A New Twist - NBC Online Olympic Coverage For Vista Only
Blog Comment To download and watch the Olympic Games from NBC, Windows Vista Media Centre is required (Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate). However, it does appear that it will also be possible to steam video of the Olympic Games from MSN using Silverlight...
[July 4, 2008, 12:55]
A New Twist - NBC Online Olympic Coverage For Vista Only
Blog Comment M$ has to do everything it can to force people to use vista, as they aren't using it voluntarily. Seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot more often now-a-days, and I appreciate their efforts.
[July 25, 2008, 10:10]
A New Twist - NBC Online Olympic Coverage For Vista Only
Blog Comment I can't imagine anybody will folk out the hundreds of pounds on upgrading their OS just so they can download the olympic games. I get the feeling they chose the wrong event, the olympics are widely covered, the BBC will cover all events live and I...
[July 4, 2008, 18:27]
A New Twist - NBC Online Olympic Coverage For Vista Only
Blog Comment I think I'm going to hurl.
[July 1, 2008, 15:51]
A New Twist - NBC Online Olympic Coverage For Vista Only
Blog NBC are partnering with M$ to provide full online coverage of the Olymic Games in Beijing this summer but, wait for it, only for Windows Vista users. I just picked up this bit of news. Windows XP and earlier are excluded, as are Mac and Linux users.
[July 1, 2008, 15:26]
Web An Exhibition Sport At Olympics
News It won't be a gold medal event, instead more of an exhibition sport, but broadband will make its Olympic debut Saturday when, for the first time ever, NBC Webcasts highlights of Olympic events. The IOC sees this as more of a process of evolution...
[September 15, 2000, 15:31]
A Faster, Leaner Olympics Online
News Primary online coverage will be provided by MSNBC, a joint venture between NBC and Microsoft, which is hosting the official Olympics.com Web site. The bad news is that those sites were all hand-built -- you needed a small army of people to handle...
[February 9, 2002, 6:01]
Winning News From NBC At The Winter Olympics: New York, New York
White Papers The broadcast and full coverage of Olympic events and their resulting news stories as they happened required on-site access to editing and composing tools as well as the vast NBC database of video information.
[January 15, 2005, 2:00]
The IOC Gives The Web A Sporting Chance
News Giants like NBC can provide a track record and wallet size that online sports media can only dream about -- a massive portion of the $2.6bn in revenue the Sydney Olympics garnered came from the US broadcaster.
[February 4, 2002, 10:11]
Net Falls Short Of Olympic Gold
News NBC worries that Internet viewing would cannibalise its TV audience and jeopardise its ad deals," Scheirer wrote. The company garnered on average just 13.8 percent of US TV viewership--down 36 percent from the 1996 Atlanta games and 20 percent...
[May 29, 2001, 9:34]
Sydney 2000: Let The Games Begin
News Fri, 15 Sep 2000 NBC has teamed up with Phoenix start-up to break IOC-induced ban on anything Internet Behind the scenes: Olympic tech BBC World Service hit by Olympic restrictions Wendy McAuliffe investigates why the Net has effectively been...
[September 12, 2000, 16:21]
Applications Tone Up For Beijing Olympics
Blog In meetings with Microsoft last week I picked up on the fact that the Silverlight 2 Beta had been rolled out to specifically hit a time frame that would enable NBC to use the technology to support the 3000 hours of live and on-demand video content...
[July 25, 2008, 11:37]
Microsoft Silverlight Coming To Nokia Mobiles
News Microsoft has been signing on content partners to use Silverlight for media streaming, including MLB.com and online Olympic games broadcasting with NBC. Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia...
[March 4, 2008, 11:43]
