Remember, if you don't want pundits, red button and pick the events from the A-Z. I haven't missed a second of the weightlifting.
Quote from: AndyK on 03 August, 2012, 07:31:30 pmWhat the f*** was that? A brief five second glimpse of Vicky getting her gold medal. F***ing useless BBC!You can't keep everyone happy (there are another squillion events to show.)Personally, I'd rather they had shown the Keirin B final while Cav blathered on, rather than showing Cav & co with the b final in the background!
What the f*** was that? A brief five second glimpse of Vicky getting her gold medal. F***ing useless BBC!
And after the men's TP, one of our bikes taken off the track wearing a San Marco Rolls! I thought they would all be carbon jobs. Still, one has to be comfortable at work, doesn't one?
Calm down! I'm sure they'll replay it at least 7,348 times over the next few days!
Quote from: mattc on 03 August, 2012, 07:47:51 pmQuote from: AndyK on 03 August, 2012, 07:31:30 pmWhat the f*** was that? A brief five second glimpse of Vicky getting her gold medal. F***ing useless BBC!You can't keep everyone happy (there are another squillion events to show.)Personally, I'd rather they had shown the Keirin B final while Cav blathered on, rather than showing Cav & co with the b final in the background!Seems to me the Beeb think their talking heads in the studio are more important than what's happening in the arena. We had a few minutes of Gary Walkers talking crap then a five second glimpse of Vicky receiving her medal. Shite coverage, absolutely shite.
WRT the crash being deliberate or not. Sport is about winning. Winning means beating your opponant within the rules. To win takes practice to be adept at the gameplay and it takes practice to be adept at tactics. *if* he took a tactical crash, in order to force a restart, he has executed a masterful tactical stroke, at risk of injury, that worked.
Anyone know how come Hong Kong compete separately from China?
As permitted under its constitution as agreed upon handover from the United Kingdom (specifically, Article 151, Chapter 7 of The Basic Law), it "may, on its own, ... maintain and develop relations and conclude and implement agreements with foreign states and regions and relevant international organizations in the appropriate fields, including the economic, trade, financial and monetary, shipping, communications, tourism, cultural and sports fields."
Sorry this is a second freeview post, but how many screens do those of you who have full freeview get? On freeview lite here we only get three video feeds.
We get BBC1 BBC2 BBC3 BBC4 301 and BBC News24 BBC Parliament and a couple of BBC kids channels. When Vicky P won almost immediately it cut to Lineker jabbering crap for a few minutes, then as an afterthought we got five seconds of a medal being put around VP's neck. Shite.Too much talking heads not enough arena.
Quote from: Jacomus on 03 August, 2012, 06:54:10 pmWRT the crash being deliberate or not. Sport is about winning. Winning means beating your opponant within the rules. To win takes practice to be adept at the gameplay and it takes practice to be adept at tactics. *if* he took a tactical crash, in order to force a restart, he has executed a masterful tactical stroke, at risk of injury, that worked.Absolute bullshit. If a Spanish football player took a dive in the semi-final of the WC to earn a penalty against England, everyone would be up in arms about foreign cheats.Nobody would call it a 'masterful tactical stroke'.Chris Hoy stands for me as one of the ultimate sportsmen, but this badly sours it. That gold medal is worth nothing.
Quote from: AndyK on 03 August, 2012, 09:42:09 pmWe get BBC1 BBC2 BBC3 BBC4 301 and BBC News24 BBC Parliament and a couple of BBC kids channels. When Vicky P won almost immediately it cut to Lineker jabbering crap for a few minutes, then as an afterthought we got five seconds of a medal being put around VP's neck. Shite.Too much talking heads not enough arena.Have you tried Red Button?Currently have live basketball and boxing via this service. BBC1 have athletics and BBC3 also have boxing. I managed to watch cycling via the data service and had BBC1 as PIP just to cover both options. Red Button is providing additional live coverage.
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.
Those of us who aren't in range of a main mast only get two muxes compared to six on the main masts, so fewer red button options (and other things like ITV4 and Dave are missing as well). That's why I referred to it as freeview lite
Quote from: mcshroom on 03 August, 2012, 10:04:29 pmThose of us who aren't in range of a main mast only get two muxes compared to six on the main masts, so fewer red button options (and other things like ITV4 and Dave are missing as well). That's why I referred to it as freeview liteUnderstood.Used to have 'freeview lite' and did not change anything except for recent retune and suddenly got more options (including ITV4 that was only available via the Freesat). Assumed signal must have been boosted as old analogue/digital mix resulted in a compomise.Tried a full retune?
Really going OT now, but yes I have