OLN Live Broadcast Not Live?

I was watching the "Live" broadcast of the tour this morning and towards the
end I noticed that the peloton made up huge chunks of time during the
commercial breaks after holding fairly steady. At one point Phil talked
about the two attacks, in the 3 man break ,that happened during the break.

Am I nuts, or did anyone else notice this? Could the broadcast be running
10 - 15 minutes behind the live feed?

Frank Drackman wrote:
I was watching the "Live" broadcast of the tour this morning and towards the
end I noticed that the peloton made up huge chunks of time during the
commercial breaks after holding fairly steady. At one point Phil talked
about the two attacks, in the 3 man break ,that happened during the break.

Am I nuts, or did anyone else notice this? Could the broadcast be running
10 - 15 minutes behind the live feed?



I don't know, and I rarely watch the "live" broadcast live because I'm
on the West Coast. I generally tape it, and watch after my morning ride.

However:
If you watch it live, you could experiment. Velonews.com, for one
example, has "Live Coverage" that is time stamped. Today's stage to Dax
says the riders crossed the line at 5:16PM. There is a reference at
4:57PM about "an unhappy trio" and gestures being made after Knees
attacked twice.

If you can watch the TV and your PC, you could figure out whether the
broadcast is delayed. Or, if you record the show, you should be able to
correlate the elapsed time of the recording with the time stamps to see
if they match up.

Maybe I'll try that tomorrow.

"Colin Campbell" wrote in message ...
Frank Drackman wrote:
I was watching the "Live" broadcast of the tour this morning and towards the end I noticed that the peloton made up huge chunks
of time during the commercial breaks after holding fairly steady. At one point Phil talked about the two attacks, in the 3 man
break ,that happened during the break.

Am I nuts, or did anyone else notice this? Could the broadcast be running 10 - 15 minutes behind the live feed?


I don't know, and I rarely watch the "live" broadcast live because I'm on the West Coast. I generally tape it, and watch after my
morning ride.

However:
If you watch it live, you could experiment. Velonews.com, for one example, has "Live Coverage" that is time stamped. Today's
stage to Dax says the riders crossed the line at 5:16PM. There is a reference at 4:57PM about "an unhappy trio" and gestures
being made after Knees attacked twice.

If you can watch the TV and your PC, you could figure out whether the broadcast is delayed. Or, if you record the show, you
should be able to correlate the elapsed time of the recording with the time stamps to see if they match up.

Maybe I'll try that tomorrow.

Or you could listen to Eurosport and watch OLN at the same time.

Michael wrote:
"Colin Campbell" wrote in message ...

Frank Drackman wrote:

I was watching the "Live" broadcast of the tour this morning and towards the end I noticed that the peloton made up huge chunks
of time during the commercial breaks after holding fairly steady. At one point Phil talked about the two attacks, in the 3 man
break ,that happened during the break.

Am I nuts, or did anyone else notice this? Could the broadcast be running 10 - 15 minutes behind the live feed?



I don't know, and I rarely watch the "live" broadcast live because I'm on the West Coast. I generally tape it, and watch after my
morning ride.

However:
If you watch it live, you could experiment. Velonews.com, for one example, has "Live Coverage" that is time stamped. Today's
stage to Dax says the riders crossed the line at 5:16PM. There is a reference at 4:57PM about "an unhappy trio" and gestures
being made after Knees attacked twice.

If you can watch the TV and your PC, you could figure out whether the broadcast is delayed. Or, if you record the show, you
should be able to correlate the elapsed time of the recording with the time stamps to see if they match up.

Maybe I'll try that tomorrow.


Or you could listen to Eurosport and watch OLN at the same time.

Sometimes the OLN commentators mention what the local time (in France)
is. It usually seems to come out right to my early-morning fogged (west
coast US) brain.

Mark

in message , Frank Drackman
') wrote:

I was watching the "Live" broadcast of the tour this morning and
towards the end I noticed that the peloton made up huge chunks of time
during the
commercial breaks after holding fairly steady. At one point Phil
talked about the two attacks, in the 3 man break ,that happened during
the break.

Am I nuts, or did anyone else notice this? Could the broadcast be
running 10 - 15 minutes behind the live feed?

