There is a nausiating amount of ‘08 Olympic video coverage this year, and all we really want to watch is a little Table Tennis. There is so much video recording that for every 24 hour day, there is 212 hours being recorded onto massive media servers. Seagate hooked NBC up with 20 Omneon MediaDeck servers that hold a total of 500,000 gigabytes, or 500 terabytes, for the task. Plus, while the video is being recorded and stored in China, a second array in NYC is also storing the info. Crazy.
So far the equipment seems to be doing the job as the HD video feeds have looked great and we haven’t seen, nor heard, of any picture issues.
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UPDATE: Brian from central NC has spotted a good amount of HD issues on his Time Warner hookup. Anyone else?
My family has actually seen quite a few issues with picture corruption with the Olympics (Time Warner Cable HD, central North Carolina)
I think that’s Time Warner’s fault. Some cable companies have been heavily compressing some HD channels (see http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1008271 ). I’ve been watching the Olympics free OTA and both pic and sound have been crispy. The only problem I have with NBC is their decision to air Synchronized Diving.
The only problem I have with NBC is they have shown most of the events 24hours after the fact,they did not even show Phelps winning his eight gold medal live,sure glad we have Canadian TV where I live where showing live events is a priority over some sick sitcom.SHAME ON YOU N,B.C.