Topic: Beijing 2008 Olympics

[Mr. Hankey]

So you know which channels to tune in to for your favorite sports, here's a printed summary:

A. 2nd Avenue:

1. Diving

2. Fencing

3. Equestrian

4. Synchronized Swimming

B. Jack TV

1. BMX-Cycling

2. Wrestling

C. ETC

1. Badminton

2. Gymnastics

3. Beach Volleyball

D. C/S RPN

1. Boxing

2. Basketball

3. Tennis

4. Cycling

5. Archery

6. Shooting

7. Football

8. Taekwondo

9. Triathlon

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So... what are they showing on Solar Sports? I'm guessing the rest, like Swimming, Athletics, Weightlifting, etc.?

[jiggs84]

thanks for the info sir.

[Munskie]

Sulit kaya kuhanin yung all-access na pay-per-view.  Its P2000 for residential accounts.

[Wiggum]

So you know which channels to tune in to for your favorite sports, here's a printed summary:

D. C/S RPN

1. Boxing

2. Basketball

Hay salamat... (still stuck with SkyCable in our building).

[dyerds]

Sir Hankey san nyo po nakuha 'tong info na'to? Gusto ko kasi malaman kung anong oras nila ipapalabas. TIA

[Mr. Hankey]

TV Star Guide magazine. The information is on the inside front cover.

[boredfilmmaker]

Sir Hankey san nyo po nakuha 'tong info na'to? Gusto ko kasi malaman kung anong oras nila ipapalabas. TIA

you can also see it at the Solar website with corresponding time and channels..

http://www.solar-entertainment.com/schedule.php

[Mr. Hankey]

And for those who want a hard copy of the Olympics schedule per sport, complete with times and channel/s airing, there's an insert in today's Philippine Star.

[AshKetchum]

The opening ceremony was great, particularly the lighting of the Olympic flame. It was awesome to see Li Ning floating above the Bird's Nest stadium and appeared to be running on the unfurling scroll projected along the roof edge, until he reached the cauldron itself, which looked like a humongous torch that seemed to be part of the unfurling scroll--freaking brilliant. 

Lots of cute chinese girls dressed in white were constantly dancing around the stadium perimeter surrounding the athletes; that alone was worth watching the boring Parade of Nations part. 

That said, the live broadcast on C/S was a mess, with commercials every 2-3 minutes and annoying ad logos rotating right in the bottom center of the screen. Good thing they didn't cut to commercials during the torch/flame ceremony itself.

[frootloops]

Too good to be true? The Chinese got the better end on this one. 

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Some-Opening-Ceremony-fireworks-were-faked?urn=oly,99745

[allanmandy]

Part of fireworks display in Olympics opener faked?

[leomar]

lupit ng USA dun sa 4x100m free relay, lupit ng finisher!

[Munskie]

lupit ng USA dun sa 4x100m free relay, lupit ng finisher!

Yabang kasi nung Alan Bernard ng France eh....ayun, nahabol pa.    Galing talaga ng swim nung anchor ng US team.

[Clondalkin]

That said, the live broadcast on C/S was a mess, with commercials every 2-3 minutes and annoying ad logos rotating right in the bottom center of the screen. Good thing they didn't cut to commercials during the torch/flame ceremony itself.

Download nyo yung high def version (720p) ng opening ceremony.  Either yung 4GB or 5GB.  It's very much worth the download (waiting) time.  Daming details na di ko nakita sa Phil TV last Friday.

[leomar]

ung kay Li Ning, kitang kita ung string nung paakyat pati ung shadow nung nasa may scroll na siya...
dinadownload ko din ung buong opening ceremony, astig ung fireworks at ung 4 great inventions presentation nila...

[leomar]

Yabang kasi nung Alan Bernard ng France eh....ayun, nahabol pa.    Galing talaga ng swim nung anchor ng US team.

nanghinayang din ako kay Katie Hoff, gold na e, nasilat pa...

[allanmandy]

Another Olympic fake:

Olympic child singing star revealed as fake

[techdude]

It's the spectacle that counts.  Hollywood fakes everything, so what makes Olympics opening different, it's not they are competing in the events... 

[jiggs84]

Download nyo yung high def version (720p) ng opening ceremony.  Either yung 4GB or 5GB.  It's very much worth the download (waiting) time.  Daming details na di ko nakita sa Phil TV last Friday.

where can we download this sir? please provide the link.
thanks.