I watched on Eurosport with the Google Earth version running
concurrently. The Eurosport coverage and the Google Earth coverage
agreed, and you could identify scenery being passed on the television
and on Google Earth (incidentally, a great way to watch the race). Knees
attacked off the front of the lead group repeatedly from about 20Km out.
The first time he did it the others were clearly angry with him. The
second time he did it they basically refused to work with him and
started deliberately messing about themselves. Consequently, the peloton
ate them for lunch.

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(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
;; Voltaire RIP Dr David Kelly 1945-2004

in message , Michael
') wrote:

"Colin Campbell" wrote in message
...
Frank Drackman wrote:
I was watching the "Live" broadcast of the tour this morning and
towards the end I noticed that the peloton made up huge chunks
of time during the commercial breaks after holding fairly steady. At
one point Phil talked about the two attacks, in the 3 man break ,that
happened during the break.

Am I nuts, or did anyone else notice this? Could the broadcast be
running 10 - 15 minutes behind the live feed?


I don't know, and I rarely watch the "live" broadcast live because I'm
on the West Coast. I generally tape it, and watch after my morning
ride.

However:
If you watch it live, you could experiment. Velonews.com, for one
example, has "Live Coverage" that is time stamped. Today's
stage to Dax says the riders crossed the line at 5:16PM. There is a
reference at 4:57PM about "an unhappy trio" and gestures being made
after Knees attacked twice.

If you can watch the TV and your PC, you could figure out whether the
broadcast is delayed. Or, if you record the show, you should be able
to correlate the elapsed time of the recording with the time stamps to
see if they match up.

Maybe I'll try that tomorrow.

Or you could listen to Eurosport and watch OLN at the same time.

I had Eurosport on the television in the sitting room and (audio) on the
internet feed in the lab - so I could work, but I could go through to
the sitting room to watch when things got interesting. Problem was the
internet audio was about two minutes behind the television.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; Usenet: like distance learning without the learning.

I was wondering that myself, after hearing the Cycling.tv commentators
talk about McEwen's new celebration dance in Stage 6. Maybe my memory's
shot, but I seem to recall going to the TV afterwards and witnessing
the sprint finish as well as the subsequent "arm-swinging" to which
they had referred.


Frank Drackman wrote:
I was watching the "Live" broadcast of the tour this morning and towards the
end I noticed that the peloton made up huge chunks of time during the
commercial breaks after holding fairly steady. At one point Phil talked
about the two attacks, in the 3 man break ,that happened during the break.

Am I nuts, or did anyone else notice this? Could the broadcast be running
10 - 15 minutes behind the live feed?

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in message , Frank Drackman
') wrote:

I was watching the "Live" broadcast of the tour this morning and
towards the end I noticed that the peloton made up huge chunks of time
during the
commercial breaks after holding fairly steady. At one point Phil
talked about the two attacks, in the 3 man break ,that happened during
the break.

Am I nuts, or did anyone else notice this? Could the broadcast be
running 10 - 15 minutes behind the live feed?

I watched on Eurosport with the Google Earth version running
concurrently. The Eurosport coverage and the Google Earth coverage
agreed, and you could identify scenery being passed on the television
and on Google Earth (incidentally, a great way to watch the race). Knees
attacked off the front of the lead group repeatedly from about 20Km out.
The first time he did it the others were clearly angry with him. The
second time he did it they basically refused to work with him and
started deliberately messing about themselves. Consequently, the peloton
ate them for lunch.

How does the google earth coverage work. I would be interested in checking it
out.
--------------
Alex

Alex Rodriguez wrote:
em for lunch.

How does the google earth coverage work. I would be interested in checking it
out.
--------------
Alex


http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archi...de_france.html

Download google earth and follow the directions (links) in the above
link. Come back if anything is unclear.

in message , Ernst Noch ')
wrote:

Alex Rodriguez wrote:

How does the google earth coverage work. I would be interested in
checking it out.

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archi...de_france.html

Download google earth and follow the directions (links) in the above
link. Come back if anything is unclear.

The server's been a bit overloaded the last couple of days, but
nevertheless it's a great way to understand the race...

errr...

no, what I actually mean is it's a lot of crap and you won't understand
it anyway. Seriously. Really boring. And buggy. Buggy as hell. And did I
mention the viruses? Do yourself a favour. Don't download it and
whatever you do don't connect to the live coverage server. Please. I'm
begging you...

[sigh]

Now it's going to be /more/ overloaded, isn't it?

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(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

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