The TiVo Olympics

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The First Rule Of The Olympics: You
Can't Talk About The Olympics

The First Rule Of The Olympics: You
Can't Talk About The Olympics 08/20/2004 02:25 AM
We've already talked about how the Olympics forced certain radio stations to pull their internet streams because they weren't approved for internet broadcasts of the Olympics, and now comes the news that no athletes participating in the games are allowed to talk about their experiences on websites. Considering the number of empty seats (and the weak television coverage), giving the games a more personal feel, letting the athletes talk for themselves (rather than those sappy profiles on TV) would help people to connect more with the games. That, though, would involve remembering that the games are actually about what happens in the events, and not how much the Olympics can squeeze out of sponsors. Haven't they figured out yet, that if no one cares about the games, no one will want to sponsor the Olympics any more? As for those who dare to disobey and actually talk about their experiences online? The Olympics are threatening to remove their credentials or possibly "take legal action for any monetary damages." Monetary damages? From posting your thoughts on the games? Seems pretty clear just how focused the Olympic organizers are on money instead of the athletes and the contests.

TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun

TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun 06/10/2004 10:28 PM
AVN Online Jun 11 2004 2:45AM GMT

Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking --
TiVo Strikes Back

Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking --
TiVo Strikes Back 05/07/2004 10:49 AM
Following up on yesterday's post about NBC's apparent attempts to b0rk potential TiVoers of the Friends finale, BoingBoing reader Douglas Clark says,

I am a loyal Tivo user and Tivo did send out a message alert to users about the Friends episode. It was more along the lines of "if you manually extend the time of a recording, you may miss the beginning of the friends final episode." I find that Tivo is pretty good about catching unusual start times and other wonky tricks the networks play. The previous comment about HUT and ratings was right on the money...

Link to previous BoingBoing post.

Tech maven Meg Hourihan adds, "Even weirder is that I got a message on my Tivo warning me that the finale of Friends would have abnormal times. The message warned that if I wasn't just using the automatic "start on time" and "end on time" settings (i.e. I manually set the start time as 8 PM) that I might miss some. What makes things weirder and worse is that Tivo still didn't record the whole show! I made sure my settings were what the message instructed, and happened to watch the show live. Tivo kicked in to record at 8:59 PM (which is what it listed the start time as) but stopped at 9:59! According to the time on my digital cable box, the program didn't end until 10:03 PM. So if I hadn't watched it live, I would have missed the last four minutes. Seems like a major screw-up on Tivo's part, especially after sending out that message!"

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners?

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners? 07/26/2004 05:24 PM

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
Well TiVo's boosting that it Janet Jacksons Garment malfunction was the single highest re-watched event has many TiVo users asking...

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
bang for the buck .. extension .. TivoToGo

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Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?)

Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?) 06/06/2005 12:09 AM

Reuters is running a story about Intel that is chocked full of goo info, including information that their 'Manitoba' mobile chipset has finally found a customer in mmO2 Pic (the Manitoba came out two years ago, to little fanfare, let alone actual adoption by phone manufacturers). But the big news is that Intel will be working with Tivo to provide Tivo-to-Go functionality in future laptop chipsets, like their popular Centrino.

What that is, though, is unclear. Is it just a branding initiative? Tivo-to-Go already works on laptops (that's half the point), so will it be some sort of native support that makes it easier to move the Tivo content around? We don't know—the article is very vague—but at least Tivo is getting some name dropping love from a mega-vendor (considering it was unlikely they were going to get much help from Microsoft, considering they sell a competing product to Windows XP Media Center). (Thanks, Pat!)

UPDATE 1-Intel's cell communications chip finds a customer [Reuters]

MP3 Request: "Tivo, My Tivo"

MP3 Request: "Tivo, My Tivo" 06/08/2004 09:07 AM

Does anyone have an MP3 of the song "Tivo, My Tivo" from the off-Broadway [hit | miss] The Gayest Straight Man Alive? Because I'd really like to hear it. Also, could someone explain what "surprisingly straight" means? Is that, like, no dicks at all? Not even your own? (Thanks, Peter, for the "tip.")
Read [NYTheatre]

Update: While I'm exploiting the good humor of our readers, do any of you 1) live in Canberra, Australia, and 2) take PayPal? I need to get a few cases of VB delivered to some game developers and am having a surprisingly hard time of it.

