Mike
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join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
clubs:   | plus one thing
A big load of interwebs users, the americans, barely give a crap about the Olympics enough to watch it on TV.... yet alone on the internet. |
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Madtown
join:2008-04-26
Madera, CA
| said by Mike  :A big load of interwebs users, the americans, barely give a crap about the Olympics enough to watch it on TV.... yet alone on the internet. I don't think I watched much of it anyways. |
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BabyBear
Keep wise ...with Night-Owl
join:2007-01-11 | reply to Mike
Sure thing, I barely was interested in it enough to catch Phelps. Which was great to see, just hope he doesn't sell his soul to Nike. |
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wentlanc
You Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH | reply to Mike
And what tripe are you basing those assumptions on?
cw |
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SLD
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join:2002-04-17 | reply to Mike
Yeah, I stopped watching just before Coca Cola purchased the Olympics a few games ago. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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|  Further Proof
This is just further proof that if engineered correctly, the Internet can be used as a distribution method very successfully. This is why the Cable Co's and ILECs (AT&T anyway) are scared. Limelight didn't have a connection to my regional ILEC, so I hit an NTT server a few hops off Verizon Business yet streaming was excellent.
The content distribution networks are in place to do this sort of thing, especially if it's a controlled ramp up. NBC just served 3.4 million streams with no hiccups. Imagine if they had years to test and perfect a system like this. The Comcast's/Time Warner's would have a fit. Which is why they are introducing caps now. |
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Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
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join:2004-01-06
Sweden
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 ·Optimum Online
| reply to Mike
Re: plus one thing
said by Mike :A big load of interwebs users, the americans, barely give a crap about the Olympics enough to watch it on TV.... yet alone on the internet. Well you're certainly wrong with me... Probably the best thing on network television right now.... All those "shows" on TV suck. I have no interest really in watching it on the internet though. Don't make assumptions. Okay?
-Tzale
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Tarheels Fan
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join:2006-01-05
1 edit | reply to BabyBear
Yes, b/c you or anyone else would turn down a multi-million dollar contract from Nike. Get Real, I hope he makes as much money as he can from his efforts. |
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Tarheels Fan
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join:2006-01-05
1 edit | reply to SLD
You prefer Pepsi?  |
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SLD
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join:2002-04-17 | LOL! |
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BabyBear
Keep wise ...with Night-Owl
join:2007-01-11 | reply to Tarheels Fan
If he does sell his soul to the corporate devil, we can have a contest on who has the more Nike Swooshtikas on his person, Phelps or Tiger Woods. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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| reply to SLD
said by SLD :Yeah, I stopped watching just before Coca Cola purchased the Olympics a few games ago. Coke had a few commercials, but nothing like the Atlanta games. The Atlanta games were so bad because that is where Coke started and where their current headquarters are. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
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said by BabyBear :If he does sell his soul to the corporate devil, we can have a contest on who has the more Nike Swooshtikas on his person, Phelps or Tiger Woods. How many times before the Olympics did you see or hear about Michael Phelps? Swimming doesn't have 1/100th the national exposure as golf, so I'd give it 6 months and Michael Phelps will fade in (relative) obscurity. |
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Mari
@garfieldgroup.com
| ...But you need a CDN
Of course the system didn't crash. You're talking about video that ran on a *private* fiber optic network and only hit the Internet over the last mile when it was specifically requested. But that costs money. It's not the free public Internet at work. |
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ElJay
join:2004-03-17 | reply to Mike
Re: plus one thing
Not helping was NBC's decision to prevent full screen videos from being shown. I know they want people to watch TV for the $$$$$$$$$, but this limitation on the online video worked against it. |
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BabyBear
Keep wise ...with Night-Owl
join:2007-01-11
1 edit | reply to Matt
said by Matt :How many times before the Olympics did you see or hear about Michael Phelps? Swimming doesn't have 1/100th the national exposure as golf, so I'd give it 6 months and Michael Phelps will fade in (relative) obscurity. The same number of times I heard of any Olympic athlete outside of basketball(and tennis), 0. But that doesn't mean there can't be a year or so of "Phelpsmania".
At least for a little while Phelps is bigger than Hockey(excluding Canada).  |
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tiger72
SexaT duorP
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join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
clubs: | reply to Mike
The Olympics are pulling in more viewers than any olympics since '92. 30 million viewers a day, and a 30 share...
In other words, Americans do give a crap this year. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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·Comcast
|  Limelight's system delivered the goods w/o using p2p
»blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9221
Limelight runs an awesome distributed system, proving that P2P isn't needed to distribute content, when the company is legit and their business plan isn't based on ripping off the ISPs. |
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meh37
@verizon.net
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Re: plus one thing
Your "assumption" is better than his? (No statistics = neither is right, neither is wrong... both are just generalizations based on personal preferences)
Personally, I think nothing on commercial TV is worth watching. The fallacy of ads is that those who place them think they're noticed by more than a very small percentage of viewers; they're being paid for, however, by ALL viewers in higher prices for everything they buy. You couldn't pay me to watch this stuff. |
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drew
Reformation
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join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
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·wavebroadband
|  2% Nonsense
So, I have a question for ZDNet:
Regardless of the quantity of videos, there's something no one is mentioning. How much data (per bit, byte, whatever) is being sent?
NBCOlympics.com quality > YouTube quality.
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