Watching the Olympics on NBCOlympics.com
I don’t have a TV in my office, just my desktop PC. So watching TV is something of a luxury. I had an old TV tuner on my old desktop, but haven’t risked plugging it into my new one and VISTA. Everything is working just fine now and I am not interested in spending hours to fix it. Plus you have to split the cable (one side for the internet, the other for the TV).
So instead, I go without. And if you’ll see my last post I hooked up my laptop to my HDTV in my living room, so I have some of the angles covered.
However, NBCOlympics.com makes it dead simple to watch TV online. I went to the site, plugged in the Microsoft Silverlight Plugin and I did have problems with the intro video pausing. But then I switched to a channel, for example, now I am watching tennis, Raphael Nadal even, and here’s a screen shot of how it looks.
So far it’s been running smoothly and this way I can work on my main monitor and watch/listen to the video on the other monitor. Obviously, I have dual monitors setup. Which I highly recommend. The video also is opens up in a new window, so you can move it around put it wherever you want.
There is also a commentary text button which allows you keep up to date with the announcers. It’s kinda interesting watching a match and not hearing Dick Enberg or Johnny Mac rattle on about various things. Just the players and the stadium noise.
So if you get a chance and want to keep up with the olympics, maybe you’re at work or something, you can just tune in and run it in a different window and it shouldn’t affect your work too much 
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