The Olympics as They Were

The Olympics as They Were 07/23/2004 09:16 PM
Three current museum displays, one tangential, are presented in tune with next month's Olympics in Athens.

"Olympics"

"Olympics" 08/13/2004 02:34 PM

GUI Olympics!

GUI Olympics! 04/23/2004 11:01 AM
GUI Olympics! several corporate sponsors (ATI, nVidia, and others) are offering up $15,000 in prize money for the best GUI skin any designer can come up with for a few applications. while i think it's great to push for newer and better user interfaces, who do so many of the designs seem to be pushing complexity over useability? wouldn't a better use of a GUI design prize be to encourage people to improve on a design rather than make it unintelligible? maybe the people pushing the designs need to take this quiz.

Olympics Say No to Wi-Fi

Olympics Say No to Wi-Fi 05/20/2004 09:53 AM
Athens IT contractor finds Wi-Fi too prone to denial of service at present: The Atos Origin manager for the games didn't stress security issues like actual break-ins. Rather, he was concerned about the likelihood of attempted attacks that they would have to analyze, and the potential of a single idiot to jam signals. These are unfortunately reasonable concerns at present--it's all too easy to produce junk 2.4 GHz signals or to automate denial of service attacks that deassociate other clients....

Olympics: No Ad Bonanza

Olympics: No Ad Bonanza 08/30/2004 03:45 PM
The showcase for the world's athletes doesn't produce marquee names for advertisers.

3G FOMA for Olympics

3G FOMA for Olympics 07/19/2004 06:03 AM
3G Jul 19 2004 9:39AM GMT

DoCoMo Does 3G Olympics

DoCoMo Does 3G Olympics 07/16/2004 10:08 PM
Wireless Watch Japan Jul 17 2004 2:37AM GMT

Live: Olympics day 14

Live: Olympics day 14 08/27/2004 01:34 PM
Amir Khan secures at least a silver in boxing, while Paula Radcliffe prepares for the 10,000m final.

Live: Olympics day 10

Live: Olympics day 10 08/23/2004 03:12 AM
Dean Macey begins his campaign for decathlon gold on day 10 in Athens.

Were Olympics "Indecent"?

Were Olympics "Indecent"? 12/19/2004 03:18 PM

Hollywood Reporter: FCC Requests Tape of Olympics. The Federal Communications Commission has asked for a tape of NBC's broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics after it received at least one indecency complaint.

No, it's not April Fools Day yet. This is apparently real. Shudder for our nation, if this kind of idiocy preoccupies people who have serious duties to perform.

GUI Olympics: Week 3

GUI Olympics: Week 3 05/28/2004 05:03 PM

Big Brother goes to the Olympics

Big Brother goes to the Olympics 08/13/2004 10:37 AM
New Scientist has an article looking at the US$312 million surveillance system installed for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. The eyes and ears consist of 1,000 high-res and infrared videocameras peppering the city. Cell and landline telephone calls are being recorded, converted into text, and "scanned for phrases that could be linked to terrorist activity." The software's developers say it speaks Greek, English, Arabic, Farsi, and other major languages.

(John Pike, an analyst with the defence think-tank Global Security) believes other undisclosed measures are undoubtedly in place, such as face recognition from video footage. He says such surveillance technology has already proven its worth in intelligence gathering. "They're basically the sort of stuff the National Security Agency has been using for some time," he told New Scientist. "And they seem to place great faith in it."

The human security is massive as well--there are seven security people for every athlete. Link

Hansen out of Olympics

Hansen out of Olympics 06/19/2004 11:52 AM
British gold medal hope Ashia Hansen will miss this year's Athens Games after suffering a serious knee injury.

Armstrong Says He Won't Go to Olympics
(AP)

Armstrong Says He Won't Go to Olympics
(AP) 07/08/2004 02:17 PM
AP - Lance Armstrong is skipping the Athens Olympics, saying he needs to spend more time with his children.

