As part of our personal mission living in New Zealand, we've opted not to hook up to cable or satellite television at home because, frankly, the scraps we get on the free-to-air networks are more than enough to cause brain atrophy.
When we first learned that a) the Olympics were coming, and b) they were coming to the free channel that we don't get, we were a bit bummed, but never fear, this is the internet age!
So, how did the internet experience stack up for watching such an event...
In short, it stinks. The technology is available, but we managed to see sporadic bits and pieces at best. The local sites (NZ) were slow. (sorry, I meant: sloooooooooow)
Not a problem! There's google, youtube, and countless other sites right? Well, yes and know. There were a lot of incomplete or just generally crappy bits published here and there.
As we reside outside the U.S., sites such as NBC are off limits to our browser's prying eyes (for streaming video), and we more or less missed the bulk of the action, catching up by reading online news articles or catching brief bits on the late night news.
It'd be splendid if the next hosts managed to put up some massive servers to serve up the various events in 2012!
When we first learned that a) the Olympics were coming, and b) they were coming to the free channel that we don't get, we were a bit bummed, but never fear, this is the internet age!
So, how did the internet experience stack up for watching such an event...
In short, it stinks. The technology is available, but we managed to see sporadic bits and pieces at best. The local sites (NZ) were slow. (sorry, I meant: sloooooooooow)
Not a problem! There's google, youtube, and countless other sites right? Well, yes and know. There were a lot of incomplete or just generally crappy bits published here and there.
As we reside outside the U.S., sites such as NBC are off limits to our browser's prying eyes (for streaming video), and we more or less missed the bulk of the action, catching up by reading online news articles or catching brief bits on the late night news.
It'd be splendid if the next hosts managed to put up some massive servers to serve up the various events in 2012!
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