Olyfree

 This might come off as strange but.. With the Olympics over, or nearly over, my own admission is.. I almost didn't watch any of them.. I like the games and all and my intentions were to watch a good lot of the games but strangely enough I just didn't..

 From the opening ceremonies on I just didn't watch much.. To me if it wasn't on the Roku, then I didn't watch it.. That's not at all true, I did watch some on cable tv, but it was spotty going with the roku. I watched more of the games by way of other networks, the first being the BBC or ITV from Britain..

 Then there was some luge coverage by way of NBC on the roku that was being brought by a guy who was bringing the Atlanta feed and so I got to see everything an hour earlier than our prime time local feed.. Then there was the USA Russia game this past Saturday morning in which I was awakened by the game being on the radio and I turned on the tv to look for it on the roku, finding it not on the English channel but rather a Russia channel so I got to hear it some 22 seconds before the tv had it.. That's worse than the time between the radio and tv for football games which is a few seconds but still ok..

 Todays semifinal between the USA an Canada was only on the NBCSN channel on digital cable, and a radio channel on Tunein on the computer and roku.. I tried to find it online but it was nowhere to be found.. Not even Justin.tv had it so I listened to it on the computer and was disappointed with the outcome..  Reading the comments on the coverage of the game today nobody was happy that NBC ran the game exclusively on their NBCSN channel.. And no streaming (well paid but..) 

 The events I usually go for are the more extreme sports, plus the bobsled events of skeleton, luge and bobsled..  That just looks like fun to me, remembering the good old days of sledding down our backyard hill. The pasture, the streets.. The fun..

Badge Henry

(P.S.  Not for any other reason but I wanted to watch the Olympics via the roku if I could.. I searched regularly for the games on the box but really I wasn't that interested in them like past years.. Why depend on alternative viewing for something like this??  Well I am becoming a firm believer that they will eventually make everyday tv more pay per view in the near future for people that want choice substance in their viewing.. What I mean by that is rather than offer a multi channel package like what cable tv and satellite tv does, they will offer each channel individually.. Like it is now with the Roku and the channel store where you pick what you want to try.. Some channels are insecure and don't offer any free preview.. Some of the best programing is commercial supported and that is either good or bad depending on your stance on it.. You pay for Netflix and it is full on premium  VOD which means you pay for programming to not have ads in them.. Some have the ability to not have ads in them if you pay a buck for them (most of the time it is a buck for the movie, my trouble is I rarely watch very much of that movie).. )