Comments on: Poll: What’s Your Take on NBC’s Online Olympics Coverage?

By: U.S. Trade Representative Worried About Live Sports Piracy

U.S. Trade Representative Worried About Live Sports Piracy — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:01:30 +0000

[...] to watch the games online. We did an admittedly completely unscientific poll earlier this year, and ten percent of our readers told us that they used P2P services, live streaming sites or proxy servers to follow the [...]

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By: Raises Hand

Raises Hand — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:39:04 +0000

Odd, our entire company is mac based (50+ employees) and pretty much across the board Silverlight's performance handily trumps that of Adobe Flash.

By: Madman459

Madman459 — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:31:12 +0000

I am a Mac user too, though I already had Silverlight installed.

It's brutal. With nothing running except for my browser, and that only having the window playing the video, Silverlight used 130% (out of a possible 200, dual core intel processor) of my processor capacity. Trying to watch two video streams rendered them both jerky and unwatchable. At one point, it crashed my Mac with a kernal panic and I haven't watched any video there since.

Having to jump through the authorization hoops in order to have this miserable viewing experience only added insult to injury.

Silverlight is horrible and I will forever go out of my way to not use it again.

By: macdad

macdad — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:31:52 +0000

My efforts to view Olympic coverage of a couple of events that I missed when they were late on cable TV were met with this admonition from NBC: "You're one simple step from... Clicking the button above will upgrade your browser with the latest version of Microsoft Silverlight." This is unacceptable to me to have to download a M$ product to watch a video on my Mac.

Past Olympics had published schedules so that viewers were able to watch events when they occurred as well as to plan their viewing times. $$$