Olympics Coverage Upsets Some HDTV Owners
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NBC's high-definition TV coverage of the Olympics has literally and figuratively struck some owners of the fancy sets as a day late and a dollar short.
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High-definition television can  show the sweat beading on an athlete's brow, but the cost of  all the necessary electronic equipment can get a shopper's own  pulse racing.
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The Wayne Rooney incident at the weekend has brought into question once again the use of television playbacks to incriminate sportsman.
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The Evening Standard reports that London will use television coverage from Mondayâs parade of Olympians to convince Olympic leaders of Britainâs enthusiasm to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
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If Roone Arledge invented the modern TV Olympics, Dick Ebersol has imploded it. Everyone wants to watch the Olympics, but they're just too unwatchable -- too much, too fragmented, too staged, too jingoistic, too hyped, too commercialized, too long, too everything. The Olympics no longer feel Olympian. They feel like a sweeps-week sports reality show.
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Boston sports fans have a track record. Predictably, we watch the Red Sox, Patriots, and big events. So it gets interesting when they go head to head, as they did Friday night. A look at the ratings confirms that the Olympics qualify as an extremely big event.
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The HDTV technology company is moving a key part of its future in house.
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There are favorites and there are expectations, but to compete in the Olympics is to hazard the risk of being outfought, outscored, out-happied.
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NEW YORK  - The Olympics bulldozed the  rest of the network primetime summer fare Sunday, delivering an  average 25.6 million viewers to NBC.
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Olympians can do media interviews but they'd better not blog. The International Olympic Committee, interested in protecting lucrative broadcasting contracts, forbids any activity that might upset the networks.
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Tens of millions of dollars pouring into Olympic bid campaigns. PR companies, lobbyists and spin doctors working frantically. Rumors of dirty tricks swirling behind the scenes.
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My story about buying and installing my new HDTV last Sunday seemed to hit a nerve.
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Equipment makers at the Consumer Electronics Show are seeking to bypass the cable industry's bottleneck control over the way most Americans watch TV.
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Fans and athletes give Olympic judges low marks.
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Thousands of Americans have defected to satellite TV as the providers have reported hefty gains while the cable industry has declined. Consumers likely will see aggressive marketing promotions in the next six months as companies jockey for customers, analysts say.
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A look at NBC's coverage of the Summer Olympics from Athens:
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More and more broadcasters across the world, especially in Europe and Asia, are putting the Paralympics into the spotlight, but the major sporting tournament for people with disabilities remains off screen in the world's biggest television market -- the United States.