everything much more succinctly.

I will say that all the games are beautifully shot, and I've never enjoyed le foot more than viewing it in glorious HD.
- posted by Mason @ 5:21 PM