And you don’t have to use Silverlight, there is a “proceed without plug-in” option.
I find the picture is sharper without Silverlight, and it doesn’t skip or buffer.
I have the opposite experience - without the plug in I get a lot of starts and stops and buffering and the quality is way worse. Silverlight on my Mac is perfect. At work I am on a PC and I am not allowed to download anything, so I watch without the plug in and I have ended up listening for knock downs instead of being able to see them. 
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It’s great so many of you can get the live feed but for those of us with Mac’s we aren’t able to. Don’t you think someone like NBC could figure out how to make it available for Mac users too. I would love to watch the live feed. I watched the Oxygen channel, I also video taped it, saw only 2 horses go. I might have missed others since I was switching channels. How long was the Equestrian on?[/QUOTE]
I have a Mac and I have no problem.
Is there anyone else out there enjoying the whining of those with old MAcs who can’t get the live feed? After years of “Macs are better” “No viruses” “Easier to use” “You dummies with PC’s”…
Update your MAc and stop whining… Or get a PC.
By my calculations, they showed 80 minutes of show jumping last night on Oxygen. Complete rounds. Decent commentary, considering that the commentary was recorded live so there was a lot of repetition of some info.
Thanks, NBC
Commentary - refresh my brain please
In some of the show jumping commentary as Beezie Madden was going they mentioned she was part of the US Gold Medal Team in Athens but did not get the medal until later because of some debate w/ the results and Germany - I knew there was a the show jumping debate w/ Medals in Eventing w/ Bettina Hoy so the medals were switched around but was there another problem w/ Germany in show jumping ?
Yes. Ludger Beerbaum’s horse tested positive for a banned steroid. Probably unintentional, and almost certainly no effect on the outcome, but there are rules…
Beach Volleyball-women in bikinis
Keep in mind that the people that laugh at Equestrian Sports are shoving Women’s Beach Volleyball in our faces day in and day out. Could it be the very tall women in bikinis? :rolleyes:
Ha I just looked it up online - first time I did a search came back w/ wacky stuff - then did another one and it showed up . Wow to think that in 2004 both Eventing and Show Jumping Germany lost their Gold - lets hope all goes well for everyone in 2008!
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Is there anyone else out there enjoying the whining of those with old MAcs who can’t get the live feed? After years of “Macs are better” “No viruses” “Easier to use” “You dummies with PC’s”…
Update your MAc and stop whining… Or get a PC.
By my calculations, they showed 80 minutes of show jumping last night on Oxygen. Complete rounds. Decent commentary, considering that the commentary was recorded live so there was a lot of repetition of some info.
Thanks, NBC[/QUOTE]
Yes…I am laughing and considering sending this info on to my step-sister - confirmed Apple. My brother and I are confirmed IBM compatible users. So it is a bit of a family rivalry/joke.
OH, and someone said ‘189 minutes of volleyball’. Show jumping the other night, stadium and cross country for eventing. Each about 80 minutes. That means 240 minutes of equestrian sports.
Beach Volleyball - like the other team sports - will have heats and games. That means more playing time. Team A vs. Team B - go on to the next level. All the way up until you have only two teams battling it out for gold and silver. Equestrian sports in the Olympics don’t have that. So overall, there is going to be less air time for Equestrian Sports.
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It’s great so many of you can get the live feed but for those of us with Mac’s we aren’t able to. Don’t you think someone like NBC could figure out how to make it available for Mac users too. I would love to watch the live feed. I watched the Oxygen channel, I also video taped it, saw only 2 horses go. I might have missed others since I was switching channels. How long was the Equestrian on?[/QUOTE]
Maybe this has been addressed already, but I have a Mac (a little over 2 year old) and I have no problems watching the live feed with Safari. Neither do the other people I know who use theirs to watch the online videos.
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Is there anyone else out there enjoying the whining of those with old MAcs who can’t get the live feed? After years of “Macs are better” “No viruses” “Easier to use” “You dummies with PC’s”…
Update your MAc and stop whining… Or get a PC.
By my calculations, they showed 80 minutes of show jumping last night on Oxygen. Complete rounds. Decent commentary, considering that the commentary was recorded live so there was a lot of repetition of some info.
Thanks, NBC[/QUOTE]
I don’t think people with older PCs can use it either.
This arrangement with Silverlight is clearly a play by Microsoft to increase their marketshare with their new video player, and to get some power away from open standards, and to force/encourage people to upgrade to new hardware and Vista. That’s how Microsoft makes money, by finding ways to make your perfectly usable old computer unusable.
