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Olympics walking thru on NBC now!

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Originally posted by: MacBaine
Tell me again when people actually care about the olympics.
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while i know few people care about them. I am very excited. i love watching armature wrestling and judo. I just wish it was on TV more. bah
 
I'm impressed so far. The only I'm getting tired of is that they keep showing the same HD commercial. It's getting old.
 
i double that motion.

c'mon suprnova. no way am i going to sit and watch this long boring show live!

btw, anybody have any idea how many people int he world were watching?
 
Originally posted by: thatsright
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: Skiguy411
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Tell me again when people actually care about the olympics.
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Is there any other event where this many people from different countries join together?
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World Wars...
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Sick. But O so true!!
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rofl...sorry, i found that to be funny in a dark way. 🙂



but yeah, that flame does actually look like a joint ahahhahahaha.


and yes, i must say the archer lit of the flame in '92 was the best presentation of the flame being lit.
 
I captured it in HD, scaling/transcoding will take awhile.

EDIT: By "awhile", I mean a LONG FRICKIN' TIME. Possibly all day.
 
Originally posted by: welst10
Originally posted by: mobobuff
But I wish we had slightly less obnoxious announcers. Maybe people a little more informative, less propaganda, and a little more suave.
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you're right. Katie Couric isn't exactly the best choice for hosting this. They should get someone specialized in world geography and affairs.
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But she's soooooooooooo cuuuttee!!!!! 😀
 
It looked nice in HD, but did any HD viewers note any pixilation in fast moving scenes? Looked like either my local NBC, or NBC national was compressing the image a bit too much. It was like the compression you see on DirecTV HD, but a little worse.

Also, what is up with China "demading" that Taiwan call itself "Chinese Taipei?"
 
Except during football season, I watch less than 2 hours of TV a week. Sometimes I'll catch Nova and/or Frontline or other PBS show and double my weekly average. But for the next 2+ weeks, I'm going to be watching a lot of TV - I really enjoy the Olympics.
 
electrode i think you accidentally linked the torrent wrong, it ended with .avi instead of .torrent
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what did you use to record and transcode?
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
what did you use to record and transcode?
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To record: dtvstream -i /dev/dtv -o out.ts -c 7 -p 2 -m 304
To transcode: mencoder -ss 2170 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lameopts vbr=2:q=0:aq=0:mode=0 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq=4:vbitrate=1800 -af channels=2 -vf scale=-2:480 -o out.avi out.ts out2.ts

pcHDTV HD-2000 DTV card, big freakin' antenna on the roof.
 
Originally posted by: Electrode
Hmm, transcode got done faster than I expected. Anyway, here's yer link:

http://www.electroblog.com:8090/~electrode/2004_olympic_games_opening_ceremony_hdtv.avi.torrent

The only problem I'm aware of is that the parade part "loops back" near the end, but finishes correctly. Also, there will be a 'jerk' during the break after the parade and before the Bjork performance. The last hour may be missing altogther, if it is let me know and I'll encode it seperately.
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I KISS YOU!!!!! I didn't get a chance to see it.
 
Originally posted by: welst10
Originally posted by: mobobuff
But I wish we had slightly less obnoxious announcers. Maybe people a little more informative, less propaganda, and a little more suave.
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you're right. Katie Couric isn't exactly the best choice for hosting this. They should get someone specialized in world geography and affairs.
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I don't know if you heard it last night but the announcer called Belize and island. Come on now.:disgust:
 
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