So the highly publicized M$ Silverlight based viewer for the online Olympics footage is inconvenient at best and painful at worst. I’ve crashed it twice already. The much publicized ‘view 4 events at once’ is useless because rather than splitting the display 4 ways, you are in a sort of ‘video control room’ where the images are less than tiny.
I’m trying to watch the women’s fencing from last night and your choices are basically watch it or not. There is a slider that might theoretically allow you to move around in the broadcast. Just like in Media Player, the slider is about 3 inches long, this wouldn’t be a big problem if the broadcast weren’t 3+ hours long. So the smallest adjustment in the slider is about 7-10 minutes. How hard would it be to have a finer adjustment?
Oh, and as expected, you’re forced to watch a commercial before the viewer actually goes active to watch the event itself.
I suppose I shouldn’t complain TOO much, after all, I wouldn’t be able to see any events other than gymnastics, swimming and basketball if it weren’t for the online feed.
Amusing note: The theme from The Rock was playing in the background before the first bout.