Geography Olympics

Geography Olympics 09/01/2004 05:05 PM
Geography Olympics "Thanks to its global accessibility, the Internet is the perfect medium to hold an international competition such as The Geography Olympics. To join the challenge in support of your country, you simply need to select which country you will be representing and take the quiz. The quiz consists of trying to locate 10 randomly selected countries on a map of the world. It is different every time."

Olympics underway

Olympics underway 08/11/2004 01:25 PM

Just watched the US Women's team defeat Greece 3-0. Five members of the 1991 world cup team are still playing for the US which is pretty impressive -- there aren't a lot of examples in international sports of people remaining competitive for over 13 years.

Tomorrow, Iraq rejoins the Olympics for the first time since 1988 to play soccer against Portugal, which is great to see. On the downside, I'm hearing about a lot of top American athletes ducking out of this year's games (in tennis, basketball, and cycling especially) citing injuries and personal reasons. It's a shame we won't seem them but I'm wondering if part of it is due to concerns about attacks or violence. I certainly hope the games go smoothly, it seemed a few months ago the only news coming out of Athens was bad news, but today's soccer match seemed to go just fine.

EU claims it won Olympics

EU claims it won Olympics 08/31/2004 09:41 AM
the EU won the medal count

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DoCoMo Does Olympics

DoCoMo Does Olympics 07/16/2004 07:06 AM
Wireless Watch Japan Jul 16 2004 11:45AM GMT

GUI Olympics: Week 2

GUI Olympics: Week 2 05/20/2004 01:15 PM

Olympics: Coming to a PC Near You

Olympics: Coming to a PC Near You 07/12/2004 05:38 AM
This summer, viewers will be able to tune into highlights of the Olympic Games over the Internet, as NBC and BBC beef up their video offerings for broadband users. By Kendra Mayfield.

GUI Olympics: Week 1 Results

GUI Olympics: Week 1 Results 05/12/2004 11:24 AM

Olympics Attendees to Get Wireless

Olympics Attendees to Get Wireless 05/17/2004 01:18 PM
ACISgroup, an ISP in Greece, will build hotspots in major hotels and nearby outdoor areas in Greece in anticipation of the upcoming Olympics. The ISP will use gear from Proxim and Nomadix. It's not clear how extensive the network will be or what the charge for use will be. Proxim plans to release an announcement about the deal tomorrow which should be available here....

A Roundup of Olympics Resources

A Roundup of Olympics Resources 08/16/2004 08:03 AM
Between the tornado watches and the flood warnings and the rain that just wouldn't stop over the weekend, I did manage to watch a bit of the Olympics. As you...

Wireless out of the running at Olympics

Wireless out of the running at Olympics 05/20/2004 09:50 AM
Personal Computer World May 20 2004 2:03PM GMT

N.Y. among finalists for 2012 Olympics

N.Y. among finalists for 2012 Olympics 05/18/2004 10:15 AM

Boingo brings Wi-Fi to Olympics

Boingo brings Wi-Fi to Olympics 08/06/2004 12:56 PM
The company will set up a dozen Wi-Fi hot spots at airports, hotels and conference centers in Athens.

Olympics: 21 golds up for grabs

Olympics: 21 golds up for grabs 08/18/2004 01:01 AM
Day five of the Games will see 21 golds on offer with Kate Howey and Pippa Funnell aiming for medals.

Olympics: UK happy with security

Olympics: UK happy with security 04/28/2004 01:48 AM
British Olympic chiefs are satisfied with safety measures for the Athens Games.

Broadcasters to Air Olympics on
Computers (AP)

Broadcasters to Air Olympics on
Computers (AP) 08/10/2004 10:48 AM
AP - The 100-meter dash and other cherished Olympic moments will for the first time be beamed to computers and mobile phones during the Athens Games. But while many Europeans will be able to see them live on the Internet, Americans will have to settle for tape delay.

High-Def Olympics Underwhelming

High-Def Olympics Underwhelming 08/12/2004 04:37 AM
Retailers are trying to use the Olympics as a wedge to get high-definition TV into more homes. The problem is, consumers won't find a whole lot worth watching. By Staci D. Kramer.

'Invisible' technology for Olympics

'Invisible' technology for Olympics 08/12/2004 08:18 PM
BBC Aug 13 2004 0:32AM GMT
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