[StrictlyRed]

Originally Posted by Mr.Humphries

Hopefully the rules will be relaxed and Sky can show some of the coverage live. They would do a better presenting job than the BBC imo.

............as long as it's on the BBC too I don't mind. I only have Freeview, can't afford those Sky packages.

I thought they had some pretty good presenters on BBC, although some awful ones too. John Inverdale and Matt Baker were two of my worst.

[Doghouse Riley]

Originally Posted by StrictlyRed

............as long as it's on the BBC too I don't mind. I only have Freeview, can't afford those Sky packages.

I thought they had some pretty good presenters on BBC, although some awful ones too. John Inverdale and Matt Baker were two of my worst.

I mentioned elsewhere that the games exposed a lot of the "usual suspects."

Many rely on a regimented format where everything they need to say is on the autocue and they have the questions pre-prepared. Often they would be working for no longer than an hour.
At these games some were working long shifts and were having to cope with some situations as they occurred.

Clare Balding did a good job, but make no mistake, a lot of research would have been done for her in advance and she had notes strewn all over the table in front of herself and Mark Foster. She'd be able to "bone up" from the notes between events in the pool.

In my opinion, Inverdale and Baker suffered from "the presenters curse" which afflicts some.
The inability to say nothing, when they really had nothing worthwhile to say. Neither of them have that admirable ability of some, who on occasions, can "talk rubbish with authority."

[howard h]

Originally Posted by Tiger Rose

Interesting one - the Winter Olympics have always held less interest to the massess than the Summer Games. If BBC can add chnnels relatively cheaply then no reason why they won't but if it costs them I'm not sure if they'd pay or not whereas i think they would for the Summer Games.

As a figure skating fan am thinking that the timings here will be good, early evening for the coverage. Much better than Vancouver which was in the middle of the night

I know that Moscow is 3 hours ahead of GMT not sure about Sochi or if that's different.

About timing - these days they tend to fix the timings to wherever the TV audience will be largest. Russian Champion's League games - and the KO's in Euro 2012 for that matter - KO nearer midnight than tea-time, so I wouldn't be surprised if the events where there would be a large western europe TV audience, such as speed-skating (Holland) take place later (in Socchi time) than one might expect.
Also later starts would suit the USA and Canadian TV - they could hit their tea-time audience with 2-3 hrs of live sports. Obviously they can't really move the downhills, which requires daylight (I suppose it could be floodlit) but I bet ski-jumping is done under lights to suit TV?

[klunk]

Originally Posted by bluesdiamond

I noticed in New Zealand and Australia that Sky and Foxtel offered about 8 channels.

With 24 channels (plus HD) is their a major cost for the feed to come from Brazil? Do they still do Satellite or wires under the sea? Just wondering what carriage cost is involved getting good definition pics from Brazil? Though we can use the quality the same.

As I understand it, the vast majority of data traffic between continents goes via undersea cable rather than satellite. Whether this includes TV pictures, I don't know, but I don't see why not. Satellite has very limited capacity in comparison, and it has high latency (delay) - it's a 45,000 mile round trip to the satellite.

[ninjahandfriend]

Originally Posted by Doghouse Riley

Have you seen the height of Corcovado?

http://www.paraconocer.com/wp-conten.../09/corco1.jpg

Yeah, but there is access by train & car if they can't be bothered to cycle up.

[JCR]

Originally Posted by bluesdiamond

I noticed in New Zealand and Australia that Sky and Foxtel offered about 8 channels.

With 24 channels (plus HD) is their a major cost for the feed to come from Brazil? Do they still do Satellite or wires under the sea? Just wondering what carriage cost is involved getting good definition pics from Brazil? Though we can use the quality the same.

ESPN UK have shown UFC shows live from Rio (and Japan & Australia) in HD before and the picture quality was fine.

[Doghouse Riley]

Originally Posted by ninjahandfriend

Yeah, but there is access by train & car if they can't be bothered to cycle up.

Don't put ideas into their heads!

[ninjahandfriend]

Originally Posted by Doghouse Riley

Don't put ideas into their heads!

I'd prefer it if they had to hike up Gávea rock!!