Oh The Pageantry!
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I hate the ceremony that surrounds events like the Olympics. It’s a bunch of staged crap that I couldn’t care less about. I say forgo the opening and closing ceremonies and just let us watch Americans win gold medals. What’s going to get somebody excited about the Olympics more: Michael Phelps winning eight gold medals or some parade with people carrying flags?
I believe the age of Video On Demand will evolve enough by the time of the next Olympics that we will be able to watch which ever ones we WANT to watch, when we want to watch it. With TiVo and HTPC and PVRs to the level they are at already, it will just be up to the networks to manage to provide streams of ALL the events for us to choose which ones to record.
As for the ceremonies, they wouldn’t be so bad if they had more to do with actual sport. Like I said, the runner carrying the torch with the images of past olympic greatness behind him was very cool.
I was stoked to see some water polo this year. The On Demand service that Comcast had sucked when it came to the coverage (only a few highlights instead of full water polo games).
I was getting a little tired of some of the items they kept sticking in prime-time.