Just finished watching the Opening Ceremony for this years Olympics on NBC. I think we (the U.S.) are one of the last people in the world to see the ceremony due to the time difference (12-14 hours) and NBC not releasing the video until Friday night (Saturday morning in China). Sure I could have watched the opening ceremony on Youtube, but why would I watch a crappy flash video when I can watch it on TV in HD.
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen the ceremonies yet and don’t want it spoiled, do not read on!
The commercials are annoying. There seems to be a 5 minute commercial for every 10 minutes of videos. Then when the athletes come in, they break for the “smaller” countries while staying for the larger ones. Since this is pre-recorded 12 hours ago, do they really need to time the commercials? Oh well, NBC wants to make their profit.
Speaking of annoying commercials, at least there were some good ones. The Budweiser commercial with the training horse was hilarious. After looking it up on Youtube, looks like it was actually a commercial made for the SuperBowl. Oh well, still good nonetheless. Another funny one was the Comcast/Mario Kart commercial. At first I thought it was a Nintendo commercial. Turns out it was just a commercial for the Comcast/Wii promotion.
In regards to the show, it was amazing! The chinese performers were amazing. The coordination with all the performances were stunning. The pyrotechnics and technologies used in the show were awe-inspiring. The finale left me speechless! Thank goodness this was all in HD!
One of the things I like todo is watch what kind of gadgets the athletes use when they walk into the stadium. There were lots of camcorders and cameras. Saw some iPod headphones, although why the guy had them on, I have no idea. I saw a couple of Nokia N95‘s as well. Neat!
Those girls dancing/cheering the athletes coming in must have super endurance. Dancing/cheering for ~2 hours in 90 degrees heat (so says the NBC guys). You can see them getting tired 30 minutes in. But all that was gone once the China athletes came in.
Well that was great. Now for 16 more days of HD-sports goodness!
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Olympics 2008
Just finished watching the Opening Ceremony for this years Olympics on NBC. I think we (the U.S.) are one of the last people in the world to see the ceremony due to the time difference (12-14 hours) and NBC not releasing the video until Friday night (Saturday morning in China). Sure I could have watched the opening ceremony on Youtube, but why would I watch a crappy flash video when I can watch it on TV in HD.
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen the ceremonies yet and don’t want it spoiled, do not read on!
The commercials are annoying. There seems to be a 5 minute commercial for every 10 minutes of videos. Then when the athletes come in, they break for the “smaller” countries while staying for the larger ones. Since this is pre-recorded 12 hours ago, do they really need to time the commercials? Oh well, NBC wants to make their profit.
Speaking of annoying commercials, at least there were some good ones. The Budweiser commercial with the training horse was hilarious. After looking it up on Youtube, looks like it was actually a commercial made for the SuperBowl. Oh well, still good nonetheless. Another funny one was the Comcast/Mario Kart commercial. At first I thought it was a Nintendo commercial. Turns out it was just a commercial for the Comcast/Wii promotion.
In regards to the show, it was amazing! The chinese performers were amazing. The coordination with all the performances were stunning. The pyrotechnics and technologies used in the show were awe-inspiring. The finale left me speechless! Thank goodness this was all in HD!
One of the things I like todo is watch what kind of gadgets the athletes use when they walk into the stadium. There were lots of camcorders and cameras. Saw some iPod headphones, although why the guy had them on, I have no idea. I saw a couple of Nokia N95‘s as well. Neat!
Those girls dancing/cheering the athletes coming in must have super endurance. Dancing/cheering for ~2 hours in 90 degrees heat (so says the NBC guys). You can see them getting tired 30 minutes in. But all that was gone once the China athletes came in.
Well that was great. Now for 16 more days of HD-sports goodness!
This entry was posted on August 8, 2008, 10:32 pm and is filed under Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.