Olympics 2008

[libraryvixen]

I enjoy the Olympics. It reminds me of traveling to Indonesia for vacations when I was a kid. The trips always conincided with the Olympics. When I was missing home, I could watch the sports events on foreign televisions and feel comforted.

I love to watch synchronized swimming. It's amusing to me!

[Ghoulish Delight]

So we were trying to set up a keyword wishlist on our TiVo to catch as much of the olympics as we could. It became apparent that several of our favorite shows refuse to have the good graces to stop airing new content while the Olympics are running, so, even with 2 tuners, we were running into a LOT of conflicts.

Then it hit me...it costs all of $10 extra per month to get Time Warner's HD DVR. Hell, that's a fraction of the cost of triple-cast, it's in HD, and replayable whenever I want. And if I understand everything correctly, there's no fee to get it and no penalty to just return it at any time. So if we just do that, problem solved (assuming I'm right about no fees or penalties, and I'm pretty sure I am).

Now, the real question is whether we'll be able to resist just keeping the extra DVR, especially since it's HD (though if it's as sucky as the last Time Warner DVR we had, it'll be easier to send it back).

[Kevy Baby]

Before we got our HD TiVo, we had the TW HD DVR. Even though we've had the TiVo for a while, we still have the TW unit as well. Every once in a while, it comes in handy. And since it too (like the TiVo) can record two shows at once, we have the capacity to record up to FOUR HD (or SD) shows at once (although we've never gone beyond three and that was only once).

[BDBopper]

As far as The Olympics go I usually only watch the Ceremonies and the team sports.

[blueerica]

I love the Olympics - though I prefer to simply watch the athletics, the backstory crap isn't a massive turn off.

And, this sort of thing tends to motivate me to work out longer, better, more consistently. Not sure why - probably just watching all the athletes makes me a bit conscious of my own physical fitness.

[Morrigoon]

I'd like them more if we could see more of the events and not just "the events USA medaled in"

[scaeagles]

Gotta love China - "That's not pollution - it's only mist!".

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're not the Chinese people who must believe what they are told, or at least not question it, or face imprisonment.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Gotta love China - "That's not pollution - it's only mist!".

They must have learned from Los Angeleans.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

We're not the Chinese people who must believe what they are told, or at least not question it, or face imprisonment.

No, not yet... But give the Republicans time...

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

We're not the Chinese people who must believe what they are told, or at least not question it, or face imprisonment.

No, we are the people who will have to make political protest inside Freedom Cages far from observation.



China's got us beat ... but only by degree.



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I like all the things about the Olympics that €uro does, and i agree with Alex that the ceremonies would be far, far and far better live. But i remember when the Winter Olympics came to Utah, the opening and closing ceremonies were way beyond my means.


So i content myself with TV as a poor man's substitute. I can tolerate it ... but what I cannot stomach is being told what I'm about to see in 10 seconds throughout the entire 4 hours of the ceremony. Gak.