You know how on the cycling road race there were two camera bikes and a helicopter?
How was the time trial covered? Did they have more bikes? Was each bike responsible for a section of the course and then went back to the start of their section? Or did they just have waaay more more bikes following certain people?
It looked like they had a lot more shots out there.
It's disgraceful that they showed none of the women's javelin on BBC1 at all this evening, and nothing of the Decthlon either.
One of the only good things about Channel 4's coverage last year was the lack of talk, particularly in the morning sessions. They let the action do the talking.
Why didn't you press the red button, the coverage was on there.
Because when you watch any of the other streams you get the coverage plus commentary. When you watch the athletics field event streams you don't get any commentary and it's as informative as watching paint dry. And really it isn't the point anyway. The BBC1 coverage should endeavour to cover all events within the stadium, not just the glamour track events.
The women's javelin and decathlon were both on BBC3.
It's disgraceful that they showed none of the women's javelin on BBC1 at all this evening, and nothing of the Decthlon either.
One of the only good things about Channel 4's coverage last year was the lack of talk, particularly in the morning sessions. They let the action do the talking.
Why didn't you press the red button, the coverage was on there.
Because when you watch any of the other streams you get the coverage plus commentary. When you watch the athletics field event streams you don't get any commentary and it's as informative as watching paint dry. And really it isn't the point anyway. The BBC1 coverage should endeavour to cover all events within the stadium, not just the glamour track events.
The women's javelin and decathlon were both on BBC3.
There was no signposting for viewers to switch to BBC3.
That's something they've failed on throughout the games, they haven't been mentioning what's on BBC Three and the Interactive streams much at all.
I've seen quite a lot of signposting to BBC Three and the online/Red Button services during the day - maybe a bit less in the evening.
They have to be a bit careful with Red Button points - as Freeview viewers only have 1.5 Red Button streams (1 SD/HD Simulcast full-time, and one additional SD stream which starts post-1900)
Another nice gig for Sue - she's just interviewed Jacques Rogge, who was in a very complimentary mood. I'm Just back from London myself, and after attending a grand total of 18 events (shameless boasting), I can vouch that London has done the Games proud. The whole experience was simply unforgettable.
I particularly enjoyed spending time around the BBC Sport and NBC Today studios in Olympic Park, which were a constant hive of activity.
I've been catching up on the Forum this afternoon and, above all, I agree with the comments about BBC News focussing a little too much on the Olympics. Every single time I switched on the News Channel or the BBC One bulletins, they were reporting the Games. The BBC One bulletins, especially, seemed to be covering things which had just been covered, or were about to be covered, by the BBC Sport coverage itself. This is why, in retrospect, I think a few 'Olympic Report' programmes dotted through the day on both BBC One and the News Channel would have come in very handy.
I thought I'd post a link to the following video - its the sequence that was played at the venues just prior to the start of competition, set to the official Olympics song by Muse. It really did build-up the excitement to each event. In fact, the whole in-venue experience was fantastic, from the presenters (including Ben Shepherd and Gethin Jones, amongst others) to the venue commentators and other little audio visual packages.
In case anyone is interested, David Cameron doesn't know how to set up his TV and has it in stretchy-vision mode as demonstrated in this ridiculous PR shot posted on his Twitter earlier:
Presumably there's some sort of internal network in Downing Street which is how it ended up like that. I've actually noticed a lot less stretchy-vision in recent years, which is probably down to integrated digital tuners in TVs and more modern digital boxes that actually ask what shape your TV is when you set them up as opposed to leaving it 4:3 and burying the option deep in the menus.
All the graphics on the Olympics are 4:3 safe.
The shot from Mr Cameron's Twitter is clearly showing a TV that isn't set up correctly. There's no sign of an external box so it looks like it's a TV with Freeview built-in. Every TV I've seen with built-in Freeview doesn't have an option to centre-chop out the 4:3 zone, never mind actually fill the screen with a 4:3 centre cut-out.
I shouldn't really be surprised - the same thing happened on The Apprentice a few years when Alan Sugar was watching his apprentices on Ideal World in stretchy-vision. The irony in that was tragic.
All the graphics on the Olympics are 4:3 safe.
The shot from Mr Cameron's Twitter is clearly showing a TV that isn't set up correctly. There's no sign of an external box so it looks like it's a TV with Freeview built-in. Every TV I've seen with built-in Freeview doesn't have an option to centre-chop out the 4:3 zone, never mind actually fill the screen with a 4:3 centre cut-out.
Suspect Downing Street has an analogue RF ring-main and the Digital receivers feeding it are configured for 4:3 output - like lots of hotels.
So the TV is using its analogue tuner, not Freeview, and is only able to receive a 4:3 signal if that is all that is on the ring main. Then it's a choice of how you want to watch that 4:3 signal I guess... (I know some RF ring mains have both 4:3 and 16:9 analogue signals on them so that they can be used by both 4:3 and 16:9 TVs. Lots of older 4:3 sets can't letterbox a 16:9 analogue signal - though my old 21" 4:3 Sony could it was a faff to enable it and only really useful for Line 23 WSS or SCART pin 8 flagged sources - so if you have a single signal to feed both 4:3 and 16:9 displays - you'd chose 4:3. Arguably letterboxing might be be better...)
In case anyone is interested, David Cameron doesn't know how to set up his TV and has it in stretchy-vision mode as demonstrated in this ridiculous PR shot posted on his Twitter earlier: