The Loose Change

Watching the Olympics on NBCOlympics.com

August 11th, 2008

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

Entry Filed under: Tennis