Since you enjoy whining, 
I’ll whine that since I foolishly entered my correct zipcode, which corresponds to the San Francisco media market, I get my feed plastered with inopportune commercials that none of the rest of you see. So for example, Beezie Madden started on course, jumped two or three fences, and then I had an ad… and then they were on the next horse when it returned to the live feed.
I figure my ad views are paying for the feed for the rest of you, so there.
As earlier stated, when we’re in contention for a medal they tend to move the coverage to the network - but actually I far prefer it on the cable channel. When it goes to the network, they tend to make it more fluffy and they show fewer riders in total. On the cable channel, they’re happy to show us the Egyptian rider et al.
How 'bout this for a spin on the “why this sport over that” on tv:
Besides the fact that some are a majority favorite and some happen to be a kick arse team of likely gold medalists, what about the days and times related to the country these sports are taking place in??
In other words, it just so happens that China is 12 hrs ahead of the US so that means 7 pm there is 7 am here (east coast at least). On top of that, they are also performing equestrian events on the same days gymnastics and beach volley ball and swimming are taking place.
If the equestrian events didn’t start until the 2nd week or something like that, we might find ourselves getting even more coverage as it’s certainly a bigger draw than many other events.
Unfortunately, having so many rounds and overall events crammed into 2 weeks doesn’t allow for optimum tv scheduling. What can you do about that?? Nothing. Just be happy with what you do have 
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I figure my ad views are paying for the feed for the rest of you, so there. ;)[/QUOTE]
Thank you for your sacrifice, I haven’t had any commercials. Next time, I offer my zip code for you to use.
I happily watched the Danish feed while simultaneously listening to the CBC feed on my Mac mini this morning. The little guy (all 7"x2"x7") of him was probably working hard to stream both videos at once, give me a nice piccy on my big ol’ monitor and run about a half dozen web pages, but gosh, there was not a fan noise to be heard from him. 
Having said that, I did need to fart about to update QuickTime before the CBC feed would work properly for me. I think, though, that us Mac users are so used to just plugging crap in and having it work/load/function without a problem that when something demanding coddling comes along we become stymied. You PC users are used to having to molly coddle your computers along.
Good luck with the letter writing.:winkgrin: I hope y’all get hours of equestrian sports from London in 2012. I truly do.
Fenway Park sells out for every game. Long before the actual date.
If you put showjumping in the park would every performance be a sell out? How about an hour of dressage, an hour of showjumping, and an hour of regular conformation hunters? Would that sell 40,000 hot dogs and 1 million gallons of Budweiser?
I love equestrian sports too, but the masses don’t want to watch 4 hours of A K E H C M B F… It IS seen as elitist.
The weanie women doing their floor exercises was amazing to watch! :eek: I might be easily tempted to change channels if they were on against equestrian sports.
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The weanie women doing their floor exercises was amazing to watch! :eek: I might be easily tempted to change channels if they were on against equestrian sports.[/QUOTE]
Did you watch the weight lifting?!?
Teeny tiny women lifting bar bells that looked heavier than them above their heads! It was amazing! They looks about 5’2" and 150 lbs or something - just small people lifting a bar bell that weighed over 200 lbs.
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Still don’t get the beach volleyball thing. The horses are wearing less and are much more attractive :)[/QUOTE]
I don’t either! The women don’t even have boobs!!! So what is the center of attraction? Butt cracks? Please enlighten me too!
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He also mentioned that no one at NBC really knows anything about equestrian[/QUOTE]
As far as I can tell no one at NBC knows anything about any sports, period.
The swimming commentary was hilarious: “so, it’s really very important that they get off the blocks quickly and that they reach the end as fast as possible”. No shit? And they only show the US competitors. That makes me INSANE.
The further NBC is from any sport I’m interested in the better.
Oxygen is doing a great job of showing the horse stuff for a US station, imho. There are no 20 minute segments on Chinese cooking (I want to slap that NBC woman silly.) You get to see competitors from other countries even silly, small countries that no one cares about! LOSERS, I mean Americans who fail to win gold, are not hounded by news anchors trying to make them cry. It’s all good.
They should give it to HBO or ESPN next time. They know how to do sports.
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Maybe this has been addressed already, but I have a Mac (a little over 2 year old) and I have no problems watching the live feed with Safari. Neither do the other people I know who use theirs to watch the online videos.[/QUOTE]
Did you have a problem today with a highly jerky video feed? Mine froze and the horse kept on snorting along so I knew the sound was being covered. Whole rides were a series of still frames. I have a brand new intel chip in a very sweet new mac, so newness was not a factor.
I had to hotfoot it over to my friend’s house who has a PC and I watched on her PC just fine.
Crap, I had mine all poised on my TV with a cable and it was fine for the Eventing.
I think Silverlight sux.
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