Early this morning I watched an hour or so of "live" streaming on the NBC live extra app. The video was playing ridiculously fast on my iPhone 5s.
The uninterrupted stream looked great but the figure skaters were twirling dervishly and the bobsled runs resembled WARP-speed sequences from a Star Trek episode. Everyone was cheering like they had WAY too much coffee.
I estimate that the frame rate was a little over 2x normal speed, like 50 FPS video played at 60 FPS with half the fields removed. Even Olympic athletes are not THAT fast!
With the 14 hr time difference, I've been consuming most of my Olympic coverage online, but I have not seen this issue on the iPad or desktop versions of the sukky nbc app.
In general, the 2014 Sochi Olympic coverage through the live extra app is a train wreck. The desktop version of the nbc website in Safari is far, far better.
NBC claims that their video is powered by Adobe.
Well, gotta get back to watching the endless hours of curling,..
RT
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Wow, the conversions do look terrific. I've only really seen artifacts on super-mo shots, and I wrote that off to the frequency of the lighting vs 60Hz TV. I guess I was wrong.
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Dennis Degan <DennyD1@verizon.net> wrote:
I reply:OBS (Olympic Broadcast Services, the international company that provides technical facilities & oversight for all Olympics) uses 1080i/50 as the originating format. NBC's remote units at the sports venues also originate in 1080i/50. NBC then converts to 1080i/60 at their IBC facility using Snell Alchemist hardware. Yes, it's very good conversion: <http://www.tvtechnology.com/file-based-production/0189/nbc-olympics-to-use-snell-alchemist-standards-converters-in-sochi/223538>DDD
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