said by hescominsoon:wrong. The technology/horsepower/bandwidth..etc etc etc is in place. NBC streamed many nfl games in great full screen quality throughout the year. I know i watched several games on the nbc website in good full screen quality. The fact they screwed up the superbowl leads me to believe this was intentional.
It was not intentional. I work in the industry (in fact some of my former coworkers now work at 30 rock). We and any large media company would never do something like this intentionally. It just looks bad, and advertisers don't pay a lot of money for crappy streaming.