NBC Sets 4K Plans for Rio Olympics

[bluegras]

NBC Olympics said it will provide select coverage of the Rio Olympics in the eye-popping 4K format to its various cable, satellite TV and telco TV distribution partners.
NBC Olympics, a unit of NBC Sports Group, said that coverage, provided on a one-day delay, will include 4K/Ultra HD footage from the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as coverage of several events, including swimming, track and field, basketball, the men’s soccer final, judo, with some “Rio scenic” mixed in. it does talk about dish in the article also.

http://www.multichannel.com/news/co...206?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

[mdram]

they need to make up thier mind

http://4k.com/news/it-looks-like-the-olympics-wont-be-getting-4k-broadcasts-12548/

 

[klang]

It will be interesting to see what is needed to watch the content.

 

[harshness]

It will be interesting to see what is needed to watch the content.

It will likely be even more interesting to see if anyone can or will watch it.

• The 25+ hour time delay is going to make spoilers a serious problem
• The pay TV industry as a whole is probably no where near ready for real-time UHD broadcasting
• Because it isn't just one provider, they can't rely on being able to modify and tweak the uplink to optimize compression and bitrate

 

[klang]

It will likely be even more interesting to see if anyone can or will watch it.

• The 25+ hour time delay is going to make spoilers a serious problem
• The pay TV industry as a whole is probably no where near ready for real-time UHD broadcasting
• Because it isn't just one provider, they can't rely on being able to modify and tweak the uplink to optimize compression and bitrate

I'm more interested in eye-candy then worrying about spoiled results. I am a Comcast customer so I should have access to something. There is already a Comcast 4k app on my Samsung 4k set so I'm wondering if they will use that.

 

[jayn_j]

I'm still wondering if there is actually going to be an Olympics this year. Not so much Zeka, but lack of transportation infrastructure, shoddy and incomplete construction of facilities (a bike track recently collapsed), political unrest, etc.

 

[harshness]

There is already a Comcast 4k app on my Samsung 4k set so I'm wondering if they will use that.

Comcast announced their UHD capable STB, the non-HDR Xi4, just three weeks ago so I doubt there will be any way other than the app (available only on some Samsung and LG UHD models).

 

[navychop]

Well, we might get BEAUTIFUL closeups of a mosquito!

I wonder if NBC is having some resistance to people accepting that job assignment.

 

[Bruce]

Just found this

NBC Announces a New Streaming Service in Time for the Olympics - See more at: http://cordcuttersnews.com/nbc-anno...n-time-for-the-olympics/#sthash.TOrBmHFm.dpuf

My guess is Comcast will put 4K on a app on the Roku ( Apple TV cannot do 4K), properly NBC Sports 4K.

I am so glad for my Roku 4, without it I would have no new content in 4K ( yes I could use the apps on the TV but I get DD Plus on the Roku while the TV apps only put out DD).

I have said it before, the future of 4K is online, broadcasters/providers are dragging their feet slower on upgrading to 4K then when things were converting from SD to HD.

 

[Jhon69]

Just found this

NBC Announces a New Streaming Service in Time for the Olympics - See more at: http://cordcuttersnews.com/nbc-anno...n-time-for-the-olympics/#sthash.TOrBmHFm.dpuf

My guess is Comcast will put 4K on a app on the Roku ( Apple TV cannot do 4K), properly NBC Sports 4K.

I am so glad for my Roku 4, without it I would have no new content in 4K ( yes I could use the apps on the TV but I get DD Plus on the Roku while the TV apps only put out DD).

I have said it before, the future of 4K is online, broadcasters/providers are dragging their feet slower on upgrading to 4K then when things were converting from SD to HD.

Not much of a future then, as alot of people cannot get 25MB download through their Internet Provider to be able to watch 4K programs or movies.

 

[mdram]

Not much of a future then, as alot of people cannot get 25MB download through their Internet Provider to be able to watch 4K programs or movies.

25mb is also what netflix says you need

edit
many of us cant get internet period

 

[harshness]

My guess is Comcast will put 4K on a app on the Roku ( Apple TV cannot do 4K), properly NBC Sports 4K.

At this point, the Comcast app (not directly related to this story) only supports some Samsung and LG UHD models so I wouldn't get too excited about the Roku 4 yet.

As the article makes clear, Playmaker is a brand new service and there are NO details other than some pie-in-the-sky claims.

 

[Bruce]

At this point, the Comcast app (not directly related to this story) only supports some Samsung and LG UHD models so I wouldn't get too excited about the Roku 4 yet.
As the article makes clear, Playmaker is a brand new service and there are NO details other than some pie-in-the-sky claims.

All of Universal/NBC (owned by Comcast) channel apps are on the Roku plus they are soon going to be adding the Xfinity TV app to the Roku ( Cloud DVR and all all the channels you subscribe to viewable without a cable box and no monthly charge), I doubt it would be too much work to create a NBC Sports 4K app for the Olympics.

How else would we get the Olympics in 4K, maybe DirecTV but I doubt Comcast would just give them the content without charging for it, no other providers provide a 4K channel expect PPV and if they were able to air it Comcast will still want money, the easy answer is offer their 4K channel app to the Roku/ nVidia Shield instead of just Samsung or create a new app ( all of this could be mute if say Samsung is paying for a exclusivity).

I remember the early days of HD, all the TV Manufacturers were sponsoring the content like live sports, it is not happening this time because there is a lot of content in 4K already to show off the new TVs, Comcast has no reason to do this, they will not give it away.

 

[Bruce]

25mb is also what netflix says you need

edit
many of us cant get internet period

I know that I am lucky to get Extreme150, I have read many horror stories about people getting just DSL and not just in rural areas but metro areas that should get at least 25 down but the providers just don't want to spend the money to upgrade and no competition to push them to do so.

I have read many bad things about Comcast here and elsewhere but I have always had good service with them and now great with the X1, just this last weekend they were replacing the nodes in my neighborhood getting ready for the Docsis 3.1 1 gig service launching in August.

 

[harshness]

I doubt it would be too much work to create a NBC Sports 4K app for the Olympics.

Because UHD is an entirely separate delivery metaphor from the regular Xfinity stuff (at least until the Xi4 box), I don't imagine that it is reasonable to assume anything about Playmaker.

How else would we get the Olympics in 4K, maybe DirecTV but I doubt Comcast would just give them the content without charging for it, no other providers provide a 4K channel expect PPV and if they were able to air it Comcast will still want money, the easy answer is offer their 4K channel app to the Roku/ nVidia Shield instead of just Samsung or create a new app ( all of this could be mute if say Samsung is paying for a exclusivity).

Again, it may be folly to assume anything given what precious little we know. If reasoning applied and press releases were worth the electrons used to disseminate them, Comcast TV subscribers would have all been using TiVo-powered STBs for the last ten years.

The announcement of Playmaker alone invalidates many of the theories that I had about how NBC was going to make 2016 Summer Olympics content available.