[Clondalkin]

where can we download this sir? please provide the link.
thanks.

I don't think we are allowed to post links to torrent search sites in this forum but just visit any popular public site because it's everywhere.   The level of seeding is very high. Type 720p in the search window. 27GB ts format or 5.5GB mkv or 4.9GB mkv.  Your choice.

Personally, I would have preferred around 8GB-10GB because the bitrate of 5.5GB or 4.9GB is a little low for a 4 hour show.

[allanmandy]

Is this the one with the Chinese commentary or the heavily-commercialed NBC broadcast (there's another NBC version minus the commercials but heavily edited)? I hear that the BBC footage is the best, though I haven't seen a torrent of that yet.

[pchin]

Another Olympic fake:

Olympic child singing star revealed as fake

The Chinese is really good in faking!

[thegoodbyeguy]

     There's a clamor for the real singer to sing at the closing ceremony.

[allanmandy]

Another Olympic fake:

Olympic child singing star revealed as fake

A follow-up on this story:

Red-faced China enforces media blackout

[Munskie]

Talo na si Tanamor...

[allanmandy]

Yeah. And in a rather uneventful fight, so I've heard. I guess it's all up to the taekwondo guys for us.

[Munskie]

Magnificent......Phelps is the greatest Olympian ever......

7 Gold Medals in this Olympiad....so far. 13 in his career.


Closest win so far.....he won the 100 butterfly......ahead only by 1/100th of a second.   

[Clondalkin]

Magnificent......Phelps is the greatest Olympian ever......

7 Gold Medals in this Olympiad....so far. 13 in his career.

Closest win so far.....he won the 100 butterfly......ahead only by 1/100th of a second.   

I think he lost it Bro.  I watched the high def replay so many times from the top camera.  Galing ng slow mo replay ng pool end.  Baka niluto yung Serbian.  Highly questionable in my opinion.

[Munskie]

I think he lost it Bro.  I watched the high def replay so many times from the top camera.  Galing ng slow mo replay ng pool end.  Baka niluto yung Serbian.  Highly questionable in my opinion.

The Serbian team protested but Omega denied it and upheld the results.   It cant get any closer than that.

Phelps was lucky this time.   He knows he was trailing so he gambled on a half stroke,  and out touched Cavic to the wall.  Hirap siguro iluto, first to touch the pressure sensitive wall, stops the clock.   

1/100th of a second is almost a dead heat.   



Something I found on the live blogs...

The touch pads are accually accurate to the .0001 of a second, more accurate than the pool can be built to make the lanes even. There actually was a case in the 70's when they did time to the .001 and a US swimmer lost by .003. The timing system WAS accurate - and there was proof.

You might see these poles that hang over the blocks. There are cameras attached to these poles shooting the finish - but these are not cameras for TV, they are run by the world swimming orginization - FINA. A TV camera can only shoot 24 frames per second. These cameras shoot 100 frames per second, and exactly match the starting system. So the TV cameras were actually incapable of showing how close the race was.

The "Serbian" coach (actually an american coach who will be taking Bowman's job at Michigan this year) filed a protest just to make sure everything was on the up and up, because this is the first time a race has been this close since they started with these cameras. They reviewed the faster cameras, and they confirmed that Phelps did win.

[Clondalkin]

The Serbian team protested but Omega denied it and upheld the results.   It cant get any closer than that.

Phelps was lucky this time.   He knows he was trailing so he gambled on a half stroke,  and out touched Cavic to the wall.  Hirap siguro iluto, first to touch the pressure sensitive wall, stops the clock.   

1/100th of a second is almost a dead heat.   

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Getting a lot of replays even sa Jap channels.  I still see the Serbian touching the pool end first from super slow mo replay of the top cam.  Phelps hands were still way up at that point.  VERY QUESTIONABLE indeed.   Anything can happen in China.  Of course the powers to be can always deny anything and they can always defend anything.  I'd say Phelps lost by close to 10/100 of a sec, but the Serbian clock was advanced by that much (or Phelps clock was delayed by that much) , hence Phelps won by 1/100.       

This is something I would tell my grandkids.    I definitely think Phelps lost this one but who cares   At least for once it was a very interesting Phelps race.